2-Letter Words Starting with S

The Triangle Shirtwaist Company, for one

Abused sew hats and work here (wordplay)

We sat around quietly to work? Not here

Sweepy

Equal-ized (wordplay)

Eligible to be called up

Made less sour

Bribe a substitute (wordplay)

Aspartame, for one

Dash of sugar (wordplay)

Sweeting

Preserve succulent spring lamb, maybe

Pudding that sounds suitable (wordplay)

Cake courses in wrong order (wordplay)

Quality of revenge (wordplay)

Jimmy Eat World smash

Stevia's quality

Caramel center (wordplay)

A source of bullseyes

Brit's candy store

Sweetsop

Suffered from great heat

Suffered from excessive heat

Felt the heat

Sweltry

Swiftlet

Rapidity - as of fast bird (wordplay)

The distance covered by pigs takes son a second to achieve with rapidity

""One of a series of flat, fringed, and usually bilobed, appendages, of which several pairs occur on the abdominal somites of many crustaceans. They are used as fins in swimming.""

Swimmy

Type of attire.

Outfits likely to go under

Bikinis, for example

Swingy

Swirly

Swishy

Those who swap

Making a change

Sing about the sorceress for a change

Changing over

Railway employee working on and off

SWITCH to beat with a flexible rod

Swither

Saber fish (wordplay)

Fish used in genetic research

Popular aquarium fish

Lovers of luxury

Voluptuaries.

Why said boozer is among places for those who like to indulge

Sensuous city bar is demolished

Affording, enjoying, luxury

Devoted to luxury

Copy hasn't disturbed yes-man

Chap Tyson hammered, a toady

Uriah Heep persona

""Pl. syllepses (-s z) A construction in which a word governs two or more other words but agrees in number, gender, or case with only one, or has a different meaning when applied to each of the words, as in He lost his coat and his temper.""

SYLLOGISE

""A mineral, a telluride of gold and silver, of a steelgray, silverwhite, or brassyellow color. It often occurs in implanted crystals resembling written characters, and hence is called graphic tellurium. graphic tellurium.""

Symbiont

Symbiote

Mutually beneficial

Of different organisms, living together for mutual benefit

Baudelaire, for example

Person who says one thing and means another

Writer who uses imagery to evoke ideas an orchestra member articulated

Equally balanced

Evenly proportioned.

Well proportioned

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Biochemistry) a substance released at certain sympathetic nerve endings: thought to be identical with adrenaline [from sympath ( etic ) + -in ]

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

Having united petals; gamopetalous.

Put the accent on the weak beat

Play in jazz style.

Accent the off-beats

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

SYNCYTIA syncytium

A multinucleate cell

Group working to a common aim

Business group supplied by CIE dynast

Combine to make Disney cat twitchy

Doctor syringes patient finally to deliver drug

Does this sound like a sign of inflamation? Yes, it is

Pa in to a joint like this, for a month, so it is, at last

Relating to language structure

Random choice of Smollett

Clerical doctor has a bit of a scheme concerned with aspect of language

Syntagma

Composites of various elements

Deductive reasonings

Compound combinations

In shy sets (anagram)

Artificial copy of nature

Sissy then moved building up

Man-made (fibre)

Artificially-made compound

Dacron, for example

Syntony

Contractile

Systemic

Bring order to

Leave of absence.

Period of leave for university teacher

John Barth's leave

Wrecking boat, gang is wicked

Secretly ruining

Drunkard entertains sailor with a gin to force wrecking

English word

English word

Furnished with little sacs.

Lead actors dressed for the priesthood (wordplay)

Unusual actors' deal concerning priesthood

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

Sackcloth

Baptism, matrimony, etc.

Are such scars meant to make for a graceful state (wordplay)

Sacristan

Church storage areas

Co-stars can (anagram)

Fresh carcass not inviolable

Across solution can't possibly be immune

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

Safelight

Sagacity

SAGITTAL resembling an arrow

SAILBOAT a boat with sails

Sailcloth

Sainthood

Saintly

Saintship

The quality or condition of being salable; salableness.

Salacity

A salt of salicylic acid.

Salinity

Showing anticipation, in a way

Licking one's chops

Anticipatory reaction

Mouth-watering mixture of oils in a vat

Mouth-watering violins at a jig

Pavlovian response

Salivator

Salometer

Lively Italian dance with a hop step

Around devotional feature promote love for dance

Advancements by leaps and bounds

Saltbush

Small table dish

Diner's sprinkler

Part of a table setting

Saltness

Niters

Condiment holder on the table (2 words)

It's turned upside down when used

Half a dinner table duo

SALUTE to greet with a sign of respect

Start of a formal letter

It may be strange to us, a Latin greeting

Victoria, say, welcoming almost everyone with posh greeting

Opening address

Salvation

Some people of old Palestine

Helpers disguised as Martians

They're good people

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

Our stamina is restored here

US animator rebuilt health farm

Hospital is on trauma scramble

Sanbenito

Consecrated

Being converted, dies in fact as a saint (wordplay)

Holy.

""One who sanctifies, or makes holy; specifically, the Holy Spirit.""

Sanctify

Affected holiness my canonist corrected

Pretended piety.

Pious hypocrisy

Permitted or penalized

Imposed punishment of a kind that's permitted

Permissible

Sanctity

Removes paint, in a way

Scours Sweden and Belgium to meet foot models

Kid who plays neighborhood baseball

Quartzite and such

Grayish-brown hues

Some countertop materials

Desert dustups (wordplay)

Desert blow-ups

Desert hazards.

The quality of being sanguine; sanguineness.

""Of or pertaining to health, or the laws of health; sanitary.""

Sanitary

Of or relating to health or the protection of health.

Is in trauma being treated in hospital

Institution to improve one's health [1938]

Sanitate

Sewers, say, an island put in place

The plumbing degenerates into a stain

Drainage and sewage disposal

Sanitise

Sanitize

English word

Santolina

Sapidity

Saprolite

""Any plant growing on dacayed animal or vegetable matter, as most fungi and some flowering plants with no green color, as the Indian pipe.""

Juneberries

All that a bag can hold

All a bag can hold

Hungary and Bulgaria to the U.S.S.R.

Moon and Telstar

Cold war propaganda weapons.

Satiation

Satinwood

Making fun of giant, sir, is silly

Lampooning

Fulfilling (a need)

Meeting (a condition)

Meeting (needs, etc)

Firefighters' activity

So a king is altogether getting to be like this

After the start of Saturday a metal G is never drying

State of total dampness

Capacity limit

Full state (first 5 + last 1; also, a literal outer planet!)

Saturator

Period of revelry

Exotic Australian festival

Ancient Roman December festival

Saturniid

Saturnism

Passive resistance, to Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi's policy of passive resistance to British rule

Norwegian group supports gay star active in non-violent resistance

Plural or third person singular

Is astir, say, unbridled in lust

Day younger goddess admits a rampant desire

Uncontrollable desire as I stray dreadfully in current state

Sauceboat

*Part of a Reuben masterpiece (wordplay)

German dish of chopped pickled cabbage

Wiener add-on option

They're in no hurry

Moving slowly

Savoury

Sawtimber

Saxitoxin

Quality condition of being scanty.

Certain timbers.

Throws around axe, starting to topple small beams

Fall guys for scandals

Relatives of fall guys.

Cousins of fall guys.

Scapolite

Shortages damage urban areas

Shortages briefly alarm conurbations

Wound reminder + urban areas

Mark on tongue seen before a fever

Injure tongue with a complaint

Disease is to disfigure Roman Adonis, initially

SCATHE to criticize severely

In a bitterly severe way

Alligator or snake? (Hint: Read letters 4-8 last!)

Rough, entertaining article using bitter remarks

Strewers

With which to shoot gnu (wordplay)

Firearm with an unfocused shot

Distribute piece that's a bit haphazard

Throwing in various directions

Tedder's chore

Small number

Screenwriters from Tehran (wordplay)

Writers in Hollywood.

Screenplay writers

Scepter

A certain reluctance to give credit

State one's in before one knows it

Doubt whether philosopher is Frenchman

Scheelite

Plans for circulating catechisms

Plans redraft of catechisms

Circuit diagrams

Combination of the aspects of heavenly bodies.

To form a scheme or schemes.

Causing division in the RC Church

Favouring separation from a church

Singular elegance about theory volunteers rejected being fractious (wordplay)

Schizzy

Schmaltz

Some breaded cutlets

Veal cutlets

Head's unwelcome visitors after school: without enthusiasm, one leaves cutlets

Relating to education

Pedant and stoic clash violently

Clash with stoic could be academic

Commentators, muddled as Holst (sic)

Medieval glossographers lash stoics indiscriminately

He's too calm, maybe, for a young peer

Bus-seat sharer, perhaps

Dolphin's friend (wordplay)

English word

Of physics or biology perhaps

Part of UNESCO.

Methodical but not artistic presumably

Scientism

Insects sit (anagram)

Eg, physicists, biologists

Many Nobel Prize winners

SCIENTIZE

Scientize

Slightest bits

Slightest traces

Minute particles

Flashes.

Traces

Showing only surface knowledge.

Scleroma

SCLEROTIA

Sclerotic

Sclerotin

""A hardened body formed by certain fungi, as by the Claviceps purpurea, which produced ergot. Claviceps purpurea, which produced ergot.""

Scolecite

English word

Scouther

Most rough, as cliffs

Roughest

Most argumentative

Most quarrelsome

Rubbish heaps left out in street that's extremely messy

DJs, at times

Scratchy

SCRATCHIE

Companion of beat juggling

Tearing with the nails

Purpose of a pet post

Scrawly

Most waif-like, as a runway model

Most undernourished, unprepared to bite into dodgy insects

Scrimpy

""Pl. scriptoriums or scriptoria (-tôr - , -t r -) A room in a monastery set aside for the copying, writing, or illuminating of manuscripts and records.""

From the law and the prophets, say

From the Bible

Second vault addressed Russia's range of writing

One suffering an attack by Saul Bellow

The Gospels

Sacred writings