2-Letter Words Starting with S

One gathering wool

He cuts inside the fold

Fleece cutter

Shinplaster

Vital war workers

Despatch something from site to Noah's family

They make models of Jeanie Johnston perhaps for Harland and Wolff

Type of construction at, eg, Govan, Barrow

Crew's excited, gathering in monarch's smashing boat

Showmanship

Puts hats on display (wordplay)

Display with seals clapping should follow these

Rain and snow all summer at Lords? With such like, one couldn't go on!

Informal A performance or performer that evokes so much applause from the audience that the show is temporarily interrupted.

Sideslip

Sidestepper

Evading, in a way

Desist moving forest as evasive action

Avoidance behaviour that is seen in South Essex town

Silverpoint

A herb no longer tended? That's foolish

Type of interest objected to, being foolish

Simpleness

Simplicial

Simplicity

One of the Siphonophora.

""Botany A type of stele in which the vascular cylinder surrounds a pith, as in the stem of the sunflower.""

Skimpiness

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

Sleepiness

Noctambulous types

They go out for a stroll at night with dozy types just out of bed

Somnambulance

Somnambulation.

Somnambulism

The quality of being slippery.

Slipstream

Sloppiness

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

Snappiness

SNAPPISH tending to behave in an impatient or irritable manner

Snapshooter

Snapshot

Sniperscope

Soldiership

""The outer, or parietal, one of the two lamell\'91 into which the vertebrate blastoderm divides on either side of the notochord, and from which the walls of the body and the amnion are developed. See Splanchopleure. Splanchopleure.""

See growth hormone .

Sonography

An experienced and knowledgeable person

Who's disported at posh cities (wordplay)

Worldly-wise type making epic that is so disorganised

Causing sleep; somniferous; soporific.

Soundproof

Spaceflight

SPACEWALKER spacewalk

Going outside an orbiting craft

SPACIOUS ample in extent

Spaghettini

Spanakopita

Spanokopita

SPARKPLUG

Sparseness

Spasmolytic

Spasticity

Spatiality

Spatterdock

Audio equipment - keep on phrase (anagram)

Park sheep ruined linked to single communications facility

Speakership

Spearfish

Leading (attack)

Taking the lead

Praised Hagen extravagantly for leading attack

SPECIALISE

""SPECIALIST One who devotes himself to some specialty; as, a medical specialist, one who devotes himself to diseases of particular parts of the body, as the eye, the ear, the nerves, etc. as, a medical specialist, one who devotes himself to diseases of particular parts of the body, as the eye, the ear, the nerves, etc.""

Speciality

SPECIALIZE To mention specialy; to particularize.

SPECIATION

Precisely, clearly

Distinctly

Precisely

Speciosity

""SPECIOUS plausible, but inaccurate""

Types of shows.

Of or pertaining to a spectator.

Spectrogram

An apparatus for photographing or mapping a spectrum.

Apparatus measuring wavelengths

Scientific instrument

Instrument for measuring refractive indices

The measurement of light's properties

Scientific device for splitting light

Optical instrument.

Instrument for observing light of different wavelengths

The use of the spectroscope; investigations made with the spectroscope.

Speculation

The act of making a speech or speeches.

Speechless

Politician's alter ego (wordplay)

William Safire, once

Speedball

Speedboat

Speediness

Vehicle-velocity indicators

Often-ignored dash displays

Indicators of velocity

Speleology

Potholer - I'll goose-step (anagram)

Footballer in alone, meaning he plumbs the depths

Pigs let loose (anagram) - one who studies caves

Powerful speakers

Sure to fascinate

Fascinating session covering books

Holding one's interest

They have no saving graces

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

""Pl. -cae (-s ) A receptacle in the reproductive tracts of certain female invertebrates, especially insects, in which spermatozoa are received and stored until needed to fertilize the ova.""

Same as Spermoblast. Spermoblast.

SPERMATOZOA

""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 .""

""The male germ cell in animals and plants, the essential element in fertilization; a microscopic animalculelike particle, usually provided with one or more cilia by which it is capable of active motion. In animals, the familiar type is that of a small, more or less ovoid head, with a delicate threadlike cilium, or tail. Called also spermatozo\'94n. In plants the more usual term is antherozoid. spermatozo\'94n. In plants the more usual term is antherozoid.""

""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 .""

Spermophile

Spessartine

Spessartite

Sphericity

Spheroidal

Spherometer

Spheroplast

Sphingosine

""An instrument which, when applied over an artery, indicates graphically the movements or character of the pulse. See Sphygmogram. Sphygmogram.""

Spiculation

""An alloy of iron containing approximately 15 percent manganese and small quantities of carbon and silicon, used in the Bessemer process.""

Spiffiness

Spinnerette

Being single could make person do this

SPIRITED spirit

Spiritless

Brings The Dead to life for the latecomers who have something to say (wordplay)

Brings The Dead to life for the latecomers who have something to say

Hint to the Mystery Guest's identity

Medium habit is coming in double

Seance holder.

Religious sense

""To refine intellectiually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual character or tendency to; as, to spiritualize soul. as, to spiritualize soul.""

Spirochaete

Spirometry

Spiteful

Petty ill will

Splashboard

The quality of being splendid.

Pl. splenomegalies Enlargement of the spleen.

A spokesman or a spokeswoman. See Usage Note at man .

Bicycle mechanic (wordplay)

Front wheelwright (wordplay)

One speaking for others

Sponginess

Sponsorship

Spookiness

In a sporadic manner.

Plural or third person singular

Reproduction by spores.

The sport of catching fish using a rod and reel.

SPORTFUL {playful=adj}

Sportiness

SPORTIVE {playful=adj}

Schenkel, for one

Masters consultant, say

One who knows the score

Newspaper man.

Specialist reporter

One of those in the media talking about the club - the one reporting the fights

Sporulation

SPOTLESS {clean=adj}

Spotlight

Spottiness

English word

Make the beds (wordplay)

Sprightful

""Sprightlier , sprightliest Full of spirit and vitality; lively; brisk.""

Gymnast's platforms

Springhouse

Springwater

Spruceness

Spunkiness

SPURIOUS not genuine

Persons opposed to change

STANDPAT resisting or opposing change

Pl. stapedectomies Surgical removal of the stapes.

Staphylinid

Steatopygia

Having fat buttocks.

Competition for pastors (wordplay)

High Church breaking contract for event

Race with jumps

Workers in high places.

High climbers.

Copier of a dictator's words

One versed in shorthand

Court employee

Shorthander's notes unusually explicit

It's related to what I've asked you to write, in short

Stenotypist

Herbert's post about marital relations

Issue to be brought up on remarriage

Former union issue - awful pest, the guard found

Stepfamily

Stereograph

The art of delineating the forms of solid bodies on a plane; a branch of solid geometry which shows the construction of all solids which are regularly defined.

Combining separate sources of sound

(Of sound) multi-channel

With five kicked out, criminal evicts no-hoper from two places

Plural or third person singular

""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.""

3-D picture devices.

They provide outstanding images

Giving the impression of depth

Describing a three-dimensional effect.

Stereotyper

Stereotypy

""STEREOTYPE A plate forming an exact faximile of a page of type or of an engraving, used in printing books, etc.; specifically, a plate with typemetal face, used for printing.""

Stethoscope

""STETHOSCOPE An instrument used in auscultation for examining the organs of the chest, as the heart and lungs, by conveying to the ear of the examiner the sounds produced in the thorax.""

Stewardship

Stipulation

Stockkeeper

Stockholders in the warehouse business (wordplay)

Certain commuters.

Travellers with a long-standing grievance

Subwayites.

Using train when no seats available (wordplay)

That branch of geology which treats of the arrangement and succession of strata.

Layer of high air around the earth

Ozone layer's locale*

An atmospheric layer

Streetscape

Pathogenic bacteria

Bacteria that can cause scarlet fever, pneumonia etc.

Any of several hemolysins derived from some strains of streptococci.

""Pl. streptomyces Any of various actinomycetes of the genus Streptomyces, including several strains that produce antibiotics.""

New "wonder drug" from fungi

One of the "wonder" drugs.

Stringpiece

Stripteaser

Stroboscope

STROBOSCOPE An instrument for studying or observing the successive phases of a periodic or varying motion by means of light which is periodically interrupted.

""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.""

Studentship

Total astonishment and shock

Shocked astonishment

Extreme astonishment

Stupefying

In a marvelous way

Stupidness

""COMPONENT Serving, or helping, to form; composing; constituting; constituent.""

Situated immediately below the epidermis.

Submultiple