| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |