2-Letter Words Starting with S

Limitation or hostile criticism

Sternly critical remark

Restriction or stern criticism

Quality of being harsh or shrill.

Harsh quality

Shrillness

Strobila

Parasitic threadworm

Arrangement of parts.

Building or organised arrangement

The Space Needle, for example.

Stable father figure (wordplay)

Stallion, taking its head thus, rode off

Former Derby winner, often

""The uninterrupted and continuous flat band, coping, or pavement upon which the bases of a row of columns are supported. See Subbase. Subbase.""

Bring under the yoke.

Two vessels put away for master

Bring under domination

Redirect (feelings) into safer channels

Purify, in a way

Transform into a purer form

To put in the place of another; to substitute.

Drug found in property (wordplay)

Reserve opinion for matter

Advance point of view in matter

Circuit board layer

Underlying layer

Material on which another material is deposited

To make thin or fine; to make less gross or coarse.

A salt of succinic acid.

Cut off sea and cut off air

Kill rowing team from Ipswich, say (wordplay)

Kill by blocking the air passages

Any of a group of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of sulfate esters and are found in animal tissues and bacteria.

""SULFONE a sulfur compound, also SULPHONE""

Oman, for one

Brunei, for one

Eccentric late aunt's land

SUMMATE to add together

UV OD, less briefly (wordplay)

Ailment from spending too long tanning

Blazer on oarsman may be excruciating

English word

Of a wound, to discharge liquid

If it does this there's something the matter there

Ooze pus

Substitute grouse with rat in a stew

One acting for another

Replacement rug a store ordered

""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.""

Put the accent on the weak beat

Play in jazz style.

Accent the off-beats

Group working to a common aim

Business group supplied by CIE dynast

Combine to make Disney cat twitchy

Bring order to

English word

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

A salt of salicylic acid.

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

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

To form a scheme or schemes.

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

Bus-seat sharer, perhaps

Dolphin's friend (wordplay)

English word

Slightest bits

Slightest traces

Examine closely - runs cities (anagram)

Examine closely tailoring of nicer suits

Examine the tailoring of nicer suits

Look at critically or searchingly

SCUTELLA scutellum

SECURE to make safe or certain

Seecatch

SELECTA a disc jockey

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

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

Short religious talk

Televised words of inspiration

Short religious segment on old TV broadcasts

Winding, twisting; mineral

Mineral; like a snake

Where Londoners go boating in Hyde Park.

Like Western land, to the pioneers

A kind of meteorite. See under Meteorite. Meteorite.

Swimmer's skill.

Relative of the crawl

Style of swimming

Side line for the artist (wordplay)

Dark art (wordplay)

It can be a relief

Nearly identical quality

Resemblance or semblance

Lack of distinction limited us, I recollected

Assuming an appearance.

Bar to which traces are fastened.

Bar on a wagon

Lone family chart found with harness

""A green foliated kind of amphibole, observed in eclogite and some varietis of gabbro.""

Feature of an unrifled firearm

Kind of firearm.

Feature of a shotgun barrel

Expressed concern about idiot's clue!

Concern of many in a lonely place

Care, concern

""The structure or build of a person, especially to the extent to which it exhibits the characteristics of an ectomorph, an endomorph, or a mesomorph.""

Reliable platform (wordplay)

Solid way to travel (wordplay)

TV shooting set.

See Spatulate. Spatulate.

""An arsenide of platinum occuring in grains and minute isometric crystals of tinwhite color. It is found near Sudbury, Ontario Canada, and is the only known compound of platinum occuring in nature.""

Mineral lets delicate little person keep healthy

""A minute spherical crystalline body having a radiated structure, observed in some vitreous volcanic rocks, as obsidian and pearlstone.""

""Any of various slender, spiral, motile bacteria of the order Spirochaetales, many of which are pathogenic, causing syphilis, relapsing fever, yaws, and other diseases.""

""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.""

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

Gray trout

One to horse around with (wordplay)

Reliable spouse (wordplay)

Level-headed groom?

Overhead projection (wordplay)

A hanging for a caveman (wordplay)

Structure deposited on cave roof

A prison-camp child that is growing up!

A certain point underground (wordplay)

Cave floor growth

Legislature's place

Where politicians aren't "fed"

Where some bills are created

A barometer for recording small variations in atmospheric pressure.

They knew the Power Of A Woman

Tall and well-proportioned

Striking what little Stewart equates to

""Made or introduced by statute; proceeding from an act of the legistature; as, a statutable provision or remedy. as, a statutable provision or remedy.""

""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

Brand negatively

Malign

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

Somewhat cordate; somewhat like a heart in shape.

Group customs in U-boats (wordplay)

Hip-hop, for example

Division of society

Of or pertaining to a subject.

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

Programmer's reusable code

Part of a computer program

Fill in (for)

Go in (for)

Put in place of another

Cunning plan(s)

Deception begs future involvement

Strategic trickery

Tending to imply

Implying something rude

hinting at something indecent

It's too hot!

Best season for adders (wordplay)

Adder having a stretch when it's warm

English word

Type of government.

Eurasia, in "Nineteen Eighty-Four"

Big stock market (wordplay)

Huge retail establishment

One-stop shopping spot

SUPPLE to make {pliant=adj}

Beg kitty to lie about with wild pups

Sue being agile, catching one pet (wordplay)

Pray humbly

Providing help

Playful, keeping up with helpful intentions

Frisky about being at university, maintaining a loyal interest

Mathematics A function that is onto.

Susceptible.

Unseen cats desperate for nourishment

Food and drink

What one needs to get by

SWITCH to beat with a flexible rod

See Sweepstake. Sweepstake.

Balance the proportions

Introduce regularity

Offer condolences to poor Amish types

Express fellow feeling

Show concern for leaders of Scotland Yard made to quickly touch on his point

""To have a common feeling, as of bodily pleasure or pain.""

SYNCRETISE

SYNCRETIZE

Combine into a complex whole.

Form by combining elements

Put together said evil article on weak glue

See ligase .

""A fellow without breeches; a ragged fellow; a name of reproach given in the first French revolution to the extreme republican party, who rejected breeches as an emblem peculiar to the upper classes or aristocracy, and adopted pantaloons.""

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

That may be satisfied.

Form a sect

""Any of several chiefly tropical trematode worms of the genus Schistosoma, many of which are parasitic in the blood of humans and other mammals. Also called bilharzia , blood fluke .""

German folk dance (Scotch in German)

Dance similar to the polka

Polka-like, 19th century German dance

Sparkle - elastic lint (anagram)

Emit flashes of light

Show many flashes of light

SEGREGATE Separate; select.

Like some hospital service

Like two-bed hospital rooms

Old age.

Lock up, as a jury

Appropriate search before baddie comes into view

Take possession of (assets) pending settling of debt

Silkworm raising.

Silkworm breeding

English word

Kind of diplomacy

Tugged-on thing

An ace may be up it

Give poor value

Cheat by returning insufficient money

Give insufficient recompense

Same as Fibrolite. Fibrolite.

SKELETON the supporting bone structure of a body

""To prepare a skeleton of; also, to reduce, as a leaf, to its skeleton.""

Zinc ore

Conjecturing - high-risk

Based on conjecture

Disagreement I have about iffy clue involving guesswork

""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

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

Limited to or able to live only within a narrow range of saltwater concentrations. Used of aquatic organisms.

Device offering 3-D viewing

It provides outstanding images

Three-D viewer

It can pick the beat up (wordplay)

Medical instrument that scoops teeth out

It will find a broken heart

To manoeuvre (the puck) deftly in ice hockey

Invigorating.

Stretch fabric for making bandages etc

Stretchy fabric

Serious whale ailment (wordplay)

Overeater's woe

Overeater's risk

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

Mood of verbs

LITERATE one who can read and write

""A number or quality which is contained in another an exact number of times, or is an aliquot part of it; thus, 7 is the submultiple of 56, being contained in it eight times. submultiple of 56, being contained in it eight times.""

""OPTIMIZE to make as effective as possible, also OPTIMISE""

In a lesser role.

Lower in rank

Of less importance

SENTENCE to declare judicially the punishment

Means of supporting life

Kind of farming

Means of survival

(Of rank) permanent

Having a firm basis in reality

Important, meaningful

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

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

Tending or able to choke or stifle.

Woman protesting for the right to vote

Campaigner for voting rights for women

HOWE (wordplay)

Its blue eggs (anagram) - easily influenced

Highest in quality

Of the highest degree or quality

Of the highest degree

Noun (-ure)

English word

English word

To subtle.

""Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable.""

Tending to suppurate; promoting suppuration.

Prone (to)

Easily swayed by feelings

Liable to fall victim

It's a bus lane (anagram)

Able to be kept going

Able to be maintained

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

Flick knife (US)

West Side Story prop

West Side Story weapon

To form or divide into syllables; to syllabify.

A saclike structure formed by nerve endings at a synapse that remains intact after homogenization of nerve tissue.

""SYNCOPATE To contract, as a word, by taking one or more letters or syllables from the middle; as, "Gloster" is a syncopated form of "Gloucester." as, "Gloster" is a syncopated form of "Gloucester."""

SYSTEMATISE

""To reduce to system or regular method; to arrange methodically; to methodize; as, to systematize a collection of plants or minerals; to systematize one's work; to systematize one's ideas. as, to systematize a collection of plants or minerals; to systematize one's work; to systematize one's ideas.""

SANCTION to authorize

""Pl. scyphistomae (-m ) or scyphistomas A larva of a scyphozoan, consisting of an elongated and deeply constricted polyp that successively splits off minute, free-swimming medusas.""

A hormone or another agent that causes or stimulates secretion.

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

SEDIMENT to settle in the bottom of a liquid

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.

SEXTUPLE to make six times as great

See Sylviculture. Sylviculture.

""Botany A type of stele in which the vascular cylinder surrounds a pith, as in the stem of the sunflower.""

""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.""