2-Letter Words Starting with S

What one ply's about? That's right

Full of life

Lively odds justly followed

With elasticity

In a squalid manner.

Wily chap is about to reverse current, so I make my way through marshland

By a list it gets impaired (wordplay)

What a gyroscope may provide

Monetary policy goal

Only for blokes, girl shows sluggishness

Lack of flow

Given one buck, she is still bad

Keep clear of one of 11 across

STARCH to stiffen a fabric

Of written law as to a trusty

Authorised by law

Try-outs at being required by law

In a loyal way

Without ambivalence

STENO a stenographer

How one with writer's block works

Inability to breed

Inability to reproduce

State of being unproductive or barren

How the actor playing the giant spoke (wordplay)

Embroidered samplers and the like

Ornamental needlework

By way of resignation

With a poker face

With fortitude

The state or quality of being stolid; dullness of intellect; obtuseness; stupidity.

Play golf the Curtis way (wordplay)

In an odd manner

In a weird way...

Gurn stupidly, probing vagrant's waterworks problem

Harshness of voice.

Loud and harsh quality

Quality of a shrill sound

In deliberate and premeditated manner

In deliberate or contrived manner

Duly edits in intentionally contrived manner

Lack of intelligence

Second part of the quote

Simple Simon's strong point.

Still shy about start of year with class

How models dress

A la mode

Liability to be sued; the state of being subjected by law to civil process.

SUASIVE persuasive

ACIDLY {sourly=adv}

A subordinate agency.

COLONY a settlement of emigrants in a new land

COUNTY an administrative division of a state

SUBDUED subdue

""One of the subdivisions, of more importance than genus, into which certain families are divided.""

In a magnificent manner

In a spiritual way

In an outstanding way

The quality or state of being sublime (in any sense of the adjective).

Any worldly thing.

""SUBTILE insidious, also SUBTLE""

In a summary manner.

A matter of expenditure on the old oil in there to start with

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

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

Tinpot despot's dream state (wordplay)

Empire state (wordplay)

Power to dominate

In a supreme manner.

SURREAL having dreamlike qualities

""Pl. surrogacies The condition of being a surrogate, especially a surrogate mother.""

In a sutural manner.

SWINISH resembling {swine=n}

Foiling son by clever verbal repartee!

Fencing - 's my sport (wordplay)

One of D'Artagnan's fortes.

""A table of syllables; more especially, a table of the indivisible syllabic symbols used in certain languages, as the Japanese and Cherokee, instead of letters.""

To form or divide into syllables.

'The Da Vinci Code' field

Having united petals; gamopetalous.

The concurrence of events in time; synchronism.

""Toconvert into, or to impregnate with, sugar.""

SAGITTAL resembling an arrow

The quality or condition of being salable; salableness.

SALUTE to greet with a sign of respect

Opening address

Affected holiness my canonist corrected

Pretended piety.

Pious hypocrisy

""SANDPAPER A tube of vitrified sand, produced by a stroke of lightning; a fulgurite""

Attended by bloodshed.

SANGUINE to stain with blood

The quality of being sanguine; sanguineness.

Of or relating to health or the protection of health.

""SCABROUS roughened with small projections, also SCABRID""

In a bitterly severe way

Alligator or snake? (Hint: Read letters 4-8 last!)

Rough, entertaining article using bitter remarks

SCENICAL {scenic=adj}

""SCHIZO a person affected with a type of psychotic disorder, also SCHIZOID""

SCORNFUL expressing contempt

In a disapproving manner

SCRATCHIE

Work on project for film

Script of film with directions

Work that may win an Oscar

""The quality or state of being scurrile or scurrilous; mean, vile, or obscene jocularity.""

Smoothly made as a one-piece (wordplay)

In an unbroken, flowing way

SEASON to improve flavour

Get the sailor boy on your side from time to time

For the time there's a sailor on your side

Boy and friend going under water at a certain time of the year

SECLUDED seclude

Supreme attention to the things of the present life; worldliness.

Diligently, painstakingly

One coming from East Germany strangely in pieces

""SEISMIC pertaining to an earthquake, also SEISMAL""

The science of earthquakes.

Moon science

SELFLESS unselfish

Variant of semiology .

COLONY a settlement of emigrants in a new land

NUDITY the state of being {nude=adj}

""Coming, or made, or done, once every half week; as, a semiweekly newspaper; a semiweekly trip. as, a semiweekly newspaper; a semiweekly trip.""

YEARLY a once a year publication

Pleasurable indulgence - sexed up element of Jane Austen work (wordplay)

The quality or state of being sensuous; sensuousness.

SENSUOUS derived from the senses

With feeling thrilled, one books into cathedral city

Please try a new version, one at a time

Late payers settle one by one

Individually

SERIGRAPH An autographic device to test the strength of raw silk.

Abstract noun (-ity)

In a despicable manner

Honeysuckle's kin

Woman begins episcopate, nothing less than perfect, as if unsure of her welcome

SHOCKING shock

SHREWISH ill-tempered

Office of a sheriff

SIBILANT a hissing speech sound

Movie disclaimer word

It looks like the military is involved

Resemblance

Couldn't be easier!

Lack of affectation

Start of a quip

In unusual fashion.

In an ominous way

In an evil way

Characteristic of a sorority keeping home in ominous manner

SKELETAL pertaining to a {skeleton=n}

In an adept manner

With finesse

Nervously.

SLANTING slant

SLASHING the act of one that {slashes=v}

(Of a woman) dirty and untidy

""The persons or interest formerly representing slavery politically, or wielding political power for the preservation or advancement of slavery.""

SLOTHFUL {sluggish=adj}

SLUGGARD a habitually lazy person

Without vigor

SLUTTISH {slovenly=adj}

Very, very well

SNAPPISH tending to behave in an impatient or irritable manner

SNEAKING sneak

SNIFFISH {haughty=adj}

SNOBBISH characteristic of a snob

SOCIETAL pertaining to a {society=n}

""Mankind the measurement of social attitudes within a group by sampling expressions of social acceptance or rejection. ; sociometrist, ; sociometrie,""

Team spirit is adroitly created

Part one of a Labour anthem

Mutual support within a group

Separately, singly

""The quality, condition, or degree of being soluble or solvable; as, the solubility of a salt; the solubility of a problem or intricate difficulty. as, the solubility of a salt; the solubility of a problem or intricate difficulty.""

The dictrine or the science of the general properties of material substances; somatics.

SONGLESS without songs

SONOGRAPH

In ringing fashion

In a soothing manner.

In a soulless manner.

SOUNDING the action of determining depth of water

SPACIOUS ample in extent

A state of spasm.

""SPATIAL pertaining to space, also SPACIAL""

Expert's skill or interest

Particular work to be done in a field

Person's particular skill

The quality or state of being specious; speciousness.

""SPECIOUS plausible, but inaccurate""

In the form or manner of a specter.

SPECULAR relating to a speculum

Science of cave exploring

Study of caves

Scientific study of caves

""The quality or state of being spherial; roundness; as, the sphericity of the planets, or of a drop of water. as, the sphericity of the planets, or of a drop of water.""

Unsteadily slips with entry - like an old maid (wordplay)

In a lively manner

The measurement of lung capacity

With malice aforethought

That's with Ma, lice

With malice

Magnificently

Having no children, bestow identity on couple from Lyon with much magnificence

SPORTFUL {playful=adj}

In sport; sportively.

In fun

SPOTLESS {clean=adj}

SPURIOUS not genuine

SQUARISH somewhat square

""The gentlemen, or gentry, of a country, collectively.""

Eccentric

In a stagnant manner.

In a steadfast way

Resolutely.

STANDARD an established measure of comparison

With no movement

Still, try it on as a change!

Transformed into art, say, like a statue

Train halt has a short track still

Files, perhaps, not changing for hearing

Materials needed for writing

End of the quip

How to return after curfew, say

In a covert manner

Cautiously, surreptitiously

Rough playtimes involving female relatives

Those inherited after a break-up in my past life

STEREO to make a type of printing plate

The art or process of making stereotype plates.

""STERICAL pertaining to atoms in a molecule, also STERIC""

In stellar fashion

STIFLING the act of stifling

STINGING the act of stinging

In a stinking manner; with an offensive smell.

In a right line; not crookedly.

Slow Scottish dance

Scot. country dance

Dance with shyster apt to twist

Darryl's choice (wordplay)

Fruit for Darryl (wordplay)

Fruit for Darryl?

In a loud, harsh way

In a shrill way

It's cunning to carry a weapon with a loud noise

Very much

Rigour

Rigor

With unbending will

Soul's duty I interpreted with diligence

With hard work, i get a soul in the work-place

Thoughtfully, promises to pay for service gets to be cunning

With knockout effect

ACUTELY to a greater degree

ECONOMY {thrift=n}

Located beneath or below; underlying.

POTENCY the quality of being potent

Contributory funds one put on daily account

Minor international journal chasing advance payments

""SOCIETY an organized group, a fellowship, also SODALITY""

""TENANCY the temporary occupancy of something that belongs to another, also TENANTRY""

TOTALLY completely

""A subordinate variety, or a division of a variety.""

VOCALLY with the voice

Without wasting a word

To the point

(Expressed) clearly and briefly

SUFFER to feel pain or distress

See hackberry .

SUICIDAL self-destructive

Any of several complex temperature-resistant alloys.

(Physics / General Physics) Physics denoting or relating to elements of high atomic number (above 109) postulated to exist with special stability as a consequence of the shell model of the nucleus

Cross about fairy heading for Oberon in condescending manner

SUPERNAL pertaining to the sky

That which is to supply what is wanted.

*As it's widely believed

Assume, for the sake of argument... (inaccurate usage, to purists)