2-Letter Words Starting with S

SQUIRREL to store up for future use

STABILIZE

Stablish

STALEMATE The position of the king when he can not move without being placed on check and there is no other piece which can be moved.

Present participle or gerund

Stellify

Art form

STENOTYPE

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

STEVEDORE One whose occupation is to load and unload vessels in port; one who stows a cargo in a hold.

Stiletto

Inspiring new enthusiasm

Animating, exciting

Imitative behaviour, over time, likely to provoke reaction

""STIPULATE Furnished with stipules; as, a stipulate leaf. as, a stipulate leaf.""

Storing up

Retailer's task - shoplifting (wordplay)

Evaluation of unsold goods

Straight

Straiten

Stranger

Forming layers

Stravaig

STRUCTURE The act of building; the practice of erecting buildings; construction.

Stultify

Subclass

DIVIDING separation

FREEZING the process of freezing

""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.""

""SUBLIMATE To bring by heat into the state of vapor, which, on cooling, returns again to the solid state; as, to sublimate sulphur or camphor. as, to sublimate sulphur or camphor.""

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

Subpoena

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

SAMPLING a small part selected for analysis

SCRIBING the act of scribing

SUBSIDISE

""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.

Inflected form of TOTALING Inflected form of TOTAL to amount to

Deducting

""From Suffocate, v. Suffocate, v.""

SULFONATE

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

SULFURIZE

SUMMARISE

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

Superadd

SUPERCEDE

SUPERHYPE

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

""SUPERSEDE To come, or be placed, in the room of; to replace.""

Physics A hypothetical particle consisting of a very short one-dimensional string existing in ten dimensions. It is the elementary particle in a theory of space-time incorporating supersymmetry.

English word

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.

Directing (workers)

Supplant

Banning (from publication)

Subduing

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

Adding an extra fee to

Overcoming (obstacle)

Overcoming

Surprint

SURROGATE A deputy; a delegate; a substitute.

Ruins ground thrown all about

Encircling

Surveil

SYLLOGIZE To reason by means of syllogisms.

SYMBOLISE

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

""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."""

""SYNDICATE The office or jurisdiction of a syndic; a council, or body of syndics.""

SYNOPSIZE

SYSTEMIZE To reduce to system; to systematize.

Succumbing to pressure after secure, criminal occupation

Protecting

Sea action in which Garibaldi and son may be involved

Process for cleaning or engraving

Pueblo Indian art

Native American art

Making smooth

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.""

Scapegoat

SCHEMATIZE To form a scheme or schemes.

Schnorkel

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.""

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

Semideify

""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

Confiscating band of gold after search in bishop's domain

How Hank Marvin etc warmed up (wordplay)

Sparring with oneself (wordplay)

Sparring with an imaginary opponent

""A person who herds sheep, especially on an open range; a shepherd.""

Type of construction at, eg, Govan, Barrow

Crew's excited, gathering in monarch's smashing boat

Shortcut

Informal A performance or performer that evokes so much applause from the audience that the show is temporarily interrupted.

Sideslip

Evading, in a way

Desist moving forest as evasive action

Avoidance behaviour that is seen in South Essex town

Creating distraction, wrongly directs a monarch

""SILHOUETTE A representation of the outlines of an object filled in with a black color; a profile portrait in black, such as a shadow appears to be.""

Simulcast

Shooting up, in a way

Fast-rising TV company playing loud music, and French being gripped

Slaughter

Holding persons in slavery.

Somnambulance

Somnambulation.

Somnambulism

Dieter's aim.

Sloganeer

Mini-farm, perhaps

Modest farming concern

Agricultural area, but less than a farm

Snapshot

Popular form of controlled sliding

Olympic event

Son currently joining coach, say, for winter sport

SNOWMOBILE

Solemnify

SOLUBILISE

SOLUBILIZE

Somerset

Boy to secure sort of genre I recognized as producing short poems

Child to secure sort of genre I recognized as producing short poems

Going outside an orbiting craft

Spearfish

Leading (attack)

Taking the lead

Praised Hagen extravagantly for leading attack

SPECIALISE

SPECIALIZE To mention specialy; to particularize.

The act of making a speech or speeches.

Speedball

Speedboat

Sure to fascinate

Fascinating session covering books

Holding one's interest

The sport of catching fish using a rod and reel.

Spotlight

Squirrel

Starboard

Steamroll

""STEREOTYPE A plate forming an exact faximile of a page of type or of an engraving, used in printing books, etc.; specifically, a plate with typemetal face, used for printing.""

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

Standard royalty brother divides, managing shares, say

The act or art of dealing in stocks; the business of a stockjobber.

Hewing or dressing stone.

Delaying tactics? Nothing new in that!

Consistently blocking deliveries

Nothing new in holding things up or being obstructive

Lying much indulged in by Sheherazade

Narrating tales

Relation finds right time to be stuck in traffic

Using train when no seats available (wordplay)

STRATEGIZE

STREAMLINE

""STRIDULATE To make a shrill, creaking noise""

CULTURING culture

LICENSING license

""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""

Subtotal

Making sweet love in windy act, ruing gas

Sulfuret

SULPHURISE

Sunscreen

Supercoil

Supercool

Superheat

Supplicat

Surfboard

. . . on a battlefield

Climbing down to give up gin cocktail

... on a battlefield

Suspicion

Syllabify

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

SYMPATHISE

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

SYNCRETISE

SYNCRETIZE

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

SYNTHESIZE To combine by synthesis; to unite.

Saccharify

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

Dazzling sign rehashed with lilac tint

Brilliant - dazzling

Brilliantly clever

SEQUESTRATE To sequester.

SHARECROP

Expert firing cheats, then laughing loudly

Irish instrument in ship mimicking owl could take the head off you from way out

Fleece cutting

What a call from Bo Peep depends on (wordplay)

Australian sport

Mean to be giving poor value

Cheating someone by not returning enough money

Brief film about execution for dishonest behaviour

Face getting divorced? Hilarious!

Very funny team breaking up

Extremely amusing team parting company

SINGULARIZE To make singular or single; to distinguish.

Activity enjoyed on the street

Pastime on wheels

Part of an active lifestyle, for some

SKELETONISE

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

Reducing air resistance

Drag reduction technique

SOLILOQUISE

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

Going head over heels

Wild geraniums lost, rolling on the ground

Preventing transmission of noise

That'll keep things quiet all over the house at last

SPARKPLUG

Specialized reporting

All the same, that's making it

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

Stepparent

The act of manoeuvring (the puck) deftly in ice hockey

Storyboard

De-kinking

Aligning

Throttling, twisting gag in last turn

""A prostitute, especially one who solicits in the streets.""

That strengthens; giving or increasing strength.

IRRIGATING irrigate

OPTIMIZING optimize

ORDINATING ordinate

URBANISING urbanise

URBANIZING urbanize

VOCALIZING vocalize

""SUPERCHARGE To charge (a bearing) upon another bearing; as, to supercharge a rose upon a fess. as, to supercharge a rose upon a fess.""