2-Letter Words Starting with S

What it's risky to build on (wordplay)

Something risky to build on (wordplay)

What some homes are built on (wordplay)

Of a reddishbrown hue

Of a reddish-brown color.

With a brownish tint

Going on for a month, I see? That's bad!

Tank opening (wordplay)

It's gone bad for one month, I see

Hip caps (anagram)

Relating to a Greek female poet

Like some odes

Moore's man from Missouri (wordplay)

Dubious one, in Devonshire

One questioning accepted opinions

Heavy laced waterproof boot

Wet-weather boot

Laced waterproof boot

Pickets upset Thomas, perhaps (wordplay)

One with trouble swallowing (wordplay)

Pyrrho, for one

Hopped up on sugar, say

Afflicted with muscle tremors

Of involuntary muscle contractions

""Of minerals, having good cleavage""

Pertaining to {sperm=n}

Wedge-shaped

Like 2 seconds with cipher to crack

Round, or suffix with atmo-

Form of ciphers

Pertaining to the spleen

This should stop the bleeder!

Checking bleeding pencil

Kind of first-aid pencil

No answer in physical exercising like a graceful spirit (wordplay)

Pertaining to {sapremia=n}

Pertaining to {saprobe=n}

Of vision in dim light

Scoot off with photograph of vision in darkness

Chips are heavenly served like this

To do with top angels

Like an angel

""Pertaining to a siphon, also SIPHONAL""

Involving transmutation of racy pigs (wordplay)

Particular muscle providing parts thus

Explicit or particular

Explicit or in detail

Pertaining to {sphygmus=n}

Having a certain meter.

New coda spin produces sort of measure

All long for such verse iPods can produce

Tossed picadors (off and on)

Picadors get involved now and then

On-and-off

'Killing cat', a disastrous sort of ode

(Of song) with each verse sung to the same tune

Describes Greek ode by barbers shop band sounds hick

Situated under the eyes

Situated under the pubis

A secondary topic

Of neural firing points

Like some firings

Pertaining to a {syncope=n}

Like some Gospels

Presenting a general view

Presenting a general view.

""Obtaining nourishment by absorption of dissolved organic and inorganic materials, as in protozoans and some fungi.""

SOPHIST one who use sophisms

Poor sci-fi rerun sending one to sleep

Inducing drowsiness or sleep

That's enough to make one drop off

Done in short bursts

Done in brief irregular bursts

Faulty compass I'd disconnected

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

Pencil set (anagram)

Being irritable, select pin differently

There's a splice around the cross net

TROPIC an imaginary circle on the celestial sphere

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

""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.""

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

Like some music? My, Chopin's fantastic!

My! Chopin's unusually melodic

Like a major classical music form

""Of, producing, or resulting from putrefaction.""

""SAXOPHONE A wind instrument of brass, containing a reed, and partaking of the qualities both of a brass instrument and of a clarinet.""

PUBLIC people as a whole

Like Paraguay's climate

SEPTIC an agent producing sepsis

Ignoring real complexity

Not recognising true complexity

Naive; ignoring complexities

Pertaining to a second-year student (US)

Like a lot of humor in this puzzle, maturity-wise, admittedly

Of or pertaining to the viscera; visceral.

Biology ()

""Reproduction by multiple fission of a spore or zygote, characteristic of many sporozoans. Sporogony results in the production of sporozoites.""

Having poor ecological adaptability

Very fast - 11 (anagram)

Boom-causing, perhaps

*Anthropocentric jet type (wordplay)

Inspector cunningly concealing university second degree in music

Adjective (-ic)

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

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

SOCIOPATH

SOLIPSIST

See antispasmodic .

Of or pertaining to a spherulite; characterized by the presence of spherulites.

""SPHINCTER A muscle which surrounds, and by its contraction tends to close, a natural opening; as, the sphincter of the bladder. as, the sphincter of the bladder.""

Concerning the occult.

An instrument for measuring the volume of air entering and leaving the lungs.

""SPOROPHYTE In plants exhibiting alternation of generations, the generation which bears asexual spores; -- opposed to gametophyte. It is not clearly differentiated in the life cycle of the lower plants.gametophyte. It is not clearly differentiated in the life cycle of the lower plants.""

""Body, Human""

Like a stock image

Conventional

SPECIFIC a remedy intended for a particular disease

Obsequious City chap son sacked

Servile - like a crawler

Obsequious and silly chap isn't coy

Likeable; sensitively designed

Showing fellow-feeling

Kindly ear to lend

Indicative (of a disease?)

Indicative, typical

Indicating disease

SARCOPLASM

""Of, relating to, or characteristic of scenography: "Contemporary design has a strongly scenographic appeal, as if modern rooms were meant to be stage sets" (Los Angeles Times).""

Of or pertaining to separatists; characterizing separatists; schismatical.

""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.""

Shorthander's notes unusually explicit

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

Combining separate sources of sound

(Of sound) multi-channel

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

Giving the impression of depth

Describing a three-dimensional effect.

""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.""

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

(Sociology) Sociol (no longer widely used) relating to those aspects of a culture that are conceived as being superior to the individual members of the society superorganicism   n

""(Engineering / General Engineering) such a metal, alloy, etc. superplasticity  ""

SCHIZOPHRENE

A device for producing a scintigram; a scintiscanner.

Of or pertaining to a seismograph; indicated by a seismograph.

Inflected form of PARASITIC Inflected form of PARASITE an organism that lives and feeds on another

A spectroscope equipped with scales for measuring wavelengths or indexes of refraction.

""SPECTROSCOPE An optical instrument for forming and examining spectra (as that of solar light, or those produced by flames in which different substances are volatilized), so as to determine, from the position of the spectral lines, the composition of the substance.""

Formation and development of spermatozoa by meiosis and spermiogenesis.

""STEREOGRAPH Any picture, or pair of pictures, prepared for exhibition in the stereoscope. Stereographs are now commonly made by means of photography.""

""The study of rock strata, especially the distribution, deposition, and age of sedimentary rocks.""

Sky-high (informal)

Unusually, orchestra pit's very high

Belonging to the upper air

STREPTOCOCCI

Adjective (-ic)

Adjective (-ic)

Opposing the physiological effects caused by stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system: a sympatholytic treatment.

SPECTROGRAPH An apparatus for photographing or mapping a spectrum.

SPERMATOPHYTE Any plant of the phylum Spermatophyta.

Believing in mediums communicating with the dead

STAPHYLOCOCCI

""(Chemistry) Chem relating to or having fixed position in space, as in the spatial arrangements of atoms in certain polymers""

""Inflected form of ATMOSPHERIC Inflected form of ATMOSPHERE The whole mass of a\'89riform fluid surrounding the earth; applied also to the gaseous envelope of any celestial orb, or other body; as, the atmosphere of Mars. as, the atmosphere of Mars.""

""Inflected form of MICROSCOPIC Inflected form of MICROSCOPE An optical instrument, consisting of a lens, or combination of lenses, for making an enlarged image of an object which is too minute to be viewed by the naked eye.""

THERAPEUTIC One of the Therapeut\'91.

SUPERPATRIOT

A grand unified field theory that attempts to unify the fundamental forces by postulating a symmetry relating the known fermions to hypothetical bosons and the know bosons to hypothetical fermions.

Producing physiological effects resembling those caused by the activity or stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system: a sympathomimetic hormone.

Adjective (-ic)