2-Letter Words Starting with S

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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 mineral of a brown to black color occurring in prismatic crystals, often twinned so as to form groups resembling a cross. It is a silicate of aluminia and iron, and is generally found imbedded in mica schist. Called also granatite, and grenatite. granatite, and grenatite.""

Southern European larkspur; at crevasse (anagram)

Eight-track player (wordplay)

Spring back (in fear)

Lead role in many a Western

Treasury given to retired lady in pickle

Those euros exchanged in treasury

Too sure he's in trouble at the treasury

""A shoreline, especially one marking an earlier and higher water level.""

STRATEGIZE

Make more efficient, perhaps

Reshape to make lean mister (wordplay)

Make more efficient

The land adjacent to a stream.

Is setter, we fancy, wily (wordplay)

Well adapted to urban life

Smart in a worldly sense

Change a result - it'd sound like cricket (wordplay)

Filth in America is up - it's past the time to be chirpy

Make some noise as cricket result tad surprising, India's opener caught

STRIPE to mark with distinct bands

Floor show perhaps and drinks in bar

Act that's taking off (wordplay)

1996 Demi Moore movie

Essay penned by school square, a killer

Rat poison

Bitter poison

AVERAGE to calculate the arithmetical mean value of

Somewhat cordate; somewhat like a heart in shape.

Group customs in U-boats (wordplay)

Hip-hop, for example

Division of society

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

Programmer's reusable code

Part of a computer program

""SEIZURE the act of seizing, also SEISURE""

SURFACE to apply an outer layer to

Cunning plan(s)

Deception begs future involvement

Strategic trickery

Seeking to undermine

Revolutionary

Able to suffer or endure; patient.

Tacit permission.

Reluctant consent

Offer it up perhaps to put up with political party in Africa contacting Spain

A building in which sugar is made or refined; a sugar manufactory.

SULPHUR a non metallic element

Adjective meaning resembling

It's too hot!

Best season for adders (wordplay)

Adder having a stretch when it's warm

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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

Providing help

Playful, keeping up with helpful intentions

Frisky about being at university, maintaining a loyal interest

Mathematics A function that is onto.

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

SURVIVE to remain in existence

Noun (-ance)

Balance the proportions

Introduce regularity

SYNCRETISE

SYNCRETIZE

""SATIRIZE to subject to satire, also SATIRISE""

Boastful and cowardly character

Cowardly buffoon

Coward shows wound, having confronted a second superior rebel

SEGREGATE Separate; select.

""Something claimed or taken by virtue of sovereign prerogative; specifically, a charge or toll deducted from bullion brought to a mint to be coined; the difference between the cost of a mass of bullion and the value as money of the pieces coined from it.""

Like some hospital service

Like two-bed hospital rooms

Lock up, as a jury

Appropriate search before baddie comes into view

Take possession of (assets) pending settling of debt

Silkworm raising.

Silkworm breeding

In working order

Fit for use

Functional

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Kind of diplomacy

Tugged-on thing

An ace may be up it

Give poor value

Cheat by returning insufficient money

Give insufficient recompense

To make singular or single; to distinguish.

Suspect seen burying thief's knife

Large knife

Old knife

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

Adjective meaning resembling

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.

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.

Idea strand? (anagram)

Make uniform and a dress with it, possibly

'Get up, get up!', to welcome duke's regiment

Create norms for

Cause to conform to a norm

Make identical

Device offering 3-D viewing

It provides outstanding images

Three-D viewer

Constrict blood flow to (a part)

Compress so as to stop circulation

Block the blood flow to (a part of the body)

An artistic representation of a street.

STRETCH to {extend=v}

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

Flashing lamp effectively freezing motion

CURATIVE something that cures

IRRIGATE to water by canals or watercourses

LITERATE one who can read and write

""The act of submerging, or the state of being submerged; submersion.""

That can be immersed in or can remain under water: a submergible electric frying pan; a submergible research vehicle.

Small underwater craft

In a lesser role.

Lower in rank

Of less importance

""Tending, or having power, to subtract.""

""URBANISE to cause to take on urban characteristics, also URBANIZE""

Bishop and pope occupying hotel rooms? One has a trek to town centre

""URBANIZE to cause to take on urban characteristics, also URBANISE""

Woman protesting for the right to vote

Campaigner for voting rights for women

HOWE (wordplay)

Second place, say

Seasonal vacation place

Garden pavilion for shade or recreation

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)

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""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.

""A whiffletree, or whippletree. See Singletree. Singletree.""

Cause to happen at the same time

Shy censor in scramble to concur in time

Occur at the same time

Cause to mesh

""Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a salamander; enduring fire.""

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A hormone or another agent that causes or stimulates secretion.

To imbue with sectarian feelings; to subject to the control of a sect.

Fruits (spelled backward) + Repeat = (wordplay)

Elite stream inappropriate - one is coming in barely able to read and write

PARASITE an organism that lives and feeds on another

(In blood test) showing no virus present

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

See Sylviculture. Sylviculture.

One of the Siphonophora.

""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.""

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.""

Hand tool used to draw lines (2 words)

Line-drawing tool

Tool for drawing a perfect line

Layer of high air around the earth

Ozone layer's locale*

An atmospheric layer

""A horizontal band in a building, forming a part of the design, whether molded, projecting, or carved, or in any way distinguished from the rest of the work.""

Very old fossil in sedimentary rocks

Mineral Sr C O 3; attention, sir (anagram)

Of greatly reduced size

Subordinate in capacity or function.

Underlying framework

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

""SUMMARIZE To comprise in, or reduce to, a summary; to present briefly.""

Pension off

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SUPERELEVATE

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Adjective (-ive)

SUPEROVULATE

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

That may be suppressed.

Beat first victim? Heard it can be done!

Burn-out male's battling can be overcome

Like something that may be overcome

All eyes perhaps insure evil clan mutate

Watch kept on potential nuclear evils (wordplay)

Covert observation

The cultivation of forest trees for timber or other purposes; forestry; arboriculture.

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

Guilty pleasure (wordplay)

Delight in another's misfortune

19 in another's 10

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""

Same as Spermospore. Spermospore.

Seed-bearing plant

Like a fair player

Playing the game fairly

Has a fair crack at The Greens and, of course, bows out gracefully

""A proteolytic enzyme that is produced by hemolytic streptococci, is capable of converting plasminogen to plasmin, and is used medically to dissolve blood clots.""

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""STRUCTURAL Of or pertaining to structure; affecting structure; as, a structural error. as, a structural error.""

CATEGORIZE To insert in a category or list; to class; to catalogue.

LITERATURE Learning; acquaintance with letters or books.

""Tending to subordinate; expressing subordination; used to introduce a subordinate sentence; as, a subordinative conjunction. as, a subordinative conjunction.""

Noteworthiness above others

SUPERORDINATE

""To add to beyond saturation; as, to supersaturate a solution. as, to supersaturate a solution.""

Beyond the reach of the senses; above the natural powers of perception.

Guess our health will suffer here!

'Shah's palace (wordplay)

Southern Comedy Store is a shambles

A small instrument containing a minute particle of a radium compound mounted in front of a fluorescent screen and viewed with magnifying lenses. The tiny flashes produced by the continual bombardment of the screen by the <alpha/ rays are thus rendered visible.

""The axis or receptacle in certain ferns (as Trichomanes), which bears the sporangia. Trichomanes), which bears the sporangia.""

""STADTHOLDER Formerly, the chief magistrate of the United Provinces of Holland; also, the governor or lieutenant governor of a province.""

Big business.

""A drug, C 23 H 20 N 2 O 3 S, related to phenylbutazone, that promotes urinary excretion of uric acid and is used in the treatment of gout.""

More than needed.

Excess of cooking burned saucepan

Excess supply

Adjective (-ive)

Adjective (-ive)

""SUPERIMPOSE To lay or impose on something else; as, a stratum of earth superimposed on another stratum. as, a stratum of earth superimposed on another stratum.""

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An acid phosphate.

Excessively sensitive; morbidly sensitive.

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SUPERSTIMULATE

Framework built on top of something else

Ship part

""Half crystalline; said of certain cruptive rocks composed partly of crystalline, partly of amorphous matter.""

Floating oil-rig with more than half its structure under water

SESQUICARBONATE

CONTRAOCTAVE

Superconduct

""Of, relating to, or being a form of radio reception in which the frequency of an incoming radio signal is mixed with a locally generated signal and converted to an intermediate frequency in order to facilitate amplification and the rejection of unwanted signals.""

Management by overseeing

Overseeing

Management