2-Letter Words Starting with S

A woman hired to clean.

A woman hired to clean.

Of or belonging to the class Scyphozoa.

Senatorial.

One is apart (anagram)

Freedom from marital break-up (wordplay)

With apt reason I arranged for divorce

One followed by 24 zeros

25-figure figure

One followed by 21 zeros

One thousand raised to the seventh power

1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

Run-down urban area

Area with crude dwellings

Deprived area of very poor housing

Sssweet are the usess of adverssity.

"Sssweet are the usess of adverssity."

Diving, say, until I am so shattered

Incitement with no time for pretence

Kind of clone

Break to stretch out - such a bloomer!

St. George's bloomer (wordplay)

Photograph a monitor lizard (wordplay)

SONICATE to disrupt with sound waves

SPALLE the shoulder

Evolutionary process

A drop in the ocean

Flight ending for some

Certain Apollo landing

Plundering

If one ails, this potion may be the ruination of one

SQUAMATE covered with scales

Race to support investor's inactivity!

Result of standing too long, maybe

Deer country (wordplay)

Cost of zero fare (wordplay)

Hunger for a bible in the depot

To save, I grant, was difficult with these

Like the Herald in wartime

Booming and resonant, it exploded

(Of voice) loud and powerful

Foundation builder, perhaps

Block manager (wordplay)

Oliver and Marsha's builder (wordplay)

A gas-filled cathode-ray tube that produces bright flashes of light for a stroboscope.

Superhero who flips out (wordplay)

Bonsai gardener's other job (wordplay)

She's a daredevil in movies

Some action film employees

The act of subducting or taking away.

Buccaneering

Action of putting under water

Maneuver for the Nautilus

U-boat assignment (wordplay)

Oceanaut's journey (wordplay)

Undersea job (wordplay)

""The act of obtaining a favor by surprise, or by unfair representation through suppression or fraudulent concealment of facts.""

SECTION to divide into distinct parts

Branch office, perhaps

Post office branch, perhaps

Delicatessen (wordplay)

The act of coming under.

Subject of current controversy.

Design of a navy vessel with different features (wordplay)

Line of people coming after one another

I did it for one broadcast and then another and another!

Its no failure to find charged item in chain

Receptacle seen outside of HR offices

Guessing to uncover clue

Idea put forward for consideration

Extremely able female

Alter ego of Kristin Wells

Gifted female.

""A woman who performs all the duties typically associated with several different full-time roles, such as wage earner, graduate student, mother, and wife.""

""The act of turning the hand palm upward; also, position of the hand with the palm upward.""

SUPPLE to make {pliant=adj}

Mathematics A function that is onto.

Car ride smoother

Car's shock-absorbing system

Category of the Golden Gate Bridge.

""SACCULATE SACCULE a small sac, also SACCULUS""

One helping with wild salon sprees

Small drinks for each young man's agent

Staff member

Apartheid, say, upset Saint George

Saint George's unexpected detachment

A keeping apart

""(used with a sing. verb) The theory and study of signs and symbols, especially as elements of language or other systems of communication, and comprising semantics, syntactics, and pragmatics.""

The north or northern regions.

Meat stew

Hobo stew

Stew

The act of solfaing.

Any of a group of peptides produced by the liver upon stimulation by growth hormone that act directly on many cell types to stimulate growth.

One of Hulme's conjectures (wordplay)

Wall Street motivation

Son's embezzlement's a matter of conjecture

""SPICULATE Covered with, or having, spicules.""

A woman who speaks on behalf of another or others. See Usage Note at man .

A man who speaks on behalf of another or others. See Usage Note at man .

Female athlete or player

Female athlete

A woman who is active in sports.

""The act or process of forming spores; spore formation. See Illust. of Bacillus, b. Illust. of Bacillus, b.""

Worrisome economic period

Bad economic situation

Challenge for economists

Process of arousal or goading

Model welcomes tip for tantric arousal

Nerve impulse cause

Condition of an agreement

Condition to an agreement

Condition attached to an agreement

""STYLIZE to make conventional, also STYLISE""

""The act of understanding, or supplying, something not expressed; also, that which is so understood or supplied.""

DECISION to win a boxing decision

Relief rupture unit

Suburban neighborhood, often

Smaller section

""The act of subjugating, or the state of being subjugated.""

""Act of subjoining, or state of being subjoined.""

Bulimia's not unusually a diversion of sexual energy

An incomplete or partial dislocation.

MUNITION to furnish with war material

The act of suborning; the crime of procuring a person to take such a false oath as constitutes perjury.

The act of subrogating.

""The act of subsuming, or of including under another.""

Taking off vessel's pulling power

End of the advice

Deduction

""An affix added to the end of a word or stem, serving to form a new word or functioning as an inflectional ending, such as -ness in gentleness, -ing in walking, or -s in sits.""

Death through lack of twenty seven across

""SULFONATE SULFONE a sulfur compound, also SULPHONE""

English word

""SUPERNATE SUPER to reinforce with a thin cotton mesh, as a book""

English word

Kent's gift or management (wordplay)

Man of Steel ability (wordplay)

Guardian's job

English word

Place to get drink? That's an idea!

Dining room chair (wordplay)

It's taken for granted

Clampdown upon press is absurd

Clampdown is upon press freedom

The act or process of suppurating.

Sigh

A whispering or rustling

An accelerator in which charged particles are accelerated around a fixed circular path by an electric field and held to the path by an increasing magnetic field.

Musical rhythm accentuating a weak beat

Playing notes off the beat

Displacement of beats in music

Columnist's ambition

The supply of items to multiple newspapers

Selling to press material for simultaneous publishing

""SALINIZE to treat with salt, also SALINISE""

""The student who pronounces the salutatory oration at the annual Commencement or like exercises of a college, an honor commonly assigned to that member of the graduating class who ranks second in scholarship.""

""SANITIZE to clean and sterilize, also SANITISE, SANITATE""

I can't get no - (Rolling Stones)

The Stones couldn't get it

Fulfillment ... and #2 on the list

Noun (-tion)

Division into parts

Female minister? She's a fighter

Female in the forces

Wasp

A man who is a member of the armed forces.

The cardinal number equal to 10 51 .

(Economics) a situation in which economic depression is combined with increasing inflation [blend of slump + inflation ]

Injury of a photographic picture caused by exposing it for too long a time to the sun's light in the camera; burning; excessive insolation.

Earnest request

""The slow, downhill movement of soil or other material in areas typically underlain by frozen ground.""

""A polypeptide hormone produced chiefly by the hypothalamus that inhibits the secretion of various other hormones, such as somatotropin, glucagon, insulin, thyrotropin, and gastrin.""

See growth hormone .

Kent is in this part of UK

In the bottom right corner of the country

Call for silence around exit to cowboy film set in Kerry direction

""Pl. spermatozoa (-z ) The mature fertilizing gamete of a male organism, usually consisting of a round or cylindrical nucleated cell, a short neck, and a thin motile tail. Also called sperm cell , zoosperm .""

""Pl. spermatozoa (-z ) The mature fertilizing gamete of a male organism, usually consisting of a round or cylindrical nucleated cell, a short neck, and a thin motile tail. Also called sperm cell , zoosperm .""

Bicycle mechanic (wordplay)

Front wheelwright (wordplay)

One speaking for others

""An instrument, consisting essentially of a magic lantern in which photographic pictures are used, by which the image of a landscape, or any object, may be thrown upon a screen in such a manner as to seem to stand out in relief, so as to form a striking and accurate representation of the object itself; also, a pair of magic lanterns for producing the effect of dissolving views.""

A tennis tutor (anagram) - sneezing

Any of several hemolysins derived from some strains of streptococci.

New "wonder drug" from fungi

One of the "wonder" drugs.

The act of stridulating.

""The act or phenomenon of spontaneously dividing transversely, as do certain species of annelids and helminths; transverse fission. See Illust. under Syllidian. Illust. under Syllidian.""

""A toxic glycoside or mixture of glycosides obtained from the seeds of certain plants of the genus Strophanthus, especially S. kombé, used medicinally as a cardiac stimulant.""

Total astonishment and shock

Shocked astonishment

Extreme astonishment

""Conversion of the cell walls into cork tissue by development of suberin; -- commonly taking place in exposed tissues, as when a callus forms over a wound. Suberized cell walls are impervious to water.""

Regular payment

Membership fee

Copy-editor number one upset by writing fee

Replacement of one thing by another

Replacement

Wonderful period of play when there's replacement (wordplay)

SUPERSTATE SUPERS super

See blurb (nonverbal)

Stevie Wonder hit

Bad-luck bringer, e.g

English word

A following on in addition

""The act of supplicating; humble and earnest prayer, as in worship.""

""The act of sustaining, or the state of being sustained; preservation from falling; support; sustenance; maintenance.""

The act of scarifying.

A flash of light

""Any of a class of generally insoluble proteins, such as collagen, found in skeletal and connective tissue. Also called albuminoid .""

Deposit that's tied into means testing

Little woman in new maisonnette settling down

Process of depositing tainted monies corruptly

PORCELAIN Purslain.

""SENSITISE SENSI a teacher of Japanese martial arts, also SENSEI""

""SENSITIZE To render sensitive, or susceptible of being easily acted on by the actinic rays of the sun; as, sensitized paper or plate. as, sensitized paper or plate.""

Rendering a person bankrupt

Legal seizure

SERIALIZE SERIAL a publication presented in instalments

Informal Exploitative use of explicit sexual material in movies and the media.

SIGNALIZE To make signal or eminent; to render distinguished from what is common; to distinguish.

Importance of indication providing one positive particle

SOCIALIZE To render social.

""The act of solemnizing; celebration; as, the solemnization of a marriage. as, the solemnization of a marriage.""

Variant of somatotropin .

SOVIETIZE SOVIET a legislative body in a Communist country

Detailed description of requirements

Detailed design description

Detailed requirement of work to be done

""A broad-spectrum antibiotic, C 14 H 24 N 2 O 7 , obtained from a species of gram-negative bacteria (Streptomyces spectabilis) or produced synthetically and used especially in the treatment of penicillin-resistant gonorrhea.""

A polymer that constitutes the outer wall of spores and pollen grains.

STABILIZE STABILE a stationary abstract sculpture

""The act or process of sterilizing, or rendering sterile; also, the state of being sterile.""

The choking off of a flow

Choking from lungs' atria not working

Process of choking

STRUCTURE The act of building; the practice of erecting buildings; construction.

ALLOCATION The act of putting one thing to another; a placing; disposition; arrangement.

""COLLECTION The act or process of collecting or of gathering; as, the collection of specimens. as, the collection of specimens.""

""COMMISSION The act of committing, doing, or performing; the act of perpetrating.""

""GENERATION The act of generating or begetting; procreation, as of animals.""

""IRRIGATION The act or process of irrigating, or the state of being irrigated; especially, the operation of causing water to flow over lands, for nourishing plants.""

Inferiority of position or rank

Bending to authority, playing on tour is a bind

POPULATION The act or process of populating; multiplication of inhabitants.

""SATURATION The act of saturating, or the state of being saturating; complete penetration or impregnation.""

""SUBSIDIZE To furnish with a subsidy; to purchase the assistance of by the payment of a subsidy; to aid or promote, as a private enterprise, with public money; as, to subsidize a steamship line. as, to subsidize a steamship line.""

The act of making subtile.

""SUMMARIZE To comprise in, or reduce to, a summary; to present briefly.""

""The act of adding something in excess or something extraneous; also, something which is added in excess or extraneously.""

""The formation of a fetus at the result of an impregnation occurring after another impregnation but before the birth of the offspring produced by it. This is possible only when there is a double uterus, or where menstruation persists up to the time of the second impregnation.""

The state of being above something

The act of supplanting or displacing.

""The act of forming syllables; the act or method of dividing words into syllables. See Guide to Pron., §275. Guide to Pron., §275.""

The act of symbolizing; symbolical representation.

The act or process of systematizing; systematization.

""The act of sanctifying or making holy; the being sanctified or made holy; esp. (Theol.), the act of God's grace by which the affections of men are purified, or alienated from sin and the world, and exalted to, a supreme love to God; also, the state of being thus purified or sanctified. (Theol.), the act of God's grace by which the affections of men are purified, or alienated from sin and the world, and exalted to, a supreme love to God; also, the state of being thus purified or sanctified.""

""The act, process, or result, of soap making; conversion into soap; specifically (Chem.), the decomposition of fats and other ethereal salts by alkalies; as, the saponification of ethyl acetate. (Chem.), the decomposition of fats and other ethereal salts by alkalies; as, the saponification of ethyl acetate.""

SCHEMATIZE To form a scheme or schemes.

They study some fish, little ones

Learners reshaping horn with cold chisel

SCLEROTIZE SCLERE a sponge spicule

""The act of rendering secular, or the state of being rendered secular; conversion from regular or monastic to secular; conversion from religious to lay or secular possession and uses; as, the secularization of church property. as, the secularization of church property.""

SECURITIZE SECURE to make safe or certain

""The act of sensualizing, or the state of being sensualized.""

Development of antibodies in blood serum as a result of infection or immunization.

""Thae act or process of combining or impregnating with silicon or silica; the state of being so combined or impregnated; as, the silicification of wood. as, the silicification of wood.""

Second hint to include, if making it easy

Process of making (something) more easily understood

""Act of solidifying, or state of being solidified.""

One leading a solitary or secluded life.

SOLUBILIZE

Performance by Lady Macbeth

Walking out of it

Computer word

Fashionable refinement

Blur in Country House, initially Oasis top it for urbanity

Focusing on one effect of noise is capital

""The act of specializing, or the state of being spezialized.""

A motorboat designed for sportfishing.

A motorboat designed for sportfishing.

The act of stigmatizing.

Creating classes in summer term, initially, with formal consent

Any of a group of antibiotics produced by an actinomycete (Streptomyces lavendulae) and active against both gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria and some fungi.

""The act of stultifying, or the state of being stultified.""

""The granting of lands by inferior lords to their dependents, to be held by themselves by feudal tenure.""

The act of substantiating or proving; evidence; proof.

Regular pension payment

Great! A country that includes most of NUT pension

... bank up to eleven - air's rocking

The act of supererogating; performance of more than duty or necessity requires.

""The act of superinducing, or the state of being superinduced.""

Superinfect

Noun (-tion)

SUPEROVULATE