2-Letter Words Starting with S

Syndicator

Synecdoche

""SYNECDOCHE A figure or trope by which a part of a thing is put for the whole (as, fifty sail for fifty ships), or the whole for a part (as, the smiling year for spring), the species for the genus (as, cutthroat for assassin), the genus for the species (as, a creature for a man), the name of the material for the thing made, etc. sail for fifty ships), or the whole for a part (as, the smiling year for spring), the species for the genus (as, cutthroat for assassin), the genus for the species (as, a creature for a <i>man</i>), the name of the material for the thing made, etc.""

Cooperative, in a way

Working together to greater effect

The ability to hear colors, say

Phenomenon whose name means "union of the senses"

One who sees smells or hears colors

""Of or pertaining to synonyms, or synonymic; synonymous.""

Synonymist

SYNONYMIZE To express by a synonym or synonyms; to give the synonym or synonyms corresponding to.

Synonymize

SYNOPSIZE

Synovitis

""Of or pertaining to syntax; according to the rules of syntax, or construction.""

SYNTAGMA a syntactic element

Synthesist

Like some computer voices

Made from parts

Put together

SYNTHESIZE To combine by synthesis; to unite.

Synthesize

Synthetase

Syphilitic

Systematic

SYSTEMATISE

The reduction of facts or principles to a system.

""One who forms a system, or reduces to system.""

""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.""

SYSTEMIZE To reduce to system; to systematize.

""SACCHARINE Of or pertaining to sugar; having the qualities of sugar; producing sugar; sweet; as, a saccharine taste; saccharine matter. as, a saccharine taste; saccharine matter.""

In a sacerdotal manner.

SADISTIC pertaining to a {sadist=n}

Salubrious

""A tube of vitrified sand, produced by a stroke of lightning; a fulgurite""

Sardonical

End of the week: is plant OK (wordplay)

Stray cat? If so, stray's OK!

Good or bad, sits a plant

So as to satisfy; satisfactorily.

In a manner to give offense; shamefully.

Scarifying

In a scattering manner; dispersedly.

""SCHOOLBOY A boy belonging to, or attending, a school.""

A device for producing a scintigram; a scintiscanner.

""Vegetable tissue composed of short cells with thickened or hardened walls, as in nutshells and the gritty parts of a pear. See Sclerotic. Sclerotic.""

In a scriptural manner.

The quality or state of being scruppulous; doubt; doubtfulness respecting decision or action; caution or tenderness from the far of doing wrong or ofending; nice regard to exactness and propierty; precision.

Scrupulous

Sculptural

Scurrilous

""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.""

Scyphistoma

""SECRETION The act of secreting or concealing; as, the secretion of dutiable goods. as, the secretion of dutiable goods.""

""A writing about, or a description of, earthquakes.""

Semantical

Every half year.

Semideify

MYSTICAL spiritually significant

Future duration without end; the relation or state of being sempiternal.

Photography

Quality of being separable or divisible; divisibility; separableness.

Once in seven years.

Sepulchral

Sequacious

One after the other

In succession, it's Queen badly needing friend

Real, physical? Different, in the style of an angel

In a serpentine manner.

The shadbush or one of its fruit.

""Capable of being severed or separated; separable into legally distinct rights or obligations, as a contract.""

SHADOWGRAPH

Shamefaced

Abstract noun (-ity)

Shattering

""SHELLFISH Any aquatic animal whose external covering consists of a shell, either testaceous, as in oysters, clams, and other mollusks, or crustaceous, as in lobsters and crabs.""

The quality or state of being significant.

Simoniacal

Simplicial

The quality or state of being simultaneous; simultaneousness.

Sinusoidal

Underhand behaviour (mainly US)

Underhand trickery

Shooting up, in a way

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

In a defamatory way

""Slang One, especially a politician, who is guided by personal advantage rather than by consistent, respectable principles.""

Boy is loco and I go off, which assumes adaptive behaviour

Softheaded

Solemnify

Solicitous

Soothsaying

Spasmolytic

Precisely, clearly

Distinctly

Precisely

The measurement of light's properties

The use of the spectroscope; investigations made with the spectroscope.

The act of making a speech or speeches.

Speechless

Same as Spermoblast. Spermoblast.

Spheroidal

""An instrument which, when applied over an artery, indicates graphically the movements or character of the pulse. See Sphygmogram. Sphygmogram.""

Spiritless

Religious sense

Pl. splenomegalies Enlargement of the spleen.

In a sporadic manner.

Sprightful

Ryan Giggs let loose in striking fashion

Dog with German entering alone in amazing fashion

Abstract noun (-ity)

Pl. stapedectomies Surgical removal of the stapes.

Staphylinid

In a statuesque manner; in a way suggestive of a statue; like a statue.

Steatopygia

Having fat buttocks.

Steerageway

Stenotypist

The art of delineating the forms of solid bodies on a plane; a branch of solid geometry which shows the construction of all solids which are regularly defined.

Stereotyper

Stereotypy

""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.""

Stertorous

Drama ()

Drama ()

Rough notes on army's type of manual labour

Unfeeling - like Olive (wordplay)

Devoid of feeling for others

Feeling callous? Then destroy a settlement

Storyboard

A pack of liars, rumour has it, working on 1 down

Lying much indulged in by Sheherazade

Narrating tales

Relation finds right time to be stuck in traffic

Right now!

At once honest and distant

High speed race track section

That branch of geology which treats of the arrangement and succession of strata.

Any of several hemolysins derived from some strains of streptococci.

""Pl. streptomyces Any of various actinomycetes of the genus Streptomyces, including several strains that produce antibiotics.""

New "wonder drug" from fungi

One of the "wonder" drugs.

Stridulous; able to stridulate; used in stridulating; adapted for stridulation.

Stridulous

Stringybark

Structural

Stupefying

In a marvelous way

Stylization

Subcentral

Hyman Rickover's alma mater (wordplay)

Subglacial

Subjective

The quality or state of being subjective; character of the subject.

Subliminal

Of the lower jaw.

Submissive

NORMALITY Conformity with the norm; the state of being normal; the normal condition.

""SECRETARY One who keeps, or is intrusted with, secrets.""

Later on

Afterwards

Consequently, transport returned in an orderly fashion

""The quality or state of being subservient; instrumental fitness or use; hence, willingness to serve another's purposes; in a derogatory sense, servility.""

In a subsidiary manner; so as to assist.

""1. (Christianity / Roman Catholic Church) (in the Roman Catholic Church) a principle of social doctrine that all social bodies exist for the sake of the individual so that what individuals are able to do, society should not take over, and what small societies can do, larger societies should not take over""

Inflected form of SONICALLY Inflected form of SONIC pertaining to sound

SPECIALTY Particularity.

Subversive

Successful

So as to follow one another

Enough clues in fifty puzzles (wordplay)

Tiny scuffle involved restraining one adequately

Adequately

Lusty veggies dancing erotically

""Any of a group of hypoglycemic drugs, such as tolbutamide, that act on the beta cells of the pancreas to increase the secretion of insulin.""

Of or pertaining to the eyebrows; supraorbital.

""The part of supersymmetry theory that attempts to merge the theory of gravity with the other fundamental forces by postulating the graviton's supersymmetric partner, the gravitino.""

Major road (US)

Modern means of travel.

Superhuman

Superlawyer

Superplayer

Abstract noun (-ity)

English word

English word

Supersystem

Containing supplication; humble; earnest.

Supravital

(Going) unstumblingly

Surpassing

Remarkably gruff about pressure mounting

Unexpectedly grumpy about prying

Grisly pun Sir Dicky makes in a funny way

Capacity for receiving; susceptibility.

Suspensive

Suspicious

Swaggering

Sweltering

SWORDPLAYER A fencer; a gladiator; one who exhibits his skill in the use of the sword.

Sycophancy

Like a sycophant; obsequiously flattering.

Sycophancy.

In a syllabic manner.

SYLLABICATE To form or divide into syllables; to syllabify.

Syllabicate

Syllabify

The cultivation of forest trees for timber or other purposes; forestry; arboriculture.

Symbolical

A system of coinage in which a unit of currency is pegged to a combination of two or more metals in fixed proportions.

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

Sympathetic

SYMPATHISE

Sympathizer

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

Symposiarch

Plural or third person singular

Sensation crossing over between different senses

Plural noun or verb form

Synaptical

SYNAPTOSOME

Synaptosome

Pl. synarthroses (-s z) Anatomy A form of articulation in which the bones are rigidly joined by fibrous tissue. Also called synarthrodia .

""Immovable articulation by close union, as in sutures. It sometimes includes symphysial articulations also. See the Note under Articulation, n., 1. Articulation, n., 1.""

Abstract noun (-ity)

Happening at the same time; synchronous.

Drenching my own missis, ridiculous sport