2-Letter Words Starting with S

Alleged to turn thus, caught by drunk

Reckoned, took to be the case

Sat artistically by drink and thought

Took a deep breath

Came together, as nerve endings

Sypher

Uneasy phone discussion not entirely conveyed

SAPHEAD a stupid person

Cooked au gratin

Like Ritz cracker edges

Decorated with shell-like shapes

Doggedly hurried for a single (wordplay)

Raced, in a way

Played tag, for example

Cleared off

Rushed from steep slope before break of day

Second vehicle went over river and got away

Invested with royal authority.

Invested with imperial authority

Like Shakespeare.s isle

Lugged with effort

Carried with great effort

Schlump

Scollop

When Dec's up about the up part, that has you down

One at the bar higher with the editor and sank the lot

How one took a part (wordplay)

Isolated copies retrospectively valued

How Kipling saw East and West.

Septuple

Sextuple

Did a hair salon job

Made a point of (wordplay)

End with phrase specially honed

Brushed up

Hope's fled for the pound

Pen for lambs, ewes, etc

Pound worth every penny to Bo Peep (wordplay)

Type of romance (on an ocean liner)

Like some short-lived romances

Shunpike

Led on the bowling green (wordplay)

Led the team on the green

Was the captain of a ship

Like some fine books

Beaten with indoor shoe

Like Cinderella

""(Communication Arts / Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) Printing a device on a linecaster for evening up the spaces between words""

""; adj. Toward, to, or in outer space.""

Spancel

Spotted by a mudslinger (wordplay)

Trap steed (anagram)

Small talk on journalist's spread

Lead (a military attack)

Lead (an attack)

Lead (an attack or movement)

Speciate

Named in detail

Stated in detail

Gave details

Spectate

Entrance, as through oratory

Having put on tie, shift grip

Fascinate

Spelunk

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

Plant of the ginseng family

Aromatic East Indian plant.

Aromatic root

Grew, like some churches, welcoming everybody

Spotted, splashed

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

*Stained

Pillaged

Brought to you (by)

Was an angel

Like Web "articles" that are really ads

Spraddle

Sprattle

English word

Rained a bit

Caused umbrellas to open

Made umbrellas necessary

Hurried around state, spoke excitedly

Spoke incoherently

Bumbled verbally

Ran wildly, as a buffalo herd

Ran wild, as cattle

Made off frightfully fast

Increased in price

Made a higher grade

More inclined to be made like this

Marriage acquisition, maybe

Second mate's kid (wordplay)

Offspring of spouse

With a plug

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

Stunned with astonishment

Dulled the wits or senses

Rendered speechless

Subpena

PERIOD to put an end to

Sulphate

Stop man at newspaper being fumigated

Environmental program since 1980

English word

English word

English word

English word

Supinate

Took sides with

Bolstered up

Bolstered, sustained

Did better than

Did better to dress up as arranged

Idiot introduced to silly prudes excelled

Is that what you expected (wordplay)

One thing one doesn't expect to be

Shocked by teacher valued in hearing

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!

Waterlogged area

SAILPLANE

Converted (a fat) into soap

""Of or belonging to the suborder Scorpaenoidei, which includes the scorpion fishes and rockfishes.""

With fine and regular features, son grew to assume power

Carved

Chiseled

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

""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.""

""A large and valuable sparoid food fish (Archosargus, ∨ Diplodus, probatocephalus) found on the Atlantic coast of the United States. It often weighs from ten to twelve pounds. Archosargus, ∨ Diplodus, probatocephalus) found on the Atlantic coast of the United States. It often weighs from ten to twelve pounds.""

Emulated Bo-Peep

Tended sheep

Escorted

Stole

Went door to door (wordplay)

Struck a glancing blow

Marked with roadside pointers

Made plain.

Made easier

Made easy

One nodding off (2 words)

Yawning child (wordplay)

Slacker ground he'd ply with ease

Slipform

Like some tall mountains

Like a white peak

Tired about absence of throne, like some in high places (wordplay)

Snowplow

Spancel

Marked beast, much loved, taken round Britain on display

Put one's thinking cap on

Took risks

Considered options, then played the market

B..O..U..N..D (wordplay)

Give the letters a leap - how enchanted!

Absorbed by B-O-U-N-D, perhaps

English word

Made a mess, maybe

Splashed (all over the place)

Sloshed water on.

Cracked lips, tender perhaps

Broke into small, sharp pieces

Fragmented

Records spinning, said remarks thus indistinct (wordplay)

Struggled to get words out when rushed to grasp line, say

SPORULATE

A fountain or source.

""Young, usually soft wood that lies directly beneath the bark and develops in early spring.""

Past tense or past participle

Spurgall

STENOTYPE

Required platitudes to be inventive!

Details put out as specified

Specified as a condition

Put away in reserve

Put away for a rainy day

Spoilt deck shuffled and put in store

A mantis shrimp, for example

Summoned as a witness

SAMPLED sample

Superadd

English word

SUPERCEDE

Helium alone can be this; or Coca-Cola, according to some (wordplay)

SUPERHYPE

""SUPERPOSE To lay upon, as one kind of rock on another.""

Supplanted.

Like orders of magnitude (wordplay)

Larger than large

Enlarged, as an order of fries

SUPERVENE To come as something additional or extraneous; to occur with reference or relation to something else; to happen upon or after something else; to be added; to take place; to happen.

""SUPERVISE To oversee for direction; to superintend; to inspect with authority; as, to supervise the construction of a steam engine, or the printing of a book. as, to supervise the construction of a steam engine, or the printing of a book.""

Supplant

Didn't think about

Drink and jam gets journalist censored

Inhibited

""SUPPURATE To generate pus; as, a boil or abscess suppurates. as, a boil or abscess suppurates.""

Surprint

Offbeat (wordplay)

Cut short, as rhythm

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

SYNOPSIZE

Smoothed, as a wooden surface

Got ready to put on a new coat

Smoothed, as wood

Put the blame on

Sepulcher

Stranded, in a way

Mainly ruined

Skidded

Avoided the issue

Circumvented

Avoided

Noctambulated

Snapshot

Spacewalk

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

SPECIALIZE To mention specialy; to particularize.

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

Speedball

""A guard in the front part of vehicle, to prevent splashing by a mud or water from the horse's heels; in the United States commonly called dashboard. dashboard.""

Splayfoot

With all eyes watching

Flexible point of departure (wordplay)

Jumping-off place (wordplay)

If you're here, you'll take a dive

Protected from fire by a water system.

Protected from fire by a water system

Any rove beetle.

Conforming to stock idea

Conforming to a stock image

Tired Tory with deep-set disorder

EMPLOYED employ

SULPHURISE

""To be very abundant or exuberant; to be more than sufficient; as, the country superabounds with corn. as, the country superabounds with corn.""

Supercoil

Supercool

Past tense or past participle

With temperature raised to excess

Be responsible for the management of

Manage when turnips need cooking

Control, manage

Supplicat

Suspender

Suspicion

Shared an understanding with shyest maid, trembling, keeping quiet

Shared a sentiment

""Having the anterior toes joined only part way down with a web; half-webbed; as, a semipalmate bird or foot. See Illust. k under Aves.as, a semipalmate bird or foot. See Illust. k under Aves.""

SHARECROP

A herb no longer tended? That's foolish

Type of interest objected to, being foolish

Slipstream

Soundproof

SPARKPLUG

""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.""

Being single could make person do this

OPTIMIZED optimize

Very quick, huge car sped round corner, finally

Placed on top

Set over? Fantastic, I'm ready for my close-up!

""SUPERINDUCE To bring in, or upon, as an addition to something.""

Superpower

""SUPERSCRIBE To write or engrave (a name, address, inscription, or the like) on the top or surface; to write a name, address, or the like, on the outside or cover of (anything); as, to superscribe a letter. as, to superscribe a letter.""

Supplement

SEXTUPLICATE

Advanced cash? Deposit it, perhaps

Possessed of culture, refinement and 24

Ditches patois, turning suave

""SPIRITUALIZE 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.""

Stereograph

Superabound

Past it - pensioned off

A1 to the south, Aunt Edna rambles past it

Great girl, you hear, with a boy that's passe

SUPERELEVATE

Superharden

Superinfect

Superintend

SUPEROVULATE

SPLENECTOMIZE

Inflected form of SPECIALIZED Inflected form of SPECIALIZE To mention specialy; to particularize.

Past tense or past participle

Superconduct

Past tense or past participle

""SUPERSATURATE To add to beyond saturation; as, to supersaturate a solution. as, to supersaturate a solution.""

Supercalender

SUPERSTIMULATE