2-Letter Words Starting with S

Broad ranges

Gamble on investments

A gambler will do it to accumulate

Deliberate risk on the markets

Speculum

Orate

Harangue.

Harangue

Dangerous cocktail

Launch full of drugs (wordplay)

One making waves

High-speed vessel

Least time-wasting.

'Oh yeah ... uh-huh'

Exceeding all in expedition

Speeding

Jensen, perhaps: a car for the fleet

Fast car (or driver)

'50s Porsche 356 roadster variant

Speedway

Veronica in a hurry (wordplay)

Veronica (plant)

Despatch spring flower

Speering

Entrance, as through oratory

Having put on tie, shift grip

Fascinate

Bee activities (wordplay)

Qaddafi has a slew of them

Literate witches might be good at them

Spelunk

Cave man (wordplay)

Explorer of sorts

One exploring deeply (wordplay)

Like notes ready to be blown (wordplay)

Kind of income

Like money, there for using - hang staying in the black!

Non-motile male gametes in red seaweeds

""Of or pertaining to semen; as, the spermatic fluid, the spermatic vessels, etc. as, the spermatic fluid, the spermatic vessels, etc.""

Any of the four haploid cells formed by meiosis in a male organism that develop into spermatozoa without further division.

Spermine

""Pertaining to moss of the genus Sphagnum, or bog moss; abounding in peat or bog moss. Sphagnum, or bog moss; abounding in peat or bog moss.""

Sphagnum

Genus to which the tuatara, a New Zealand lizard-like reptile belongs

Sphenoid

Round all around

It's round there

Shaped like Earth

Sphery

Egg yolks, for example

Some round shapes

Geometric solids

Spherule

Riddler endlessly chattering, loathing lost muscle

Muscle inclined to pinch with rest - stopped up

Body part in a "Wayne's World" joke used to get the other guy to say "What?"

Sphingid

Spiccato

In America, plant leaders of Soviet partisans to assassinate president

SPICE to season with an aromatic vegetable substance

Spicery

Characteristic of hot food

Feature of Thai cuisine

Food critic's concern

Spidery

SPIDER a type of {arachnid=n}

Black Widow's creation (2 words)

Bed wipers (anagram)

Clue 'ego', perhaps for pastoral poem

Most polished

Spikelet

Adjective meaning resembling

Plant of the ginseng family

Aromatic East Indian plant.

Aromatic root

""SPIKE to fasten with a long, thick nail""

Spilikin

SPILL to overflow from a container

Spillage

Another name for the jackstraw in the game of jackstraws

That's Tablet Number One, in a skin. Get it out without disturbance

Jackstraw

Unexpected by-product

Go past the rim

Unexpected consequence

Spillway

Spinach

Spindler

Built more like Ichabod Crane

Longer and thinner

More thin and frail

Lean and lanky.

Lean and lanky

Slender.

Fine snow driven by the wind

Spray blown along surface of sea

Spray blown from the crests of waves

Yellow invertebrate (wordplay)

Chicken partially boned (wordplay)

Invertebrate chicken (wordplay)

Adjective meaning resembling

Spinelle

Quality of being spiny.

Sail suited to Shane Warne (wordplay)

Racing yacht's large triangular sail.

Sail that looks kinda like a parachute

Science fiction novel by Timothy Zahn

Web-making part of a spider

Spider's organ

Metallic trimmings

The quality or state of being spiny or thorny; spininess.

Snip tress (anagram)

Hip publicists (wordplay)

Relatives of bachelor girls.

Having spinules; minutely spiny.

Spiracle

Like prices during inflation

Twisting

Grew, like some churches, welcoming everybody

""A rigid, spiral-shaped bacterium""

Secretly carrying (away)

Making leave (with "away")

Secretly carrying (off)

Occult belief

Seance medium, for example

Lively liquor (old standing order)

In music, to be played in an animated way

Trip I arranged in pretty average surroundings - but in an animated way

Like spirit; refined; defecated; pure.

Go Down Moses, for one

Soul music (wordplay)

Of things of the soul

Having or evidencing a refined mind and wit.

Freshwater algae genus

Freshwater algae

Classroom projectiles, perhaps

Wild pitches (wordplay)

Hard-to-hit pitches

Zippy WWII fighter planes

Battle of Britain fighters

Old fighters, ones with fiery tempers

Receptacles for tobacco chewers

Loogie containers

Napa buckets

Pests in the pool

More ostentatious

Mountains (spelled backward) + Less bold = (wordplay)

SPLASH to scatter liquid about

Climbing mountains, clamber over group leader displaying ...

Falls in drops

Makes a mess

Spills everywhere

Splat

A physical deformity characterized by abnormally flat and turned-out feet.

A foot that is abnormally flattened and spread out; flat foot.

""Displaying, or affected with, spleen; angry; fretful; melancholy.""

Spleeny

Illustrious.

Splashed out having received loan! That's brilliant!

Shining

Breathtaking features

Brilliancies

Odds on usurer heard to show richness

Show way to spend our pound inside

Half-hearted hostility and dismal dazzle

Pencil set (anagram)

Being irritable, select pin differently

There's a splice around the cross net

""A pouch, as for tobacco.""

Sharp frogments of wood

They can get under your skin

Antipodean novel gives us the shivers

""Consisting of splinters; resembling splinters; as, the splintery fracture of a mineral. as, the splintery fracture of a mineral.""

Splint

Cable installer's devices

Stonemasons' chisels

Fastballs that drop sharply near the plate

Divulging secrets, and leaving

Like some headaches

Dividing

Splodge

Splosh

Spotted, splashed

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

*Stained

Figures in Pollock paintings (wordplay)

Irregular marks

Stains

Splurger

Splurgy

Splurge

Small, quiet Liberal speaks and chokes

Confusedly articulates odds - bets not strong

Articulates confusedly about place in Eastern trusts

SPLUTTER to speak rapidly and confusedly

""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.

Spoilage

""One who serves a cause or a party for a share of the spoils; in United States politics, one who makes or recognizes a demand for public office on the ground of partisan service; also, one who sanctions such a policy in appointments to the public service.""

SPOILS spoil

Wheelwright's representative (wordplay)

Official voice of the cyclist (wordplay)

Representative at press conference

Representatives of groups.

Some spin doctors

Party leaders.

Pillaged

Ravages

Plunders

1989's word: Plunderer

Spondaic

Most moist and soft

Sponsion

Brought to you (by)

Was an angel

Like Web "articles" that are really ads

Spontoon

Most hair-raising

Most eerie

Spooling

Charge for a snog with a bird (wordplay)

Large wading bird

One may be roseate

Spoonful

Spoony

Spoonful

""Pl. sporangia (-j - ) A single-celled or many-celled structure in which spores are produced, as in fungi, algae, mosses, and ferns. Also called spore case .""

A substance used to kill spores.

A closed body or conceptacle containing one or more masses of spores or sporangia.

Saclike larval stage of some flatworms

The growth or development of an animal or a zooid from a nonsexual germ.

""Any of numerous parasitic protozoans of the class Sporozoa, most of which reproduce sexually and asexually in alternate generations by means of spores. They are frequently transmitted by bloodsucking insects to different hosts, where they cause many serious diseases, such as malaria and coccidiosis.""

A parasitic one-celled animal

Most dapper

Superlatively stylish

Rower perhaps left in ship by crew

He is active

He engages in physical games

Guys who fish or hunt, say

Club members, maybe

Hunters and anglers.

Lotus and pear used to produce seeds

It brightens up a performance

Stage actor may be in it

Flimsy blouse held up in public eye

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

Most uneven, as a performance

Most erratic

Spraddle

Spraddle

For giving it a twist, it's wet at last

Tearing ligaments

Sprattle

Sprattle

Bobbysoxers in usual array

Sprawly

Lying with limbs flung out

Spreading out in an ungainly fashion

Lying untidily

Some farm machines

Some farm machinery

Lawn fertilizer devices

English city in stretching

Afterthought about county town expanding

Opening out

Sprigger

Spriggy

Sprig

What one ply's about? That's right

Full of life

Lively odds justly followed

English word

Springal

South African symbol

A jumper for the South African side

South African animal

Seasonably named dogs.

They're bound to be dogged

Some spaniels

A spaniel without one is more resilient

More elastic

More likely to bounce back, more like May might you say (wordplay)

With elasticity

Bound to come up after 10 across, perhaps

Summers are bound to follow this with the gin

Rained a bit

Caused umbrellas to open

Made umbrellas necessary

Device for lawn owners.

Device for watering

"Let-us-spray" device

Does lawn work

Candy or cone topping

Barely rains

They are quick

Writer on board for runners

Running types!

At top speed.

Action at a track

Going full tilt

Extended canvas shows one escaping soul's distress

Cocktails lacking hard liquor

Wine-and-soda drinks

Wine cocktails

Spritz

Film projector teeth

Some of a bicycle's wheels

Ten-speed components

In season, blossoming (wordplay)

Growing rapidly.

Fresh growth.

Sprucy

Most spirited

Spurgall

Makers of cowboys' goods

Hurried around state, spoke excitedly

Spoke incoherently

Bumbled verbally

One who explodes vocally

Bridge player at club showing hesitation to one who speaks incoherently

Messy part (anagram) - M (wordplay)

Bond's M, perhaps

George Smiley, for one

Ran wildly, as a buffalo herd

Ran wild, as cattle

Made off frightfully fast

Calgary rodeo rider, perhaps

Panicker of steers.

When Peter's mad he panics

Horse races (wordplay)

Wild headlong rushes of animals

Annual Calgary events

Like "no postage necessary" letters

Fire hose hookup

Temporary water outlet

Tall water tank

Horse-drawn carriages

One-seat carriages

Horse-drawn high-seaters

Of or pertaining to stapes.

Stapelia

The 'Enterprise' and others

Means of interstellar travel

Enterprise and others

The Titanic, for one

Lusitania, for one

The Andrea Doria, for one

Steapsin

Increased in price

Made a higher grade

More inclined to be made like this

Quality of steps seen to develop

What gradeability is a measure of

Mountaineer's concern

Court reporter's machine

Instrument used in taking shorthand.

Court reporter's device

STENO a stenographer

Marriage acquisition, maybe

Second mate's kid (wordplay)

Offspring of spouse

Stepdame

Rudder support, harsh job

Holding up rudder is a hard position

Ship's timber aft from keel to deck.