2-Letter Words Starting with S

A miser's apt to become perverse, not joining in

""A portion of dead bone which becomes separated from the sound portion, as in necrosis.""

""Pl. sestertia (-sh , -sh - ) A monetary unit of ancient Rome equivalent to 1,000 sesterces.""

Shadchan

Shammes

""SHERIFF a law-enforcement officer of a county, also SHIREMAN, SHIRRA""

English word

Semblance, superficial likeness

Image; effigy

Show me state (wordplay)

"Show me" state (wordplay)

Doubt about the truth of something

Lams priest (anagram)

Wake up at the back (wordplay)

Air driven back by a propeller

SOLIDARE a small coin

Strong subject

Circling island, misplaces cultivated field

Belief in human supremacy

Bias favoring humans over every other animal

One of the motionless spermatozoids in the conceptacles of certain fungi.

Hated the book, perhaps

Belly jeans, for example (wordplay)

Blushing crow, perhaps

""A spore case in the cryptogamous plants, as in ferns, etc.""

Capable of living or growing only within a limited range of temperature.

Picture or diagram showing items as though in 3-D

Pl. stomodea also stomodaea (-d ) The anterior or oral portion of the alimentary canal of an embryo.

""A poisonous plant (Datura Stramonium); stinkweed. See Datura, and Jamestown weed. Datura Stramonium); stinkweed. See Datura, and Jamestown weed.""

Arranged in layers

Second-rate prizefighter

Clumsy clot, second to fall behind

Inept boxer

""One of the several primary divisions of either the animal, or vegetable kingdom, as, in zo\'94logy, the Vertebrata, Tunicata, Mollusca, Articulata, Molluscoidea, Echinodermata, C\'d2lentera, and the Protozoa; in botany, the Phanerogamia, and the Cryptogamia.""

OPTIMUM the most favourable point of any condition

PROBLEM a difficult question or situation

PROGRAM to arrange in a plan of proceedings

Low-down layer

Rub at smuts spoiling foundation

Underlayer

Spot for a Turkish bath

Irrational art form

C 20 art movement

Art of subconscious imagery

Lamb's try is possibly luxuriousness

(Attempted) reconciliation between different religions or philosophies

Try 'Secs.', 'Min.' variation for inflectional fusion

SARDONIC mocking

""Resembling a ladder in form or appearance; having transverse bars or markings like the rounds of a ladder; as, the scalariform cells and scalariform pits in some plants. as, the scalariform cells and scalariform pits in some plants.""

English word

Monastery room for writing

""A genus of fleshyleaved plants, of which the houseleek (Sempervivum tectorum) is the commonest species. Sempervivum tectorum) is the commonest species.""

Heavenly photo

""Pl -nia [-nɪə] (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) the sporophyte of mosses and liverworts, consisting of a spore-bearing capsule on a short stalk that arises from the parent plant (the gametophyte) sporogonial   adj STADIOMETER (Mathematics & Measurements / Surveying) an instrument that measures the length of curves, dashes, etc., by running a toothed wheel along them [from stadio- , from stadium + -meter ]""

""An abortive stamen, or any organ modified from an abortive stamen.""

""An expansion at the base of the style, as in umbelliferous plants.""

""One who, or that which, succeeds to the place of another; that which is used for something else; a substitute""

English word

English word

SUPREME a rich cream sauce

The concurrence of events in time; simultaneousness.

""The theory, plan, or practice of trade-union action (originally as advocated and practiced by the French Conf\'82d\'82ration G\'82n\'82rale du Travail) which aims to abolish the present political and social system by means of the general strike (as distinguished from the local or sectional strike) and direct action of whatever kind (as distinguished from action which takes effect only through the medium of political action) -- direct action including any kind of action that is directly effective, whether it be a simple strike, a peaceful public demonstration, sabotage, or revolutionary violence. By the general strike and direct action syndicalism aims to establish a social system in which the means and processes of production are in the control of local organizations of workers, who are manage them for the common good.direct action including any kind of action that is directly effective, whether it be a simple strike, a peaceful public demonstration, sabotage, or revolutionary violence. By the general strike and direct action syndicalism aims to establish a social system in which the means and processes of production are in the control of local organizations of workers, who are manage them for the common good.""

The reduction of facts or principles to a system.

""SALVATION The act of saving; preservation or deliverance from destruction, danger, or great calamity.""

""SCAPEGOAT A goat upon whose head were symbolically placed the sins of the people, after which he was suffered to escape into the wilderness.""

The doctrine or policy of secession; the tenets of secession; the tenets of secessionists.

Adherence to religious groupings

""A disproportionate regard for the interests peculiar to a section of the country; local patriotism, as distinguished from national.""

Sleepwalking

Pl. spermagonia also spermogonia (-n - ) A cup-shaped cavity or receptacle in which the spermatia of certain lichens and fungi are produced.

Brings The Dead to life for the latecomers who have something to say (wordplay)

Brings The Dead to life for the latecomers who have something to say

STANDPAT resisting or opposing change

""Any philosophical doctrine which refers all knowledge to, and founds it upon, any subjective states; egoism.""

MICROGRAM

Fabulous insurance payment (wordplay)

SUPERREAL

Realm of A-list celebrity (wordplay)

Very great fame

Position of great fame

""A stratum, or layer, above another.""

Sycophancy.

A system of coinage in which a unit of currency is pegged to a combination of two or more metals in fixed proportions.

SYNDACTYL

A mild Socrates (anagram); priestcraft

Priestly devotion admits oracles must be reinterpreted

Enjoyment of a painful relationship (wordplay)

Extreme republican principles; the principles or practice of the sansculottes. sansculottes.

Abelard's thing

New Catholics miss medieval sort of philosophy

Technique for literary criticism

Piers Morgan: 'US run a highly organised community'

The doctrine and use of sacraments; attashment of excessive importance to sacraments.

Animated salesman is into overdramatic presentation

The quality of being sentimental; the character or behavior of a sentimentalist; sentimentality.

An electronically controlled mechanical or hydraulic device permitting a large action or strong forces to be controlled by a small electrical signal.

""A primitive seminal cell, occuring in masses in the seminal tubules. It divides into a mass (spermosphere) of small cells (spermoblast), which in turn give rise to spermatozoids.""

""COLONIALISM The state or quality of, or the relationship involved in, being colonial.""

Handedness, in chemistry

Belief in magic

Belief in ghosts

Infestation of parasites by other parasites.

Jingo's excessive ardor