2-Letter Words Starting with S

Capable of sorption

Fit for classifying

Like mail in the P.O.

Like mail in the P.O

A device used to muffle the tone of a musical instrument

A type of nail

Resembling a spar

A chemical compound

Globule of quicksilver, for example

Small ball-shaped object

Small glob

Whale's blow-hole

Whale's blowhole.

Whale's nostril

Spirula

Say furiously 'Attack the plane'

Say with venom 'Shoot at the WW2 plane'

Hot-tempered high-flier (wordplay)

Play full of sound

It proves playing is playful

Second drink I have makes me frisky

Move with legs spread out

To {struggle=v}

Spatter, liquid say

Scatter (drops of liquid)

Water the lawn

Daydream on the red carpet (wordplay)

Wander around Hollywood, maybe

Use a telescope, maybe

Five-pointed, say

Describing certain flowers.

Heavenly, in a way

Feature of a certain mole

American mole, having prominent nostrils

An ester used in some ointments

Type of salt or ester

An ester used in ointments

Candlemaker's need (Var.)

Candlemaker's need

Solid portion of a fat

How old a bovine is (wordplay)

How old and stern the beast is on board!

Low class (wordplay)

Stop fighting egghead in glasses!

Wedding gift, perhaps

Collection of goblets

Insect's ventral plate

Easily stacked, perhaps

Like canned food

Like many root vegetables for the winter

Not pick sides (wordplay)

Favor both sides of (an issue)

Sit heartlessly on fence (wordplay)

Wander off course

String out new alerts about horse

Wander from line of march.

Suppress (an impulse)

Stifle learner in alien environment

Suppress line in novel

""To stroll, also STRAVAIG""

To shape grain with an instrument

Marked with grooves

Covered with bristles

Pine cone, for example

Pine cone

Not 2, no (wordplay)

Jockey and horse perhaps in fixed result

Labour contest (wordplay)

Having a struma

""To convert into cork tissue, also SUBERIZE""

""To convert into cork tissue, also SUBERISE""

Warship at end of line came up like a cork

Unibody chassis component

Literary style within a larger category

Space opera, for example

Division of a style of art or literature

A surface on which a pavement is placed

Follow Nemo, perhaps

Dive like a U-boat

Go down under and integrate

Put under water (Var.)

Put completely under water

Sink below the surface

Help use verbs irregularly

Help in a subordinate way

Mindanao's Tasadays, for example

College friend of Lucy Snowe

Right to vote in political elections

The right to vote, as won by women

To lie above

Put a stop to

Come to an end

End, old-style

Guaranteed to work (2 words)

Guaranteed to succeed

Impossible to fail

Able to be surfed

Resembling breaking waves

Mongoose-like mammal

Mongoose kin

Choirboy's clothing not necessary, say!

Cure lips (anagram)

I scruple to wear white vestment

Party announcement (wordplay)

Party line (wordplay)

Kind of party.

""To come upon unexpectedly, also SURPRISE""

Hedonist of sorts

Voluptuary disturbed by satire

In classy bar I tempted bon vivant

Tree - so creamy (anagram)

Tree - may score (anagram)

8 weak with love, we hear

""A North American tree, also SYCAMORE""

Empty nest, for one

Broken heart, for one

"Empty nest," for one

See note (nonverbal)

Money lost in selling if car ices over

Offering to a god

Theft from a temple, say

Misuse of something sacred

Violation of a holy thing

Red fabric dye.

""Soft, thoroughly decomposed rock rich in clay and remaining in its original place.""

Old-time Spanish dance.

Stately Spanish dance

Spanish dance variable

One of the segments into which a fibril of striated muscle is divided.

A large specialized mitrochondrion found in striated muscle.

Capable of being saturated; admitting of saturation.

As, perhaps, in E it's so gloomy

Rested funerary vessel in earth grave

Gloomy heavenly body in the east

Strawberry geranium, for one

Rosette-shaped flower

Plant such as London pride

Noun (-age)

Adjective meaning resembling

Disorderly struggle (on sports field)

Game that's just for practice

Noisy brawl or struggle

Daily reading, for some

It may be quoted in church

Sacred writings as of Christians

Forwards get packing!

Brawl (at rugby union)

Formation that often collapses

Easy to get

Art, figuratively speaking (wordplay)

The sort of art that may give one relief

Art in three dimensions

Tight-lipped, reticent

Tending to hide things

Close drip, stopping leak

Easter-egg (anagram)

Separate by race or religion

Part is for Easter egg production

Flagged discussion (wordplay)

Army signalling (wordplay)

Flagging conversation (wordplay)

Whole note, to a British composer

Note equal to two minims

Note equivalent to four crotchets

Not too tight (wordplay)

Unlike bosom buddies

Not totally fused

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.

SERIAL a publication presented in instalments

Publish, in a way.

Publish in a certain way.

Broadcast in regular installments

Perform a clerical task

It's more to the North in size the way you deliver it, in a manner of speaking

Preach

Diner's linen item

Setter out about to compete with wiper

Table napkin at Buckingham palace

That's legal slavery

State of slavery

I've rudest torment in slavery

Capable of being severed.

Last check, maybe

Cabbage for canning (wordplay)

Dismissal from employment

Like some big entrees

Once-popular free computer download

Programs with previews

'Try before you buy' products

Resembling a porbeagle

Bird that female navigator found on lake

Duck captured by dissolute rakes

Diving duck with serrated bill

Transported by ship.

Water's edge.

Where the sea meets land

Area subject to erosion

The area near the shore

Sweet biscuit - rat chokes (anagram)

Diminutive dessert (wordplay)

Rate shock (anagram)

Cropped hairdo for radio band (wordplay)

Miniature white horse is on the air

Not a long farewell on the air

Adjective meaning resembling

Process of becoming less

A gherkin's pickled, getting smaller

Asking her out is withering experience

Is over Midge Ure's autograph!

Button Gwinnett's claim to fame.

Is over Midge Ure's autograph

""Pl. signorine (-n , -n ) or signorinas Used as a courtesy title for an unmarried woman in an Italian-speaking area, equivalent to Miss.""

Archaic A simulacrum.

Cottage cheese, to some

Cottage cheese

Cottage cheese.

English word

English word

Game for one

Diamond; game for one

*Diamond in an engagement ring, perhaps*

'... over the rainbow' (song)

Amount put on, say, at a 3 unspecified

West Side Story song

Nineteen-year-old, perhaps

Second-class citizen (wordplay)

Second-year student in USA

Divination by drawing lots

Fortune-telling

Divine drawing of lots of egrets smeared with oil

Actress taking lighter roles

A pert little part for a girl

Coquettish female comedy role

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.""

A substance used to kill spores.

Lotus and pear used to produce seeds

Steps up (wordplay)

Way down in a well (wordplay)

Connecting flight (wordplay)

Can the beast answer the helm (wordplay)

Equipped with a rudder and wheel, say

Capable of turning

Pass through fire, perhaps

Make safe for use, in a way

Boil, perhaps

Allen's scale notes (wordplay)

He likes to put on a performance

Dock-worker loads and unloads ships

Ray having a whiplike tail.

Whip-tailed ray.

Fish with whiplike tail.

Caveman's cooking tools (wordplay)

Pottery has novel article in stock

Heavy, nonporous pottery

Like some sales

Word for some sales.

Kind of sale

Limitation or hostile criticism

Sternly critical remark

Restriction or stern criticism

Quality of being harsh or shrill.

Harsh quality

Shrillness

Strobila

Parasitic threadworm

Arrangement of parts.

Building or organised arrangement

The Space Needle, for example.

Stable father figure (wordplay)

Stallion, taking its head thus, rode off

Former Derby winner, often

Nautilus, for one

The Sea Wolf

Jules Verne's dream come true.

To put in the place of another; to substitute.

Pay money regularly for, say, magazine

Apply (to receive an issue of shares)

Apply (for an issue of shares)

Circuit board layer

Underlying layer

Material on which another material is deposited

Plantation crop (2 words)

Grass suing when not in on secret

Source of a valuable commodity.

SULFUR a non metallic element

GIve main points briefly, condense( 9)

State concisely

Whole armies unexpectedly present, briefly

Put in a nutshell

Recapitulate

UV OD, less briefly (wordplay)

Ailment from spending too long tanning

Blazer on oarsman may be excruciating

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

English word

English word

English word

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.

English word

English word

English word

Of a wound, to discharge liquid

If it does this there's something the matter there

Ooze pus

Extra payment daily in boom

Extra payment for toast in Rush

Extra fee, as for a special service

Belt proclaiming a Knight Bachelor

Saddle girth.

Strap for holding saddle on animal's back

Substitute grouse with rat in a stew

One acting for another

Replacement rug a store ordered

Adjective meaning resembling

See invertase .

""Any of a series of compounds of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen in which the atoms of the latter two elements are in the ratio of 2:1, especially those containing the group C 6 H 10 O 5 .""

China cares (anagram)

Sickly son fidgeting in each car

Overly sentimental

It's backing horse to muddle through most of the way

""A rare mineral having a velvetblack color and submetallic luster. It is a niobate of uranium, iron, and the yttrium and cerium metals.""

Bird soared and guns fired

""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.""

Adjective meaning resembling

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

SCREEN to provide with a concealing partition

The act or an instance of scrubbing.

Examine closely - runs cities (anagram)

Examine closely tailoring of nicer suits

Examine the tailoring of nicer suits

Look at critically or searchingly

Capable of being searched.

False clues crop up to sideline belief

Disengage from the faithful? Awful clues result

Make less ecclesiastical

Make worldly

SECURE to make safe or certain

""Revenue or a profit taken from the minting of coins, usually the difference between the value of the bullion used and the face value of the coin.""

Array of trucks (wordplay)

The result of making a CD (wordplay)

Half a ring (wordplay)

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

Short religious talk

Televised words of inspiration

Short religious segment on old TV broadcasts

Winding, twisting; mineral

Mineral; like a snake

Where Londoners go boating in Hyde Park.

Adjective meaning resembling

SHRINK to contract or draw back

A kind of meteorite. See under Meteorite. Meteorite.

Swimmer's skill.

Relative of the crawl

Style of swimming

Joint team coming second (wordplay)

Meat for Olympic runners-up (wordplay)

Joint Argentine XI

Prizes for runners-up (wordplay)

Articles stashed by vacationers

This puzzle's theme

Bar to which traces are fastened.

Bar on a wagon

Lone family chart found with harness

Remove excess fat

Reduce in size

Final word of 1961: 'emerald-green'

Final word of 1961: "emerald-green"

""A green foliated kind of amphibole, observed in eclogite and some varietis of gabbro.""

Feature of an unrifled firearm

Kind of firearm.

Feature of a shotgun barrel

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.""

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.""