2-Letter Words Starting with S

Proper wicked hash pipes!

Very trim - and proud of it, we hear!

Ready to sail; also, neat and clean

Capable of being upset by sudden occurrences

Stuffed by white, black can suffer trauma

Former Japanese government

Water's edge.

Where the sea meets land

Area subject to erosion

The area near the shore

Sweet biscuit - rat chokes (anagram)

Diminutive dessert (wordplay)

Rate shock (anagram)

Cropped hairdo for radio band (wordplay)

Miniature white horse is on the air

Not a long farewell on the air

Prove knight maybe is a fine specimen

Exhibit western epic shot in Oxford, say

Example of excellence

Hearst Castle, for one

Beautifully furnished home

Lavishly furnished home

Adjective meaning resembling

Process of becoming less

A gherkin's pickled, getting smaller

Asking her out is withering experience

Hissing bird upset pike

Hissing quality

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

Mistress, in slang

Disrespected mistress, in slang

The other woman, in somewhat objectifying slang

Dating app for adulterers (wordplay)

Facelift after cut and blow (wordplay)

Passing critical remark

Mark, notably a single, is desperate

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

Is over Midge Ure's autograph!

Button Gwinnett's claim to fame.

Is over Midge Ure's autograph

""Pl. signorine (-n , -n ) or signorinas Used as a courtesy title for an unmarried woman in an Italian-speaking area, equivalent to Miss.""

Silicula

""(Clothing, Personal Arts & Crafts / Textiles) a fine smooth cotton fabric used for linings, etc. [from silk + -aline, from -oline as in crinoline ]""

English word

Certain sedimentary rock

Type of sedimentary rock

Archaic A simulacrum.

He knows China

Kelvin, journalist in charge? Run away!

Run off hurriedly (colloq.)

See instructions (nonverbal)

Mountain patrol vehicle

Winter transport

""A leaping or jumping movement, especially a gait in which hops and steps alternate.""

Shoptalk, for example

Hybrid term for colorful vocabulary

Colorful vocabulary

Obliquely.

Discontented social worker knowing one's inclined to appear thus

Oblique

Adjective meaning resembling

Resembling hypnosis

Like deli meats

Odious creatures dressed in black may well be cut

SLOGAN a motto adopted by a group

Cottage cheese, to some

Cottage cheese

Cottage cheese.

English word

SMOKE to emit a gas or vapour due to burning

Adjective meaning resembling

Very slow, as a pace

Very slow

Sluggish

Slithering Racer X song (wordplay)

Drink (dangerous if given by 18!)

Poisonous drink (wordplay)

Twisting

Ophidian

Canadian crystal (wordplay)

It can't be cloned

Hexagonal sign of winter

Winter view

Christmas scene? Sons wrapping present, piece of clothing

An avalanche of snow.

Marker for style of TV serial (wordplay)

Teaspoons made of steatite (wordplay)

Soft form of rock

""SOCIAL a friendly gathering, also SOCIABLE""

Park Avenue resident.

Claudia Cohen, for example

Prominent attendee at fashionable events

Mix at a party

Convert to public ownership, as industry

English word

Observe with dignity

Bottom of a flatiron

Iron's base

Game for one

Diamond; game for one

*Diamond in an engagement ring, perhaps*

Here or there

At an unspecified location

In an unspecified location

'... over the rainbow' (song)

Amount put on, say, at a 3 unspecified

West Side Story song

Nineteen-year-old, perhaps

Second-class citizen (wordplay)

Second-year student in USA

Divination by drawing lots

Fortune-telling

Divine drawing of lots of egrets smeared with oil

Actress taking lighter roles

A pert little part for a girl

Coquettish female comedy role

Capable of being sounded.

Put under the hammer and sickle

Convert to Stalinism

Render communistic.

SPALLE the shoulder

Like surplus resources

""A narcotic alkaloid extracted from the tops of the common broom (Cytisus scoparius, formerly Spartium scoparium), as a colorless oily liquid of anilinelike odor and very bitter taste. Cytisus scoparius, formerly Spartium scoparium), as a colorless oily liquid of anilinelike odor and very bitter taste.""

Spoon-shaped

Was spitting at you of late? That's a bit thick

Expectorated before you get dead and thickened

Capable of being spoken; fit to be spoken.

Pat Eccles recovers sight

Select cap randomly from display

Visually striking performance

Gamble on investments

A gambler will do it to accumulate

Deliberate risk on the markets

Like notes ready to be blown (wordplay)

Kind of income

Like money, there for using - hang staying in the black!

Adjective meaning resembling

SPILL to overflow from a container

Adjective meaning resembling

Having spinules; minutely spiny.

""A mineral of a white to yellowish, purplish, or emeraldgreen color, occuring in prismatic crystals, often of great size. It is a silicate of aluminia and lithia. See Hiddenite. Hiddenite.""

Likely to decay.

A substance used to kill spores.

Lotus and pear used to produce seeds

""Made, paid, or delivered immediately: a spot sale.""

Get under control

Eliminate fluctuations in

Thwart political unrest abroad, in hegemonic parlance

Type of desk tray

STAGE to produce for public viewing

Adjective meaning resembling

Like white dresses and unfinished wood

Steps up (wordplay)

Way down in a well (wordplay)

Connecting flight (wordplay)

Reason for marital breakup (wordplay)

Old fellow's tie (wordplay)

Reason for marital breakup?

Designating pollen-bearing flowers.

Fire hose hookup

Temporary water outlet

Tall water tank

That can be asserted Var.

That can be asserted variable

Team, say, leading in America

Hawaiian's destination, perhaps

Desist, Tea Party, in America!

Like many lotteries

Throughout one of the Forty-eight.

Across all counties

Oscar, for one.

Oscar, for one

Model by the minute (wordplay)

STEALE a handle

Can the beast answer the helm (wordplay)

Equipped with a rudder and wheel, say

Capable of turning

Court reporter's machine

Instrument used in taking shorthand.

Court reporter's device

Pass through fire, perhaps

Make safe for use, in a way

Boil, perhaps

Allen's scale notes (wordplay)

He likes to put on a performance

Dock-worker loads and unloads ships

""A long slender piece of wood, especially: a. A branch or stem cut from a tree or shrub.""

Fan fire (wordplay)

Stir up trouble? I must after hours!

Opposite of "bore."

Ray having a whiplike tail.

Whip-tailed ray.

Fish with whiplike tail.

Specify as a condition or requirement

Specify, as in a contract

Specify as an essential part

Reserve supply (of weapons)

Hoard standard carpeting material

Government reserve supply

Caveman's cooking tools (wordplay)

Pottery has novel article in stock

Heavy, nonporous pottery

Unlike a juggernaut

Like some sales

Word for some sales.

Kind of sale

Broke some wind in this hat (wordplay)

Lid over the cooker (wordplay)

Smoker's old head wear (wordplay)

Limitation or hostile criticism

Sternly critical remark

Restriction or stern criticism

Quality of being harsh or shrill.

Harsh quality

Shrillness

Strobila

Parasitic threadworm

Arrangement of parts.

Building or organised arrangement

The Space Needle, for example.

Stable father figure (wordplay)

Stallion, taking its head thus, rode off

Former Derby winner, often

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

Beyond the foothills

Just below the treeline

Below the treeline

Make pieces of pieces (wordplay)

Break into smaller units

Break into smaller sections

Bring under the yoke.

Two vessels put away for master

Bring under domination

Redirect (feelings) into safer channels

Purify, in a way

Transform into a purer form

Nautilus, for one

The Sea Wolf

Jules Verne's dream come true.

To put in the place of another; to substitute.

SAMPLE to test a specimen of

Pay money regularly for, say, magazine

Apply (to receive an issue of shares)

Apply (for an issue of shares)

Support through grants

Pay a grant towards

Give a grant towards

Back with bucks

Drug found in property (wordplay)

Reserve opinion for matter

Advance point of view in matter

Circuit board layer

Underlying layer

Material on which another material is deposited

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

A salt of succinic acid.

Cut off sea and cut off air

Kill rowing team from Ipswich, say (wordplay)

Kill by blocking the air passages

SUFFUSE to spread throughout

Plantation crop (2 words)

Grass suing when not in on secret

Source of a valuable commodity.

Any of a group of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of sulfate esters and are found in animal tissues and bacteria.

""SULFONE a sulfur compound, also SULPHONE""

Any of various organic compounds that contain a sulfinyl group.

SULFUR a non metallic element

Oman, for one

Brunei, for one

Eccentric late aunt's land

GIve main points briefly, condense( 9)

State concisely

Whole armies unexpectedly present, briefly

Put in a nutshell

Recapitulate

SUMMATE to add together

UV OD, less briefly (wordplay)

Ailment from spending too long tanning

Blazer on oarsman may be excruciating

Ultra-efficient but could be bettered

*Supplant

English word

Exceptionally good.

Adjective for sandpaper with very high grit numbers

Overnice

A group of closely linked genes occupying a large chromosomal segment and frequently functioning as a genetic unit.

Setter of the highest quality (wordplay)

What never lets go (wordplay)

Result of trying to invent a gun sight

English word

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Genetics) a former name for metamale

Winning flex for Mr. Universe (wordplay)

Place above something else.

Place above something else

English word

English word

English word

Take the place of, override

Take the place of, supplant

Succeed to the position of.

2004 documentary film title (with "Me")

McDonald's verb

Increase, as one's order

Follow as an unexpected result

Occur as an interruption

Occur unexpectedly.

Criminal uses Viper as guide

Oversee, superintend

Oversee people.

English word

English word

English word

Of a wound, to discharge liquid

If it does this there's something the matter there

Ooze pus

Extra payment daily in boom

Extra payment for toast in Rush

Extra fee, as for a special service

Belt proclaiming a Knight Bachelor

Saddle girth.

Strap for holding saddle on animal's back

Substitute grouse with rat in a stew

One acting for another

Replacement rug a store ordered

Like the English Channel, for some endurance athletes

Adjective meaning resembling

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.""

Represent, stand for

Represent or be a sign of

Represent

Uncle Sam's retinae (wordplay)

Represent by a marking, for example

Stand for

A guy's gone off to house of worship

House of the Lord

Place of worship

Put the accent on the weak beat

Play in jazz style.

Accent the off-beats

Group working to a common aim

Business group supplied by CIE dynast

Combine to make Disney cat twitchy

SYNOPSIZE

Bring order to

English word

See invertase .

""Any of a series of compounds of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen in which the atoms of the latter two elements are in the ratio of 2:1, especially those containing the group C 6 H 10 O 5 .""

China cares (anagram)

Sickly son fidgeting in each car

Overly sentimental

It's backing horse to muddle through most of the way

A salt of salicylic acid.

""A rare mineral having a velvetblack color and submetallic luster. It is a niobate of uranium, iron, and the yttrium and cerium metals.""

Bird soared and guns fired

""Resembling sapphire; made of sapphire; having the color, or any quality of sapphire.""

""Any plant growing on dacayed animal or vegetable matter, as most fungi and some flowering plants with no green color, as the Indian pipe.""

Adjective meaning resembling

""Small, thinly sliced pieces of meat, especially veal, dredged in flour, sautéed, and served in a sauce.""

Shock as canal sides crumble

Shock by impropriety

View Surrealist works by European producing shock

Shock.

Lawyer finds a way to fix Irish rascal

Good-for-nothing

Black sheep.

To form a scheme or schemes.

Dog for lively king in Kent

Small, black watchdog from Belgium

Small black tailless dog of a breed with a ruff of fur round its neck

He's too calm, maybe, for a young peer

Bus-seat sharer, perhaps

Dolphin's friend (wordplay)

English word

Slightest bits

Slightest traces

SCREEN to provide with a concealing partition

The act or an instance of scrubbing.

Examine closely - runs cities (anagram)

Examine closely tailoring of nicer suits

Examine the tailoring of nicer suits

Look at critically or searchingly

SCUTELLA scutellum

Having or showing the skill of a practical seaman.

Capable of being searched.

AB, perhaps, right for a time

Appropriate for the time of year

Like unsurprising temperatures

False clues crop up to sideline belief

Disengage from the faithful? Awful clues result