2-Letter Words Starting with S

Small cat in pain, having a paunch

Paunchy

Morsel for a bass

Aquatic insect

Insect whose larvae live under rocks in streams

In a violent manner

With anger

Fare beater, maybe

One getting a free ride (wordplay)

One who goes free (wordplay)

Spreading out in different directions

Irregularly untidy

In pen, tabloid girl with no heart is rambling

In a narrow manner

A poisonous weed

Long-term plan to get lost sheep caught

Plan of attack

Skill in planning.

Form in layers

Form into layers

Divide into castes

Throw up in pigpen that's extendable

Characterised by elasticity

Flexible chest? Try exercise

With discipline sometimes for the birds

With no exceptions

By the book

In a forceful manner

In emphatic manner.

In a powerful manner

In a stubby manner

In a stuffy manner

Render ineffectual - lusty fit (anagram)

Make a fool of

Cause to feel bored

Like a ninny.

In a thickheaded way

Mindlessly, with no common sense

The vigorous way in which to twist rusty lid (wordplay)

Bookkeeper's clarification

""The state of being subtle, also SUBTLETY""

Ability of making fine discriminations.

Delicate/refined quality

Ornamental device in sugar

A hot-air bath for inducing sweating

In a fitting manner

In apt fashion

With fitness

How a siren moves

How a siren walks

Review military intelligence experiment with method of diplomacy

In a svelte manner

In a laborious manner

Balance in appearance

Bell-curve feature

Fearful feature of Blake's Tyger

'Tea and ' (1956 movie)

Compassion (coming with tea)

'Tea and ' (1956 film)

The state of occupying an area without loss of identity from interbreeding

Sticking out by way of a projection

Most importantly

Making leaps and bounds.

Specialised for jumping

Proceeding by leaps

Healthiness.

As was Spartacus; arch anti (anagram)

Holy place - asylum

Place of protection

With insight and wisdom

Wisely

Excessive interest in obscene things

Insincerely or effusively sentimental

Effusively or insincerely emotional

Old-fashioned and sentimental

Reliable, in the main (wordplay)

Fit to be untied (wordplay)

In a fit state for ocean voyage

Desk organizer (wordplay)

Person of note (wordplay)

Della Street, for instance

""Secreting; performing, or connected with, the office secretion; secernent; as, secretory vessels, nerves. as, secretory vessels, nerves.""

The state or quality of being sectile.

Tender, say - moving or not!

One's 'not standing' for this!

Yes, red ant could be sitting

Factor, at times, in promotions

Privilege due to time served

Status attained by some workers.

SENSATE to {sense=v}

Quality or state of being sequacious; sequaciousness.

""Tenure of lands of the crown by an honorary kind of service not due to any lord, but to the king only.""

SERIATE to put in a series

""SERJEANT a noncommissioned military officer, also SERGEANT""

Abject submissiveness

Slave-like deference of riotous liver in said city

Submissiveness

""A state of separation from the rest, or from all others; a holding by individual right.""

State that may be fluid (wordplay)

Wrongly say I exult in carnal desires

Gender preference

John Hancock, famously

Indicate a politician's one in agreement

Hire a conservative for proclamation party

It's expressed in a moment of truth

Openness and truthfulness

It denotes genuine quality

Quality or state of being sinuous.

Just roughly, in an artistic manner

In a manner lacking details

The vessel I got roughly drawn into this in a sly manner

Fellowship.

It may hang over a memorial

Measure of seriousness

Single idiot interrupting my serious mood

SOLVENT a substance capable of dissolving others

Intentionally deceptive reasoning.

Subtle but misleading reasoning

Subtly fallacious reasoning.

SOTTISH resembling a sot

Like some winds

How orbits are arranged

Special subject of study

Pediatrics, for example

Strong suit

The quality or state of being spiny or thorny; spininess.

""Consisting of splinters; resembling splinters; as, the splintery fracture of a mineral. as, the splintery fracture of a mineral.""

SPLUTTER to speak rapidly and confusedly

What one ply's about? That's right

Full of life

Lively odds justly followed

By a list it gets impaired (wordplay)

What a gyroscope may provide

Monetary policy goal

Only for blokes, girl shows sluggishness

Lack of flow

Given one buck, she is still bad

Keep clear of one of 11 across

STARCH to stiffen a fabric

Of written law as to a trusty

Authorised by law

Try-outs at being required by law

In a loyal way

Without ambivalence

STENO a stenographer

How one with writer's block works

Inability to breed

Inability to reproduce

State of being unproductive or barren

How the actor playing the giant spoke (wordplay)

Embroidered samplers and the like

Ornamental needlework

By way of resignation

With a poker face

With fortitude

The state or quality of being stolid; dullness of intellect; obtuseness; stupidity.

Play golf the Curtis way (wordplay)

In an odd manner

In a weird way...

Gurn stupidly, probing vagrant's waterworks problem

Harshness of voice.

Loud and harsh quality

Quality of a shrill sound

In deliberate and premeditated manner

In deliberate or contrived manner

Duly edits in intentionally contrived manner

Lack of intelligence

Second part of the quote

Simple Simon's strong point.

Still shy about start of year with class

How models dress

A la mode

Liability to be sued; the state of being subjected by law to civil process.

COUNTY an administrative division of a state

The quality or state of being sublime (in any sense of the adjective).

""SUBTILE insidious, also SUBTLE""

A matter of expenditure on the old oil in there to start with

""SUPER to reinforce with a thin cotton mesh, as a book""

In a sutural manner.

Having united petals; gamopetalous.

SAGITTAL resembling an arrow

The quality or condition of being salable; salableness.

SALUTE to greet with a sign of respect

Opening address

Affected holiness my canonist corrected

Pretended piety.

Pious hypocrisy

The quality of being sanguine; sanguineness.

Of or relating to health or the protection of health.

In a bitterly severe way

Alligator or snake? (Hint: Read letters 4-8 last!)

Rough, entertaining article using bitter remarks

SCRATCHIE

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

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

One coming from East Germany strangely in pieces

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

NUDITY the state of being {nude=adj}

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

The quality or state of being sensuous; sensuousness.

With feeling thrilled, one books into cathedral city

Please try a new version, one at a time

Late payers settle one by one

Individually

Abstract noun (-ity)

Office of a sheriff

SIBILANT a hissing speech sound

Movie disclaimer word

It looks like the military is involved

Resemblance

Couldn't be easier!

Lack of affectation

Start of a quip

In an ominous way

In an evil way

Characteristic of a sorority keeping home in ominous manner

SKELETAL pertaining to a {skeleton=n}

Nervously.

SLANTING slant

(Of a woman) dirty and untidy

SLOTHFUL {sluggish=adj}

SLUTTISH {slovenly=adj}

SOCIETAL pertaining to a {society=n}

""Mankind the measurement of social attitudes within a group by sampling expressions of social acceptance or rejection. ; sociometrist, ; sociometrie,""

Team spirit is adroitly created

Part one of a Labour anthem

Mutual support within a group

Separately, singly

""The quality, condition, or degree of being soluble or solvable; as, the solubility of a salt; the solubility of a problem or intricate difficulty. as, the solubility of a salt; the solubility of a problem or intricate difficulty.""

The dictrine or the science of the general properties of material substances; somatics.

In a soothing manner.

A state of spasm.

""SPATIAL pertaining to space, also SPACIAL""

Expert's skill or interest

Particular work to be done in a field

Person's particular skill

The quality or state of being specious; speciousness.

In the form or manner of a specter.

""The quality or state of being spherial; roundness; as, the sphericity of the planets, or of a drop of water. as, the sphericity of the planets, or of a drop of water.""

Unsteadily slips with entry - like an old maid (wordplay)

In a lively manner

The measurement of lung capacity

With malice aforethought

That's with Ma, lice

With malice

SPORTFUL {playful=adj}

In sport; sportively.

In fun

SPOTLESS {clean=adj}

In a stagnant manner.

In a steadfast way

Resolutely.

STANDARD an established measure of comparison

With no movement

Still, try it on as a change!

Transformed into art, say, like a statue

Train halt has a short track still

Files, perhaps, not changing for hearing

Materials needed for writing

End of the quip

How to return after curfew, say

In a covert manner

Cautiously, surreptitiously

Rough playtimes involving female relatives

Those inherited after a break-up in my past life

STEREO to make a type of printing plate

The art or process of making stereotype plates.

""STERICAL pertaining to atoms in a molecule, also STERIC""

In stellar fashion

STIFLING the act of stifling

STINGING the act of stinging

In a stinking manner; with an offensive smell.

In a right line; not crookedly.

Slow Scottish dance

Scot. country dance

Dance with shyster apt to twist

Darryl's choice (wordplay)

Fruit for Darryl (wordplay)

Fruit for Darryl?

In a loud, harsh way

In a shrill way

It's cunning to carry a weapon with a loud noise

Very much

Rigour

Rigor

With unbending will

Soul's duty I interpreted with diligence

With hard work, i get a soul in the work-place

Thoughtfully, promises to pay for service gets to be cunning

With knockout effect

ACUTELY to a greater degree

POTENCY the quality of being potent

""SOCIETY an organized group, a fellowship, also SODALITY""

""TENANCY the temporary occupancy of something that belongs to another, also TENANTRY""

TOTALLY completely

""A subordinate variety, or a division of a variety.""

Without wasting a word

To the point

(Expressed) clearly and briefly

That which is to supply what is wanted.

Position of one state ruling another

Descriptive of Tibet's governmental status

Overlordship

SWEETISH somewhat sweet

SYNDACTYL

""SYNONYME a word having the same meaning as another, also SYNONYM""

In the manner of a tailor.

In a tailored style

Satanical

A crit I composed in attack might be meant thus (wordplay)

The quality or state of being schistose.

SEASONAL occurring at certain times of the year

Secretive

In a provincial manner.

Into chunks

Describing a type of rock

(Of rock) laid down by deposition

Seditious

In a seductive manner.

Segmental

""The mensuration of such phenomena of earthquakes as can be expressed in numbers, or by their relation to the co\'94rdinates of space.""

Selective

Discrimination

ARIDITY the state of being {arid=adj}

On the first and the 15th

Like some periodicals

About 24 times a year

Semitonal

Capacity for feeling

Emotional insight

With respect for feelings

Sympathy