2-Letter Words Starting with S

Rat's act

Socket

Toning down

Not getting hard to sing about this frequently

Getting not so hard to sing about this frequently

Solvate

Impressive object or event (informal)

Flip side of 'Come Together'

Second-most covered Beatles song

SONNET to compose a type of poem

Sortie

Secretly carrying (away)

Making leave (with "away")

Secretly carrying (off)

Splat

Splint

Divulging secrets, and leaving

Like some headaches

Dividing

At top speed.

Action at a track

Going full tilt

Spritz

In season, blossoming (wordplay)

Growing rapidly.

Fresh growth.

Sedentary occupation (wordplay)

In a crouch

Looking with partly closed eyes

One way to be looking cross

Involved in fraud, one in five not looking straight (wordplay)

Squirt

Stanch

What's in the tail is about to be overhead to make it stiff

What a surprise to begin with the fish!

Begin with fish? Amazing!

Cast drinking bitter, and staggering!

Stopping from pitching

Controlling, in a way

Small drink failing to be calming

Stereo

Stickle

Marking with small dots

Seurat technique

Fasten by sewing

Using needle and thread

Cowboy boot decoration

Stithy

Stopple

Stound

Greyhounds on the leash (wordplay)

Trying hard when riddling like this!

Exerting much effort or energy

Being a ground (wordplay)

Leaving helpless redhead in station

Running aground in position across river

Hold on in bus or train

Stand on a bus or train

Commute, stereotypically

English word

Muscular weakness - ultimately catching

Big equipment, small changes to opening

Big and strong.

Running with indecent haste (wordplay)

On the run with problem skin - great!

Shifting out of investments

On the run because it's cold

Like some Web videos

In a steady onrush

Streek

Streel

Feeling pressure (about)

Laying emphasis on, say a syllable

Hair in the inside leads to a strain

Striate

String

Hitting close to home (wordplay)

Young enough to skin the fish (wordplay)

Shy hosts outing young man

Removing paint layers

Edges of signpost tearing and peeling

Walking leisurely with no apparent aim

Activity on a boardwalk

Go round in pain, walking slowly

Not going on getting the edge on about R

Maintaining, as a razor

Material for strouds; a kind of coarse cloth used in trade with the North American Indians.

Playing chords, perhaps

Playing chords, say

Playing the guitar

Strunt

Proud as a peacock

That shows that one is proud during March

Are you, a teetotaller, proud to be walking in such a painful way (wordplay)

Cuts back the money - Gee, when it's all on the outside

How one carves up the money? Gee, that's the finish of it

Kind of block

Walking with two left feet

Evidence of klutziness

Stylise

Stylize

Baffling

Sublate

Sulfate

Summate

Summit

Surtax

Making a change

Sing about the sorceress for a change

Changing over

Wrecking boat, gang is wicked

Secretly ruining

Drunkard entertains sailor with a gin to force wrecking

Showing anticipation, in a way

Licking one's chops

Anticipatory reaction

Sanitate

Sanitise

Sanitize

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

Moving slowly

Throwing in various directions

Tedder's chore

Small number

Scepter

Companion of beat juggling

Tearing with the nails

Purpose of a pet post

Scutter

The eccentric got in, since causing division

Separating English and US agents participating in swindle

Declaring punishment for offender

Judge's job, at times

Part of some trials

Divorcing pairs get an arrangement

Confess about end of marriage, moving apart thus

Dividing

Septuple

Sextuple

Revised 'the ratings' (wordplay)

Revised "the ratings" (wordplay)

Breaking up the ratings going berserk

Giving refuge to.

Giving protection to

Protecting

Cheaply produced lace (wordplay)

Small sum of money Slang.

Minimal amount of money

Cutting down fat

Reducing fat used for cooking

Pie baker's need

One on a shooting spree (wordplay)

One who's constantly snapping (wordplay)

One who's constantly snapping

Closing tightly

Sibilate

Simulate

Skelter

Gliding lilghtly

Message from heaven (wordplay)

Messages created by planes

Vapour trail messages

Slather

Moving like a mamba

Smarten

Bit of stuff in chorus perhaps

Tiny amount (of knowledge)

Bit of stuff found in immorality? Grand!

More than just doting on

Stifling Mama's kept in Carol

Concealing and disguising things more

Touting for work (as a prostitute)

Sonicate

Sonnet

Strewing about in little drops

Splashing

Speciate

Watching

""Any of various leaping, homopterous insects of the family Cercopidae, the nymphs of which form frothy masses of liquid on plant stems. Also called froghopper , spittle insect .""

Splotch

Spoliate

Sprattle

Celebrate outside club, jabbering

Speaking while flurried

Fitful

Inebriate movement beyond comprehension

Incredible male with ginger snap

Rocking and rolling

Stagnate

Halting in words.

Speaking with involuntary pauses

With involuntary hesitation in speech

Surging like stallions

Start to put your foot down to be getting away with it

Having astronomical vision (wordplay)

Some late-night viewing

Working at Mt. Palomar.

Athens tailor (AMND)

Dawn's gaunt rider

Character in A Midsummer Night's Dream

Station

Staunch

Steamer

Getting a higher grade, in a way

New blade flipped in deception's getting sharper

Silk-screen work, for example

Steward

Making less likely to bend

Stockade

Just barely tolerant of

Stonish

... doing as one does, Carol securing hat

Stouten

Standing on both sides of (something)

Noncommittal on an issue

Being noncommittal.

Straggle

Taking another person's life in one's hands

Stravage

Reaching out to engrave in chain

Pulling out twine wrapped around chisel (wordplay)

Exaggerating time spent in 21 in heart of Bangkok

Strickle

Fighting

Stupefy

S-speaking, tense inside (wordplay)

Talking, by the way, of bumbling!

Speaking with initial difficulty

Subduct

Working on newspaper and fitting sleep in

Subject

Sublet

Submit

Subsist

Subtend

Subtitle

Undermining

Overthrowing

Suction

Sufflate

Alluding to

Sulphate

Cruise activity by the pool

Soaking up some rays

Using dishwashing liquid in the shower (wordplay)

Supinate

Fair as player, holding up pro

and 26: Those apart from leads trip up with songs and act poorly

Surfeit

Believing guilty without proof

Narrow passage of water

Continuing pollution includes America

Dyer's work around America is holding up

Strengthening, supporting

Adding sugar to

Give voice about small number adding sugar

Make less painful in Government by sugar-coating

Sing mass being imprisoned, very hot

Carol holds mixed-up mass for baking

Carol carries jumble and gets direly hot

Swither

SAILBOAT a boat with sails

Sanctify

Making binding

SCIENTIZE

Scouther

Scrootch

""SCULPTURE The art of carving, cutting, or hewing wood, stone, metal, etc., into statues, ornaments, etc., or into figures, as of men, or other things; hence, the art of producing figures and groups, whether in plastic or hard materials.""

Sediment

SEGREGATE Separate; select.

SENSITISE

""SENSITIZE To render sensitive, or susceptible of being easily acted on by the actinic rays of the sun; as, sensitized paper or plate. as, sensitized paper or plate.""

SENTINEL to stand guard

In-store stocktaking (wordplay)

Stealing from a store

Stealing from stores

Character flaw, say

Defect in aspirin (wordplay)

A fault not long showing up

Shotgun

Showboat

Vacation-travel occupation

Playing the tourist

Sometime diplomatic activity.

Signpost

Smoothen

""SOMERSET to somersault, to roll the body in a circle, head over heels""

""One who writes lyrics or tunes, or both, for songs. Also called songsmith , songster .""

Job for an oracle

SOVIETIZE

""SPECULATE To consider by turning a subject in the mind, and viewing it in its different aspects and relations; to meditate; to contemplate; to theorize; as, to speculate on questions in religion; to speculate on political events. as, to speculate on questions in religion; to speculate on political events.""

Splatter

When breaking up, maybe slept in before call

Fragmenting

Spitting explosively

SPORULATE

Squatter

STABILIZE

Stablish

STALEMATE The position of the king when he can not move without being placed on check and there is no other piece which can be moved.

Present participle or gerund

Stellify

Art form

STENOTYPE

""STERILIZE To make sterile or unproductive; to impoverish, as land; to exhaust of fertility.""

STEVEDORE One whose occupation is to load and unload vessels in port; one who stows a cargo in a hold.

Stiletto

Inspiring new enthusiasm

Animating, exciting

Imitative behaviour, over time, likely to provoke reaction

""STIPULATE Furnished with stipules; as, a stipulate leaf. as, a stipulate leaf.""

Storing up

Retailer's task - shoplifting (wordplay)

Evaluation of unsold goods

Straight

Straiten