2-Letter Words Starting with S

Assessing, with "up"

Adjusting the fit of

Giving a once-over, with "up"

Taking by force

Sequestering, legally speaking

Appropriation

Noise of oil in a hot pan

Torrid

Reacting to pollen, say

Inviting a blessing (wordplay)

Certain dwarf's weakness

Having a short sleep

Having forty winks

Getting some shut-eye

Shmooze

Unprincipled man (slang)

Contemptible type

Real creep

Snoozle

Spritz

Avoidable K. P. chore.

Avoidable K.P. chore

Compressing, crushing

Stylize

Swizzle

Salinize

Sanitize

Lampooning

Schmooze

Your car-finisher (wordplay)

Sinicize

Soberize

Sodomize

Solarize

Solecize

Having astronomical vision (wordplay)

Some late-night viewing

Working at Mt. Palomar.

Suberize

Surprize

SCIENTIZE

""SENSITIZE To render sensitive, or susceptible of being easily acted on by the actinic rays of the sun; as, sensitized paper or plate. as, sensitized paper or plate.""

SERIALIZE

Preaching the Word

SEXUALIZE To attribute sex to.

SIGNALIZE To make signal or eminent; to render distinguished from what is common; to distinguish.

SLOGANIZE

SOCIALIZE To render social.

""SOLEMNIZE To perform with solemn or ritual ceremonies, or according to legal forms.""

SOVIETIZE

STABILIZE

""STERILIZE To make sterile or unproductive; to impoverish, as land; to exhaust of fertility.""

FREEZING the process of freezing

""SUBSIDIZE To furnish with a subsidy; to purchase the assistance of by the payment of a subsidy; to aid or promote, as a private enterprise, with public money; as, to subsidize a steamship line. as, to subsidize a steamship line.""

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

SULFURIZE

""SUMMARIZE To comprise in, or reduce to, a summary; to present briefly.""

SYLLOGIZE To reason by means of syllogisms.

SYMBOLIZE To have a resemblance of qualities or properties; to correspond; to harmonize.

SYNOPSIZE

SYSTEMIZE To reduce to system; to systematize.

""SCANDALIZE To offend the feelings of the conscience of (a person) by some action which is considered immoral or criminal; to bring shame, disgrace, or reproach upon.""

SCHEMATIZE To form a scheme or schemes.

""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.""

""SECULARIZE To convert from regular or monastic into secular; as, to secularize a priest or a monk. as, to secularize a priest or a monk.""

SECURITIZE

""SENSUALIZE 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.""

Dieter's aim.

SOLUBILIZE

SPECIALIZE To mention specialy; to particularize.

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

STRATEGIZE

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

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

SYNCRETIZE

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

SYNTHESIZE To combine by synthesis; to unite.

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

SINGULARIZE To make singular or single; to distinguish.

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

SOLILOQUIZE To utter a soliloquy; to talk to one's self.

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

OPTIMIZING optimize

URBANIZING urbanize

VOCALIZING vocalize

SYNCHRONIZE To agree in time; to be simultaneous.

""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.

""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.""

SUBJECTIVIZE

SPLENECTOMIZE

STRUCTURALIZE

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

Inflected form of SPECIALIZING Inflected form of SPECIALIZE To mention specialy; to particularize.

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