2-Letter Words Starting with S

Of ecological stages

Relating to ecological communities

Of an ecological period

""A mineral, also SCHORL""

Play a bagpipe

Shrill tone of the bagpipe.

Sound o' the pipes

Fighting words from Fido (wordplay)

Angrily say 'Get knotted!'

Don't touch my bone! (nonverbal)

Alpine bootmaker (anagram of ROLES)

Big name in winter boots

"The Red and the Black" protagonist

Of the calf of the leg: Anat.

Of the calf.

Of the calf of the leg Anat

Current event (wordplay)

Ben Jerrys Strawberry Kiwi

Dairy Queen delight

Kind of plexus

Of a vertebra

Pertaining to religious rites

""A poisonous liquid, also SAFROLE""

Salt-water food fish.

Mackerel's kin

Saltwater food fish

Black tourmaline

Tourmaline

Write like a doctor (wordplay)

Many a prescription (wordplay)

Frantically jot (down)

Parchment (as from the Dead Sea?)

Roll (of parchment. etc)

Move with a mouse, maybe

Seraglio.

Harem

'Buck Rogers,' for one

Soap opera, for one

Soap from Israel, perhaps

Slender long-legged African cat

Slender, long-legged African wildcat

Black-spotted tawny wildcat.

Piercing a quiet stream!

Piercing an ear, perhaps

(Of a cry) piercing

Horse of another color (wordplay)

Horse color (brownish-orange)

Reddish-brown horse; edible plant

Perfect toss of sorts

Go a few rounds (wordplay)

Godsmack song that winds (wordplay)

Resembling fern cells

Relating to certain seeds

Estrange bedfellows (wordplay)

Lie about everything (wordplay)

Take up the whole bed, maybe

Cholesterol, for one

Chemical compound; ostler (anagram)

Solid organic alcohol.

Suitable exercise for Ambler (wordplay)

Saunter via street to bridge, perhaps

Ambler's relaxation (wordplay)

Of the eyeball cover

Of part of the eye

Second clear out for student of part of the eyeball

Pertaining to a public clerk or secretary

Pertaining to the scrotum

Abusive variable

Abusive Var.

Pertaining to {serosa=n}

Pertaining to {serum=n}

Sarah has always hugged quite a few!

Reveals three or four, say

How many school leavers (wordplay)

Wither to nothingness

Go from a grape to a raisin, for example

Wither from lack of water

Do a school visit, in a way (wordplay)

Explore shallow waters, say

Do some shoal searching (wordplay)

Like some twins

Like some relationships between women

Related to Greeks, sometimes

Like a globe

Rounded in form

Having a round form.

Pertaining to the breastbone

Near the breastbone

Of the breastbone

Of layers of material.

Of a layer of rock.

Of a layer

Back-scratcher

Ancient Greek instrument for scraping bather's skin.

In ancient Rome, a scraper used to clean one's skin after bathing

""The conical, multiple fruit of certain trees, also STROBILE""

Pertaining to a {stroma=n}

Pastry with filling (usually apple)

Apple product, perhaps

Rustled like thin apple-filled pastry

Situated under the mouth

Our lads afflicted with sweating

Weird - like Dali's paintings (wordplay)

RA rules (anagram)

Like a dream

Work in a sting operation, maybe

Keep an eye on

Spy on

Of stitches

Mud consisting chiefly of decaying matter

Short attempt in various places that are regal

Regal son left, taking possession of damaged carpet

Contemptuous or derisive

Contemptuous as Beaumont's leading lady

Showing contempt for

A thin person

Pertaining to a region or zone

Of a region

Regional

Miss benefiting consumers (wordplay)

She sells Flora at the checkout, perhaps

She'll have something in store for you

Stripper (wordplay)

Nomi Malone, in a 1995 flop

Chorus line participant

Her plans unexpectedly change (wordplay)

Fragments from exploded shell

Her plans burst into fragments

Pertaining to a sheriff

Madrid, say, chasing team of stars

Aspect true of the stars (wordplay)

The genuine edge of 24 across, perhaps

Given to sneering

Sugar substitute - lost Biro (anagram)

Company's second in Bristol making sugar substitute

Piece of hard candy

What a sucker might have

Tart candy

Wall space between adjacent arches

Architectural space above an arch

Area between two arches

""A space between two adjoining arches, also SPANDREL""

Spelt CAR wrong? That's spooky!

Like the colors of a rainbow

Suggesting a rainbow

Flop among the ruts, but just playing

Frolicsome

Merry

A young man

To injure with a spur

Rocky, for one

Rocky of cartoondom, for one

Nut-gathering rodent

A {dolt=n}

""Pertaining to atoms in a molecule, also STERIC""

Apple crisp topper

Apple crisp topping

Crumbly, sugary cake topping

A parasitic worm

Situated under the dura mater

Pertaining to a part of a virus

""A bivalent radical, also SULFONYL, SULPHONYL""

High-level plan sure to work out

Coming from above

Of or from heavens or sky, celestial

Precise in theatre (wordplay)

Of a branch of medicine

To do with operations

Deer's crown antler.

Horny tip from second city of old queen (wordplay)

The ... of the fittest

The fact of continuing to live

Castaway's goal

I sell rags, maybe!

She sells a rig-out, maybe

Department store worker, sometimes

Pertaining to the tailor's art

Re men's clothes

Relating to tailoring

Like Mad (wordplay)

Like "Utopia" or "Gulliver's Travels"

Juvenalian in style

German name for a submarine device

Lout knocked nurse cold

Dishonest person, rogue

Rascal closed urn violently

Beantown pitch (wordplay)

Tommy's word for his opponent (wordplay)

Hubbell's famed pitch.

Adapted for cutting.

Of a school period

Of a school term

Every six months or less, a term that's flexible

Like some suburbs

Slightly built-up

Between urban and country

Of the center of feeling.

SEROTINE a European bat

Young and immature

It may stick out of one's pants

It's usually tucked in

Want a little snow (wordplay)

What's missing from shower (wordplay)

Deficiency in whisky, perhaps a drop

Opposite of dextral

Left-handed.

Left-handed

Sad when surf low or choppy

Grief-stricken

Causing grief

Round all around

It's round there

Shaped like Earth

Go Down Moses, for one

Soul music (wordplay)

Of things of the soul

Having or evidencing a refined mind and wit.

Extended canvas shows one escaping soul's distress

Flight case (wordplay)

Shaft peer report by Spring

Space flight takes one into sun source

Crush, as an opponent

Brook no opposition

Suppress ruthlessly

Such as many hormones

Ideal sort for exercising, enhancing performance

Full of tension

Causing mental tension

Taxing is frustrating

AERIAL an {antenna=n}

DERMAL relating to the derm

Inferior bun, molars chewed

Of low intelligence

Lorna's bum's different and undeveloped

""Adapted for sucking; living by sucking; as, the humming birds are suctorial birds. as, the humming birds are suctorial birds.""

English word

(Chemistry) Chem to cool or be cooled without freezing or crystallization to a temperature below that at which freezing or crystallization should occur. Supercooled liquids are not in equilibrium

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

English word

""SURFIE one who surfs, also SURFER""

""The act of surprising, or state of being surprised; surprise.""

Saber fish (wordplay)

Fish used in genetic research

Popular aquarium fish

Lead actors dressed for the priesthood (wordplay)

Unusual actors' deal concerning priesthood

Like a priest's attire, making a lot scared unfortunately

SARCOSOME

In form miss (wordplay)

Metaphorically giddy one

She may learn a thing or two

SCLEROTIA

From the law and the prophets, say

From the Bible

Second vault addressed Russia's range of writing

Of Praxiteles's art

Adjective (-al)

Adjective (-al)

Not-too-dressy wedding attire

More than casual

Like attire for some weddings

Of a Washington group.

Like US upper assembly members

Like some biennial elections

Purcell has developed melancholy

Hollow and deep

Purcell has composed, despite being gloomy

Of or relating to the sinoatrial node: a sinoatrial heart block.

""Any of a group of sterols that occur in high concentrations in certain plants, such as yams, and are used in the synthesis of steroid hormones.""

SPERMATIA

Nearly globe-shaped

Resembling a globe.

Fashion from Dior's a help with a round figure

Failing prison also for godparents

Pertaining to a patron.

SPORANGIA

SPORICIDE

A leaf or leaflike organ that bears spores.

Full of spirit or of life; earnest; vivacious; lively; brisk; nimble; gay.

Primitive jumping insect

Tiny, jumpy insect

Small 18 ac

Bloomer haunts 28, they say

Baby-carrier found in the garden

Delivery charge for a flowering plant (wordplay)

Relating to frame of a building

Pertaining to buildings

Like earthquake damage

Under the center.

CRUSTAL pertaining to the earth's crust

ORBITAL a subdivision of a nuclear shell

English word

One charging high runway fees (wordplay)

Iman, for one

Queen of the catwalk (wordplay)

""Situated above, or anterior to, the kidneys.""

""Of, relating to, or capable of staining living cells after their removal from a living or recently dead organism: a supravital dye.""

Contemporaneous

Like some wine

Relating to bread and wine taken in church

Bones in the head of religious significance

Killed as an offering

Pertaining to dancing

Adapted for leaping.

SARCOLEMMA The very thin transparent and apparently homogenous sheath which incloses a striated muscular fiber; the myolemma.

SCARLATINA Scarlet fever.

A scissor-tailed flycatcher.

Like an office aide's duties

Like typing, filing, etc.

Of or pertaining to the lord of a manor; manorial.

""Pertaining to, or accomplished in, half a day, or twelve hours; occurring twice every day.""

NATURAL a type of musical note

Endless rest in maple syrup

SEROLOGIC

SPERMICIDE

SPIROCHETE

DES.

STRATEGIC

Below a part of the brain

CRITICAL {crucial=adj}

CULTURAL relating to culture

INTERVAL a space of time between periods or events

Under the shore.

MARGINAL anything in or on a margin

PARALLEL to be extended in the same direction

RATIONAL a number that can be expressed as a quotient of integers

REGIONAL something that serves as a region

TERMINAL an end

Like zones that support many deserts

Of a particular climate zone

Like a region whose climate is between temperate and torrid

Far from thorough

Not profound

Not significant.

Exceeding the average

English word

With exact correspondence of parts

Appearing as if reflected about an axis

Mirrored about an axis

""Resembling sugar, as in taste, appearance, consistency, or composition; as, saccharoidal limestone.as, saccharoidal limestone.""

""A white odorless barbiturate, C 12 H 18 N 2 O 3 , used in the form of its sodium salt as a sedative and hypnotic.""

ARBOREAL tree-dwelling

Warm, as a climate

SERICULTURE The raising of silkworms.

Of or pertaining to a spectator.

SPERMATOZOA

English word

STENOTHERM

""Of or pertaining to the sternum and the ribs; as, the sternocostal cartilages. as, the sternocostal cartilages.""

""A sterol, C 29 H 48 O, obtained from soybeans or Calabar beans.""

""EDITORIAL Of or pertaining to an editor; written or sanctioned by an editor; as, editorial labors; editorial remarks. as, editorial labors; editorial remarks.""

Situated immediately below the epidermis.

""PRINCIPAL Highest in rank, authority, character, importance, or degree; most considerable or important; chief; main; as, the principal officers of a Government; the principal men of a state; the principal productions of a country; the principal arguments in a case. as, the principal officers of a Government; the principal men of a state; the principal productions of a country; the principal arguments in a case.""

""Pl. superhelixes or superhelices (h l -s z , h l -) A molecular structure in which a helix is itself coiled into a helix, as of overwound circular DNA.""

Changing usual partner is weird

Turns up a real oddity - it's uncanny

Psychic upset usual partner

Adjective (-al)

Being above the threshold of consciousness or of sensation. Used of stimuli.

Located above the orbit of the eye: the supraorbital ridge.

Happening at the same time; synchronous.

""EMPIRICAL Pertaining to, or founded upon, experiment or experience; depending upon the observation of phenomena; versed in experiments.""

""Of, relating to, or involving the sensory nerves, especially as they affect the hearing: sensorineural deafness.""

Of or pertaining to the north; northern.

SILVICULTURE See Sylviculture. Sylviculture.

Of or involving both social and cultural factors.

The study of three-dimensional properties of objects or matter usually observed two-dimensionally.

Conventionalised novel operatic style

Operatic style devised in keeping with stock character

Hackneyed

""Of, relating to, or caused by a streptococcus.""