2-Letter Words Starting with S

Swinepox

See Sweepstake. Sweepstake.

Swordplay

Weirdly a NYC psycho is licking boots

Servile flattery

Fawning obsequiousness

Psycho interfered with insects and parasites

As MPs, they jostled to accept one's support

Sympathin

Offer condolences to poor Amish types

Express fellow feeling

Show concern for leaders of Scotland Yard made to quickly touch on his point

""To have a common feeling, as of bodily pleasure or pain.""

Sympatry

Major musical works

Ships money abroad for musical works

Haydn is known as their "father."

Beethoven, notably

Eg, Beethoven

Soda-server is absorbing Mahler's First and Tchaikovsky's (or one of their ilk)

Of or pertaining to to symphysis.

Bones

One engaged with others at a banquet or merrymaking.

Symposium

Synalepha

""The blending into one syllable of two successive vowels of adjacent syllables, especially to fit a poetic meter; for example, th' elite for the elite.""

Syncarpy

Composed of several carpels consolidated into one ovary.

Offbeat (wordplay)

Cut short, as rhythm

Unusually stressed church council welcomes chapter and head (slightly later)

Syncopate

Jazz addict.

SYNOPSIZE

Synopsize

Poles divided by variable of light in outline

Syphilis

Of or pertaining to syphilis; of the nature of syphilis; affected with syphilis.

Protection from harm

Protection.

Protection

Sailplaner

SAILPLANE

Buying guides (wordplay)

They're often in the field

Clerks.

One helping with wild salon sprees

Small drinks for each young man's agent

Staff member

Plural or third person singular

Inflammation of the salpinx.

Smoothed, as a wooden surface

Got ready to put on a new coat

Smoothed, as wood

SAPLESS lacking vitality

Soapy

Saponifier

Saponify

Sappiness

Saprophyte

Feeding or growing upon decaying anomal or vegetable matter; pertaining to a saprophyte or the saprophytes.

Stone coffin with carvings

Sculpted coffin

Pyramid box

Sarcoplasm

John Coltrane, for one

One blows it by running into shop

Bill Clinton or Lisa Simpson, at times

Scallopini

Scaloppine

Put the blame on

Rapscallions.

Rascals

""The art or act of representing a body on a perspective plane; also, a representation or description of a body, in all its dimensions, as it appears to the eye.""

Scepticism

Tail-less Dutch dogs

Schizocarp

Student's craft (wordplay)

Student's joint award (wordplay)

Finance provided for academic merit

A genus of venomous myriapods including the centipeds. See Centiped. Centiped.

""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 .""

Ball-game official

Summer (wordplay)

Game official

Scorpaenid

Trees in rows demonstrating an untidy quality

Dramas or football maneuvers.

Film scripts

Page with line inserted in necessary rewrite for scripts

Monastery room for writing

This tastes so good! (5 of the question)

Extremely appetising (colloq.)

Dee-licious!

""SCULPTURE The art of carving, cutting, or hewing wood, stone, metal, etc., into statues, ornaments, etc., or into figures, as of men, or other things; hence, the art of producing figures and groups, whether in plastic or hard materials.""

""An American grape, a form of Vitis vulpina, found in the Southern Atlantic States, and often cultivated. Vitis vulpina, found in the Southern Atlantic States, and often cultivated.""

""The young attached larva of Discophora in the stage when it resembles a hydroid, or actinian.""

Scyphozoan

Seamanship

Earthquake measuring instrument

Instrument for registering earthquakes

Instrument registering earthquakes

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

POPULAR something pleasing

Semipostal

Like some hospital service

Like two-bed hospital rooms

Semitropic

""A genus of fleshyleaved plants, of which the houseleek (Sempervivum tectorum) is the commonest species. Sempervivum tectorum) is the commonest species.""

Endless rest in maple syrup

Objective of the Gore-McKellar contest

Office of a legislator

Printer's color negatives

Kin of divorces

Happen before stars divorce

Separatism

Nonconformers.

""Pl. septenarii (- - ) A Latin verse used only in comedy and consisting of seven feet, especially a catalectic iambic or trochaic tetrameter.""

The north or northern regions.

Septicemia

Septillion

Sepulcher

""SEPULCHRE The place in which the dead body of a human being is interred, or a place set apart for that purpose; a grave; a tomb.""

Swim in calm is happy coincidence

Faculty of stumbling onto good things.

Faculty of making fortunate discoveries

Serigraph

Serpentine

Creeping; said of lesions which heal over one portion while continuing to advance at another.

An image produced by casting a shadow on a screen.

Shankpiece

Shapeless

Rows in forms that will please the eye

Visually attractive quality

Attractive and well-proportioned quality

Sharpness

Job for one in a pasture

He keeps his bucks in a fold

Sailor's knots

Sheepshead

Bo Peep, perhaps

Little Bo-Peep perhaps

Crooked tender lady!

Shepherd

""Formerly, a jocose term for a bank note greatly depreciated in value; also, for paper money of a denomination less than a dollar.""

Carl Lewis shuns them

Distance runners' woes

Track woes

Constructor of forty nine down perhaps

Shipfitter

Shipmaster

Stranded, in a way

Mainly ruined

Shipwright

Buyers of stock

The English, according to Napoleon

Manipulators of a rising market

Do business like an agent for iron pumpers (wordplay)

Japanese-language winner of the Palme d'Or (May, 2018)

In-store stocktaking (wordplay)

Stealing from a store

Stealing from stores

Shopwindow

Barnum's forte.

Talent for skilful display

Theatrical skill

Almost any Merman number.

Big Broadway number

Kind of act or song.

Shunpiking

Skidded

Avoided the issue

Circumvented

Avoided

SIDESTEP to step to one side

Driving recklessly, in a way

Signpost

A technique of drawing on specially prepared paper with a silver-tipped instrument.

Simplifier

Simplify

Skeptical

Skepticism

Carpentry tools for a pilot (wordplay)

Chicago School architects' products

New York giants

""Slaphappier , slaphappiest Slang Dazed, silly, or incoherent from or as if from blows to the head; punch-drunk.""

In an ever alert manner

Vigilantly

Noctambulated

Clint at 300 A.M.?

Clint at 3:00 A.M. (wordplay)

We paler elks (anagram)

Sleepyhead

Slipform

Slippery

Floats in the air after mistake made by propellers

Testy bloomers (wordplay)

Testy garden flowers (wordplay)

What a monstrous photographer can do

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Snapshot

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

Snippety

Snowplow

Soapberry

Soapiness

SOCIOPATH

Military qualities or state; martial skill; behavior becoming a soldier.

SOLIPSIST

Somatotype

Sopaipilla

Of or pertaining to a sophist; embodying sophistry; fallaciously subtile; not sound.

Beguiling but tricky methods of reasoning

Soppiness

Prepares a booth for recording

Rigs for recording

Bass tubas used in marching bands

Instruments named for The March King

Parade instruments

Spacecraft

Walk by fellow in subtle NASA mission (wordplay)

Spacewalk

Spacewalk

Spadefish

Pasta in long fine strands.

Spallation

Greek dish having spinach and feta cheese in filo pastry

In Greek cooking, a filo pastry stuffed with spinach and feta cheese

Spancel

English word

Spareness

Adjective meaning resembling

See antispasmodic .

Spasmodically.

The common yellow water lily (Nuphar advena). Nuphar advena).

Prohibition-era fixtures

Jazz Age rendezvous.

Roaring Twenties rendezvous

""The office of speaker; as, the speakership of the House of Representatives. as, the speakership of the House of Representatives.""

Spearfish

Spearfish

Initiated, as an undertaking

Took the lead, as in a campaign.

Pioneered, as a movement

Concentrating on one subject

Blend of spices ideal for a particular purpose

Specialise

Specialism

Specialist

SPECIALIZE To mention specialy; to particularize.

Narrows the field.

SPECIAL a special person or thing

Neurology, oncology, cardiology, etc.

Speciation

Speciesism

Concrete, as complaints

SPECIFIC a remedy intended for a particular disease

Like an elaborate display, perhaps

Show clears up act for broadcasting

One kind of TV show

Heavenly photo

SPECULAR relating to a speculum

""SPECULATE To consider by turning a subject in the mind, and viewing it in its different aspects and relations; to meditate; to contemplate; to theorize; as, to speculate on questions in religion; to speculate on political events. as, to speculate on questions in religion; to speculate on political events.""

One of Hulme's conjectures (wordplay)

Wall Street motivation

Son's embezzlement's a matter of conjecture

Conjecturing - high-risk

Based on conjecture

Disagreement I have about iffy clue involving guesswork

Market manipulators

""-fies , -fying , -fied (intr) to make a speech or speeches""

Speechify

Speedball

Travelling clock (wordplay)

Sonata instrument (wordplay)

It displays the going rate

Labor Day orator, perhaps

A dynamic speaker, for example

Big hit on the lecture circuit

Spelunking

Not one to buy with prudence

Extravagantly spending person

Irresponsible user of money

Spermaceti

Pl. spermagonia also spermogonia (-n - ) A cup-shaped cavity or receptacle in which the spermatia of certain lichens and fungi are produced.

""A small sac connected with the female reproductive organs of insects and many other invertebrates, serving to receive and retain the spermatozoa.""