2-Letter Words Starting with S

Scroggy

Scrootch

Scrootch

Scrubby

Most unkempt

Cross-examiner (wordplay)

Someone who checks electoral votes

Current head of English is new examiner

Close examinations

Examine closely - runs cities (anagram)

Examine closely tailoring of nicer suits

Examine the tailoring of nicer suits

Look at critically or searchingly

She could find work a relief

Fates ring the Navy, stretching from pole to pole

Female artist's anxiety about line in cup

Of Praxiteles's art

With fine and regular features, son grew to assume power

Carved

Chiseled

Some Bernini creations

Carver's masterpieces

Define statutes

""The quality or state of being scurrile or scurrilous; mean, vile, or obscene jocularity.""

Scutcheon

SCUTELLA scutellum

Scutter

Singer's employer (wordplay)

Betsy Ross, for example

Dorcas, for example

Seastrand

Hidden atomic particles (wordplay)

Discharges

Members of religious factions

Those insects got the second artisan beaten

Modular parlor pieces

The eccentric got in, since causing division

""One who theoretically rejects every form of religious faith, and every kind of religious worship, and accepts only the facts and influences which are derived from the present life; also, one who believes that education and other matters of civil policy should be managed without the introduction of a religious element.""

Supreme attention to the things of the present life; worldliness.

Act of acquiring.

Stocks, treasury bonds, etc.

Valuable holdings

SECURE to make safe or certain

Laid-back quality

Tranquility

Dignity.

Deposited into a bank

The act of seducing.

Seduction

She may have dresses cut beguilingly

Woman who leads astray

Salome, for example

Sedulity

Seecatch

Seedeater

One coming from East Germany strangely in pieces

Separating English and US agents participating in swindle

Segregant

Thus kept a part as one

Gets agreed damages set aside

Gets agreed alternative set aside

Sets apart

""SEISMIC pertaining to an earthquake, also SEISMAL""

SELECTA a disc jockey

Concert program listing

Sommelier's stock

Results of voting

Discrimination

SEMANTIC pertaining to {meaning=n}

Semeiotic

Adjective (-al)

Rather arid region

Area of limited growth

Habitat for some scorpions

FITTED fit

LETHAL something designed to cause death

Semimetal

""A member of, or one educated in, a seminary; specifically, an ecclesiastic educated for the priesthood in a seminary.""

NUDITY the state of being {nude=adj}

Stamp sold at a premium

SECRET something that is kept from the knowledge of others

Like Paraguay's climate

A seamstress.

Of a Washington group.

Like US upper assembly members

Like some biennial elections

Senatorial.

Senhorita

Senility

Public scandals, for example

Superstars, for example

They are felt to be very exciting people

Sensible

SENSITISE

Prepares for a reaction when sit-ins fail to split the dioceses...

Clairvoyants

Made more aware

An agent that sensitizes.

Sensitize

Libertine

Pleasurable indulgence - sexed up element of Jane Austen work (wordplay)

The quality or state of being sensuous; sensuousness.

Declaring punishment for offender

Judge's job, at times

Part of some trials

Pl. sententiae (-sh - ) An adage or aphorism.

""Comprising sentences; as, a sentential translation. as, a sentential translation.""

Sentience

With feeling thrilled, one books into cathedral city

Hallmark hallmarks (wordplay)

Hallmarks of Hallmark

Pride and joy

Sentinel

Please try a new version, one at a time

Late payers settle one by one

Individually

Divorcing pairs get an arrangement

Confess about end of marriage, moving apart thus

Dividing

One is apart (anagram)

Freedom from marital break-up (wordplay)

With apt reason I arranged for divorce

A miser's apt to become perverse, not joining in

One who advocates secession

One who would break up a union

One advocating political autonomy

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

Separator

Sepiolite

""Pl. septenarii (- - ) A Latin verse used only in comedy and consisting of seven feet, especially a catalectic iambic or trochaic tetrameter.""

Like the seven-year itch (wordplay)

Like a seven year itch

Recurring every seven years

""Poison blood poisoning caused by pathogenic microorganisms and their toxic products in the bloodstream. ; septicemic, ; septicaemic,""

SEPTIC an agent producing sepsis

Dividing the partitions; said of a method of dehiscence in which a pod splits through the partitions and is divided into its component carpels.

One followed by 24 zeros

25-figure figure

Septuple

Sepulture

Following in a logical sequence

In consecutive order

Describing 2, 4, 6, 8, etc.

Withdraws into solitude.

Isolates, hides away

Sets apart

""A portion of dead bone which becomes separated from the sound portion, as in necrosis.""

Unflustered states

Serialist

Short religious talk

Televised words of inspiration

Short religious segment on old TV broadcasts

""Pl. serologies The science that deals with the properties and reactions of serums, especially blood serum.""

Serosity

Appearing or blossoming later in the season than is customary with allied species.

Serotonin

Winding, twisting; mineral

Mineral; like a snake

Where Londoners go boating in Hyde Park.

Serration

Hand cleaners at the dinner table

Roughly revise unfamiliar test items from table

These protect against spills in streets I've repaired

Servitude

A relay apparatus;

""Pl. sestertia (-sh , -sh - ) A monetary unit of ancient Rome equivalent to 1,000 sesterces.""

Like Western land, to the pioneers

Community tax payment (wordplay)

Liquidation of village (wordplay)

Sinking fund (wordplay)

'7 x 10 + E's = 34, at least (10)'

Does this happen, even in a ship, to at least thirty-four (wordplay)

Here the event is by no means the first

Ordinal number

Bumbling thieves net a small fraction of whole

Severity

Abstract noun (-ity)

Masters or Johnson

Masters, say

One followed by 21 zeros

One thousand raised to the seventh power

1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

Sextuplet

Sextuple

Most mysterious

Shallow

Shamanist

Run-down urban area

Area with crude dwellings

Deprived area of very poor housing

Most curve-laden

Most curvaceous

Revised 'the ratings' (wordplay)

Revised "the ratings" (wordplay)

Breaking up the ratings going berserk

Rookie officers, in slang

Second looeys.

Second looies

Petrel's cousin

Cropper takes Tyler for a seabird

Long-winged bird that skims the ocean

""Either one of two species of birds composing the genus Chionis, and family Chionid\'91, native of the islands of the Antarctic.seas. Chionis, and family Chionid\'91, native of the islands of the Antarctic.seas.""

Sheathing

Sheepcote

Shelterer

Giving refuge to.

Giving protection to

Protecting

It hobbles around hospital with a slogan

Watchword or catchword

Catchword, slogan

Sines (wordplay)

Evasive quality

Thief's sins might be represented as trickery

Comparative adjective or agent noun

A man in control of his craft (wordplay)

One i/c vessel - tramp is she, perhaps (wordplay)

Skipper

Skilled craftsman (wordplay)

A worker who knows his craft (wordplay)

Craftsman cracking whip's not mistaken

A dress tailored like a shirt with a collar and buttons down the front. Also called shirtwaist .

English word

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Short additions to newspaper articles.

American word for a woman's blouse

""SHMALTZ excessive sentimentality, also SCHMALTZ, SCHMALZ""

Cheaply produced lace (wordplay)

Small sum of money Slang.

Minimal amount of money

Feudal Japanese military offices

Stole

Robber holding up store (wordplay)

One needing a fence (wordplay)

Criminal (in a retail context)

Land situated on the edge of a body of water.

Bobby's favorite snack (wordplay)

Rich crumbly biscuit

Lorna Doone makeup

Items in a pastry shop

Strawberry or peach concoctions

Desserts often served with strawberries

Hem fixers, at times

Cutting down fat

Reducing fat used for cooking

Pie baker's need

Not enough money for most of the briefs and slips

Deficiencies

Shorthair

Shorthand

Neat bugles (wordplay)

Rosters for finalists

Rivals' venues

Groups of hopefuls making provisions for minor shopping sprees (wordplay)

Reese, Marion et al.

I Don't Care et al.

Miranda and Dark.

Shortwave

Shotgun

SHOTGUN to shoot with a type of gun

Showboat

Shrieky

Office of a sheriff

Shrimpy

Shrubby

One on a shooting spree (wordplay)

One who's constantly snapping (wordplay)

One who's constantly snapping

Closing tightly

SIBILANT a hissing speech sound

Sibilate

Sssweet are the usess of adverssity.

"Sssweet are the usess of adverssity."

Certain windows

Bits of extra information ... and a hint to this puzzle's circles

Bits of extra information... and a hint to this puzzle's circles

A kind of meteorite. See under Meteorite. Meteorite.

English word

Swimmer's skill.

Relative of the crawl

Style of swimming

Gets off the point

Diverts team and follows

Diverts

Tops in lovely views

What New York is full of.

Vacationers on a grand tour.

Groups often conducted

""The act of signaling, or of signalizing; hence, description by peculiar, appropriate, or characteristic marks.""

Written names (for identification)

Declaration addenda

Holographic items.

Marked with roadside pointers

State of being silent; silence.

Side line for the artist (wordplay)

Dark art (wordplay)

It can be a relief

Silicotic

Siltation

Siltstone

Movie disclaimer word

It looks like the military is involved

Resemblance

Nearly identical quality

Resemblance or semblance

Lack of distinction limited us, I recollected

Dunderheads

Saps

Couldn't be easier!

Lack of affectation

Start of a quip

Ignoring real complexity

Not recognising true complexity

Naive; ignoring complexities

Simulate

Diving, say, until I am so shattered

Incitement with no time for pretence

Kind of clone

Assuming an appearance.

They can help you improve at golf

Some radio productions

Airs on many stations

Games on radio and TV at the same time, e.g

Of or pertaining to the sinciput; being in the region of the sinciput.