2-Letter Words Starting with S

Vehicle taking Laurel and Bob maybe

Horse-drawn carriage for one

Phaeton's rebuilt as a carriage for one

Feature of a certain mole

American mole, having prominent nostrils

Standard drink in ranch area (wordplay)

Cod steak (anagram)

Defensive or confining enclosure

Able to be stoned

Prevent attendant going on strike

Sit-down, for example

Cessation of activity

Easily stacked, perhaps

Like canned food

Like many root vegetables for the winter

Like carry-ons

Marked with grooves

Covered with bristles

Pine cone, for example

Pine cone

Having a struma

Warship at end of line came up like a cork

Nearly ovate

An oxide containing little oxygen

""A sulfur compound, also SULFONE""

A variety of quartz

Tree - so creamy (anagram)

Tree - may score (anagram)

8 weak with love, we hear

""A North American tree, also SYCAMORE""

Organism in a relationship (wordplay)

Empty nest, for one

Broken heart, for one

"Empty nest," for one

""A word having the same meaning as another, also SYNONYM""

The hard sound of S with S (wordplay)

The way one supports smooth rock!

Sound quality for George (wordplay)

""Soft, thoroughly decomposed rock rich in clay and remaining in its original place.""

One of the segments into which a fibril of striated muscle is divided.

A large specialized mitrochondrion found in striated muscle.

Charlie Parker's 'horn' (wordplay)

It gives music

Single-reed instrument

A grayish white mineral occuring in tetragonal crystals and in cleavable masses. It is essentially a silicate of alumina and soda.

""Any of various medium-grained to coarse-grained metamorphic rocks composed of laminated, often flaky parallel layers of chiefly micaceous minerals.""

US slang (from Yiddish) for the nose

School head covered in piercings may constitute a feature

Beak

A zeolitic mineral occuring in delicate radiating groups of white crystals. It is a hydrous silicate of aluminia and lime. Called also lime mesotype. lime mesotype.

Flagged discussion (wordplay)

Army signalling (wordplay)

Flagging conversation (wordplay)

Meerschaum. See Meerschaum. Meerschaum.

Perform a clerical task

It's more to the North in size the way you deliver it, in a manner of speaking

Preach

Sounds like a woolly jacket for 17 across for the night

Enclosure for farm animals or duck, almost Dickensian inside

Transported by ship.

Capable of being upset by sudden occurrences

Stuffed by white, black can suffer trauma

Former Japanese government

Water's edge.

Where the sea meets land

Area subject to erosion

The area near the shore

Sweet biscuit - rat chokes (anagram)

Diminutive dessert (wordplay)

Rate shock (anagram)

Cropped hairdo for radio band (wordplay)

Miniature white horse is on the air

Not a long farewell on the air

Prove knight maybe is a fine specimen

Exhibit western epic shot in Oxford, say

Example of excellence

Hearst Castle, for one

Beautifully furnished home

Lavishly furnished home

""Pl. signorine (-n , -n ) or signorinas Used as a courtesy title for an unmarried woman in an Italian-speaking area, equivalent to Miss.""

English word

Certain sedimentary rock

Type of sedimentary rock

He knows China

Mountain patrol vehicle

Winter transport

SLOGAN a motto adopted by a group

SMOKE to emit a gas or vapour due to burning

Adjective meaning resembling

Canadian crystal (wordplay)

It can't be cloned

Hexagonal sign of winter

Winter view

Christmas scene? Sons wrapping present, piece of clothing

An avalanche of snow.

Marker for style of TV serial (wordplay)

Teaspoons made of steatite (wordplay)

Soft form of rock

""SOCIAL a friendly gathering, also SOCIABLE""

Park Avenue resident.

Claudia Cohen, for example

Prominent attendee at fashionable events

Mix at a party

Convert to public ownership, as industry

English word

Observe with dignity

Bottom of a flatiron

Iron's base

Game for one

Diamond; game for one

*Diamond in an engagement ring, perhaps*

Here or there

At an unspecified location

In an unspecified location

'... over the rainbow' (song)

Amount put on, say, at a 3 unspecified

West Side Story song

Nineteen-year-old, perhaps

Second-class citizen (wordplay)

Second-year student in USA

Divination by drawing lots

Fortune-telling

Divine drawing of lots of egrets smeared with oil

Actress taking lighter roles

A pert little part for a girl

Coquettish female comedy role

Capable of being sounded.

Put under the hammer and sickle

Convert to Stalinism

Render communistic.

Having spinules; minutely spiny.

""A mineral of a white to yellowish, purplish, or emeraldgreen color, occuring in prismatic crystals, often of great size. It is a silicate of aluminia and lithia. See Hiddenite. Hiddenite.""

Likely to decay.

A substance used to kill spores.

Lotus and pear used to produce seeds

""Made, paid, or delivered immediately: a spot sale.""

Court reporter's machine

Instrument used in taking shorthand.

Court reporter's device

Allen's scale notes (wordplay)

He likes to put on a performance

Dock-worker loads and unloads ships

Reserve supply (of weapons)

Hoard standard carpeting material

Government reserve supply

Caveman's cooking tools (wordplay)

Pottery has novel article in stock

Heavy, nonporous pottery

Unlike a juggernaut

Like some sales

Word for some sales.

Kind of sale

Broke some wind in this hat (wordplay)

Lid over the cooker (wordplay)

Smoker's old head wear (wordplay)

Strobila

Parasitic threadworm

Stable father figure (wordplay)

Stallion, taking its head thus, rode off

Former Derby winner, often

""The uninterrupted and continuous flat band, coping, or pavement upon which the bases of a row of columns are supported. See Subbase. Subbase.""

To put in the place of another; to substitute.

Cut off sea and cut off air

Kill rowing team from Ipswich, say (wordplay)

Kill by blocking the air passages

""SULFONE a sulfur compound, also SULPHONE""

Any of various organic compounds that contain a sulfinyl group.

UV OD, less briefly (wordplay)

Ailment from spending too long tanning

Blazer on oarsman may be excruciating

Winning flex for Mr. Universe (wordplay)

Place above something else.

Place above something else

Substitute grouse with rat in a stew

One acting for another

Replacement rug a store ordered

Adjective meaning resembling

To reason by means of syllogisms.

Represent, stand for

Represent or be a sign of

Represent

Uncle Sam's retinae (wordplay)

Represent by a marking, for example

Stand for

A guy's gone off to house of worship

House of the Lord

Place of worship

Put the accent on the weak beat

Play in jazz style.

Accent the off-beats

SYNOPSIZE

Bird soared and guns fired

""Any plant growing on dacayed animal or vegetable matter, as most fungi and some flowering plants with no green color, as the Indian pipe.""

""Small, thinly sliced pieces of meat, especially veal, dredged in flour, sautéed, and served in a sauce.""

He's too calm, maybe, for a young peer

Bus-seat sharer, perhaps

Dolphin's friend (wordplay)

English word

AB, perhaps, right for a time

Appropriate for the time of year

Like unsurprising temperatures

""Revenue or a profit taken from the minting of coins, usually the difference between the value of the bullion used and the face value of the coin.""

Like some gemstones

Cloudy

Short religious talk

Televised words of inspiration

Short religious segment on old TV broadcasts

Adjective meaning resembling

Fish with a useful proboscis (wordplay)

Fish with a useful proboscis?

A drug or other agent that increases the flow of saliva.

A kind of meteorite. See under Meteorite. Meteorite.

Swimmer's skill.

Relative of the crawl

Style of swimming

Side line for the artist (wordplay)

Dark art (wordplay)

It can be a relief

Farm outbuilding

Outbuilding that usually has vents but no windows

Feature of an unrifled firearm

Kind of firearm.

Feature of a shotgun barrel

Vehicle with skilike runners

Vehicle with runners

Sleigh for today's grandma

Expressed concern about idiot's clue!

Concern of many in a lonely place

Care, concern

SOLUBILISE

SOLUBILIZE

""The structure or build of a person, especially to the extent to which it exhibits the characteristics of an ectomorph, an endomorph, or a mesomorph.""

Dropping off lemon scone that's cooked

Sleepiness comes on Len unexpectedly

Drowsiness.

Musical impersonator at MoMA (wordplay)

What homonyms do

Reliable platform (wordplay)

Solid way to travel (wordplay)

TV shooting set.

Marching-band instrument

March king's namesake, in a way

Relative of a helicon

""Any of various slender, spiral, motile bacteria of the order Spirochaetales, many of which are pathogenic, causing syphilis, relapsing fever, yaws, and other diseases.""

Plane for shaping curved surfaces

Tool said to have succeeded getting in

Tool said to cut closely

English word

A placenta.

""In plants exhibiting alternation of generations, the generation which bears asexual spores; -- opposed to gametophyte. It is not clearly differentiated in the life cycle of the lower plants.gametophyte. It is not clearly differentiated in the life cycle of the lower plants.""

""In certain Sporozoa, a small active, usually elongate, sickle-shaped or somewhat am\'d2boid spore, esp. one of those produced by division of the passive spores into which the zygote divides. The sporozoites reproduce asexually.""

Having little scales; squamellate; squamulate.

Legislature's place

Where politicians aren't "fed"

Where some bills are created

A barometer for recording small variations in atmospheric pressure.

""A mineral of a brown to black color occurring in prismatic crystals, often twinned so as to form groups resembling a cross. It is a silicate of aluminia and iron, and is generally found imbedded in mica schist. Called also granatite, and grenatite. granatite, and grenatite.""

Eight-track player (wordplay)

Spring back (in fear)

Lead role in many a Western

Treasury given to retired lady in pickle

Those euros exchanged in treasury

Too sure he's in trouble at the treasury

COLLEGE a school of higher learning

Somewhat cordate; somewhat like a heart in shape.

MUCOSAE mucosa

Programmer's reusable code

Part of a computer program

A building in which sugar is made or refined; a sugar manufactory.

SUMMON to order to appear

Starbursts (wordplay)

Star bursts

Exploding stars

See Peroxide. Peroxide.

Big stock market (wordplay)

Huge retail establishment

One-stop shopping spot

Providing help

Playful, keeping up with helpful intentions

Frisky about being at university, maintaining a loyal interest

""Capable of being supposed, or imagined to exist; as, that is not a supposable case. as, that is not a supposable case.""

See Sweepstake. Sweepstake.

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

Oh! Decency's different with eg 'New faces'

Use of 'Midas' for 'wealthy person,' for example

To express by a synonym or synonyms; to give the synonym or synonyms corresponding to.

Buying guides (wordplay)

They're often in the field

Clerks.

""Pl. salmonellae (-n l ) or salmonellas or salmonella Any of various rod-shaped bacteria of the genus Salmonella, many of which are pathogenic, causing food poisoning, typhoid, and paratyphoid fever in humans and other infectious diseases in domestic animals.""

""A fellow without breeches; a ragged fellow; a name of reproach given in the first French revolution to the extreme republican party, who rejected breeches as an emblem peculiar to the upper classes or aristocracy, and adopted pantaloons.""

Boastful and cowardly character

Cowardly buffoon

Coward shows wound, having confronted a second superior rebel

""Any of several chiefly tropical trematode worms of the genus Schistosoma, many of which are parasitic in the blood of humans and other mammals. Also called bilharzia , blood fluke .""

Building for teaching

Place of learning

Building used for teaching

German folk dance (Scotch in German)

Dance similar to the polka

Polka-like, 19th century German dance

""A thick, syrupy, colorless alkaloid, C 17 H 21 NO 4 , extracted from plants such as henbane and used primarily as a mydriatic and sedative, and to treat nausea and prevent motion sickness. Also called hyoscine .""

""Something claimed or taken by virtue of sovereign prerogative; specifically, a charge or toll deducted from bullion brought to a mint to be coined; the difference between the cost of a mass of bullion and the value as money of the pieces coined from it.""

English word

English word

Give poor value

Cheat by returning insufficient money

Give insufficient recompense

SKELETON the supporting bone structure of a body

""To prepare a skeleton of; also, to reduce, as a leaf, to its skeleton.""

Zinc ore

""(Military / Firearms, Gunnery, Ordnance & Artillery) a telescope with crosshairs mounted on a sniper's rifle""

English word

Make solo stage speech

Air bed in square 10 is somehow losing air badly? Have words with oneself

Do a Shakespearean bit

Talk to oneself

Talk to oneself.

Adjective meaning resembling

Any ground squirrel of the genus Spermophilus; gopher. See Illust. under Gopher. Spermophilus; gopher. See Illust. under Gopher.

""A basic, long-chain, unsaturated amino alcohol, C 18 H 37 NO 2 , found combined with lipids in the brain and in nerve tissue.""

""(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Microbiology) any of a group of spirally coiled rodlike bacteria that includes the causative agent of syphilis See treponema [from New Latin spīrochaeta; see spiro- 2 , chaeta ]""

SPORULATE

A small storehouse constructed over a spring and used to keep food cool.

Limited to or able to live only within a narrow range of saltwater concentrations. Used of aquatic organisms.

Device offering 3-D viewing

It provides outstanding images

Three-D viewer

It can pick the beat up (wordplay)

Medical instrument that scoops teeth out

It will find a broken heart

Stretch fabric for making bandages etc

Stretchy fabric

Serious whale ailment (wordplay)

Overeater's woe

Overeater's risk

Flashing lamp effectively freezing motion

""OPTIMIZE to make as effective as possible, also OPTIMISE""

In a lesser role.

Lower in rank

Of less importance

""VOCALIZE to produce with the voice, also VOCALISE""

Tending or able to choke or stifle.

Any of a group of organic sulfur compounds containing the radical SO 2 NH 2 and including the sulfa drugs.

Second place, say

Seasonal vacation place

Garden pavilion for shade or recreation

Place something over something else

Place one over another

Place over

English word

""Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable.""

SWALLOW to take into the stomach through the mouth and gullet

A saclike structure formed by nerve endings at a synapse that remains intact after homogenization of nerve tissue.

Cause to happen at the same time

Shy censor in scramble to concur in time

Occur at the same time

Cause to mesh

""SYNCOPATE To contract, as a word, by taking one or more letters or syllables from the middle; as, "Gloster" is a syncopated form of "Gloucester." as, "Gloster" is a syncopated form of "Gloucester."""

SANCTION to authorize

""Capable of conversion into soap; as, a saponifiable substance. as, a saponifiable substance.""

English word

""Pl. scyphistomae (-m ) or scyphistomas A larva of a scyphozoan, consisting of an elongated and deeply constricted polyp that successively splits off minute, free-swimming medusas.""