2-Letter Words Starting with S

Stranger

Forming layers

Stravaig

STRUCTURE The act of building; the practice of erecting buildings; construction.

Stultify

""SUBJUGATE To subdue, and bring under the yoke of power or dominion; to conquer by force, and compel to submit to the government or absolute control of another; to vanquish.""

""SUBLIMATE To bring by heat into the state of vapor, which, on cooling, returns again to the solid state; as, to sublimate sulphur or camphor. as, to sublimate sulphur or camphor.""

SUBROGATE To put in the place of another; to substitute.

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

Inflected form of TOTALING Inflected form of TOTAL to amount to

Deducting

""From Suffocate, v. Suffocate, v.""

SULFONATE

""SULFURET to treat with sulfur, also SULPHURET""

Physics A hypothetical particle consisting of a very short one-dimensional string existing in ten dimensions. It is the elementary particle in a theory of space-time incorporating supersymmetry.

English word

Supplant

""SUPPURATE To generate pus; as, a boil or abscess suppurates. as, a boil or abscess suppurates.""

Overcoming (obstacle)

Overcoming

Surprint

SURROGATE A deputy; a delegate; a substitute.

""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."""

""SYNDICATE The office or jurisdiction of a syndic; a council, or body of syndics.""

SYSTEMIZE To reduce to system; to systematize.

Process for cleaning or engraving

Pueblo Indian art

Native American art

Scapegoat

SCHEMATIZE To form a scheme or schemes.

SCRUTINISE

""SCRUTINIZE To examine closely; to inspect or observe with critical attention; to regard narrowly; as, to scrutinize the measures of administration; to scrutinize the conduct or motives of individuals. as, to scrutinize the measures of administration; to scrutinize the conduct or motives of individuals.""

SECURITIZE

Sentinel

Confiscating band of gold after search in bishop's domain

Shortcut

Informal A performance or performer that evokes so much applause from the audience that the show is temporarily interrupted.

Evading, in a way

Desist moving forest as evasive action

Avoidance behaviour that is seen in South Essex town

Creating distraction, wrongly directs a monarch

""SILHOUETTE A representation of the outlines of an object filled in with a black color; a profile portrait in black, such as a shadow appears to be.""

Simulcast

Shooting up, in a way

Fast-rising TV company playing loud music, and French being gripped

Slaughter

Snapshot

Somerset

Boy to secure sort of genre I recognized as producing short poems

Child to secure sort of genre I recognized as producing short poems

Speedboat

The sport of catching fish using a rod and reel.

Spotlight

Starboard

Steamroll

""STEREOTYPE A plate forming an exact faximile of a page of type or of an engraving, used in printing books, etc.; specifically, a plate with typemetal face, used for printing.""

""STIGMATIZE To mark with a stigma, or brand; as, the ancients stigmatized their slaves and soldiers. as, the ancients stigmatized their slaves and soldiers.""

Standard royalty brother divides, managing shares, say

The act or art of dealing in stocks; the business of a stockjobber.

Hewing or dressing stone.

Delaying tactics? Nothing new in that!

Consistently blocking deliveries

Nothing new in holding things up or being obstructive

Lying much indulged in by Sheherazade

Narrating tales

Relation finds right time to be stuck in traffic

Using train when no seats available (wordplay)

STRATEGIZE

STREAMLINE

""STRIDULATE To make a shrill, creaking noise""

CULTURING culture

""SUBSTITUTE One who, or that which, is substituted or put in the place of another; one who acts for another; that which stands in lieu of something else""

Subtotal

Making sweet love in windy act, ruing gas

Sulfuret

Superheat

Supplicat

SYMMETRIZE To make proportional in its parts; to reduce to symmetry.

SYMPATHISE

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

SYNCRETISE

SYNCRETIZE

SYNTHESIZE To combine by synthesis; to unite.

SCHISMATIZE To make part in schism; to make a breach of communion in the church.

Dazzling sign rehashed with lilac tint

Brilliant - dazzling

Brilliantly clever

SEQUESTRATE To sequester.

Expert firing cheats, then laughing loudly

Irish instrument in ship mimicking owl could take the head off you from way out

Mean to be giving poor value

Cheating someone by not returning enough money

Brief film about execution for dishonest behaviour

Face getting divorced? Hilarious!

Very funny team breaking up

Extremely amusing team parting company

Activity enjoyed on the street

Pastime on wheels

Part of an active lifestyle, for some

SKELETONISE

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

Reducing air resistance

Drag reduction technique

Going head over heels

Wild geraniums lost, rolling on the ground

Specialized reporting

All the same, that's making it

""STANDARDIZE To reduce to a normal standard; to calculate or adjust the strength of, by means of, and for uses in, analysis.""

Stepparent

The act of manoeuvring (the puck) deftly in ice hockey

Storyboard

De-kinking

Aligning

Throttling, twisting gag in last turn

""A prostitute, especially one who solicits in the streets.""

That strengthens; giving or increasing strength.

IRRIGATING irrigate

OPTIMIZING optimize

ORDINATING ordinate

Supplement

Switchback

SYLLABICATE To form or divide into syllables; to syllabify.

SYSTEMATISE

""SYSTEMATIZE 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.""

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

CONDUCTING conduct

SEXTUPLICATE

Shuttlecock

Silversmith

SOMNAMBULATE To walk when <?/sleep.

""SOPHISTICATE To render worthless by admixture; to adulterate; to damage; to pervert; as, to sophisticate wine. as, to sophisticate wine.""

""SPIRITUALIZE To refine intellectiually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual character or tendency to; as, to spiritualize soul. as, to spiritualize soul.""

STEAMROLLER steamroll

Style of horse racing

Stereograph

One who works or provides an employer with workers during a strike.

Letting out work on part of a project

Present participle or gerund

SUBINFEUDATE

SUBJECTIVISE

SUBJECTIVIZE

SUBSTANTIATE To make to exist; to make real.

Summersault

Pensioning almost yearly breaks ruined US giant

SUPERELEVATE

Superinfect

Police officer meaning to be controlling

SUPEROVULATE

SPLENECTOMIZE

Straitjacket

STRUCTURALIZE

Inflected form of CATEGORIZING Inflected form of CATEGORIZE To insert in a category or list; to class; to catalogue.

""SUBSTANTIVIZE To convert into a substantive; as, to substantivize an adjective. as, to substantivize an adjective.""

Having zero electrical resistance

A strange pursuit involved getting soaked more than is normal (wordplay)