2-Letter Words Starting with S

Jewelry items worn with cravats

They might secure ties

Motorboats, to sailing fans

Powerboats

They leave spots for southern boozers

Certain painters.

Certain painters

Marking with small dots

Seurat technique

Specify as a condition or requirement

Specify, as in a contract

Specify as an essential part

Reserve supply (of weapons)

Hoard standard carpeting material

Government reserve supply

Soup kitchen collection

North-west town's lost rare items in soup kitchen

Stolport

Wall-growing plant; soon crept (anagram)

Plant of rocks and walls

Mosslike wall-growing plant

Urban kids' game

Street game

Stopbank

Pipe valves

Don't go there!

Part of the street scene.

Device on rear of motor vehicle.

Traveler's concern.

Breaks on the road

Places visited briefly

Unlike a juggernaut

Closures, say, shut down the presses

Red light over the leaves

Halts and interruptions.

With a plug

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

Stopple

Keeps time in no time if you do this!

Call off a police stakeout (wordplay)

Timepiece for timing, a race perhaps

Naval vessel for carrying supplies

Supply vessel.

Broke some wind in this hat (wordplay)

Lid over the cooker (wordplay)

Smoker's old head wear (wordplay)

Hold on in bus or train

Stand on a bus or train

Commute, stereotypically

English word

Type of dress.

Like clutch bags and bustiers

Like some dresses

In past, drop with a jerk

Eunuch drinking gin - it's a painful experience

Party whip takes lead, grabbing secretary for excruciating punishment

Robust persons Colloq.

Robust persons: Colloq.

Powerfully built athletes

Muscular weakness - ultimately catching

Big equipment, small changes to opening

Big and strong.

No more tigerish priests in dispute with it

Striping

Hitting close to home (wordplay)

Young enough to skin the fish (wordplay)

Shy hosts outing young man

Pole stars (wordplay)

They reveal all to tourist on board

Trimmed cards, used by magicians.

Removing paint layers

Edges of signpost tearing and peeling

Stropper

More argumentative

More bad tempered and argumentative (colloq.)

With pressure involved, running Tories' PR gets more difficult to handle

Not going on getting the edge on about R

Maintaining, as a razor

Flowers for bordellos (wordplay)

Loose ladies

They're not so good to get blown in the ship

Stumpage

Stumpy

Stunned with astonishment

Dulled the wits or senses

Rendered speechless

See if wandering past backward places makes confused

Least likely Mensa candidate

Most moronic

Superlatively dense

Lack of intelligence

Second part of the quote

Simple Simon's strong point.

STUPOR a state of reduced sensibility

Stypsis

Beyond the foothills

Just below the treeline

Below the treeline

Being under the apex; of or pertaining to the part just below the apex.

Subdepot

Subepoch

Subgraph

Subgroup

Subpanel

Subpena

PERIOD to put an end to

Subphase

Classification of plum with bushy tangles

Trial servings (wordplay)

They're served

Calls to court

POTENT a prince

SAMPLE to test a specimen of

It's written below the line

Underlines (wordplay)

Like the 2 in B2

Smaller areas of a main area

Regions within regions

Areas within areas

Subtopia

Bulleted points, perhaps

Secondary subjects

TROPIC an imaginary circle on the celestial sphere

Tchaikovsky's sweetie (wordplay)

Nutcracker fairy type

Sweet or sweetener

Sulphate

Salts help us initially to assimilate sugars in a roundabout way

Sulphide

Sulphite

Sulphone

Stop man at newspaper being fumigated

A matter of expenditure on the old oil in there to start with

Expensive-looking, splendid

Splendid, expensive-looking

Delicious and expensive

Sumpweed

Ultra-efficient but could be bettered

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

Superadd

English word

Superb

English word

Supercar

*Supplant

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

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

English word

English word

(Chemistry) Chem to cool or be cooled without freezing or crystallization to a temperature below that at which freezing or crystallization should occur. Supercooled liquids are not in equilibrium

Supercop

English word

Consciences, to analysts

Where consciences are found

Fuddy-duddies of the Freudian psyche

Superfan

English word

English word

Exceptionally good.

Adjective for sandpaper with very high grit numbers

Overnice

English word

Environmental program since 1980

A group of closely linked genes occupying a large chromosomal segment and frequently functioning as a genetic unit.

Setter of the highest quality (wordplay)

What never lets go (wordplay)

Result of trying to invent a gun sight

English word

""To heat too much, to overheat; as, to superheat an oven. as, to superheat an oven.""

Deadpool, for one

Perhaps Wonder Woman cured our herpes

Her poseur (anagram)

Superhit

English word

Good daughters end as good mothers

Persons of higher rank.

Commanding officers

Superjet

English word

Superlie

Superlie

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Genetics) a former name for metamale

English word

Marvellous little outfit producing car!

Volkswagen Polo, for one

Splendid little car

Supermom

Turbo-charged old Chevy (wordplay)

Fabulous deli delicacy (wordplay)

Great old Chevy (wordplay)

English word

English word

Winning flex for Mr. Universe (wordplay)

Place above something else.

Place above something else

Superpro

English word

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

Billionaires' status

Price rush organised for millionaires' class

English word

English word

English word

Take the place of, override

Take the place of, supplant

Succeed to the position of.

English word

English word

2004 documentary film title (with "Me")

McDonald's verb

Increase, as one's order

Police officers frequently very forgiving

What the champ may become

Exalted rank of Rooney, for instance

*The Carpenters vs. Lupe Fiasco

English word

English word

Follow as an unexpected result

Occur as an interruption

Occur unexpectedly.

Criminal uses Viper as guide

Oversee, superintend

Oversee people.

English word

English word

English word

Supinate

Supinate

A muscle which produces the motion of supination.

Takes the place of

Takes the place of what bees do (wordplay)

One may have a vegetarian diet, but this takes the place of it

One who begs humbly

One making an appeal

One praying for a favour

Businessmen in trouble purse lips

Purveyors.

Supply

Took sides with

Bolstered up

Bolstered, sustained

May help to keep the team up!

Fan of champion (wordplay)

A fan of drink (beer)

Supposal

Supposer

How about guessing

Assuming to be true, suspecting

Conjecturing, imagining

Of a wound, to discharge liquid

If it does this there's something the matter there

Ooze pus

Tinpot despot's dream state (wordplay)

Empire state (wordplay)

Power to dominate

In a supreme manner.

Most sovereign

""Pl. surfperch or surfperches Any of various viviparous marine fishes of the family Embiotocidae, found in shallow waters along the North American Pacific coast. Also called surf fish .""

Did better than

Did better to dress up as arranged

Idiot introduced to silly prudes excelled

The spur, when broken over the donkeys, goes one better

Bests

White ecclesiastical vestments with wide sleeves

Marries outside Sumerian city, in religious garments

Public-budget rarities

Good things to run, for businesses

It's nice to run these

Surprint

""The act of surprising, or state of being surprised; surprise.""

Is that what you expected (wordplay)

One thing one doesn't expect to be

Shocked by teacher valued in hearing

Giver of a certain party

Sudden unexpected events

Bolts from the blue

Sudden, unexpected events

Surprize

Surprize

Doubted the truth of (something)

Imagined to be true

Thought son cut speed round the bend

Hung over (wordplay)

Hung out after seeing red!

Hung after a red card!

Buy-one-get-one-free item (wordplay)

He puts off getting a hanger (wordplay)

This hold up could bring up redness

SUSPENSE a state of mental uncertainty or excitement

Suspense

A suspensory.

Little doubt (wordplay)

Little reason for doubt

Dash off with cousins to collect gumshoe

Suspire

Most mucky

Waterlogged area

The Triangle Shirtwaist Company, for one

Abused sew hats and work here (wordplay)

We sat around quietly to work? Not here

The backward slant of the leading edge of an airfoil.

Sweepy

Stuff in a dustbin

Caramel center (wordplay)

A source of bullseyes

Brit's candy store

Sweetsop

Foiling son by clever verbal repartee!

Fencing - 's my sport (wordplay)

One of D'Artagnan's fortes.

Copy hasn't disturbed yes-man

Chap Tyson hammered, a toady

Uriah Heep persona

""Grammar the use of a word with the same syntactic relation to two adjacent words, in a literal sense with one and a metaphorical sense with the other, as in “the ships collided, and the sailors and many dreams were drowned.” ; sylleptic,""

Figure of speech; zeugma

""Pl. syllepses (-s z) A construction in which a word governs two or more other words but agrees in number, gender, or case with only one, or has a different meaning when applied to each of the words, as in He lost his coat and his temper.""

Graceful and slender

Graceful, shy elk with lip trembling

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Biochemistry) a substance released at certain sympathetic nerve endings: thought to be identical with adrenaline [from sympath ( etic ) + -in ]

Ecology Occupying the same or overlapping geographic areas without interbreeding. Used of populations of closely related species.

Having united petals; gamopetalous.

Like some music? My, Chopin's fantastic!

My! Chopin's unusually melodic

Like a major classical music form

Bones

""An articulation formed by intervening cartilage; as, the pubic symphysis. as, the pubic symphysis.""

""Composed of superposed branches in such a way as to imitate a simple axis; as, a sympodial stem. as, a sympodial stem.""

A stem involved in sympodial growth

Conference with audience participation

Conference on academic topic

High-level gabfest

""A contraction of syllables by suppressing some vowel or diphthong at the end of a word, before another vowel or diphthong; as, th' army, for the army. as, th' army, for the army.""

Synapsid

Synapse

Put the accent on the weak beat

Play in jazz style.

Accent the off-beats

SYNOPSIZE

Sypher