2-Letter Words Starting with S

Not too tight (wordplay)

Unlike bosom buddies

Not totally fused

Meerschaum. See Meerschaum. Meerschaum.

Dead end here, perhaps...

Where you may find dead end (wordplay)

Helps cure (anagram)

The act of depositing the dead body of a human being in the grave; burial; interment.

SHAPE to fashion into a form

Sounds like a woolly jacket for 17 across for the night

Enclosure for farm animals or duck, almost Dickensian inside

Transported by ship.

A. A vessel of considerable size for deep-water navigation.

Proper wicked hash pipes!

Very trim - and proud of it, we hear!

Ready to sail; also, neat and clean

Prove knight maybe is a fine specimen

Exhibit western epic shot in Oxford, say

Example of excellence

Hearst Castle, for one

Beautifully furnished home

Lavishly furnished home

Mistress, in slang

Disrespected mistress, in slang

The other woman, in somewhat objectifying slang

Dating app for adulterers (wordplay)

Facelift after cut and blow (wordplay)

Passing critical remark

""A leaping or jumping movement, especially a gait in which hops and steps alternate.""

Resembling hypnosis

Winter view

Christmas scene? Sons wrapping present, piece of clothing

Marker for style of TV serial (wordplay)

Teaspoons made of steatite (wordplay)

Soft form of rock

Bottom of a flatiron

Iron's base

Here or there

At an unspecified location

In an unspecified location

Nineteen-year-old, perhaps

Second-class citizen (wordplay)

Second-year student in USA

SPALLE the shoulder

Like surplus resources

""A narcotic alkaloid extracted from the tops of the common broom (Cytisus scoparius, formerly Spartium scoparium), as a colorless oily liquid of anilinelike odor and very bitter taste. Cytisus scoparius, formerly Spartium scoparium), as a colorless oily liquid of anilinelike odor and very bitter taste.""

Spoon-shaped

Was spitting at you of late? That's a bit thick

Expectorated before you get dead and thickened

Capable of being spoken; fit to be spoken.

Pat Eccles recovers sight

Select cap randomly from display

Visually striking performance

Gamble on investments

A gambler will do it to accumulate

Deliberate risk on the markets

Like notes ready to be blown (wordplay)

Kind of income

Like money, there for using - hang staying in the black!

Adjective meaning resembling

SPILL to overflow from a container

Adjective meaning resembling

Having spinules; minutely spiny.

""A mineral of a white to yellowish, purplish, or emeraldgreen color, occuring in prismatic crystals, often of great size. It is a silicate of aluminia and lithia. See Hiddenite. Hiddenite.""

Likely to decay.

A substance used to kill spores.

Lotus and pear used to produce seeds

""Made, paid, or delivered immediately: a spot sale.""

Fire hose hookup

Temporary water outlet

Tall water tank

Court reporter's machine

Instrument used in taking shorthand.

Court reporter's device

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

Unlike a juggernaut

Broke some wind in this hat (wordplay)

Lid over the cooker (wordplay)

Smoker's old head wear (wordplay)

Beyond the foothills

Just below the treeline

Below the treeline

SAMPLE to test a specimen of

Ultra-efficient but could be bettered

*Supplant

English word

Exceptionally good.

Adjective for sandpaper with very high grit numbers

Overnice

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

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

Winning flex for Mr. Universe (wordplay)

Place above something else.

Place above something else

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English word

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Take the place of, override

Take the place of, supplant

Succeed to the position of.

2004 documentary film title (with "Me")

McDonald's verb

Increase, as one's order

Follow as an unexpected result

Occur as an interruption

Occur unexpectedly.

Criminal uses Viper as guide

Oversee, superintend

Oversee people.

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Of a wound, to discharge liquid

If it does this there's something the matter there

Ooze pus

Graceful and slender

Graceful, shy elk with lip trembling

Put the accent on the weak beat

Play in jazz style.

Accent the off-beats

SYNOPSIZE

""Resembling sapphire; made of sapphire; having the color, or any quality of sapphire.""

""Any plant growing on dacayed animal or vegetable matter, as most fungi and some flowering plants with no green color, as the Indian pipe.""

""Small, thinly sliced pieces of meat, especially veal, dredged in flour, sautéed, and served in a sauce.""

Lawyer finds a way to fix Irish rascal

Good-for-nothing

Black sheep.

Dog for lively king in Kent

Small, black watchdog from Belgium

Small black tailless dog of a breed with a ruff of fur round its neck

Like some gemstones

Cloudy

""Causing, or being to cause, separation.""

Winding, twisting; mineral

Mineral; like a snake

Where Londoners go boating in Hyde Park.

An arch support inserted into the shank of a shoe.

Adjective meaning resembling

""The structure or build of a person, especially to the extent to which it exhibits the characteristics of an ectomorph, an endomorph, or a mesomorph.""

Marching-band instrument

March king's namesake, in a way

Relative of a helicon

See Spatulate. Spatulate.

Train in a particular area requiring less pace, one twice derailed

Concentrate on expertise in unique island with endless sunshine finally

Work in a limited field.

Major in

Team swallowing one short, misguided empiric's contraceptive

""An arsenide of platinum occuring in grains and minute isometric crystals of tinwhite color. It is found near Sudbury, Ontario Canada, and is the only known compound of platinum occuring in nature.""

Mineral lets delicate little person keep healthy

""A minute spherical crystalline body having a radiated structure, observed in some vitreous volcanic rocks, as obsidian and pearlstone.""

Inscrutable

Inscrutable

Enigmatic

Like a spider.

""Any of various slender, spiral, motile bacteria of the order Spirochaetales, many of which are pathogenic, causing syphilis, relapsing fever, yaws, and other diseases.""

Plane for shaping curved surfaces

Tool said to have succeeded getting in

Tool said to cut closely

English word

A placenta.

""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.""

""In certain Sporozoa, a small active, usually elongate, sickle-shaped or somewhat am\'d2boid spore, esp. one of those produced by division of the passive spores into which the zygote divides. The sporozoites reproduce asexually.""

SPREAD to stretch over an area

Like some February days

Vernal

Dregs in pit (anagram)

Skip and diet perhaps early in the year

It occurs at new and full moon

Season well with herb, say

The highlight of a leap year (wordplay)

Name invoking fascism

A barometer for recording small variations in atmospheric pressure.

Eight-track player (wordplay)

Spring back (in fear)

Lead role in many a Western

STRIPE to mark with distinct bands

Floor show perhaps and drinks in bar

Act that's taking off (wordplay)

1996 Demi Moore movie

""PRIMATE any of an advanced order of mammals, also PRIMATAL""

SULPHUR a non metallic element

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Starbursts (wordplay)

Star bursts

Exploding stars

See Peroxide. Peroxide.

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Type of government.

Eurasia, in "Nineteen Eighty-Four"

Big stock market (wordplay)

Huge retail establishment

One-stop shopping spot

SUPPLE to make {pliant=adj}

In earnest, praying for special pun to be concocted

Beg kitty to lie about with wild pups

Sue being agile, catching one pet (wordplay)

Pray humbly

Providing help

Playful, keeping up with helpful intentions

Frisky about being at university, maintaining a loyal interest

""Capable of being supposed, or imagined to exist; as, that is not a supposable case. as, that is not a supposable case.""

""Surplus; excess; overplus; as, surplusage of grain or goods beyond what is wanted. as, surplusage of grain or goods beyond what is wanted.""

Susceptible.

""Tending to suspend, or to keep in suspense; causing interruption or delay; uncertain; doubtful.""

See Sweepstake. Sweepstake.

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.""

Buying guides (wordplay)

They're often in the field

Clerks.

""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 .""

Like some hospital service

Like two-bed hospital rooms

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

Adjective meaning resembling

Concrete, as complaints

Conjecturing - high-risk

Based on conjecture

Disagreement I have about iffy clue involving guesswork

Any ground squirrel of the genus Spermophilus; gopher. See Illust. under Gopher. Spermophilus; gopher. See Illust. under Gopher.

""A red to brownish-red mineral of the garnet group, Mn 3 Al 2 (SiO 4 ) 3 .""

A manganesian variety of garnet.

""A basic, long-chain, unsaturated amino alcohol, C 18 H 37 NO 2 , found combined with lipids in the brain and in nerve tissue.""

Adjective meaning resembling

Diminutive form

Having or evidencing a refined mind and wit.

""(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Microbiology) any of a group of spirally coiled rodlike bacteria that includes the causative agent of syphilis See treponema [from New Latin spīrochaeta; see spiro- 2 , chaeta ]""

SPORULATE

A small storehouse constructed over a spring and used to keep food cool.

Device offering 3-D viewing

It provides outstanding images

Three-D viewer

It can pick the beat up (wordplay)

Medical instrument that scoops teeth out

It will find a broken heart

An artistic representation of a street.

""A long piece of timber, forming a margin or edge of any piece of construction; esp.:""

Flashing lamp effectively freezing motion

""A number or quality which is contained in another an exact number of times, or is an aliquot part of it; thus, 7 is the submultiple of 56, being contained in it eight times. submultiple of 56, being contained in it eight times.""

""OPTIMIZE to make as effective as possible, also OPTIMISE""

Fill to excess at a splendid price!

Pep up, as an engine

Use a turbo

English word

Place something over something else

Place one over another

Place over

Introduce in addition

Highest in quality

Of the highest degree or quality

Of the highest degree

Noun (-ure)

English word

""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.""

Replacement

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To subtle.

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""Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable.""

News media first raised matter Nutmeg's aiming to cover up

Tending to stop drink with reporters I have cut short

Tending to suppurate; promoting suppuration.

That may be surpassed.

Prone (to)

Easily swayed by feelings

Liable to fall victim

A saclike structure formed by nerve endings at a synapse that remains intact after homogenization of nerve tissue.

""SYNCOPATE To contract, as a word, by taking one or more letters or syllables from the middle; as, "Gloster" is a syncopated form of "Gloucester." as, "Gloster" is a syncopated form of "Gloucester."""

""Capable of conversion into soap; as, a saponifiable substance. as, a saponifiable substance.""

English word

""Pl. scyphistomae (-m ) or scyphistomas A larva of a scyphozoan, consisting of an elongated and deeply constricted polyp that successively splits off minute, free-swimming medusas.""

PARASITE an organism that lives and feeds on another

Showing a positive reaction to a test on blood serum for a disease; exhibiting seroconversion.

SEXTUPLE to make six times as great

One of the Siphonophora.

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

""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.""

An experienced and knowledgeable person

Who's disported at posh cities (wordplay)

Worldly-wise type making epic that is so disorganised

Audio equipment - keep on phrase (anagram)

Park sheep ruined linked to single communications facility

Scientific device for splitting light

Optical instrument.

Instrument for observing light of different wavelengths

""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.

""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.""

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

Competition for pastors (wordplay)

High Church breaking contract for event

Race with jumps

Layer of high air around the earth

Ozone layer's locale*

An atmospheric layer

""TEMPERATE Moderate; not excessive; as, temperate heat; a temperate climate. as, temperate heat; a temperate climate.""

Pension off

English word

SUPERELEVATE

English word

Adjective (-ive)

SUPEROVULATE

""Capable of being superposed, as one figure upon another.""

That may be suppressed.

(Physics / General Physics) an instrument used to indicate whether two periodic quantities or motions are synchronous

Like carved figures

These kind of membranes I peel off when less new

""(Chemistry / Elements & Compounds) any of certain terpenes whose molecules contain one and a half times as many atoms as a normal terpene. Formula: C 15 H 24 SPELEOTHERAPY (Medicine) a form of treatment for asthma sufferers that takes place in clinics in disused mines, in which the air is free of pollen, dust mites, and the other irritants that provoke an allergic reaction; used to reduce the risk of heart disease""

Adjective meaning resembling

Same as Spermospore. Spermospore.