2-Letter Words Starting with S

Genus to which the tuatara, a New Zealand lizard-like reptile belongs

Another name for the jackstraw in the game of jackstraws

That's Tablet Number One, in a skin. Get it out without disturbance

Jackstraw

""A pouch, as for tobacco.""

""One who serves a cause or a party for a share of the spoils; in United States politics, one who makes or recognizes a demand for public office on the ground of partisan service; also, one who sanctions such a policy in appointments to the public service.""

SPOILS spoil

Wheelwright's representative (wordplay)

Official voice of the cyclist (wordplay)

Representative at press conference

Representatives of groups.

Some spin doctors

Party leaders.

""Any of numerous parasitic protozoans of the class Sporozoa, most of which reproduce sexually and asexually in alternate generations by means of spores. They are frequently transmitted by bloodsucking insects to different hosts, where they cause many serious diseases, such as malaria and coccidiosis.""

A parasitic one-celled animal

Rower perhaps left in ship by crew

He is active

He engages in physical games

Guys who fish or hunt, say

Club members, maybe

Hunters and anglers.

Groom, for example

Ostler, groom etc

'Blast, mane needs grooming!' is what he often thinks

Chaps looking after beasts in detestable menagerie

Country workers in firm facing threat, not half

Country workers seen as steady and reliable chaps (wordplay)

Upright bar or beam

Vertical support post

Chain's not unhooked from post

Top politico? Says he!

Politician says piece

Lincoln, for one

'They're from the USA, says they (9)'

Famous politicians of the USA (wordplay)

Abraham Lincoln, for one of them

Cowboy on board (wordplay)

Is the cowboy at the helm (wordplay)

One at ship's helm

Cowboys at the wheel (wordplay)

How cowboys work with tillers (wordplay)

Cowboys on board (wordplay)

Having died in the womb

Pan's little chum in cropped fungus

Malodorous mushroom

8 gives way to ancient scribe's equipment

Marking with streaks

Markedly like a zebra

Arrangement of parallel bands

Samson or Hercules

Sam's on to be one of them

Mr. Universe, for example

Brawny circus performers

Some circus performers

Dictators

Officer ordering vessel to change course

Army officer below captain

Officer below captain

Junior minister abused working party

Bacon used rashly by minister

Expectant father in boat with daughter beside broken canoe

The act of taking or carrying away; removal.

Small particle of chromium oxide in rising cloud

REGION an area or district; a tract of country

""A cartilaginous fish with a mouth adapted for suction, as the lampery.""

""Assisting; assistant; as, a suffragan bishop. as, a suffragan bishop.""

""The act or process of suffusing, or state of being suffused; an overspreading.""

Attorney's last words

Concluding remarks

Adding process

Lotion used by star on television

Protection at the beach

Liberal censures new protection

Superlie

English word

Little doubt (wordplay)

Little reason for doubt

Dash off with cousins to collect gumshoe

Thick cotton fabric with a heavy nap

Soft feathers from noble white bird

Fabric used in baby clothes

Railway employee working on and off

SWITCH to beat with a flexible rod

Cyrano de Bergerac, for one

Athos, for one

For the fence one ends like Crosaire

The Three Musketeers

They might be fencing, in a manner of speaking, at last

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Biochemistry) a substance released at certain sympathetic nerve endings: thought to be identical with adrenaline [from sympath ( etic ) + -in ]

The nucleus of a fertilized egg

Like Loman, but no Willy!

Lingerie clerk, perhaps

She flogs males now, as ordered

Avon peddlers, traditionally

Some clerks

Business personnel

Mouth-watering mixture of oils in a vat

Mouth-watering violins at a jig

Pavlovian response

Start of a formal letter

It may be strange to us, a Latin greeting

Victoria, say, welcoming almost everyone with posh greeting

""Of or pertaining to health, or the laws of health; sanitary.""

Sewers, say, an island put in place

The plumbing degenerates into a stain

Drainage and sewage disposal

State of total dampness

Capacity limit

Full state (first 5 + last 1; also, a literal outer planet!)

With which to shoot gnu (wordplay)

Firearm with an unfocused shot

Distribute piece that's a bit haphazard

A woman hired to clean.

A woman hired to clean.

Of or belonging to the class Scyphozoa.

Minister-to-be

Future pastor

Embryo cleric

Senatorial.

One is apart (anagram)

Freedom from marital break-up (wordplay)

With apt reason I arranged for divorce

One followed by 24 zeros

25-figure figure

Maybe a private priest (wordplay)

Chaplain, perhaps one in Army (wordplay)

Bishop perhaps fixes the washing machine

People in the armed forces

Members of armed forces

Members of the armed forces.

One followed by 21 zeros

One thousand raised to the seventh power

1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

Run-down urban area

Area with crude dwellings

Deprived area of very poor housing

High jink (wordplay)

Bit of mischief

Dishonest activity

Sssweet are the usess of adverssity.

"Sssweet are the usess of adverssity."

Diving, say, until I am so shattered

Incitement with no time for pretence

Kind of clone

Skywrite

Break to stretch out - such a bloomer!

St. George's bloomer (wordplay)

Photograph a monitor lizard (wordplay)

SONICATE to disrupt with sound waves

SPALLE the shoulder

Evolutionary process

A drop in the ocean

Flight ending for some

Certain Apollo landing

Plundering

If one ails, this potion may be the ruination of one

SQUAMATE covered with scales

Race to support investor's inactivity!

Result of standing too long, maybe

Deer country (wordplay)

Cost of zero fare (wordplay)

Hunger for a bible in the depot

To save, I grant, was difficult with these

Like the Herald in wartime

Booming and resonant, it exploded

(Of voice) loud and powerful

Foundation builder, perhaps

Block manager (wordplay)

Oliver and Marsha's builder (wordplay)

Eliminate all crooks!

Remove bends from (something)

Tidy up after shattering into pieces

Make something more powerful

Make more effective.

Get NHS rent reviewed and grow stronger

A gas-filled cathode-ray tube that produces bright flashes of light for a stroboscope.

Superhero who flips out (wordplay)

Bonsai gardener's other job (wordplay)

She's a daredevil in movies

Some action film employees

""Situated under the clavicle, or collar bone; as, the subclavian arteries. as, the subclavian arteries.""

The act of subducting or taking away.

Buccaneering

Action of putting under water

Maneuver for the Nautilus

U-boat assignment (wordplay)

Oceanaut's journey (wordplay)

Undersea job (wordplay)

""The act of obtaining a favor by surprise, or by unfair representation through suppression or fraudulent concealment of facts.""

SECTION to divide into distinct parts

Branch office, perhaps

Post office branch, perhaps

Delicatessen (wordplay)

An extracellular enzyme produced by certain strains of a soil bacterium (Bacillus amyloliquefaciens) that catalyzes the breakdown of proteins into polypeptides and resembles trypsin in its action.

The act of coming under.

Subject of current controversy.

Design of a navy vessel with different features (wordplay)

Line of people coming after one another

I did it for one broadcast and then another and another!

Its no failure to find charged item in chain

Receptacle seen outside of HR offices

Guessing to uncover clue

Idea put forward for consideration

English word

Beyond a normal person's power

One with powers over the rest of us

He has power over the rest of us

Extremely able female

Alter ego of Kristin Wells

Gifted female.

""A woman who performs all the duties typically associated with several different full-time roles, such as wage earner, graduate student, mother, and wife.""

""The act of turning the hand palm upward; also, position of the hand with the palm upward.""

SUPPLE to make {pliant=adj}

Mathematics A function that is onto.

Car ride smoother

Car's shock-absorbing system

Category of the Golden Gate Bridge.

""SACCULATE SACCULE a small sac, also SACCULUS""

One helping with wild salon sprees

Small drinks for each young man's agent

Staff member

Riotously merry

Riotously merry.

Orgiastic

Oktoberfest entree

German entree

Of or relating to the order Saurischia.

Apartheid, say, upset Saint George

Saint George's unexpected detachment

A keeping apart

""(used with a sing. verb) The theory and study of signs and symbols, especially as elements of language or other systems of communication, and comprising semantics, syntactics, and pragmatics.""

The north or northern regions.

Meat stew

Hobo stew

Stew

Subjected to venomous attacks (wordplay)

The act of solfaing.

Any of a group of peptides produced by the liver upon stimulation by growth hormone that act directly on many cell types to stimulate growth.

One of Hulme's conjectures (wordplay)

Wall Street motivation

Son's embezzlement's a matter of conjecture

""SPICULATE Covered with, or having, spicules.""

A woman who speaks on behalf of another or others. See Usage Note at man .

A man who speaks on behalf of another or others. See Usage Note at man .

Female athlete or player

Female athlete

A woman who is active in sports.

""The act or process of forming spores; spore formation. See Illust. of Bacillus, b. Illust. of Bacillus, b.""

Worrisome economic period

Bad economic situation

Challenge for economists

Process of arousal or goading

Model welcomes tip for tantric arousal

Nerve impulse cause

Condition of an agreement

Condition to an agreement

Condition attached to an agreement

""STYLIZE to make conventional, also STYLISE""

""The act of understanding, or supplying, something not expressed; also, that which is so understood or supplied.""

DECISION to win a boxing decision

Relief rupture unit

Suburban neighborhood, often

Smaller section

""The act of subjugating, or the state of being subjugated.""

""Act of subjoining, or state of being subjoined.""

Bulimia's not unusually a diversion of sexual energy

An incomplete or partial dislocation.

MUNITION to furnish with war material

The act of suborning; the crime of procuring a person to take such a false oath as constitutes perjury.

The act of subrogating.

""The act of subsuming, or of including under another.""

Taking off vessel's pulling power

End of the advice

Deduction

""An affix added to the end of a word or stem, serving to form a new word or functioning as an inflectional ending, such as -ness in gentleness, -ing in walking, or -s in sits.""

Death through lack of twenty seven across

""SULFONATE SULFONE a sulfur compound, also SULPHONE""

English word

English word

English word

""SUPERNATE SUPER to reinforce with a thin cotton mesh, as a book""

English word

Kent's gift or management (wordplay)

Man of Steel ability (wordplay)

Guardian's job

English word

Place to get drink? That's an idea!

Dining room chair (wordplay)

It's taken for granted

Clampdown upon press is absurd

Clampdown is upon press freedom

The act or process of suppurating.

Sigh

A whispering or rustling

An accelerator in which charged particles are accelerated around a fixed circular path by an electric field and held to the path by an increasing magnetic field.

Musical rhythm accentuating a weak beat

Playing notes off the beat

Displacement of beats in music

Columnist's ambition

The supply of items to multiple newspapers

Selling to press material for simultaneous publishing

""SALINIZE to treat with salt, also SALINISE""

""The student who pronounces the salutatory oration at the annual Commencement or like exercises of a college, an honor commonly assigned to that member of the graduating class who ranks second in scholarship.""

""SANITIZE to clean and sterilize, also SANITISE, SANITATE""

I can't get no - (Rolling Stones)

The Stones couldn't get it

Fulfillment ... and #2 on the list

Noun (-tion)

Person incapable of concentration

Person unable to think clearly

One who cannot concentrate

Division into parts

Female minister? She's a fighter

Female in the forces

Wasp

A man who is a member of the armed forces.

Person in seventh decade

Person in their sixties

Arrived between 1943-1952 for one from the sixties

The cardinal number equal to 10 51 .

(Economics) a situation in which economic depression is combined with increasing inflation [blend of slump + inflation ]

Injury of a photographic picture caused by exposing it for too long a time to the sun's light in the camera; burning; excessive insolation.

Earnest request

""The slow, downhill movement of soil or other material in areas typically underlain by frozen ground.""

""A polypeptide hormone produced chiefly by the hypothalamus that inhibits the secretion of various other hormones, such as somatotropin, glucagon, insulin, thyrotropin, and gastrin.""

See growth hormone .

Kent is in this part of UK

In the bottom right corner of the country

Call for silence around exit to cowboy film set in Kerry direction

""Pl. spermatozoa (-z ) The mature fertilizing gamete of a male organism, usually consisting of a round or cylindrical nucleated cell, a short neck, and a thin motile tail. Also called sperm cell , zoosperm .""

""Pl. spermatozoa (-z ) The mature fertilizing gamete of a male organism, usually consisting of a round or cylindrical nucleated cell, a short neck, and a thin motile tail. Also called sperm cell , zoosperm .""

""An alloy of iron containing approximately 15 percent manganese and small quantities of carbon and silicon, used in the Bessemer process.""

Bicycle mechanic (wordplay)

Front wheelwright (wordplay)

One speaking for others

Numerical data analyst

One analysing data

One analysing numerical facts

Issue to be brought up on remarriage

""An instrument, consisting essentially of a magic lantern in which photographic pictures are used, by which the image of a landscape, or any object, may be thrown upon a screen in such a manner as to seem to stand out in relief, so as to form a striking and accurate representation of the object itself; also, a pair of magic lanterns for producing the effect of dissolving views.""

A tennis tutor (anagram) - sneezing

Any of several hemolysins derived from some strains of streptococci.

New "wonder drug" from fungi

One of the "wonder" drugs.

The act of stridulating.

""The act or phenomenon of spontaneously dividing transversely, as do certain species of annelids and helminths; transverse fission. See Illust. under Syllidian. Illust. under Syllidian.""

""A toxic glycoside or mixture of glycosides obtained from the seeds of certain plants of the genus Strophanthus, especially S. kombé, used medicinally as a cardiac stimulant.""

Total astonishment and shock

Shocked astonishment

Extreme astonishment

""Conversion of the cell walls into cork tissue by development of suberin; -- commonly taking place in exposed tissues, as when a callus forms over a wound. Suberized cell walls are impervious to water.""

An under or assistant librarian.

Regular payment

Membership fee

Copy-editor number one upset by writing fee

Replacement of one thing by another

Replacement

Of the nether world.

Train near Eastburn for The Underground

Underground; secret

Wonderful period of play when there's replacement (wordplay)

SUPERSTATE SUPERS super

See blurb (nonverbal)

Stevie Wonder hit

Bad-luck bringer, e.g

English word

A following on in addition

""The act of supplicating; humble and earnest prayer, as in worship.""