2-Letter Words Starting with S

""An habitual sudden twitching of the hinder leg of a horse, or an involuntary or convulsive contraction of the muscles that raise the hock.""

Stringy

Stroppy

Stubbly

CABINET a piece of furniture with shelves and drawers

Passenger car size classification (3,7)

Hertz option

Law distributing sandwiches for free (wordplay)

Regional tongue

Very particular language beats lucid translation

""The sixth tone of the scale; the under mediant, or third below the keynote; the superdominant.""

PRODUCT something produced by labour or effort

PROJECT to extend outward

SEGMENT to divide into sections

Succeeding

Later

Loans 'is temporary accommodation? Managing to survive!

Inherent

Enough of 16 down (wordplay)

Enough, adequate

Similar to 16 down - is that enough (wordplay)

Woodhull or Pankhurst

Woman who wanted say, stiff sugar confection

Summery

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Very large star

Betelgeuse, for example

Heavenly monster

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Add to (something)

Flexible workers start to teach addition

Add to time given to flexible workforce

Praying insect (wordplay)

Praying insect?

One petitions to paint, sculp, design

Tension reducer

Type of painter.

County contracted celebrity artist

Magritte perhaps

Wearing sweatshirt that's most black

Darkest-complexioned and least confident, having blemish

Wears t-this loosely? Exactly!

Track cover-up (wordplay)

Long-sleeved top worn by athletes

E, my love (wordplay)

Wee darling (wordplay)

Favourite soft centre (wordplay)

Sweltry

Beethoven, notably

Eg, Beethoven

Soda-server is absorbing Mahler's First and Tchaikovsky's (or one of their ilk)

One engaged with others at a banquet or merrymaking.

One who attempts to unite principles or parties which are irreconcilably at variance;

One who collects or explains synonyms.

User of deductive reasoning.

John Coltrane, for one

One blows it by running into shop

Bill Clinton or Lisa Simpson, at times

Broad and unorganized

Lacking focus

Schmalzy

""Emitting sparks, or fine igneous particles; sparkling.""

Scrabbly

Scraggly

Scratchy

Screechy

Scroungy

Rumor Navy slang.

Hack into unusually subtle, dry gossip

Cask of drinking water, on board ship

20th Century Fox picture (wordplay)

It illuminates land under damaged arches

*'Slumdog Millionaire' studio [37]

U.N. group of 1973?

Body once dictated to (wordplay)

U.N. group of 1973 (wordplay)

He goes to the dictionary.

Student of signs/symbols

SEMIOTIC a general theory of signs and symbolism

A barrier of trees and shrubs that protects against the wind and reduces erosion.

Superlative adjective

Indicative of something

Important enough to merit attention

Having meaning

A technique of drawing on specially prepared paper with a silver-tipped instrument.

Skittery

Slippery

Slovenly

Snippety

Studier of human communities

A single player left in dishonour, quit so disgracefully

Walk by fellow in subtle NASA mission (wordplay)

Not one to buy with prudence

Extravagantly spending person

Irresponsible user of money

""A bacterial cell whose cell wall is absent or deficient, causing it to have a spherical form.""

Splendid

Splotchy

Program to start making bed (wordplay)

Partly make a bed as a table (wordplay)

Cell block (wordplay)

Squelchy

Squiggly

Squooshy

Noun (-ment)

Stealthy

STENOTYPE

Straggly

Sniper originally hits target, sprawling, most horizontal

It glows at night in the city

It improves night vision

Nighttime illuminator

Stretchy

Lowest floor of a building, sometimes

Outsource, as part of a job

Farm work out

Get extra help, as a builder

Smaller part of a larger zoned area

""The fourth tone above, or fifth below, the tonic; so called as being under the dominant.""

Ben's virtues misconstrued as slavish

Prepared to obey others unquestioningly

Obsequious.

""Any atom, group, or radical substituted for another, or entering a molecule in place of some other part which is removed.""

Succinct

Complete reversal of opinion Fig.

Trampoline stunt

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SUPEREGO a part of the psyche

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""Situated immediately above; as, superjacent rocks. as, superjacent rocks.""

Weekly shopping site

Weekly shopping site, for many

Grocery's descendant.

""Swimming above; floating on the surface; as, oil supernatant on water. as, oil supernatant on water.""

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Superscription.

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Type of drug

Drug keeping symptoms down

Inhibiting drug

SUPREME a rich cream sauce

SUPREME a rich cream sauce

One who watches over another; an overseer; a spy; a supervisor.

Person planning for the apocalypse

One looking to preserve their own existence

Spirited; up-to-date.

One advocating socialism via trade union action

""One who forms a system, or reduces to system.""

Army officer, like 10's major

Shmaltzy

One breaking away from a federation

An expert at assessing faults (wordplay)

One who studies earthquakes

Earthquake scientist

""SELECTION The act of selecting, or the state of being selected; choice, by preference.""

""Astronomy the branch of astronomy that studies the physical characteristics of the moon. ; selenologist , ; selenological ,""

ABSTRACT to draw away

DOMINANT a controlling genetic character

One who's moved closer to a win

One in last four of a contest

One of last four left in competition

Consisting of serum and pus.

""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.""

""Slaphappier , slaphappiest Slang Dazed, silly, or incoherent from or as if from blows to the head; punch-drunk.""

SNOWMOBILE

Sleep

Not a consciously progressive type

One who is out and about

Peripatetic sleeper

Tending to produce sleep; hypnotic.

Farthest south.

Potholer - I'll goose-step (anagram)

Footballer in alone, meaning he plumbs the depths

Pigs let loose (anagram) - one who studies caves

Hint to the Mystery Guest's identity

Medium habit is coming in double

Seance holder.

Spiteful

""Sprightlier , sprightliest Full of spirit and vitality; lively; brisk.""

Establishment.

A case for arms limitation (wordplay)

Something that restricts.

No sane person is likely to assume it

""COMPONENT Serving, or helping, to form; composing; constituting; constituent.""

Man on bench goes to Europe from India perhaps

Mounting bus, happy to be getting around in India (wordplay)

One of those on the bench approaches America for the Indians

One who holds to subjectivism; an egoist.

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To offer no resistance is good behaviour

Demonstrate zero electrical resistance

An electrical current flowing through a superconductor.

""Eminent in a superior degree; surpassing others in excellence; as, a supereminent divine; the supereminent glory of Christ. as, a supereminent divine; the supereminent glory of Christ.""

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Coming as something additional or extraneous; coming afterwards.

One with exaggerated respect for priests could become so strait-laced

Person in a painful relationship!

Painstaking (and giving) type might crack his cat as moods vary

lasting more or less indefinitely

Lasting nearly for ever

One wanting to secede

He raises silkworms

(used with a sing. verb) The study of language and linguistic behavior as influenced by social and cultural factors.

""With the stern, instead of the bow, in advance; hence, figuratively, in an awkward, blundering manner.""

One studying patterns of thought, behaviour, etc

ADOLESCENT Growing; advancing from childhood to maturity.

A subordinate department; a bureau. See the Note under Bureau. Bureau.

""EMPLOYMENT The act of employing or using; also, the state of being employed.""

""GOVERNMENT The act of governing; the exercise of authority; the administration of laws; control; direction; regulation; as, civil, church, or family government. as, civil, church, or family government.""

Most junior naval officer

Naval rank

""SPECIALIST One who devotes himself to some specialty; as, a medical specialist, one who devotes himself to diseases of particular parts of the body, as the eye, the ear, the nerves, etc. as, a medical specialist, one who devotes himself to diseases of particular parts of the body, as the eye, the ear, the nerves, etc.""

Excessive in quantity

More than sufficient

Excessive in quality

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Person associated with (-ist)

Person associated with (-ist)

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One who holds the doctrine of the real objective presence of Christ;s body and blood in the holy eucharist.

""SEGREGATION The act of segregating, or the state of being segregated; separation from others; a parting.""

Problematical situation to bore chaps in group half slouching around (wordplay)

One who tries for maximum effect

Romantic laments tiniest failing

Soppy person made one mad - it's ridiculous

Nostalgic chap mailed a catalogue, including old boys in it

SILVICULTURE See Sylviculture. Sylviculture.

""The study of the biological determinants of social behavior, based on the theory that such behavior is often genetically transmitted and subject to evolutionary processes.""

One who investigates by means of a spectroscope; one skilled in the use of the spectroscope.

Restraining garment (alternative spelling)

Restraining garment

Honest alien holding flag put under severe restraint

""DEVELOPMENT The act of developing or disclosing that which is unknown; a gradual unfolding process by which anything is developed, as a plan or method, or an image upon a photographic plate; gradual advancement or growth through a series of progressive changes; also, the result of developing, or a developed state.""

PROLETARIAT The indigent class in the State; the body of proletarians.

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Large early landmass

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Lying or resting on something else.

One who is in charge of an organisation

Overseer; police officer

Senior police officer

""The science that deals with the description, classification, and origin of sedimentary rock.""

Slightly clear; transmitting light in a slight degree.

Paperback moved with additional books, which is not entirely clear

It's not quite clear how a Jew almost managed to save Christian writings

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One administration on top of another

Believer in ESP

Seance participant, presumably

Believer in miracles.

SUPERSPECIAL