2-Letter Words Starting with S

Limited to or able to live only within a narrow range of saltwater concentrations. Used of aquatic organisms.

Device offering 3-D viewing

It provides outstanding images

Three-D viewer

It can pick the beat up (wordplay)

Medical instrument that scoops teeth out

It will find a broken heart

To manoeuvre (the puck) deftly in ice hockey

Invigorating.

Stretch fabric for making bandages etc

Stretchy fabric

Serious whale ailment (wordplay)

Overeater's woe

Overeater's risk

Constrict blood flow to (a part)

Compress so as to stop circulation

Block the blood flow to (a part of the body)

An artistic representation of a street.

STRETCH to {extend=v}

""A long piece of timber, forming a margin or edge of any piece of construction; esp.:""

Flashing lamp effectively freezing motion

CURATIVE something that cures

IRRIGATE to water by canals or watercourses

Mood of verbs

LANGUAGE to express in a body of words serving as communication

LITERATE one who can read and write

""The act of submerging, or the state of being submerged; submersion.""

That can be immersed in or can remain under water: a submergible electric frying pan; a submergible research vehicle.

Small underwater craft

""A number or quality which is contained in another an exact number of times, or is an aliquot part of it; thus, 7 is the submultiple of 56, being contained in it eight times. submultiple of 56, being contained in it eight times.""

""OPTIMIZE to make as effective as possible, also OPTIMISE""

In a lesser role.

Lower in rank

Of less importance

SENTENCE to declare judicially the punishment

SEQUENCE to arrange in order

Means of supporting life

Kind of farming

Means of survival

(Of rank) permanent

Having a firm basis in reality

Important, meaningful

""Tending, or having power, to subtract.""

""URBANISE to cause to take on urban characteristics, also URBANIZE""

Bishop and pope occupying hotel rooms? One has a trek to town centre

""URBANIZE to cause to take on urban characteristics, also URBANISE""

""VOCALIZE to produce with the voice, also VOCALISE""

Tending or able to choke or stifle.

Woman protesting for the right to vote

Campaigner for voting rights for women

HOWE (wordplay)

Its blue eggs (anagram) - easily influenced

Any of a group of organic sulfur compounds containing the radical SO 2 NH 2 and including the sulfa drugs.

Second place, say

Seasonal vacation place

Garden pavilion for shade or recreation

Fill to excess at a splendid price!

Pep up, as an engine

Use a turbo

English word

Place something over something else

Place one over another

Place over

Introduce in addition

Highest in quality

Of the highest degree or quality

Of the highest degree

Noun (-ure)

English word

""To write or engrave (a name, address, inscription, or the like) on the top or surface; to write a name, address, or the like, on the outside or cover of (anything); as, to superscribe a letter. as, to superscribe a letter.""

Replacement

English word

To subtle.

English word

""Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable.""

News media first raised matter Nutmeg's aiming to cover up

Tending to stop drink with reporters I have cut short

Tending to suppurate; promoting suppuration.

That may be surpassed.

Prone (to)

Easily swayed by feelings

Liable to fall victim

It's a bus lane (anagram)

Able to be kept going

Able to be maintained

SWALLOW to take into the stomach through the mouth and gullet

Emulate Errol Flynn

Do some dueling

Make like Errol Flynn

""A whiffletree, or whippletree. See Singletree. Singletree.""

Flick knife (US)

West Side Story prop

West Side Story weapon

To form or divide into syllables; to syllabify.

A saclike structure formed by nerve endings at a synapse that remains intact after homogenization of nerve tissue.

Cause to happen at the same time

Shy censor in scramble to concur in time

Occur at the same time

Cause to mesh

""SYNCOPATE To contract, as a word, by taking one or more letters or syllables from the middle; as, "Gloster" is a syncopated form of "Gloucester." as, "Gloster" is a syncopated form of "Gloucester."""

SYSTEMATISE

""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.""

""Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a salamander; enduring fire.""

SANCTION to authorize

""Capable of conversion into soap; as, a saponifiable substance. as, a saponifiable substance.""

English word

""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.""

A hormone or another agent that causes or stimulates secretion.

To imbue with sectarian feelings; to subject to the control of a sect.

SEDIMENT to settle in the bottom of a liquid

FLEXIBLE able to be bent

Fruits (spelled backward) + Repeat = (wordplay)

Elite stream inappropriate - one is coming in barely able to read and write

PARASITE an organism that lives and feeds on another

(In blood test) showing no virus present

Showing a positive reaction to a test on blood serum for a disease; exhibiting seroconversion.

SEXTUPLE to make six times as great

Importance; meaning

Importance, meaning

Notice I intended to limit chapter's importance

See Sylviculture. Sylviculture.

One of the Siphonophora.

""Botany A type of stele in which the vascular cylinder surrounds a pith, as in the stem of the sunflower.""

""The outer, or parietal, one of the two lamell\'91 into which the vertebrate blastoderm divides on either side of the notochord, and from which the walls of the body and the amnion are developed. See Splanchopleure. Splanchopleure.""

To walk when <?/sleep.

An experienced and knowledgeable person

Who's disported at posh cities (wordplay)

Worldly-wise type making epic that is so disorganised

Audio equipment - keep on phrase (anagram)

Park sheep ruined linked to single communications facility

Scientific device for splitting light

Optical instrument.

Instrument for observing light of different wavelengths

""Pl. -cae (-s ) A receptacle in the reproductive tracts of certain female invertebrates, especially insects, in which spermatozoa are received and stored until needed to fertilize the ova.""

Same as Spermoblast. Spermoblast.

""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.""

A spokesman or a spokeswoman. See Usage Note at man .

Competition for pastors (wordplay)

High Church breaking contract for event

Race with jumps

Hand tool used to draw lines (2 words)

Line-drawing tool

Tool for drawing a perfect line

Layer of high air around the earth

Ozone layer's locale*

An atmospheric layer

""A horizontal band in a building, forming a part of the design, whether molded, projecting, or carved, or in any way distinguished from the rest of the work.""

Very old fossil in sedimentary rocks

Mineral Sr C O 3; attention, sir (anagram)

Group reporting to a larger one

Group responsible for water-based craft has a job answering to others

Underground organisation possibly returns transport to council

DEBUTANTE

DIVIDABLE Capable of being divided; divisible.

SUBINFEUD

SUBJECTIVE Of or pertaining to a subject.

SUBJECTIVE Of or pertaining to a subject.

Of greatly reduced size

""SATELLITE An attendant attached to a prince or other powerful person; hence, an obsequious dependent.""

Subordinate in capacity or function.

Prove truth of (charge)

Prove to be true

Prove the truth of

Tending to afford or furnish a substitute; making substitution; capable of being substituted.

Underlying framework

""TEMPERATE Moderate; not excessive; as, temperate heat; a temperate climate. as, temperate heat; a temperate climate.""

""A sulfa drug, C 10 H 10 N 4 O 2 S, used in the treatment of toxoplasmosis and other infections.""

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

Pension off

English word

SUPERELEVATE

English word

Adjective (-ive)

SUPEROVULATE

""Capable of being superposed, as one figure upon another.""

That may be suppressed.

Beat first victim? Heard it can be done!

Burn-out male's battling can be overcome

Like something that may be overcome

All eyes perhaps insure evil clan mutate

Watch kept on potential nuclear evils (wordplay)

Covert observation

""Adapted to sustain, strengthen, or corroborate; as, sustentative citations or quotations. as, sustentative citations or quotations.""

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

(Physics / General Physics) an instrument used to indicate whether two periodic quantities or motions are synchronous

Guilty pleasure (wordplay)

Delight in another's misfortune

19 in another's 10

""SCHOLASTIC Pertaining to, or suiting, a scholar, a school, or schools; scholarlike; as, scholastic manners or pride; scholastic learning. as, scholastic manners or pride; scholastic learning.""

Like carved figures

These kind of membranes I peel off when less new

""(Chemistry / Elements & Compounds) any of certain terpenes whose molecules contain one and a half times as many atoms as a normal terpene. Formula: C 15 H 24 SPELEOTHERAPY (Medicine) a form of treatment for asthma sufferers that takes place in clinics in disused mines, in which the air is free of pollen, dust mites, and the other irritants that provoke an allergic reaction; used to reduce the risk of heart disease""

Betokening or representing by an external sign.

Adjective meaning resembling

Same as Spermospore. Spermospore.

Seed-bearing plant

SPLENECTOMIZE

Like a fair player

Playing the game fairly

Has a fair crack at The Greens and, of course, bows out gracefully

Politically skilled and experienced

What diplomats should be.

Politically wise and far-seeing

""A proteolytic enzyme that is produced by hemolytic streptococci, is capable of converting plasminogen to plasmin, and is used medically to dissolve blood clots.""

English word

""STRUCTURAL Of or pertaining to structure; affecting structure; as, a structural error. as, a structural error.""

CATEGORIZE To insert in a category or list; to class; to catalogue.

""COLLEGIATE Of or pertaining to a college; as, collegiate studies; a collegiate society. as, collegiate studies; a collegiate society.""

""DISCIPLINE The treatment suited to a disciple or learner; education; development of the faculties by instruction and exercise; training, whether physical, mental, or moral.""

LITERATURE Learning; acquaintance with letters or books.

""Tending to subordinate; expressing subordination; used to introduce a subordinate sentence; as, a subordinative conjunction. as, a subordinative conjunction.""

SPECIALIZE To mention specialy; to particularize.

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

""SUBSTITUTE One who, or that which, is substituted or put in the place of another; one who acts for another; that which stands in lieu of something else""

Wonder drug

Noteworthiness above others

SUPERORDINATE

""To add to beyond saturation; as, to supersaturate a solution. as, to supersaturate a solution.""

Beyond the reach of the senses; above the natural powers of perception.

Exaggerate 'Lioness eats Ian' when broadcast

Use lurid style that's essential, as in novel about love (wordplay)

""SENSATIONAL Of or pertaining to sensation; as, sensational nerves. as, sensational nerves.""

In logic, it turns one mad first to indulge in fanciful emotion

""To regard in a sentimental manner; as, to sentimentalize a subject. as, to sentimentalize a subject.""

Guess our health will suffer here!

'Shah's palace (wordplay)

Southern Comedy Store is a shambles

A small instrument containing a minute particle of a radium compound mounted in front of a fluorescent screen and viewed with magnifying lenses. The tiny flashes produced by the continual bombardment of the screen by the <alpha/ rays are thus rendered visible.

""The axis or receptacle in certain ferns (as Trichomanes), which bears the sporangia. Trichomanes), which bears the sporangia.""

""STADTHOLDER Formerly, the chief magistrate of the United Provinces of Holland; also, the governor or lieutenant governor of a province.""

Big business.

SUBSTANTIATE To make to exist; to make real.

""A drug, C 23 H 20 N 2 O 3 S, related to phenylbutazone, that promotes urinary excretion of uric acid and is used in the treatment of gout.""

More than needed.

Excess of cooking burned saucepan

Excess supply

Adjective (-ive)

Adjective (-ive)

""SUPERIMPOSE To lay or impose on something else; as, a stratum of earth superimposed on another stratum. as, a stratum of earth superimposed on another stratum.""

English word

An acid phosphate.

Excessively sensitive; morbidly sensitive.

English word

SUPERSTIMULATE

Framework built on top of something else

Ship part

""Half crystalline; said of certain cruptive rocks composed partly of crystalline, partly of amorphous matter.""

Floating oil-rig with more than half its structure under water

SESQUICARBONATE

CONTRAOCTAVE

""A crystalline compound, C 14 H 30 N 2 O 4 , formed by esterification of succinic acid with choline and used medically to produce brief but complete muscular relaxation.""

Superconduct

""Of, relating to, or being a form of radio reception in which the frequency of an incoming radio signal is mixed with a locally generated signal and converted to an intermediate frequency in order to facilitate amplification and the rejection of unwanted signals.""

Management by overseeing

Overseeing

Management