2-Letter Words Starting with S

Underwear on your feet? That's slovenly

Far from meticulous

Careless mistakes by the carrier

Didn't sit well (wordplay)

Didn't stand tall

Drooped the shoulders

Cast (off), as a snakeskin

(Of snake) cast off skin

Molted

Renter's bane

Irresponsible building owner

Ghetto figure.

Kissed and cuddled amorously

Played kissy-face

Got in a lip lock

Aggravated the mood's calmed

Used sandpaper on

Used a plane

Snoozle

Part-time Arizona resident, perhaps

Vermonter who winters in Florida, say

Part-time Florida resident

An area marked by a great amount of snow

A fungus disease

A structure which provides protection from snow

Socket

Became saturated.

Soaked through.

Not so harsh

Began to melt

Started to melt

Any of the multitudes of the addlepated

Foolish fellow

Nincompoop

Easily-sawn pine, fir etc.

Pine, for example

Pine rather than mahogany

Put the metal to the metal (wordplay)

Joined with metal

Joined and served in force, losing heart

Switch, of sorts

Compact about raising single coil

Current-carrying coil of wire

A fluid colloidal system

Solvate

Thrush, for one

Thrush or canary, say

Lark, for one

Composed certain rhymed poems

Wrote poems.

Disgruntled loser Colloq.

Poor loser: Colloq.

Disgruntled loser: Colloq.

Had a heavy heart

Made puffy by beating and baking

Mould odorous around top of willow tree

Tree with white bell-like leaves

A flowering plant

Cranial bone

Earth, for one

Falls over without leading male figure

Egg yolk, e.g

Betting club date produced a long streak (wordplay)

Walked through a puddle

Put forth shoots, began to grow

Put forth shoots

Had a growth spurt

Contracted: Med

Stereo

Plugged

(Of a building) having floors

Having sets of rooms on different levels

(Of building) having several levels

Stound

Took a leisurely walk

Enjoyed a boardwalk

Walked in leisurely way

Put on edge (wordplay)

It's open for one to be going on foot

Sharpened a razor

Plastered with cement

For a finish one carves up a girl at school

Cuts up with the mixed school, but only on the surface

Bribed to do wrong

Bribed by bounders

Frightful bounders led into crime

Gave aid and comfort

Called (to attend)

Called (to court)

Commanded to appear at court (wordplay)

Alleged to turn thus, caught by drunk

Reckoned, took to be the case

Sat artistically by drink and thought

Encircle, fence in

Most of the foam on stout in Ring

Enclose entirely

Moved with a rustle

Rushed by audibly

Made a rustling sound

Swound

Symbol

Uneasy phone discussion not entirely conveyed

Aged boats (anagram)

Undermined by stealth

Undermined an operation

Plank for windsurfing

Item rented at beach resorts

Windsurfer's craft

State of the blessed (wordplay)

Has Robin been canonised (wordplay)

Nick's status (wordplay)

""Like, or pertaining to, the Salmonid\'91, a family of fishes including the trout and salmon. Salmonid\'91, a family of fishes including the trout and salmon.""

Composure if dragon's in a whirl

Composure in trying circumstances

Coolness under pressure.

What the dressmakers saw (wordplay)

Material valued for cabinetmaking

Can solicit to cut down tree

Cooked au gratin

Like Ritz cracker edges

Decorated with shell-like shapes

Schmoos

Chewed the fat

Worked the room

Talked casually

Youngster gets train joke

Second grader, for example

Young student

The discs get round what's sore when cut

Cut through the rugby defence with the old one-two (wordplay)

Cut out

Sclerose

Scollop

Like or pertaining to the Mackerel family.

Perhaps twenty-one in the pack for tally

Course record (wordplay)

It no doubt records at least 20 runs!

Scorify

Scowder

Scrooch

Did some foraging

Monosyllabic word meaning "cadged"

Co-eds rung up and cadged

Put in the bin!

Roped off, perhaps

Cut up at being forcibly treated

DOMED dome

""NOMAD a wanderer, also NOMADE""

A bit firm in consistency

Like jelly or paste

Like grease or yogurt

Repeated a certain number of times.

Like septuplets

Disposed of round flat note like sisters of chalk cliffs

Shallow

Did a hair salon job

Hope's fled for the pound

Pen for lambs, ewes, etc

Pound worth every penny to Bo Peep (wordplay)

Type of romance (on an ocean liner)

Like some short-lived romances

Stilt, for example

Stilt, e.g

Dinah and Larry

Heading to land

Toward land

Cut down to size (wordplay)

Tenor performing in hut gets cut

Condensed thus, or the ends may be off

Speedwriting by worker of little stature

Girl Friday's forte.

Gregg's system.

Cleared the driveway, perhaps

Hole in Amundsen's equipment gets dug

How crude shelter carried by sleigh was shifted (wordplay)

""Bread of exhibition; loaves to set before God; the term used in translating the various phrases used in the Hebrew and Greek to designate the loaves of bread which the priest of the week placed before the Lord on the golden table in the sanctuary. They were made of fine flour unleavened, and were changed every Sabbath. The loaves, twelve in number, represented the twelve tribes of Israel. They were to be eaten by the priests only, and in the Holy Place.""

Put on exhibit

Exhibited, as one's talent

Displayed to best advantage

Shylock

Dior beads (anagram)

Dining room sight

Dining room piece.

One place for advertising

Advertiser's medium

Where business name may be displayed

Polished with wax

""SJAMBOK in South Africa to strike with a whip, also JAMBOK""

Skiddoo

Acted like a baby, in a way

Talked like a toper

Licked, like a dog does

Displayed suppressed anger

Didn't flare

Did a slow burn

Drenched in sauce

Her modest fancy will get stifled

Stifled, he stormed out

Blocked at The Crucible (wordplay)

Restricted by O'Sullivan (wordplay)

In a real pickle

Engaged in some ecotourism, maybe

Swam with the fishes, say

Went finswimming, maybe

Go downhill fast (wordplay)

Treasury Department panel (wordplay)

Way to go... downhill

Stuck at home, maybe

Stuck home, perhaps

Ski jump from Whittier (wordplay)

White expanse

Walked at a ski resort

Soberize

Sodomize

Like later printings, often

Onerous DJ (anagram)

Visited awhile

Al departed, therefore newspaper editor stayed temporarily

Solarise

Solarize

Idler does need to be beaten (shirked)

Joined keeping unit and served in the army

Malingered.

Solecise

Solecize

Begged for it in legal form, perhaps

Sought by petition

Consequently legal, journalist made advances

Sonicate

Sonnet

Soothsay

SOUFFLE a light baked dish

Dixie

In the direction of Cork, say

In the direction of Waterford, say

In the direction of Spain

Spotted, splashed

'Boldly spotted the third allotment': penned by Guardian setter

*Stained

Pillaged

Brought to you (by)

Was an angel

Like Web "articles" that are really ads

Squoosh

British armed reconnaissance car.

One whose quarry is sought and abused (wordplay)

Hunting dog

That's right!

Right light on ship (wordplay)

Right (at sea)

For Hawaii and Alaska (wordplay)

Territory's future, perhaps

For Hawaii and Alaska?

Placed where the 28 across are perhaps

Posted there online, perhaps

Posted in a position

""A name given to several kinds of wood with an unpleasant smell, as that of the F\'d2tidia Mauritiana of the Mauritius, and that of the South African Ocotea bullata. F\'d2tidia Mauritiana of the Mauritius, and that of the South African Ocotea bullata.""

Stockade

Locale in Upton Sinclair's 'The Jungle'

Place having many pens

Feature of Chicago.

""The space, or any of the spaces, in front of the boilers of a ship, from which the furnaces are fed; the stokehole of a ship; also, a room containing a ship's boilers; as, forced draft with closed stokehold; -- called also, in American ships, fireroom.as, forced draft with closed stokehold; -- called also, in American ships, fireroom.""

Put up with

Most upset having hurt bore

Stood

Stonish

With a plug

One of today's leading playwrights reportedly blocked at the opening

Stouten

Subcool

Added at the end

Journalist became a member and was added afterwards

PERIOD to put an end to

Subsoil

Comforted, having been duped by The Voice

Sounds as if one has helped to have removed shoots on the side

Suction

Summons

English word

English word

Took sides with

Bolstered up

Bolstered, sustained

On which to have a swell time (wordplay)

On which to make waves (wordplay)

On which to rule the waves (wordplay)

Perhaps swiftly got it down

Accepted without question: Colloq.

Accepted without question Colloq.

E.g. bloody weapon put over wardrobe

Curse deterioration in a weapon

Censor's target

Symbol

Permitted or penalized

Imposed punishment of a kind that's permitted

Permissible

Clog material (wordplay)

Huarache material (wordplay)

Tree used for making footwear (wordplay)

Converted (a fat) into soap

(Of a building) encased for repairs in a temporary framework

Conductor's stand (wordplay)

Jazz performance display (wordplay)

Ball park feature.

""Of or belonging to the suborder Scorpaenoidei, which includes the scorpion fishes and rockfishes.""

Scouther

Scrootch

Not new - part of watch!

Watch! It goes around (wordplay)

Used to be found on watch (wordplay)

""SEMAPHORE A signal telegraph; an apparatus for giving signals by the disposition of lanterns, flags, oscillating arms, etc.""

Spoke from the pulpit

Preached

Squeezed (into)

Stole

Bobby's favorite snack (wordplay)

Rich crumbly biscuit

Lorna Doone makeup

Shotgun

Took on (a burden)

Took, as with a burden

Showboat

Perforated part of a bathroom fitting

Certain water dispenser

Bathtub fixture

Marked with roadside pointers

Women with similar habits (wordplay)

Kinship between women

Community of nuns

Participate in the X Games, perhaps

Teen's transportation, perhaps

Rage created in "Back to the Future"

Slipform

SLOGANIZE

""A light sword used for thrusting only; especially, the sword worn by civilians of rank in the eighteenth century.""

Eliminated rough edges

Society decayed and harboured bad emotions

Got out of hand

Got out of control

Expanded rapidly.

Like some tall mountains

Like a white peak

Tired about absence of throne, like some in high places (wordplay)

Snowplow

Staid

SOCIALISE

Converted to public ownership

Simpleminded or lamebrained

Simpleminded

Dignified

Went hard

Somerset

Afflicted with migraine.

A soundingboard.

Going from the Bronx to Brooklyn

Headed to Dixie - or stuck there (wordplay)

SOVIETIZE

B..O..U..N..D (wordplay)

Give the letters a leap - how enchanted!

Absorbed by B-O-U-N-D, perhaps

English word

SPORULATE

""Young, usually soft wood that lies directly beneath the bark and develops in early spring.""

Past tense or past participle

Formed defense groups, of a sort

STENOTYPE

Worked the docks

Stiletto

STOCKING a covering for the foot and leg

Put away in reserve

Put away for a rainy day

Spoilt deck shuffled and put in store

A mantis shrimp, for example

Cut off, in a way

Held up by weather.

Cut off by the elements.

Plot device (wordplay)

Director's device

Lie on table to make an outline

Keep firm grip

Defensive position taken by a wrestler

Fastness of dogs left North exhausted