2-Letter Words Starting with S

Backward concerns (wordplay)

Ice column on a glacier (RACES anagram)

Glacial chunk (or reading up, worries)

Kind of acid (from rowan-berries)

Antimicrobial kind of acid

Fruit-derived acid

Spatial, in chemistry

Of atoms' spatial relationships

Of atomic spatial arrangement

Swiftly done (wordplay)

Tongue-in-cheek

Nature of many Shavian remarks.

Like a lecher

Of certain demigods.

Lecherous comic, one going for unknown

Pertaining to {sorites=n}

Pertaining to {sperm=n}

Like 2 seconds with cipher to crack

Round, or suffix with atmo-

Form of ciphers

Kind of acid

Kind of fatty acid

Relating to fat

Spinning about orbits spinning

Having a spinning motion

Like a spinning-top

Pertaining to cork

Cypress gum resin; as canard (anagram)

Varnish-making resin

Resin used in varnish

Pertaining to {sapremia=n}

Pertaining to {saprobe=n}

Cynical - so rancid (anagram)

Mocking about drains & Co (wordplay)

Like some grins

Chips are heavenly served like this

To do with top angels

Like an angel

Like a talk from the pulpit

Involving transmutation of racy pigs (wordplay)

Tossed picadors (off and on)

Picadors get involved now and then

On-and-off

Pertaining to {strontia=n}

'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

Type of acid

Kind of acid

Like gunpowder

Cooperating

Cooperative

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

Snidely stated, perhaps

Full of barbs

Using mocking wit

SCHLIERE a small streak in an igneous rock

That's a morbid sort of hardening

Of an eye membrane

It's getting a bit thick to be so loving at last

Descriptive of a scurvy knave (wordplay)

What a scurvy knave may be

""Pl. serologies The science that deals with the properties and reactions of serums, especially blood serum.""

Poor sci-fi rerun sending one to sleep

Inducing drowsiness or sleep

That's enough to make one drop off

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

The "S" in SALT

Forming part of a long-term plan

Of military importance.

Designating Greenland, Baffin Land, etc

TROPIC an imaginary circle on the celestial sphere

Singular bubble with incomplete opening will make one sweat

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

Sensuous city bar is demolished

Affording, enjoying, luxury

Devoted to luxury

Equally balanced

Evenly proportioned.

Well proportioned

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

""Uniting and blending together different systems, as of philosophy, morals, or religion.""

Joint at the base of the spine

A joint in the lower back

Strong pelvic joint

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

""A disease of the sebaceous glands characterized by excessive secretion of sebum or an alteration in its quality, resulting in an oily coating, crusts, or scales on the skin.""

Like Paraguay's climate

Like some plays.

Half-and-half kind of drama

Pertaining to a second-year student (US)

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

Biology ()

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

STRABISM a squint

Very fast - 11 (anagram)

Boom-causing, perhaps

*Anthropocentric jet type (wordplay)

Inspector cunningly concealing university second degree in music

Adjective (-ic)

""SYNCHRO a type of remote-control device, also SELSYN""

Working together

Cooperative.

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

Relating to the study of group relationships

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.""

Of or pertaining to staurolite; resembling or containing staurolite.

""A method in neurosurgery and neurological research for locating points within the brain using an external, three-dimensional frame of reference usually based on the Cartesian coordinate system.""

Like a stock image

Conventional

Cooperative, in a way

Working together to greater effect

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).""

""SECULARIST One who theoretically rejects every form of religious faith, and every kind of religious worship, and accepts only the facts and influences which are derived from the present life; also, one who believes that education and other matters of civil policy should be managed without the introduction of a religious element.""

""Of or pertaining to seismometry, or seismometer; as, seismometric instruments; seismometric measurements. as, seismometric instruments; seismometric measurements.""

Of or pertaining to separatists; characterizing separatists; schismatical.

""Activated by or capable of liberating serotonin, especially in transmitting nerve impulses: serotonergic neurons; serotonergic drugs.""

SOLIDARIST

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.

""A method in neurosurgery and neurological research for locating points within the brain using an external, three-dimensional frame of reference usually based on the Cartesian coordinate system.""

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

""ANTARCTIC Opposite to the northern or arctic pole; relating to the southern pole or to the region near it, and applied especially to a circle, distant from the pole 23° 28&min;. Thus we say the antarctic pole, circle, ocean, region, current, etc. antarctic pole, circle, ocean, region, current, etc.""

(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  ""

Like Magritte, say

Like the art of Dali or Magritte

Bizarre pragmatist in endless cruise at sea

""Pertaining to, or characterized by, syncretism; as, a syncretistic mixture of the service of Jehovah and the worship of idols. as, a syncretistic mixture of the service of Jehovah and the worship of idols.""

SCHIZOPHRENE

A device for producing a scintigram; a scintiscanner.

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

As seen or estimated from the center of the moon; with the moon central.

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

Photography

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.""

Production of steroids by living organisms.

""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

STROMATOLITE

Adjective (-ic)

Adjective (-ic)

""Of or pertaining to synchronism; arranged according to correspondence in time; as, synchronistic tables. as, synchronistic tables.""

A chronic disease of the spinal cord characterized by the presence of fluid-filled cavities and leading to spasticity and sensory disturbances.

Pl. serodiagnoses (-s z) See immunodiagnosis .

""Activated by or capable of liberating serotonin, especially in transmitting nerve impulses: serotonergic neurons; serotonergic drugs.""

SPECTROGRAPH An apparatus for photographing or mapping a spectrum.

SPERMATOPHYTE Any plant of the phylum Spermatophyta.

Believing in mediums communicating with the dead

STEREOISOMER

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

Calculation of the quantities of reactants and products in a chemical reaction.

""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 METACENTRIC Inflected form of METACENTRE The point of intersection of a vertical line through the center of gravity of the fluid displaced by a floating body which is tipped through a small angle from its position of equilibrium, and the inclined line which was vertical through the center of gravity of the body when in equilibrium.""

""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.

""Inflected form of LOGARITHMIC Inflected form of LOGARITHM One of a class of auxiliary numbers, devised by John Napier, of Merchiston, Scotland (15501617), to abridge arithmetical calculations, by the use of addition and subtraction in place of multiplication and division. The relation of logarithms to common numbers is that of numbers in an arithmetical series to corresponding numbers in a geometrical series, so that sums and differences of the former indicate respectively products and quotients of the latter; thus The relation of logarithms to common numbers is that of numbers in an arithmetical series to corresponding numbers in a geometrical series, so that sums and differences of the former indicate respectively products and quotients of the latter; thus""