| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| spacong | present participle & vb. noun | of Space |
| spacial | adjective | See Spatial. |
| spaddle | noun | A little spade. |
| spading | present participle & vb. noun | of Spade |
| spaeing | present participle & vb. noun | of Spae |
| spaeman | noun | A prophet; a diviner. |
| spanned | imp. & past participle | of Span |
| spancel | noun | A rope used for tying or hobbling the legs of a horse or cow., To tie or hobble with a spancel. |
| spangle | noun | A small plate or boss of shining metal; something brilliant used as an ornament, especially when stitched on the dress., Figuratively, any little thing that sparkless., To set or sprinkle with, or as with, spangles; to adorn with small, distinct, brilliant bodies; as, a spangled breastplate., To show brilliant spots or points; to glisten; to glitter. |
| spangly | adjective | Resembling, or consisting of, spangles; glittering; as, spangly light. |
| spaniel | noun | One of a breed of small dogs having long and thick hair and large drooping ears. The legs are usually strongly feathered, and the tail bushy. See Illust. under Clumber, and Cocker., A cringing, fawning person., Cringing; fawning., To fawn; to cringe; to be obsequious., To follow like a spaniel. |
| spanish | adjective | Of or pertaining to Spain or the Spaniards., The language of Spain. |
| spanked | imp. & past participle | of Spank |
| spanker | noun | One who spanks, or anything used as an instrument for spanking., The after sail of a ship or bark, being a fore-and-aft sail attached to a boom and gaff; — sometimes called driver. See Illust. under Sail., One who takes long, quick strides in walking; also, a fast horse., Something very large, or larger than common; a whopper, as a stout or tall person., A small coin. |
| spanner | noun | One who, or that which, spans., The lock of a fusee or carbine; also, the fusee or carbine itself., An iron instrument having a jaw to fit a nut or the head of a bolt, and used as a lever to turn it with; a wrench; specifically, a wrench for unscrewing or tightening the couplings of hose., A contrivance in some of the ealier steam engines for moving the valves for the alternate admission and shutting off of the steam. |
| sparred | imp. & past participle | of Spar |
| sparada | noun | A small California surf fish (Micrometrus aggregatus); — called also shiner. |
| sparage | noun | Alt. of Sparagrass |
| sparble | verb t. | To scatter; to disperse; to rout. |
| sparing | present participle & vb. noun | of Spare, Spare; saving; frugal; merciful. |
| sparely | adverb | In a spare manner; sparingly. |
| sparger | noun | A vessel with a perforated cover, for sprinkling with a liquid; a sprinkler. |
| sparker | noun | A spark arrester. |
| sparkle | noun | A little spark; a scintillation., Brilliancy; luster; as, the sparkle of a diamond., To emit sparks; to throw off ignited or incandescent particles; to shine as if throwing off sparks; to emit flashes of light; to scintillate; to twinkle; as, the blazing wood sparkles; the stars sparkle., To manifest itself by, or as if by, emitting sparks; to glisten; to flash., To emit little bubbles, as certain kinds of liquors; to effervesce; as, sparkling wine., To emit in the form or likeness of sparks., To disperse., To scatter on or over. |
| sparoid | adjective | Of or pertaining to the Sparidae, a family of spinous-finned fishes which includes the scup, sheepshead, and sea bream., One of the Sparidae. |
| sparrow | noun | One of many species of small singing birds of the family Fringilligae, having conical bills, and feeding chiefly on seeds. Many sparrows are called also finches, and buntings. The common sparrow, or house sparrow, of Europe (Passer domesticus) is noted for its familiarity, its voracity, its attachment to its young, and its fecundity. See House sparrow, under House., Any one of several small singing birds somewhat resembling the true sparrows in form or habits, as the European hedge sparrow. See under Hedge. |
| sparsim | adverb | Sparsely; scatteredly; here and there. |
| spartan | adjective | Of or pertaining to Sparta, especially to ancient Sparta; hence, hardy; undaunted; as, Spartan souls; Spartan bravey., A native or inhabitant of Sparta; figuratively, a person of great courage and fortitude. |
| spastic | adjective | Of or pertaining to spasm; spasmodic; especially, pertaining to tonic spasm; tetanic. |
| spatted | imp. & past participle | of Spat |
| spathae | plural | of Spatha |
| spathal | adjective | Furnished with a spathe; as, spathal flowers. |
| spathed | adjective | Having a spathe or calyx like a sheath. |
| spathic | adjective | Like spar; foliated or lamellar; spathose. |
| spatial | adjective | Of or pertaining to space. |
| spatter | verb t. | To sprinkle with a liquid or with any wet substance, as water, mud, or the like; to make wet of foul spots upon by sprinkling; as, to spatter a coat; to spatter the floor; to spatter boots with mud., To distribute by sprinkling; to sprinkle around; as, to spatter blood., Fig.: To injure by aspersion; to defame; to soil; also, to throw out in a defamatory manner., To throw something out of the mouth in a scattering manner; to sputter. |
| spattle | noun | Spawl; spittle., A spatula., A tool or implement for mottling a molded article with coloring matter |
| spatula | noun | An implement shaped like a knife, flat, thin, and somewhat flexible, used for spreading paints, fine plasters, drugs in compounding prescriptions, etc. Cf. Palette knife, under Palette. |
| spawled | imp. & past participle | of Spawl |
| spawned | imp. & past participle | of Spawn |
| spawner | noun | A mature female fish., Whatever produces spawn of any kind. |
| spaying | present participle & vb. noun | of Spay |
| spayade | noun | A spay. |
| speaker | noun | One who speaks., One who utters or pronounces a discourse; usually, one who utters a speech in public; as, the man is a good speaker, or a bad speaker., One who is the mouthpiece of others; especially, one who presides over, or speaks for, a delibrative assembly, preserving order and regulating the debates; as, the Speaker of the House of Commons, originally, the mouthpiece of the House to address the king; the Speaker of a House of Representatives., A book of selections for declamation. |
| speking | noun | The act of uttering words., Public declamation; oratory. |
| speared | imp. & past participle | of Spear |
| spearer | noun | One who uses a spear; as, a spearer of fish. |
| special | adjective | Of or pertaining to a species; constituting a species or sort., Particular; peculiar; different from others; extraordinary; uncommon., Appropriate; designed for a particular purpose, occasion, or person; as, a special act of Parliament or of Congress; a special sermon., Limited in range; confined to a definite field of action, investigation, or discussion; as, a special dictionary of commercial terms; a special branch of study., Chief in excellence., A particular., One appointed for a special service or occasion. |
| species | noun | Visible or sensible presentation; appearance; a sensible percept received by the imagination; an image., A group of individuals agreeing in common attributes, and designated by a common name; a conception subordinated to another conception, called a genus, or generic conception, from which it differs in containing or comprehending more attributes, and extending to fewer individuals. Thus, man is a species, under animal as a genus; and man, in its turn, may be regarded as a genus with respect to European, American, or the like, as species., In science, a more or less permanent group of existing things or beings, associated according to attributes, or properties determined by scientific observation., A sort; a kind; a variety; as, a species of low cunning; a species of generosity; a species of cloth., Coin, or coined silver, gold, ot other metal, used as a circulating medium; specie., A public spectacle or exhibition., A component part of compound medicine; a simple., An officinal mixture or compound powder of any kind; esp., one used for making an aromatic tea or tisane; a tea mixture., The form or shape given to materials; fashion or shape; form; figure. |
| specify | verb t. | To mention or name, as a particular thing; to designate in words so as to distinguish from other things; as, to specify the uses of a plant; to specify articles purchased. |
| specked | imp. & past participle | of Speck |
| speckle | noun | A little or spot in or anything, of a different substance or color from that of the thing itself., To mark with small spots of a different color from that of the rest of the surface; to variegate with spots of a different color from the ground or surface. |
| specter | noun | Alt. of Spectre |
| spectre | noun | Something preternaturally visible; an apparition; a ghost; a phantom., The tarsius., A stick insect., See Specter. |
| spectra | plural | of Spectrum |
| specula | plural | of Speculum |
| speeded | of Speed | |
| speeder | noun | One who, or that which, speeds., A machine for drawing and twisting slivers to form rovings. |
| speight | noun | A woodpecker; — called also specht, spekt, spight. |
| spelled | imp. & past participle | of Spell, of Spell |
| speller | noun | One who spells., A spelling book. |
| spelter | noun | Zinc; — especially so called in commerce and arts. |
| spelunc | noun | A cavern; a cave. |
| spencer | noun | One who has the care of the spence, or buttery., A short jacket worn by men and by women., A fore-and-aft sail, abaft the foremast or the mainmast, hoisted upon a small supplementary mast and set with a gaff and no boom; a trysail carried at the foremast or mainmast; — named after its inventor, Knight Spencer, of England [1802]. |
| spender | noun | One who spends; esp., one who spends lavishly; a prodigal; a spendthrift. |
| sperage | noun | Asperagus. |
| sperate | adjective | Hoped for, or to be hoped for. |
| spermo- | Combining forms from Gr. spe`rma, -atos, seed, sperm, semen (of plants or animals); as, spermatoblast, spermoblast. | |
| spermic | adjective | Of or pertaining to sperm, or semen. |
| spewing | present participle& vb. noun | of Spew |
| sphacel | noun | Gangrene. |
| spheno- | A combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation to, the sphenoid bone; as in sphenomaxillary, sphenopalatine. | |
| spheral | adjective | Of or pertaining to a sphere or the spheres., Rounded like a sphere; sphere-shaped; hence, symmetrical; complete; perfect. |
| sphered | imp. & past participle | of Sphere |
| spheric | adjective | Having the form of a sphere; like a sphere; globular; orbicular; as, a spherical body., Of or pertaining to a sphere., Of or pertaining to the heavenly orbs, or to the sphere or spheres in which, according to ancient astronomy and astrology, they were set. |
| spicate | adjective | Alt. of Spicated |
| spicing | past participle & vb. noun | of Spice |
| spicery | noun | Spices, in general., A repository of spices. |
| spicily | adverb | In a spicy manner. |
| spicose | adjective | Having spikes, or ears, like corn spikes. |
| spicous | adjective | See Spicose. |
| spicula | noun | A little spike; a spikelet., A pointed fleshy appendage., of Spiculum |
| spicule | noun | A minute, slender granule, or point., Same as Spicula., Any small calcareous or siliceous body found in the tissues of various invertebrate animals, especially in sponges and in most Alcyonaria. |
| spignel | noun | Same as Spickenel. |
| spignet | noun | An aromatic plant of America. See Spikenard. |
| spiking | present participle & vb. noun | of Spike |
| spilled | imp. & past participle | of Spill |
| spiller | noun | One who, or that which, spills., A kind of fishing line with many hooks; a boulter. |
| spilter | noun | Any one of the small branches on a stag’s head. |
| spinach | noun | Alt. of Spinage |
| spinage | noun | A common pot herb (Spinacia oleracea) belonging to the Goosefoot family. |
| spinate | adjective | Bearing a spine; spiniform. |
| spindle | noun | The long, round, slender rod or pin in spinning wheels by which the thread is twisted, and on which, when twisted, it is wound; also, the pin on which the bobbin is held in a spinning machine, or in the shuttle of a loom., A slender rod or pin on which anything turns; an axis; as, the spindle of a vane., The shaft, mandrel, or arbor, in a machine tool, as a lathe or drilling machine, etc., which causes the work to revolve, or carries a tool or center, etc., The vertical rod on which the runner of a grinding mill turns., A shaft or pipe on which a core of sand is formed., The fusee of a watch., A long and slender stalk resembling a spindle., A yarn measure containing, in cotton yarn, 15,120 yards; in linen yarn, 14,400 yards., A solid generated by the revolution of a curved line about its base or double ordinate or chord., Any marine univalve shell of the genus Rostellaria; — called also spindle stromb., Any marine gastropod of the genus Fusus., To shoot or grow into a long, slender stalk or body; to become disproportionately tall and slender. |
| spinner | noun | One who, or that which, spins one skilled in spinning; a spinning machine., A spider., A goatsucker; — so called from the peculiar noise it makes when darting through the air., A spinneret. |
| spinney | noun | Same as Spinny. |
| spinose | adjective | Full of spines; armed with thorns; thorny. |
| spinous | adjective | Spinose; thorny., Having the form of a spine or thorn; spinelike. |
| spinule | noun | A minute spine. |
| spiodea | noun pl. | An extensive division of marine Annelida, including those that are without oral tentacles or cirri, and have the gills, when present, mostly arranged along the sides of the body. They generally live in burrows or tubes. |
| spiraea | noun | A genus of shrubs or perennial herbs including the meadowsweet and the hardhack. |
| spirant | noun | A term used differently by different authorities; — by some as equivalent to fricative, — that is, as including all the continuous consonants, except the nasals m, n, ng; with the further exception, by others, of the liquids r, l, and the semivowels w, y; by others limited to f, v, th surd and sonant, and the sound of German ch, — thus excluding the sibilants, as well as the nasals, liquids, and semivowels. See Guide to Pronunciation, // 197-208. |
| spiring | present participle & vb. noun | of Spire, Shooting up in a spire or spires. |
| spirtle | verb t. | To spirt in a scattering manner. |
| spirula | noun | A genus of cephalopods having a multilocular, internal, siphunculated shell in the form of a flat spiral, the coils of which are not in contact. |
| spitted | imp. & past participle | of Spit, Put upon a spit; pierced as if by a spit., Shot out long; — said of antlers., p. p. of Spit, v. i., to eject, to spit. |
| spitbox | noun | A vessel to receive spittle. |
| spiting | present participle & vb. noun | of Spite |
| spitful | noun | A spadeful. |
| spitous | adjective | Having spite; spiteful. |
| spitter | noun | One who ejects saliva from the mouth., One who puts meat on a spit., A young deer whose antlers begin to shoot or become sharp; a brocket, or pricket. |
| spittle | noun | See Spital., To dig or stir with a small spade., A small sort of spade., The thick, moist matter which is secreted by the salivary glands; saliva; spit. |
| spittly | adjective | Like spittle; slimy. |
| splashy | adjective | Full of dirty water; wet and muddy, so as be easily splashed about; slushy. |
| spleeny | adjective | Irritable; peevish; fretful., Affected with nervous complaints; melancholy. |
| spleget | noun | A cloth dipped in a liquid for washing a sore. |
| splenic | adjective | Of or pertaining to the spleen; lienal; as, the splenic vein. |
| spliced | imp. & past participle | of Splice |
| splotch | noun | A spot; a stain; a daub. |
| splurge | noun | A blustering demonstration, or great effort; a great display., To make a great display in any way, especially in oratory. |
| spoiled | imp. & past participle | of Spoil |
| spoiler | noun | One who spoils; a plunderer; a pillager; a robber; a despoiler., One who corrupts, mars, or renders useless. |
| spoking | present participle & vb. noun | of Spoke |
| spondee | noun | A poetic foot of two long syllables, as in the Latin word leges. |
| spondyl | noun | Alt. of Spondyle |
| sponged | imp. & past participle | of Sponge |
| sponger | noun | One who sponges, or uses a sponge., One employed in gathering sponges., Fig.: A parasitical dependent; a hanger-on. |
| spongin | noun | The chemical basis of sponge tissue, a nitrogenous, hornlike substance which on decomposition with sulphuric acid yields leucin and glycocoll. |
| sponsal | adjective | Relating to marriage, or to a spouse; spousal. |
| sponson | noun | One of the triangular platforms in front of, and abaft, the paddle boxes of a steamboat., One of the slanting supports under the guards of a steamboat., One of the armored projections fitted with gun ports, used on modern war vessels. |
| sponsor | noun | One who binds himself to answer for another, and is responsible for his default; a surety., One who at the baptism of an infant professore the christian faith in its name, and guarantees its religious education; a godfather or godmother. |
| spooled | imp. & past participle | of Spool |
| spooler | noun | One who, or that which, spools. |
| spooney | adjective | Weak-minded; demonstratively fond; as, spooney lovers., A weak-minded or silly person; one who is foolishly fond. |
| sporran | noun | A large purse or pouch made of skin with the hair or fur on, worn in front of the kilt by Highlanders when in full dress. |
| sported | imp. & past participle | of Sport |
| sportal | adjective | Of or pertaining to sports; used in sports. |
| sporter | noun | One who sports; a sportsman. |
| sporule | noun | A small spore; a spore. |
| spotted | imp. & past participle | of Spot, Marked with spots; as, a spotted garment or character. |
| spotter | noun | One who spots. |
| spousal | adjective | Of or pertaining to a spouse or marriage; nuptial; matrimonial; conjugal; bridal; as, spousal rites; spousal ornaments., Marriage; nuptials; espousal; — generally used in the plural; as, the spousals of Hippolita. |
| spouted | imp. & past participle | of Spout |
| spouter | noun | One who, or that which, spouts. |
| spradde | imp. of Spread. | |
| sprenge | verb t. | To sprinkle; to scatter. |
| spreynd | p. p. of Sprenge. Sprinkled. | |
| spriggy | adjective | Full of sprigs or small branches. |
| spright | noun | Spirit; mind; soul; state of mind; mood., A supernatural being; a spirit; a shade; an apparition; a ghost., A kind of short arrow., To haunt, as a spright. |
| springe | verb i. | A noose fastened to an elastic body, and drawn close with a sudden spring, whereby it catches a bird or other animal; a gin; a snare., To catch in a springe; to insnare., To sprinkle; to scatter. |
| springy | superl. | Resembling, having the qualities of, or pertaining to, a spring; elastic; as, springy steel; a springy step., Abounding with springs or fountains; wet; spongy; as, springy land. |
| spruced | imp. & past participle | of Spruce |
| spuller | noun | One employed to inspect yarn, to see that it is well spun, and fit for the loom. |
| spulzie | noun | Plunder, or booty. |
| spuming | present participle & vb. noun | of Spume |
| spumous | adjective | Alt. of Spumy |
| spurred | imp. & past participle | of Spur, Wearing spurs; furnished with a spur or spurs; having shoots like spurs., Affected with spur, or ergot; as, spurred rye. |
| spurned | imp. & past participle | of Spurn |
| spurner | noun | One who spurns. |
| spurrer | noun | One who spurs. |
| spurrey | noun | See Spurry. |
| spurted | imp. & past participle | of Spurt |
| spurtle | verb t. | To spurt or shoot in a scattering manner. |
| spurway | noun | A bridle path. |
| sputter | verb i. | To spit, or to emit saliva from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking., To utter words hastily and indistinctly; to speak so rapidly as to emit saliva., To throw out anything, as little jets of steam, with a noise like that made by one sputtering., To spit out hastily by quick, successive efforts, with a spluttering sound; to utter hastily and confusedly, without control over the organs of speech., Moist matter thrown out in small detached particles; also, confused and hasty speech. |
| spyboat | noun | A boat sent to make discoveries and bring intelligence. |
| spynace | noun | Alt. of Spyne |