2-Letter Words Starting with S

Reacted to a mouse

Uttered in a shrill scream

Uttered a shrill scream

Shrieve

Spoke in high-pitched tones.

Spoke stridently.

Shrimp

Shroff

Veiled by obscurity.

Sheltered nameless canon in hut

Covered to conceal from view

Moved the shoulders disclaimingly

Ayn Rand title word

Raised the shoulders

Laterally

""Any of a family of catfishes, also SILURID""

Like some mirrors

Made into a mirror.

Like some old mirrors

Kept on the down-low (wordplay)

Boiled with rage (wordplay)

Immersed, cooked and gently boiled

Smiled when a spider got me agitated

Smiled in affected way

Had a silly smile

Sinter

Acted as a certain relative should

Treated as a member of the family.

Included between the convex sides of two curves

Red's week (anagram)

Made fun of mercilessly

Pierced, in a way

Foamed at the mouth, or drooled over

Four-striper abbreviation

Imitated Pavlov's pooches

Cut into thin pieces.

Split into tiny pieces

Split, in a way

Drug lags (anagram)

No ball of fire, he

Lazy fellow, a pest, and where, mostly

Renter's bane

Irresponsible building owner

Ghetto figure.

Slurry

Tarnished

Part-time Arizona resident, perhaps

Vermonter who winters in Florida, say

Part-time Florida resident

Put the metal to the metal (wordplay)

Joined with metal

Joined and served in force, losing heart

Thrush, for one

Thrush or canary, say

Lark, for one

Disgruntled loser Colloq.

Poor loser: Colloq.

Disgruntled loser: Colloq.

Had a heavy heart

Mould odorous around top of willow tree

Tree with white bell-like leaves

A flowering plant

Scintillated, shone

Performed brilliantly

Glittered, scintillated

Earth, for one

Falls over without leading male figure

Egg yolk, e.g

Rotated, as a football

Passed a football in a way

Shot up, as inflation

Animated, being boozed-up (wordplay)

As lively as a seance, maybe

Is the bottle so courageous (wordplay)

Spared no expense

Shot the works

Showed off: Colloq.

Injured, as an ankle

Injured but not broken

One kind of ankle

Really spread out

Took the whole couch

Took up excess room

Adorned with branchlike figures, as muslin

Springe

Tried to steal a base

Ran like hell

Ran full tilt.

Applied, as perfume

Applied, as cologne

Put forth shoots, began to grow

Put forth shoots

Had a growth spurt

Couldn't take questioning

Wriggled nervously

Writhed uncomfortably

Ejected liquid in a thin, fast stream

Used a child's gun

Let out a jet

Buck in its fourth year

Red deer in its fourth year

Rose, perhaps, to the required level

Rose maybe is an acceptable model

Quality that needs raising (wordplay)

Shuffled 'the cards' (wordplay)

Stiffened (of shirts)

Shuffled "the cards" (wordplay)

Made jump, maybe

Snuck up on, perhaps

Shocked the beginning came first!

Stereo

Strong-smelling badger from Java

(Of a building) having floors

Having sets of rooms on different levels

(Of building) having several levels

Forced - like baby food (wordplay)

Like much baby food

Under pressure, son prepared to perform

Like a castaway (Like DNA)

Left alone on beach (wordplay)

Left to fend for oneself

- - for cash (hard up)

Bound to be short of cash (wordplay)

Needing money (informal)

Strode uncovered (wordplay)

Ran out of clothes (wordplay)

Hurriedly showed oneself out (wordplay)

Came from Hulu (wordplay)

Moved steadily or swiftly

Went with the flow

Streek

Rejected fools, maybe under pressure

Spoke with an accent (wordplay)

Upside-down cakes, perhaps, upset

Marked with ridges in tardiest way

Mrs., in Peru

Like one with lines

Like a lute

Like lutes and zithers

Like certain instruments

Took the pole position (wordplay)

Removed clothing, perhaps forpay

Pets drip (anagram)

Took a leisurely walk

Enjoyed a boardwalk

Walked in leisurely way

Put on edge (wordplay)

It's open for one to be going on foot

Sharpened a razor

Pulled strings, maybe (wordplay)

Played rhythm guitar, say

Pulled some strings (wordplay)

Strunt

Imitated a peacock, maybe

Showed off in a way

Swaggered along with supporting members

Afflicted with sturdy

Somewhat acrid

A distinguishable strain within a breed

Bribed to do wrong

Bribed by bounders

Frightful bounders led into crime

A subordinate trend

Having a suburb

Gave aid and comfort

Duped

Tricked

Experienced something unpleasant

Was in pain

Went through an unpleasant ordeal

Sulfur

Spent July and August (at)

Spent July and August (in)

Visited a vacation house, maybe

ED broken over S (wordplay)

Torn apart, severed

How ED over S will have it in bits

Combine with total already reached

Drink time (two days) put on as extra

1970 #1 R&B hit for James Brown

2007 Jonah Hill comedy

2007 comedy movie

Having a surbase

Came up (for air)

Put blacktop on, perhaps

Came up, as a U-boat

Pacific shore flier

Coastal flier

Imagined to be the case

Thought to have speculated

Engaged in conjecture

Known as Smith or Jones, perhaps

Gave an epithet to.

Called Smith, for example

Encircle, fence in

Most of the foam on stout in Ring

Enclose entirely

Like luxury cars and expensive jewelry, often

Looked carefully at (something)

Viewed in detail

Took a poll

Lived to tell the tale

Endured, pulled through

Made it through

Took a deep breath

One who tends large aquatic birds

A cell found in the embryo sac of a seed plant

Sypher

Syringe

Defend strongbox with soldier

As a precaution protect chest first

Radar, for instance.

Plank for windsurfing

Item rented at beach resorts

Windsurfer's craft

Composure if dragon's in a whirl

Composure in trying circumstances

Coolness under pressure.

Raised its New Order, and made a mockery

Weird rites said to have been ridiculed

Swift activity. Prior approach

Swiftly written (wordplay)

Last letter supports its air strangely mocked

Sent up

Animal fat may be soaked

Soaked through and through

So a king, having been in water

Of or belonging to the Saturniidae.

Walked casually into sea, turned rough

Walked casually

Strolled with relative on Sunday - and shot deer!

Doggedly hurried for a single (wordplay)

Raced, in a way

Played tag, for example

Words in huge print

Dies about the car if it's been marked

Unfortunately, Iris faced having skin punctured

Cleared off

Rushed from steep slope before break of day

Second vehicle went over river and got away

Field placings for Flintoff!

The cats got tree'd here and there

*Dispersed, as a crowd

Invested with royal authority.

Invested with imperial authority

Like Shakespeare.s isle

Schmeer

The discs get round what's sore when cut

Cut through the rugby defence with the old one-two (wordplay)

Cut out

Sclerose

Like or pertaining to the Mackerel family.

Perhaps twenty-one in the pack for tally

Course record (wordplay)

It no doubt records at least 20 runs!

Scorify

Scowder

Clawed, small crustacean showed sign of injury

Scraich

Scraigh

Hurriedly took flight when beaten

Wandered at last to get eggs like this

Eggs whisked and stirred

Scored or was withdrawn (wordplay)

Slightly damaged, so withdrawn

Withdrew, slightly injured

Made like an owl

Cried in a strident voice

Sounded shrill one of the longest one-syllable words (nonverbal)

Wrote, as a signature on a receipt

Written carelessly

Wrote informally

Scrooch

Did some foraging

Monosyllabic word meaning "cadged"

Co-eds rung up and cadged

Uncultivated area

Made a deep-in-concentration face

Crushed noisily

Compacted

Scunner

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

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

Scutter

A seashore.

Stiff, but not inflexible

Somewhat inflexible

How one took a part (wordplay)

Isolated copies retrospectively valued

How Kipling saw East and West.

Sung to (from below window)

Did a number on (wordplay)

Went a-courting, perhaps

Made a point of (wordplay)

End with phrase specially honed

Brushed up

Smashed the record (wordplay)

Got a big break (wordplay)

Broken - exhausted (informal)

Her eldest becomes withdrawn

Protected from the weather

Covered loan with warden

See Showbread. Showbread.

Shikar

Made a flash

Shone fitfully

Gleamed faintly.

Type of romance (on an ocean liner)

Like some short-lived romances

Shivaree

Stilt, for example

Stilt, e.g

Dinah and Larry

Heading to land

Toward land

Cut down to size (wordplay)

Tenor performing in hut gets cut

Condensed thus, or the ends may be off

Speedwriting by worker of little stature

Girl Friday's forte.

Gregg's system.

""Bread of exhibition; loaves to set before God; the term used in translating the various phrases used in the Hebrew and Greek to designate the loaves of bread which the priest of the week placed before the Lord on the golden table in the sanctuary. They were made of fine flour unleavened, and were changed every Sabbath. The loaves, twelve in number, represented the twelve tribes of Israel. They were to be eaten by the priests only, and in the Holy Place.""

Withered

Shivered in fear or revulsion

Trembled violently as with horror

Trembled, shivered

Quiet-spoken, like some windows

(Of windows) shut up

Like some windows

Dior beads (anagram)

Dining room sight

Dining room piece.

One place for advertising

Advertiser's medium

Where business name may be displayed

Skelter

Led on the bowling green (wordplay)

Led the team on the green

Was the captain of a ship

Ran like an iguana

The kit's got treed, having scuttled off

Skipped, as a fishing lure

Skreegh

Skreigh

Frolicked

Slabber

Dragged through the mud, maybe

What Mrs. Slipslop did.

Attacked the good name of

Put on lavishly

Laid on thick

Used wastefully

Beaten with indoor shoe

Like Cinderella

Emulated a snake

Moved like a snake

Moved like a snake.

Acted like a baby, in a way

Talked like a toper

Licked, like a dog does

Slubber

Logged Z's

Burdened dragging pole, so rested

Son, given heavy responsibility, slept

Made neater by tradesmen

Wised (up)

Got wise, with "up"

Would this elude a gardener (wordplay)

Would this elude a gardener?

Learned superficially

Dabbled in

Dabbled

Displayed suppressed anger

Didn't flare

Did a slow burn

Drenched in sauce

Her modest fancy will get stifled

Stifled, he stormed out

Long-necked bird allied to cormorant

SNEAKER one that {sneaks=v}

Laughed, in a way.

Laughed in undignified fashion.

Queen in Dickens novel laughed

Giggled, British style.

Laughed disrespectfully.

Laughed derisively

Blocked at The Crucible (wordplay)

Restricted by O'Sullivan (wordplay)

In a real pickle

Engaged in some ecotourism, maybe

Swam with the fishes, say

Went finswimming, maybe

Go downhill fast (wordplay)

Treasury Department panel (wordplay)

Way to go... downhill

Soberize

Onerous DJ (anagram)

Visited awhile

Al departed, therefore newspaper editor stayed temporarily

Solarise

Solarize

Idler does need to be beaten (shirked)

Joined keeping unit and served in the army

Malingered.

In the direction of Cork, say

In the direction of Waterford, say

In the direction of Spain

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

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)

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

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

The buck began to fall over greed

Hit with a haymaker

The buck nearly fell for greed

Wasn't confident, say

Emulated Mel Tillis

Spoke like Bob Newhart

That's right!

Right light on ship (wordplay)

Right (at sea)

Used a telescope

Looked raptly

Daydreamed

Traveled in a certain kind of ship

Three metal feet to scale (wordplay)

Three metal feet with scales (wordplay)

Pittsburgh work area