2-Letter Words Starting with S

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

""To make sensual; to subject to the love of sensual pleasure; to debase by carnal gratifications; to carnalize; as, sensualized by pleasure. as, sensualized by pleasure.""

The quality or state of being sensuous; sensuousness.

SENSUOUS derived from the senses

Septuple

Sepulcher

Purcell has developed melancholy

Hollow and deep

Purcell has composed, despite being gloomy

""SEPULCHRE The place in which the dead body of a human being is interred, or a place set apart for that purpose; a grave; a tomb.""

Sepulchre

Sepulture

Inclined to follow a leader; following; attendant.

Sequencer

Sequency

Determining the order of most of the dancing in middle of night

Following in a logical sequence

In consecutive order

Describing 2, 4, 6, 8, etc.

Withdraws into solitude.

Isolates, hides away

Sets apart

""A portion of dead bone which becomes separated from the sound portion, as in necrosis.""

Appearing or blossoming later in the season than is customary with allied species.

Servitude

""Pl. sestertia (-sh , -sh - ) A monetary unit of ancient Rome equivalent to 1,000 sesterces.""

Sextuplet

Sextuple

Turned blue (wordplay)

Like many pop culture images

Sexualize

Shadbush

In a despicable manner

Feudal Japanese military offices

Shotgun

SHOTGUN to shoot with a type of gun

Took on (a burden)

Took, as with a burden

Shovelful

SHOVELS shovel

Shrubby

His drug den is shaky!

The source of the milk in the inside of the shake

Shunpiker

Shunpike

One on a shooting spree (wordplay)

One who's constantly snapping (wordplay)

One who's constantly snapping

Closing tightly

A drug or other agent that increases the flow of saliva.

Past tense or past participle

Written names (for identification)

Declaration addenda

Holographic items.

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

Simulacre

Semblance, superficial likeness

Image; effigy

Simulate

Diving, say, until I am so shattered

Incitement with no time for pretence

Kind of clone

Assuming an appearance.

They can help you improve at golf

Some radio productions

Airs on many stations

Games on radio and TV at the same time, e.g

Immorality

Iniquity.

In unusual fashion.

Unfortunate.

Sinologue

Oscillating (wave form)

Like alternating current

Like some waves in turbulent sound I sail

Sites with jobs

Jobs in state school

What dramatists contrive.

In an adept manner

With finesse

Done as slur (anagram)

Defamatory? Ronald sues anyway

Soil inside grave I removed? That's defamatory

Slanguage

They're killingly funny in the ship

Dispatches produce merriment on board

The giggles of the South are enough to kill them

SLOTHFUL {sluggish=adj}

Slouchy

Sloughy

Slubber

SLUGGARD a habitually lazy person

Without vigor

Sluiceway

They're in the arms of Morpheus

Out like a light

Being inattentive, leaving junk in grass

Sawing logs, so to speak

Inviting slumber; soporiferous.

Slungshot

Partially melted snow or ice.

SLUTTISH {slovenly=adj}

English word

Farm outbuilding

Outbuilding that usually has vents but no windows

Society decayed and harboured bad emotions

""The quality or state of being smudged, soiled, or blurred.""

Smugness

Smutchy

A bit of blue as sunset mist dispersed

Mild indecency

Snowbush

SNUBBE a snub

Snubness

Tobacco storers

Tobacco containers.

Pinch sources

Snuffly

Snuggery

Snugness

Criminal robs quite special handles

Fanciful names.

Nicknames.

Men willing for tilling

In due course endless tour run finally stops for temporary residents

Visitors

Sojourn

Lobby around America showing concern

Showing concerned attention

Concerned over America, therefore allowed to go first

Expressed concern about idiot's clue!

Concern of many in a lonely place

Care, concern

SOLUBILISE

""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.""

SOLUBILIZE

Turnover from two seasons, say

Gymnast's specialty, perhaps

Gymnast's specialty

In ringing fashion

Sostenuto

Operetta roles

Fancy nickname

Nickname that could make bishop quite sour (wordplay)

Nickname

In a soulless manner.

Musical impersonator at MoMA (wordplay)

What homonyms do

A soundingboard.

They support diaphragms in healthy chests

Resonating chambers in musical instruments

SOUNDING the action of determining depth of water

Impervious, in a way

Kind of room

Like recording booths

Reliable platform (wordplay)

Solid way to travel (wordplay)

TV shooting set.

Utensils used before entrees are served

Utensils from the second half

Chowder-eating aids

Volume of original documents for study

SOURCE to originate from

Veteran inhabitants of Alaska.

San Francisco thoroughbreads

Gold Rush prospectors

Sourness

Grouches

Marching-band instrument

March king's namesake, in a way

Relative of a helicon

Going from the Bronx to Brooklyn

Headed to Dixie - or stuck there (wordplay)

Southeast

Southland

How this entry appears in the grid

Southwest

Souvlakia

SPACIOUS ample in extent

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V-8's octet

They fire the spirit of motorists

See Spatulate. Spatulate.

""SPECIOUS plausible, but inaccurate""

SPECULAR relating to a speculum

Put one's thinking cap on

Took risks

Considered options, then played the market

Theorises; takes financial risks

Conjectures

Guesses

Risky market trader, ponderous type

Second embezzler is better

Adirondack ski center.

B..O..U..N..D (wordplay)

Give the letters a leap - how enchanted!

Absorbed by B-O-U-N-D, perhaps

Cave men, of sorts

Cave men of today.

Underground hobby (wordplay)

Tell about gym bumbler exploring caves

Exploration of caves as a hobby

One of the motionless spermatozoids in the conceptacles of certain fungi.

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

Sphygmus

Of or pertaining to a spiracle.

'Go Down, Moses' and others

Mahalia Jackson forte

Songs of a sort.

""Having the quality of spirit; tenuous in substance, and having active powers or properties; ethereal; immaterial; spiritual; pure.""

With malice aforethought

That's with Ma, lice

With malice

""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 .""

At sea, so plunders magnificent stuff

Fork out about fifty on excursions with no time for such wonders

Great light or luster; brilliance.

Spleuchan

Splurgy

Records spinning, said remarks thus indistinct (wordplay)

Struggled to get words out when rushed to grasp line, say

One who splutters.

Spodumene

""A spore case in the cryptogamous plants, as in ferns, etc.""

SPORTFUL {playful=adj}

SPORULATE

Sporulate

Full of spirit or of life; earnest; vivacious; lively; brisk; nimble; gay.

Smart quality.

Past tense or past participle

Spirit of revolutionary beasts? Extremely serious!

Spurgall

SPURIOUS not genuine

Sputterer

Celebrate outside club, jabbering

Speaking while flurried

Fitful

Squabby

They're given to spats

Contentious ones

Pigeon's adornment (wordplay)

Young bird, showy and argumentative

Bickering

Formed defense groups, of a sort

Squalid

Squally

SQUAMATE covered with scales

Squamosal

Having little scales; squamellate; squamulate.

Played ducks and drakes with

Frittered away

Recklessly wasted

One who squanders.

""The quality of being square; as, an instrument to try the squareness of work. as, an instrument to try the squareness of work.""

SQUARISH somewhat square

Squashy

Squatter

Squatty

Squawroot

Squeaky

Squishy, as paper towels

Compressible object inviting a hug (wordplay)

Squelcher

Squelchy

Squelch

Gray trout

Squiffy

More wavy and twisting

Squiggle

Squinch

Squinny

Squinny

Squinty

""The gentlemen, or gentry, of a country, collectively.""

Squirmy

Stored up for future use Colloq.

Stored up for future use: Colloq.

Stashed (away).

Eccentric

Squishy

Squooshy

Squoosh

Staghound

Starfruit

Awed by leading man's pickup?

Hollywood pickup (wordplay)

Awed by leading man's pickup (wordplay)

Legislature's place

Where politicians aren't "fed"

Where some bills are created