2-Letter Words Starting with S

""Pertaining to the sibyls; uttered, written, or composed by sibyls; like the productions of sibyls.""

SICKISH somewhat sick

Sickly

John Hancock, famously

Indicate a politician's one in agreement

Hire a conservative for proclamation party

In like manner

In the same vein

Likewise.

In a genuine way

In heartfelt manner.

One way to close a letter

It's expressed in a moment of truth

Openness and truthfulness

It denotes genuine quality

SINGSONG a monotonous drone in speaking or reading

SINLESS without sin

Quality or state of being sinuous.

In a wavy manner

Stray autobus bypassing the odd arch in a meandering way

Just roughly, in an artistic manner

In a manner lacking details

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

Sweat, as runner struggling to secure victory

Long jumpers (wordplay)

People jumping extremely high (wordplay)

High jump aficionados (wordplay)

Sport for high jumpers (wordplay)

Advice, last part

End of the quip

Skyjack

Person who highjacks an aeroplane

Modern pirate

Modern pirate runs after sailor within island

Frolicked

SKYLARK to {frolic=v}

Stars in the roof (wordplay)

Features of some bright rooms

How the stars might go through the roof

Blue salad plant to rise suddenly!

Shoot up abruptly

Go through the roof

Educated plane (wordplay)

One with big ideas (wordplay)

Airborne ad maker

Manages an air line (wordplay)

Advertises aloft

Obliquely

Whack a dwarf (wordplay)

Insult Mrs. Rockefeller?

Insult Mrs. Rockefeller (wordplay)

Foxy Liberal secured for Strictly

In the manner of a servant that's wasteful, cloaked in cunning

In a gracefully thin manner

In a thin fashion

Slightly cunning about someone who might help with money (wordplay)

Slideway

""SLOUCH to sit, stand, or move with a drooping posture""

Artificial channel for water

Slurry

Slyness

With an amused expression

In a cheerful manner.

Cheerfully

Ornamental shrub.

""Tree Any tree of the genus Sapindus, esp. Sapindus saponaria, the fleshy part of whose fruit is used instead of soap in washing linen; also called soap tree. Sapindus, esp. Sapindus saponaria, the fleshy part of whose fruit is used instead of soap in washing linen; also called soap tree.""

Fellowship.

A human science

Study of human behaviour

College major

Like fighters possibly making Doris yell

SOLEMN {serious=adj}

It may hang over a memorial

Measure of seriousness

Single idiot interrupting my serious mood

Caesarean delivery (wordplay)

Talk to yourself (wordplay)

Monologue on stage

SOLVENT a substance capable of dissolving others

SONGFUL melodious

SONIC pertaining to sound

Sonobuoy

Soothsay

Intentionally deceptive reasoning.

Subtle but misleading reasoning

Subtly fallacious reasoning.

SOTTISH resembling a sot

With deep feeling

Like some winds

Spagyric

Very little cutting, calculating nicks

Mean to be doing it this way

In a frugal manner.

How orbits are arranged

Illicit drinking club (US)

Talk with a low-key bartender (wordplay)

Password requirer, maybe

For a particular purpose

In particular

Particularly small diamonds quietly picked up by friend

Special subject of study

Pediatrics, for example

Strong suit

Orate

Harangue.

Harangue

Speedway

Spillway

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

Freshwater algae genus

Freshwater algae

SPLASH to scatter liquid about

A physical deformity characterized by abnormally flat and turned-out feet.

A foot that is abnormally flattened and spread out; flat foot.

""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

Saclike larval stage of some flatworms

The growth or development of an animal or a zooid from a nonsexual germ.

What one ply's about? That's right

Full of life

Lively odds justly followed

With elasticity

Messy part (anagram) - M (wordplay)

Bond's M, perhaps

George Smiley, for one

In a squalid manner.

Wily chap is about to reverse current, so I make my way through marshland

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

Railing sites

Escalators

Tongue-twisting clergyman's to be corseted for flights

Keep clear of one of 11 across

STARCH to stiffen a fabric

Plant cell contain- ing starch grains

Of written law as to a trusty

Authorised by law

Try-outs at being required by law

In a loyal way

Without ambivalence

Canvas items. I say, with salts at sea

Stopping from pitching

Controlling, in a way

Small drink failing to be calming

Three metal feet to scale (wordplay)

Three metal feet with scales (wordplay)

Pittsburgh work area

Court reporter's machine

Instrument used in taking shorthand.

Court reporter's device

STENO a stenographer

How one with writer's block works

Inability to breed

Inability to reproduce

State of being unproductive or barren

Sternway

How the actor playing the giant spoke (wordplay)

Some 1960s Corvettes

Bane of shellfish

Swimmers with whiplike tails

Embroidered samplers and the like

Ornamental needlework

Stithy

Locale in Upton Sinclair's 'The Jungle'

Place having many pens

Feature of Chicago.

By way of resignation

With a poker face

With fortitude

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

Tot's reading material

Type of happy ending

Collection of children's tales

They didn't pay

The Marxes, in "Monkey Business"

Some fare-beaters

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

Parasitic threadworm

Strongyl

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.

Printer's guide.

It sets the tone

Summary of typefaces, etc., of a newspaper.

Unfashionable

""Having the form of, or resembling, a style, pin, or pen; styloid.""

Styliser

Still shy about start of year with class

How models dress

A la mode

Stylise

Artistic city's redesigned around tip

Pertaining to literary design or appearance

Rhetorical

Stylizer

Stylize

""The uninterrupted and continuous flat band, coping, or pavement upon which the bases of a row of columns are supported. See Subbase. Subbase.""

Baffling

Stypsis

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

SUASIVE persuasive

ACIDLY {sourly=adv}

A subordinate agency.

COLONY a settlement of emigrants in a new land

COUNTY an administrative division of a state

SUBDUED subdue

""One of the subdivisions, of more importance than genus, into which certain families are divided.""

In a magnificent manner

In a spiritual way

In an outstanding way

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

Any worldly thing.

Classification of plum with bushy tangles

SYSTEM a group of interacting elements forming a unified whole

""SUBTILE insidious, also SUBTLE""

Subway

Succinyl

Sukiyaki

Sulfinyl

Sulfonyl

Sulfuryl

In a summary manner.

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

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

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

English word

Supply

Tinpot despot's dream state (wordplay)

Empire state (wordplay)

Power to dominate

In a supreme manner.

SURREAL having dreamlike qualities

""Pl. surrogacies The condition of being a surrogate, especially a surrogate mother.""

Surroyal

Measuring (an area) for mapping

People who mark property lines

They measure angles with theodolites

Land measurers

In a sutural manner.

Swayback

SWINISH resembling {swine=n}

Foiling son by clever verbal repartee!

Fencing - 's my sport (wordplay)

One of D'Artagnan's fortes.

Lovers of luxury

Voluptuaries.

Why said boozer is among places for those who like to indulge

Sensuous city bar is demolished

Affording, enjoying, luxury

Devoted to luxury

Sycamine

Sights on the Wabash.

Divine trees in the "Book of the Dead"

Divine trees in the 'Book of the Dead'

Sycomore

Copy hasn't disturbed yes-man

Chap Tyson hammered, a toady

Uriah Heep persona

""A table of syllables; more especially, a table of the indivisible syllabic symbols used in certain languages, as the Japanese and Cherokee, instead of letters.""

Syllabic

To form or divide into syllables.

Uttered: poet

Two of seven (wordplay)

Two of diamonds (wordplay)

Unit of spoken language

Frothy desserts

Course for which one must bring in black dishes

Semi-set puddings made from cream, eggs and spices

""Grammar the use of a word with the same syntactic relation to two adjacent words, in a literal sense with one and a metaphorical sense with the other, as in “the ships collided, and the sailors and many dreams were drowned.” ; sylleptic,""

Figure of speech; zeugma

""Pl. syllepses (-s z) A construction in which a word governs two or more other words but agrees in number, gender, or case with only one, or has a different meaning when applied to each of the words, as in He lost his coat and his temper.""

Golly, miss out in specious argument

Deductive reasoning

It contains a major and minor premise, and a conclusion

SYLLOGISE

To reason by means of syllogisms.

Graceful and slender

Graceful, shy elk with lip trembling

""A mineral, a telluride of gold and silver, of a steelgray, silverwhite, or brassyellow color. It often occurs in implanted crystals resembling written characters, and hence is called graphic tellurium. graphic tellurium.""

Symbiont

Mutual relationships

My boss is shattered when I break the relationship

Relationship between barnacles and whales, e.g

My boss is upset about one successful partnership

Symbiote

Mutually beneficial

Of different organisms, living together for mutual benefit

""SYMBOLE a percussion instrument, also CYMBAL""

Represent, stand for

Represent or be a sign of

Represent

Sign language (wordplay)

Use of metaphors

Mystical artistic and poetic movement

Baudelaire, for example

Person who says one thing and means another

Writer who uses imagery to evoke ideas an orchestra member articulated

Uncle Sam's retinae (wordplay)

Represent by a marking, for example

Stand for

Symbol

'The Da Vinci Code' field

Equally balanced

Evenly proportioned.

Well proportioned

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Biochemistry) a substance released at certain sympathetic nerve endings: thought to be identical with adrenaline [from sympath ( etic ) + -in ]

Ecology Occupying the same or overlapping geographic areas without interbreeding. Used of populations of closely related species.

Having united petals; gamopetalous.

Like some music? My, Chopin's fantastic!

My! Chopin's unusually melodic

Like a major classical music form

Bones

""An articulation formed by intervening cartilage; as, the pubic symphysis. as, the pubic symphysis.""

""Composed of superposed branches in such a way as to imitate a simple axis; as, a sympodial stem. as, a sympodial stem.""

A stem involved in sympodial growth

Conference with audience participation

Conference on academic topic

High-level gabfest

Pertaining to Jewish religion

Associated with a shul

A guy's gone off to house of worship

House of the Lord

Place of worship

""A contraction of syllables by suppressing some vowel or diphthong at the end of a word, before another vowel or diphthong; as, th' army, for the army. as, th' army, for the army.""

Synapsid