2-Letter Words Starting with S

Stiletto

Let us admit becoming excited

Provoked the senses

Psyched up

Required platitudes to be inventive!

Details put out as specified

Specified as a condition

STOCKING a covering for the foot and leg

Put away in reserve

Put away for a rainy day

Spoilt deck shuffled and put in store

A mantis shrimp, for example

Cut off, in a way

Held up by weather.

Cut off by the elements.

Plot device (wordplay)

Director's device

Lie on table to make an outline

Straight

Distressed when pressed to accept a note

Like some circumstances

Characterized by poverty

Stranger

Formed in layers

Arranged in layers

Stone cut, formally approved, and arranged in layers

Stravaig

Keep firm grip

Defensive position taken by a wrestler

Fastness of dogs left North exhausted

Built up

Made up

Organized

Stultify

Subclass

Being split into smaller pieces

""SUBJUGATE To subdue, and bring under the yoke of power or dominion; to conquer by force, and compel to submit to the government or absolute control of another; to vanquish.""

Purified

""SUBMARINE Being, acting, or growing, under water in the sea; as, submarine navigators; submarine plants. as, submarine navigators; submarine plants.""

Summoned as a witness

SUBROGATE To put in the place of another; to substitute.

SAMPLED sample

Gave money (to a project)

Contributed money

Given a grant

Settled around island that's financially supported

""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.

Subtotal

Journalist's taken leaflet away

Paper is after loan before editor's removed

FARMED OUT WORK

It's taken away from rough brute's hand

SUFFOCATE Suffocated; choked.

SULFONATE

""SULFURET to treat with sulfur, also SULPHURET""

SULFURIZE

Put briefly, tot gets angry when about to get out of bed

Did a quick recap of

Digested

Wood that is produced during the latter part of the growing season and is harder and less porous than springwood.

Superadd

English word

SUPERCEDE

Helium alone can be this; or Coca-Cola, according to some (wordplay)

SUPERHYPE

""SUPERPOSE To lay upon, as one kind of rock on another.""

Supplanted.

Like orders of magnitude (wordplay)

Larger than large

Enlarged, as an order of fries

SUPERVENE To come as something additional or extraneous; to occur with reference or relation to something else; to happen upon or after something else; to be added; to take place; to happen.

""SUPERVISE To oversee for direction; to superintend; to inspect with authority; as, to supervise the construction of a steam engine, or the printing of a book. as, to supervise the construction of a steam engine, or the printing of a book.""

Supplant

Didn't think about

Drink and jam gets journalist censored

Inhibited

""SUPPURATE To generate pus; as, a boil or abscess suppurates. as, a boil or abscess suppurates.""

""SURCHARGE To overload; to overburden; to overmatch; to overcharge; as, to surcharge a beast or a ship; to surcharge a cannon. as, to surcharge a beast or a ship; to surcharge a cannon.""

Like a mountain goat

Like mountain goats

Descriptive of certain walkers

Overcame (an obstacle)

Overcame

Surprint

SURROGATE A deputy; a delegate; a substitute.

Dour nurse working for department is besieged by her enemies

Encircled

Surveil

""Having the back hollow or sagged, whether naturally or as the result of injury or weakness; said of horses and other animals.""

Sugar-loaf (wordplay)

Pancreas (as food)

Baked thymus (wordplay)

Power-station area

SYLLOGIZE To reason by means of syllogisms.

Represented; idly emboss (anagram)

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

Offbeat (wordplay)

Cut short, as rhythm

Unusually stressed church council welcomes chapter and head (slightly later)

Sold to several publications

Like a lot of crosswords? Cryptic, yes - addict tackles any number

SYNOPSIZE

SYSTEMIZE To reduce to system; to systematize.

Protected

Cleaned, in a way

Cleaned but good

Smoothed, as a wooden surface

Got ready to put on a new coat

Smoothed, as wood

SCANDALISE

""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.""

Put the blame on

One who wastes; a spendthrift.

SCHEMATIZE To form a scheme or schemes.

Schnorkel

First grader, for example

First grader, e.g

SCLEROTIZE

Scrimshaw

SCRUTINISE

""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.""

""Formed like a plate or salver; composed of platelike surfaces; as, the scutellated bone of a sturgeon.as, the scutellated bone of a sturgeon.""

SECULARISE

""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

DEIFIED deify

Not quite out to pasture

Like many senior part-timers

Like some seniors in the workplace

(Of worker) needing partial training

Such a worker houses journalist following murder

""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.""

Sentinel

Sepulcher

In seclusion

Isolated flare up disrupted by expedition

Secluded

English word

Having several parts or members.

Didn't really hit

Stranded, in a way

Mainly ruined

The wood of the shittah tree.

Like some cats

In need of stenographers

Not having enough staff

Without enough staff

Skidded

Avoided the issue

Circumvented

Avoided

Diverted from the main issue.

Thrown off course

Shunted (wordplay)

Seen as a shape against a light background

SILICONE a silicon compound

Simulcast

Firework, limited edition, rose high and fast

In Scottish island, plant density shot up

Killed

Noctambulated

SLENDERIZE

Hammer or Spade

Sherlock, for instance.

Detective with a nose for crime fighting

Sloganeer

Choice meal (wordplay)

Swedish-style hors d'oeuvres

Scandinavian-style buffet

Snapshot

Too compassionate (wordplay)

A bunch of pseuds of the art editor kind

Daftest hero becomes compassionate

Past tense or past participle

SOLUBILISE

SOLUBILIZE

Somerset

Spacewalk

Spearfish

Initiated, as an undertaking

Took the lead, as in a campaign.

Pioneered, as a movement

Concentrating on one subject

Blend of spices ideal for a particular purpose

SPECIALIZE To mention specialy; to particularize.

""-fies , -fying , -fied (intr) to make a speech or speeches""

Speedball

""A guard in the front part of vehicle, to prevent splashing by a mud or water from the horse's heels; in the United States commonly called dashboard. dashboard.""

Splayfoot

With all eyes watching

Flexible point of departure (wordplay)

Jumping-off place (wordplay)

If you're here, you'll take a dive

Protected from fire by a water system.

Protected from fire by a water system

Squirrel

Stanchion

Any rove beetle.

Starboard

Defeated and then some

Whupped and then some

Conforming to stock idea

Conforming to a stock image

Tired Tory with deep-set disorder

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

Used delaying tactics

Held things up

Hindered big-time

Like once-popular jeans

Like a bluenose.

Having strict morals

Prudish and appallingly clad artiste

STRATEGIZE

Up-to-date

Efficient when dealing with derailments

Efficient way to sort out derailments

Made a shrill sound, as katydids, crickets, etc.

Paralysed by industrial action

Affected by industrial action

CULTURED culture

EMPLOYED employ

LICENSED license

Not good enough!

Inferior underwater vehicle ideal

Falling short of some prescribed norm

Stood in

Subtotal

Sweetened (as a pill)

Made easier to swallow

Made more palatable

Sulfuret

SULPHURISE

""To be very abundant or exuberant; to be more than sufficient; as, the country superabounds with corn. as, the country superabounds with corn.""

Supercoil

Supercool

Past tense or past participle

With temperature raised to excess

Be responsible for the management of

Manage when turnips need cooking

Control, manage

Supplicat

Surfboard

Almost convinced, melted and yielded to temptation

Carriage mostly stopped, carried on, gave up

Gave in

Suspender

Suspicion

Egotistical

Conceited

Vain

Operator's post, once

Manual telephone exchange

Where telephones are connected

SYLLABI syllabus

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

Shared an understanding with shyest maid, trembling, keeping quiet

Shared a sentiment

SYNCRETISE

SYNCRETIZE

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

Like some computer voices

Made from parts

Put together

""-fies , -fying , -fied (Chemistry) (tr) to convert (starch) into sugar saccharification  , saccharization , saccharisation n""

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

Scintillate

A drawing board coated with white clay and a surface layer of black ink that is scratched or scraped away to produce an effect similar to engraving. Also called scraperboard .

(Of houses) joined in pairs

Decide Thames could do for a house

Type of house

FINISHED finish

""Having the anterior toes joined only part way down with a web; half-webbed; as, a semipalmate bird or foot. See Illust. k under Aves.as, a semipalmate bird or foot. See Illust. k under Aves.""

SEQUESTRATE To sequester.

SHARECROP

SHIRTSLEEVE

Cheated (by cashier?)

Done - with spirit transformed!

Didn't get full return for your money

Heedless of the future.

Like the grasshopper of fable

Limited in one's outlook

How to get broad (wordplay)

Prepare to deal and get on with the game

Cruise-ship pastime

A herb no longer tended? That's foolish

Type of interest objected to, being foolish

SINGULARIZE To make singular or single; to distinguish.

SKELETONISE

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

Slipstream

SOLILOQUISE

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

Flipped

Soundproof

A shrub for the huntress

SPARKPLUG

""The male germ cell in animals and plants, the essential element in fertilization; a microscopic animalculelike particle, usually provided with one or more cilia by which it is capable of active motion. In animals, the familiar type is that of a small, more or less ovoid head, with a delicate threadlike cilium, or tail. Called also spermatozo\'94n. In plants the more usual term is antherozoid. spermatozo\'94n. In plants the more usual term is antherozoid.""