2-Letter Words Starting with S

Smutch

Chat ends (anagram)

Breaks hands, etc., in Kidnapped

Grabbed but can't smash in Slough

Acted the ratfink

Betrayed partners felt an urge

Was a rat

Socket

Not so harsh

Began to melt

Started to melt

Any of the multitudes of the addlepated

Foolish fellow

Nincompoop

Easily-sawn pine, fir etc.

Pine, for example

Pine rather than mahogany

Solvate

Composed certain rhymed poems

Wrote poems.

Having an ear of grain

Animated, being boozed-up (wordplay)

As lively as a seance, maybe

Is the bottle so courageous (wordplay)

Struck like a water balloon

Hit like a snowball

Not in a cast, maybe

Set, in a way

Immobilized, as a broken bone

Tried to steal a base

Ran like hell

Ran full tilt.

Applied, as perfume

Applied, as cologne

Put forth shoots, began to grow

Put forth shoots

Had a growth spurt

Became a sitting tenant (wordplay)

Acquired rights, in a way

Sat on one's heels

Looked with eyes half-shut

Peered, in a way

Looked with partly closed eyes

Ejected liquid in a thin, fast stream

Used a child's gun

Let out a jet

Buck in its fourth year

Red deer in its fourth year

Stopped the flow of

Stopped, as a flow

Stopped the flow of, as blood

Rose, perhaps, to the required level

Rose maybe is an acceptable model

Quality that needs raising (wordplay)

Made into a fixed number of lines of verse

Versed

Shuffled 'the cards' (wordplay)

Stiffened (of shirts)

Shuffled "the cards" (wordplay)

Made jump, maybe

Snuck up on, perhaps

Shocked the beginning came first!

Teas were no more what kept one still

It's a deed to be composed

Doctor I sedated made stable

Like many New England churches

Like many churches

Topped with a spire

Contracted: Med

Stereo

Demurred

Strong-smelling badger from Java

Having a pattern of dots

Painted walls by brush-taps.

Marked with dots or specks

Having a stipule

Hemmed up (wordplay)

Did some needlepoint

Like letters on shirts

Stithy

Plugged

(Of a building) having floors

Having sets of rooms on different levels

(Of building) having several levels

Stound

Forced - like baby food (wordplay)

Like much baby food

Under pressure, son prepared to perform

Like a castaway (Like DNA)

Left alone on beach (wordplay)

Left to fend for oneself

- - for cash (hard up)

Bound to be short of cash (wordplay)

Needing money (informal)

Strode uncovered (wordplay)

Ran out of clothes (wordplay)

Hurriedly showed oneself out (wordplay)

Came from Hulu (wordplay)

Moved steadily or swiftly

Went with the flow

Streek

Rejected fools, maybe under pressure

Spoke with an accent (wordplay)

Upside-down cakes, perhaps, upset

Marked with ridges in tardiest way

Mrs., in Peru

Like one with lines

Like a lute

Like lutes and zithers

Like certain instruments

Took the pole position (wordplay)

Removed clothing, perhaps forpay

Pets drip (anagram)

Took a leisurely walk

Enjoyed a boardwalk

Walked in leisurely way

Put on edge (wordplay)

It's open for one to be going on foot

Sharpened a razor

Pulled strings, maybe (wordplay)

Played rhythm guitar, say

Pulled some strings (wordplay)

Strunt

Imitated a peacock, maybe

Showed off in a way

Swaggered along with supporting members

Put out, drained and unshaven

Rough-surfaced.

Its a bit shadowy after five oclock to slip lawyer editors letters

Plastered with cement

For a finish one carves up a girl at school

Cuts up with the mixed school, but only on the surface

Took a trip (wordplay)

Missed a step and almost fell

Made a slip

Afflicted with sturdy

List dyes for repacking treated artificially

Artificial enclosure heeled over with temperature dropping

Conformed to a particular format

Conformed to a certain art treatment

Designed to conform with existing modes

Denied

A subordinate trend

""Having long, narrow furrows, also SULCATE""

Sulfate

Summate

Like luxury cars and expensive jewelry, often

Did a flip-flop

Turned electric appliance on or off

Beat with cane and made a change

Aged boats (anagram)

Undermined by stealth

Undermined an operation

State of the blessed (wordplay)

Has Robin been canonised (wordplay)

Nick's status (wordplay)

Produced mouth moisture

Had what might have been a spat

4A in a pickled spat

Made clean

Stains die out, when clinically cleaned

Made clean? Is instead corrupted

Made clinically clean

Like hotel toilet seats

Cleaned up

Disinfected

What the dressmakers saw (wordplay)

Material valued for cabinetmaking

Can solicit to cut down tree

Raised its New Order, and made a mockery

Weird rites said to have been ridiculed

Swift activity. Prior approach

Swiftly written (wordplay)

Last letter supports its air strangely mocked

Sent up

Complied with (a condition)

Fie, 'tis sad to find another replete!

Are you done complaining now (wordplay)

Animal fat may be soaked

Soaked through and through

So a king, having been in water

Of or belonging to the Saturniidae.

Walked casually into sea, turned rough

Walked casually

Strolled with relative on Sunday - and shot deer!

Field placings for Flintoff!

The cats got tree'd here and there

*Dispersed, as a crowd

Invested with royal authority.

Invested with imperial authority

Like Shakespeare.s isle

Scored or was withdrawn (wordplay)

Slightly damaged, so withdrawn

Withdrew, slightly injured

Scutter

A seashore.

Put in the bin!

Roped off, perhaps

Cut up at being forcibly treated

Ten gems Ed sorted and divided

Divided like an orange.

Cut into parts

Given life, perhaps

Judged the merits of.

Making scene, tend to be condemned

How one took a part (wordplay)

Isolated copies retrospectively valued

How Kipling saw East and West.

Septuple

Sextuple

Smashed the record (wordplay)

Got a big break (wordplay)

Broken - exhausted (informal)

Her eldest becomes withdrawn

Protected from the weather

Covered loan with warden

Cut down to size (wordplay)

Tenor performing in hut gets cut

Condensed thus, or the ends may be off

Speedwriting by worker of little stature

Girl Friday's forte.

Gregg's system.

Quiet-spoken, like some windows

(Of windows) shut up

Like some windows

Sibilate

Feigned, imitated

Pretended to be excited with temperature dropping

Must I deal with one that's so pretending (wordplay)

Skelter

Ran like an iguana

The kit's got treed, having scuttled off

Skipped, as a fishing lure

Put on lavishly

Laid on thick

Used wastefully

Emulated a snake

Moved like a snake

Moved like a snake.

Made neater by tradesmen

Wised (up)

Got wise, with "up"

Would this elude a gardener (wordplay)

Would this elude a gardener?

Learned superficially

Dabbled in

Dabbled

Drenched in sauce

Her modest fancy will get stifled

Stifled, he stormed out

Like later printings, often

Begged for it in legal form, perhaps

Sought by petition

Consequently legal, journalist made advances

Sonicate

Sonnet

Soothsay

Dixie

In the direction of Cork, say

In the direction of Waterford, say

In the direction of Spain

Spotted by a mudslinger (wordplay)

Trap steed (anagram)

Small talk on journalist's spread

Speciate

Spectate

Any of the four haploid cells formed by meiosis in a male organism that develop into spermatozoa without further division.

Spotted, splashed

'Boldly spotted the third allotment': penned by Guardian setter

*Stained

Pillaged

Sprattle

Hurried around state, spoke excitedly

Spoke incoherently

Bumbled verbally

He may convey properties

Person moving theatre props

Theater crew member

The buck began to fall over greed

Hit with a haymaker

The buck nearly fell for greed

British armed reconnaissance car.

One whose quarry is sought and abused (wordplay)

Hunting dog

Got stuck in a rut

Was in a rut

Hit the doldrums

Wasn't confident, say

Emulated Mel Tillis

Spoke like Bob Newhart

Ran wildly, as a buffalo herd

Ran wild, as cattle

Made off frightfully fast

That's right!

Right light on ship (wordplay)

Right (at sea)

Used a telescope

Looked raptly

Daydreamed

For Hawaii and Alaska (wordplay)

Territory's future, perhaps

For Hawaii and Alaska?

Placed where the 28 across are perhaps

Posted there online, perhaps

Posted in a position

How Edward the loyal stopped the flow

Arrested resolute pressman

Traveled in a certain kind of ship

The rainbow trout

Rainbow trout

Trout variety

Three metal feet to scale (wordplay)

Three metal feet with scales (wordplay)

Pittsburgh work area

Increased in price

Made a higher grade

More inclined to be made like this

Like letters on a crate, maybe

Like sign letters, perhaps

Lettered with a form.

Marriage acquisition, maybe

Second mate's kid (wordplay)

Offspring of spouse

To the rear

Supervised, as a kitchen.

Managed

""A plant (Echinospermum Lappula) of the Borage family, with small blue flowers and prickly nutlets. Echinospermum Lappula) of the Borage family, with small blue flowers and prickly nutlets.""

STICK to support with slender pieces of wood

Finds feet somehow, given support

Added starch to

Got more formal

""Stramonium. See Jamestown weed, and Datura. Jamestown weed, and Datura.""

""A name given to several kinds of wood with an unpleasant smell, as that of the F\'d2tidia Mauritiana of the Mauritius, and that of the South African Ocotea bullata. F\'d2tidia Mauritiana of the Mauritius, and that of the South African Ocotea bullata.""

Stockade

Locale in Upton Sinclair's 'The Jungle'

Place having many pens

Feature of Chicago.

""The space, or any of the spaces, in front of the boilers of a ship, from which the furnaces are fed; the stokehole of a ship; also, a room containing a ship's boilers; as, forced draft with closed stokehold; -- called also, in American ships, fireroom.as, forced draft with closed stokehold; -- called also, in American ships, fireroom.""

Put up with

Most upset having hurt bore

Stood

Stonish

With a plug

One of today's leading playwrights reportedly blocked at the opening

Stouten

Was on both sides!

Took an equivocal position Colloq.

Took an equivocal position: Colloq.

Wandered from the direct course

Wandered off.

Leader of tour intercepting hapless laggers who'd ultimately wandered from group

Choked to death

What Othello did to Desdemona

Choked and killed

Stravage

It holds water

It holds running water

Rock locale

Extended, one's limbs perhaps

Like some truths

Extended in time or space

Strickle

Had difficulty (with)

Found the going tough

Made violent efforts.

Stunned with astonishment

Dulled the wits or senses

Rendered speechless

Sang 'My Generation,' say

Sang "My Generation," say

Good man spoke - with hesitation!

Subduct

Subedit

Citizen Edward was made liable

Yielded (to a superior force)

Presented, as evidence

Gave in and proposed

Got by (on)

Made ends meet

Lived (on), as food

Extended under or opposite to

With captions below

Like many foreign films

Undermined

Suction

Sufflate

Gave the impression it had been mooted

Made a proposal

Proposed, recommended

Sulphate

Sunbathe

Brown junior soundly beaten (wordplay)

Like many bikini models

Bronzed, in a way

English word

Supinate

Took sides with

Bolstered up

Bolstered, sustained

Overfed fruit seed, possibly

Hear master had a seizure, having overindulged

Refused it anyway, having had more than enough

Doubted the truth of (something)

Imagined to be true

Thought son cut speed round the bend

Long drawn-out

Kept going, supported

Supported; kept going

Strip of fabric to absorb perspiration

It encircles an athlete's forehead

Bit of workout gear

Equal-ized (wordplay)

Eligible to be called up

Made less sour

Suffered from great heat

Suffered from excessive heat

Felt the heat

Swither

Furnished with little sacs.

Consecrated

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

Holy.

Permitted or penalized

Imposed punishment of a kind that's permitted

Permissible

SCIENTIZE

Scouther

Scrootch

With fine and regular features, son grew to assume power

Carved

Chiseled

Deposited into a bank

Thus kept a part as one

Gets agreed damages set aside

Gets agreed alternative set aside

FITTED fit

SENSITISE

Made more aware

Sentinel

Stole

Bobby's favorite snack (wordplay)

Rich crumbly biscuit

Lorna Doone makeup