2-Letter Words Starting with S

What's a Mata (wordplay)

D.C. resident, maybe

One eavesdropping, perhaps

Fix like a vet (wordplay)

Keep heat out of (wordplay)

Fix for good (wordplay)

Agile (for one's age?)

Agile (for one's age)

Nimble (for one's age?)

Like some trees in Vermont (wordplay)

Like maple trees and pigeons (wordplay)

Like sentimental trees (wordplay)

Tending to ooze

Full of moisture.

Tending to leak slowly

Indian soldier of yore.

British Indian Army member

Former native soldier of India.

Ivory-coated, perhaps

Needing rinsing, perhaps

Not rinsed perhaps

Knowledge Comb. form.

Philo's conclusion

Knowledge: Comb. form.

In the washer, perhaps

In the washer perhaps

Informally sentimental in sickly way

Puree of Sales (wordplay)

Like dense fog

Like neglected ice cream

Constantly daydreaming say

Like Mork (wordplay)

Constantly daydreaming, say

Made with curry, say

Like chorizos and kimchi

Like a hot curry

Like a punk rocker's hair, perhaps

Like a punkers hair

Like some punk hairstyles

Describing a porcupine.

Like sea urchins

Like a cactus

Like a steeple

Tall and tapering

Helical

Spread out as ones fingers

Spread out, as fingers

Spread apart, as feet

Apply deodorant maybe

Result of an overdramatic wound, perhaps

Fix one's hair (wordplay)

Full of froth

Like a beach on a rough day

Covered with foam

Professional cheater at cards

Very alert guy

Card cheat

Without fuss, giving second hint

Society takes hint unreservedly

No more than

Like sirup

Inadequate (of clothing)

Like a revealing bathing suit

Far from generous

Buffalo Tom's eyes in '95 (wordplay)

Yes please, not half (excitedly nodding)

Ready to retire (wordplay)

Evasive secret agent seen around border

Son, cheeky and untrustworthy

Hardly tractional

Riddled with typos, say

Hard to read, maybe

Romantic Bond perhaps keeping trim

Fast making one ill-tempered (wordplay)

Way to make it (wordplay)

Watch taking forty winks - that's smart!

Short and not sweet (wordplay)

Displaying short-temperedness

Putting on airs: Colloq.

Brown dog (wordplay)

Brown beagle (wordplay)

Red Baron's foe

Kevin of "Horrible Bosses"

One of "The Usual Suspects"

1999 Best Actor winner

Bad electrician's nickname (wordplay)

Radar's radio contact on "M*A*S*H"

Army radioman's nickname

Having a confused crystalline structure

Like a cheetah

'Fast, without delay (6)'

Like Gonzales of songdom

Starlike

Starlike.

Globular

""Containing spices, also SPICY""

Fine-looking Slang.

Smart, but without issue dubious

Smart and dapper

Copse

Absorbant, yellow, and porous, say

Able to mop things up, say

Porous, absorbent, soft

In the style of a parody

Causing to tremble, say

Weird seeing something brown in blue

Like haunted houses

Enamored, in a silly way

Besotted with love

Very sentimental.

Containing a spoiler, say

Flashy, as clothes.

Sleek and stylish

Maculate (like a leopard?)

Pimply or covered with dots

Suffering from acne

Neat and trim

How the "Cocoon" cast acted (wordplay)

With pep in one's step

In a nimble manner

Spirited witticism in heaven (wordplay)

Blue joke held to be brave

Full of spirit

Chickweed

Like a referee's shirt

Full of parallel bars

Tear into animal's pen like a tiger

Fireplug-shaped, perhaps

Short and thickset

Short and stocky.

Cunning around you and father in store

Meet requirements flexibly

Provision in a flexible manner

Like the Everglades

Like the Okefenokee

Very like a bog

Of wide range or scope

Graceful

Graceful.

Way too sentimental

Resembling a sweet sticky liquid

How sweet to spy around a year with you

In a sappy manner

Province ruled by a petty tyrant

Despot's province

Persian ruler's domain

Full of fight

Full of spunk

Like junk dealer with chip on shoulder

Deficient in amount or quality

Economizing to the extreme

Barely adequate

Like this puzzle's theme (wordplay)

Looking good (wordplay)

Well-formed plays he gets rewritten

How condemnation is expressed

How the riot act is usually read

With acerbic wit

Canal large enough for seagoing vessels

Canal

{slovenly=adj}

A sales clerk

Relating to small edible crustaceans

Small

""Flimsy, also SLIMSY""

Sloping structure for ship-building

Ramp at the back of a whaler

Launch slope for ships

In a soapy manner

Covered with jewels, sequins etc

Covered in sequins

Glittering Christopher had inner pain

In a frugal manner

How a simple home may be decorated

In a scanty way

Identify clearly and definitely

Take pains to name

State in detail.

Mace repository of yore

Collection of seasonings

In a spicy manner

(Of writing) thin and straggly

Long, thin and angular

Spindly and terrifying

In a spiky manner

Long and slender.

Tall, thin, and fragile

Tall and thin

Thicket, in Britain

Small area of trees

Thicket or grove, in Britain.

Flamboyant and extravagant

Making a show: Slang.

Full of puddles.

Hot-tempered

Showing anger

Petulant

Tending to splurge

""One who is overly sentimental [n -S] / overly sentimental, also SPOONY""

Very spread out

Having small branches

Bouncy and seasonal (wordplay)

Giving is seasonal (wordplay)

Elastic band held by agent

Drive on edge of yucca plant

Herb prevalent originally in English county

To a high degree

How prices may rise

How cliffs incline

Angry to see wine has been upset in

Bad-tempered, argumentative

Angry agent consuming drink sent up

Make one's eyes pop out

Stun, or a Harry Potter spell that stuns

Astonish, shock

The state of being {sapid=adj}

{wisdom=n}

Turn into soap

Make into soap

To six times as much

Make less complex

Reduce in complexity

Make easier or less complicated

Cheap - worthless - worth a tanner once

Twice as much as a cheap opera (wordplay)

Nail size

In a skimpy manner

In a languid manner

In a languid way

In a quiet manner

Untrustworthy like a mule (wordplay)

Hard to handle

Evasive like an eel

In an unkempt manner

Without care

Sans precision

In a natty way

Without dawdling

Stylishly

Unduly brief or curt.

In a crabby mood

Unduly curt

In a snippy manner

In a snoopy manner

In a lively manner

In small numbers

How Nevada is populated

How farmland is populated

Thinness of occurrence

Thinly scattered state

Thinly-scattered state

In quick fashion

With haste

With alacrity

Indy, for one

Fast-track form of sport (wordplay)

Indy track, for example

An organ in which sperm is formed

In a spiffy manner

Tablet in power for overflow passage

Reservoir's outlet

Surplus-water passage

Bites uppish friend in the back

Along the backbone

How some analgesics are administered

A spinning mill

How some hams are cut

Full of blots and spots

Like some rashes

Marked by blots

In a spongy manner

Good-natured ridicule

Something spooky

How deja vu often occurs

In a spoony manner

In a sporty manner

In an inconsistent fashion

With inconsistency

In a spruce manner

In a spunky manner

Like a ninny.

In a thickheaded way

Mindlessly, with no common sense

""Resembling sulfur, also SULFURY""

In a magnificent way

In an extremely well-done manner

Ely pubs set out to entertain royal very well indeed

Superlie

James Bond, for example

Bond, for example

One tops in ops

In an indolent or passive way

Without resistance

In a supple manner

'Tea and ' (1956 movie)

Compassion (coming with tea)

'Tea and ' (1956 film)

The state of occupying an area without loss of identity from interbreeding

Beethoven's 'Eroica,' for one

Haydn's "Surprise," for one

Haydn's 'Surprise,' for one

The state of being a syncarp

With insight and wisdom

Wisely

In a scrappy manner; in scraps.

Whack a dwarf (wordplay)

Insult Mrs. Rockefeller?

Insult Mrs. Rockefeller (wordplay)

""Tree Any tree of the genus Sapindus, esp. Sapindus saponaria, the fleshy part of whose fruit is used instead of soap in washing linen; also called soap tree. Sapindus, esp. Sapindus saponaria, the fleshy part of whose fruit is used instead of soap in washing linen; also called soap tree.""

Intentionally deceptive reasoning.

Subtle but misleading reasoning

Subtly fallacious reasoning.

Very little cutting, calculating nicks

Mean to be doing it this way

In a frugal manner.

How orbits are arranged

Illicit drinking club (US)

Talk with a low-key bartender (wordplay)

Password requirer, maybe

For a particular purpose

In particular

Particularly small diamonds quietly picked up by friend

Special subject of study

Pediatrics, for example

Strong suit

Orate

Harangue.

Harangue

The quality or state of being spiny or thorny; spininess.

SPLASH to scatter liquid about

""Consisting of splinters; resembling splinters; as, the splintery fracture of a mineral. as, the splintery fracture of a mineral.""

SPLUTTER to speak rapidly and confusedly

The growth or development of an animal or a zooid from a nonsexual germ.

What one ply's about? That's right

Full of life

Lively odds justly followed

With elasticity

STENO a stenographer

Lack of intelligence

Second part of the quote

Simple Simon's strong point.

A matter of expenditure on the old oil in there to start with

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

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

Tinpot despot's dream state (wordplay)

Empire state (wordplay)

Power to dominate

In a supreme manner.

Foiling son by clever verbal repartee!

Fencing - 's my sport (wordplay)

One of D'Artagnan's fortes.

Having united petals; gamopetalous.

""SANDPAPER A tube of vitrified sand, produced by a stroke of lightning; a fulgurite""

Work on project for film

Script of film with directions

Work that may win an Oscar

Please try a new version, one at a time

Late payers settle one by one

Individually

SERIGRAPH An autographic device to test the strength of raw silk.

Honeysuckle's kin

Woman begins episcopate, nothing less than perfect, as if unsure of her welcome

Couldn't be easier!

Lack of affectation

Start of a quip

SNAPPISH tending to behave in an impatient or irritable manner

SONOGRAPH

SPACIOUS ample in extent

A state of spasm.

""SPATIAL pertaining to space, also SPACIAL""

Expert's skill or interest

Particular work to be done in a field

Person's particular skill

The quality or state of being specious; speciousness.

""SPECIOUS plausible, but inaccurate""

In the form or manner of a specter.

SPECULAR relating to a speculum

Science of cave exploring

Study of caves

Scientific study of caves

""The quality or state of being spherial; roundness; as, the sphericity of the planets, or of a drop of water. as, the sphericity of the planets, or of a drop of water.""

Unsteadily slips with entry - like an old maid (wordplay)

In a lively manner

The measurement of lung capacity

With malice aforethought

That's with Ma, lice

With malice

Magnificently

Having no children, bestow identity on couple from Lyon with much magnificence

SPORTFUL {playful=adj}

In sport; sportively.

In fun

SPOTLESS {clean=adj}

SPURIOUS not genuine

Rough playtimes involving female relatives

Those inherited after a break-up in my past life

The art or process of making stereotype plates.

Slow Scottish dance

Scot. country dance

Dance with shyster apt to twist

POTENCY the quality of being potent

Any of several complex temperature-resistant alloys.

(Physics / General Physics) Physics denoting or relating to elements of high atomic number (above 109) postulated to exist with special stability as a consequence of the shell model of the nucleus

Cross about fairy heading for Oberon in condescending manner

SUPERNAL pertaining to the sky

That which is to supply what is wanted.

*As it's widely believed

Assume, for the sake of argument... (inaccurate usage, to purists)

As at least some people think

Assumer's adverb

Massive edition kept in stock, by all accounts

Having power or effect of delaying