| spectroscopic | (adjective) of or relating to or involving spectroscopy | Synonyms: spectroscopical |
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| spectroscopical | (adjective) of or relating to or involving spectroscopy | Synonyms: spectroscopic |
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| specular | (adjective) capable of reflecting light like a mirror | Synonyms: mirrorlike |
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| speculative | (adjective) showing curiosity | Synonyms: inquisitive, questioning, wondering |
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| (adjective) not based on fact or investigation | Synonyms: notional |
| (adjective) not financially safe or secure | Synonyms: bad, high-risk, risky |
| speechless | (adjective) temporarily incapable of speaking | Synonyms: dumb |
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| speedy | (adjective) characterized by speed; moving with or capable of moving with high speed | Synonyms: rapid |
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| (adjective) accomplished rapidly and without delay | Synonyms: quick |
| spellbinding | (adjective) attracting and holding interest as if by a spell | Synonyms: hypnotic, mesmeric, mesmerizing |
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| spellbound | (adjective) having your attention fixated as though by a spell | Synonyms: fascinated, hypnotised, hypnotized, mesmerised, mesmerized, spell-bound, transfixed |
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| spendable | (adjective) (used of funds) remaining after taxes | Synonyms: expendable |
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| spendthrift | (adjective) recklessly wasteful | Synonyms: extravagant, prodigal, profligate |
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| spent | (adjective) depleted of energy, force, or strength | Synonyms: exhausted |
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| (adjective) drained of energy or effectiveness; extremely tired; completely exhausted | Synonyms: dog-tired, exhausted, fagged, fatigued, gone, played out, washed-out, worn-out, worn out |
| spermatic | (adjective) consisting of or resembling spermatozoa | Synonyms: spermous |
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| spermicidal | (adjective) destructive to spermatozoa | - |
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| spermous | (adjective) consisting of or resembling spermatozoa | Synonyms: spermatic |
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| spheric | (adjective) having the shape of a sphere or ball | Synonyms: ball-shaped, global, globose, globular, orbicular, spherical |
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| spherical | (adjective) of or relating to spheres or resembling a sphere | - |
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| (adjective) having the shape of a sphere or ball | Synonyms: ball-shaped, global, globose, globular, orbicular, spheric |
| spheroidal | (adjective) having the nature or shape of an ellipsoid | Synonyms: ellipsoid, ellipsoidal |
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| sphingine | (adjective) resembling a sphinx | - |
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| spic | (adjective) completely neat and clean | Synonyms: immaculate, speckless, spic-and-span, spick-and-span, spick, spotless |
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| spicate | (adjective) having or relating to spikes | - |
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| spick | (adjective) completely neat and clean | Synonyms: immaculate, speckless, spic-and-span, spic, spick-and-span, spotless |
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| spicy | (adjective) suggestive of sexual impropriety | Synonyms: blue, gamey, gamy, juicy, naughty, racy, risque |
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| (adjective) producing a burning sensation on the taste nerves | Synonyms: hot |
| spiderlike | (adjective) relating to or resembling a member of the class Arachnida | Synonyms: arachnidian, arachnoid, spiderly, spidery |
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| spiderly | (adjective) relating to or resembling a member of the class Arachnida | Synonyms: arachnidian, arachnoid, spiderlike, spidery |
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| spidery | (adjective) relating to or resembling a member of the class Arachnida | Synonyms: arachnidian, arachnoid, spiderlike, spiderly |
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| spiffing | (adjective) excellent or splendid | - |
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| spiffy | (adjective) marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners | Synonyms: dapper, dashing, jaunty, natty, raffish, rakish, snappy, spruce |
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| spiked | (adjective) having a long sharp point | - |
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| spikelike | (adjective) resembling a spike | - |
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| spiky | (adjective) having or as if having especially high-pitched spots | Synonyms: peaky |
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| spinal | (adjective) of or relating to the spine or spinal cord | - |
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| spindly | (adjective) long and lean | Synonyms: lank |
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| spineless | (adjective) lacking spiny processes | - |
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| (adjective) lacking a backbone or spinal column | Synonyms: invertebrate |
| (adjective) lacking courage or vitality | Synonyms: gutless, namby-pamby, wishy-washy |
| (adjective) lacking thorns | Synonyms: thornless |
| spinnable | (adjective) capable of being spun into fibres | Synonyms: spinnbar |
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| (adjective) capable or susceptible to being influenced by biased information | - |
| spinnbar | (adjective) capable of being spun into fibres | Synonyms: spinnable |
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| spinose | (adjective) armed with spines | - |
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| spinous | (adjective) having spines | Synonyms: spiny |
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| (adjective) shaped like a spine or thorn | Synonyms: acanthoid, acanthous |
| spiny | (adjective) having spines | Synonyms: spinous |
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| (adjective) having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. | Synonyms: barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, thorny |
| spiral | (adjective) in the shape of a coil | Synonyms: coiling, helical, spiraling, spiralling, turbinate, volute, voluted, whorled |
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| spiraling | (adjective) in the shape of a coil | Synonyms: coiling, helical, spiral, spiralling, turbinate, volute, voluted, whorled |
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| spiralling | (adjective) in the shape of a coil | Synonyms: coiling, helical, spiral, spiraling, turbinate, volute, voluted, whorled |
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| spirant | (adjective) of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f', `s', `z', or `th' in both `thin' and `then') | Synonyms: continuant, fricative, sibilant, strident |
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| spirited | (adjective) displaying animation, vigor, or liveliness | - |
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| (adjective) made lively or spirited | Synonyms: enlivened |
| (adjective) willing to face danger | Synonyms: game, gamey, gamy, gritty, mettlesome, spunky |
| (adjective) marked by lively action | Synonyms: bouncing, bouncy, peppy, zippy |
| spiritless | (adjective) lacking ardor or vigor or energy | - |
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| (adjective) evidencing little spirit or courage; overly submissive or compliant | Synonyms: meek |
| spiritous | (adjective) containing or of the nature of alcohol | Synonyms: spirituous |
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| spiritual | (adjective) lacking material body or form or substance | - |
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| (adjective) concerned with sacred matters or religion or the church | Synonyms: religious |
| (adjective) resembling or characteristic of a phantom | Synonyms: apparitional, ghostlike, ghostly, phantasmal, spectral |
| (adjective) concerned with or affecting the spirit or soul | Synonyms: unearthly |
| spiritualist | (adjective) of or relating to or connected with spiritualism | Synonyms: spiritualistic |
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| spiritualistic | (adjective) of or relating to or connected with spiritualism | Synonyms: spiritualist |
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| spirituous | (adjective) containing or of the nature of alcohol | Synonyms: spiritous |
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| spiteful | (adjective) showing malicious ill will and a desire to hurt; motivated by spite | Synonyms: despiteful, vindictive |
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| splanchnic | (adjective) relating to or affecting the viscera | Synonyms: visceral |
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| splashed | (adjective) covered with bright patches (often used in combination) | Synonyms: dabbled, spattered, splattered |
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| (adjective) (of a fluid) having been propelled about in flying drops or masses | - |
| splashy | (adjective) characterized by water flying about haphazardly | - |
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| (adjective) covered with patches of bright color | - |
| (adjective) marked by ostentation but often tasteless | Synonyms: flamboyant, showy |
| splattered | (adjective) covered with bright patches (often used in combination) | Synonyms: dabbled, spattered, splashed |
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| splay | (adjective) turned outward in an ungainly manner | - |
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| splayfoot | (adjective) having feet that turn outward | Synonyms: splayfooted |
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| splayfooted | (adjective) having feet that turn outward | Synonyms: splayfoot |
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| splendid | (adjective) having great beauty and splendor | Synonyms: glorious, resplendent, splendiferous |
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| (adjective) characterized by grandeur | Synonyms: brilliant, glorious, magnificent |
| (adjective) very good; of the highest quality | Synonyms: excellent, fantabulous, first-class, mean, ripping |
| splendiferous | (adjective) having great beauty and splendor | Synonyms: glorious, resplendent, splendid |
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| splenetic | (adjective) of or relating to the spleen | Synonyms: lienal, splenic |
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| (adjective) very irritable | Synonyms: bristly, prickly, waspish |
| splenic | (adjective) of or relating to the spleen | Synonyms: lienal, splenetic |
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| splinterless | (adjective) resistant to shattering or splintering | Synonyms: shatterproof, splinterproof |
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| splinterproof | (adjective) resistant to shattering or splintering | Synonyms: shatterproof, splinterless |
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| splintery | (adjective) resembling or consisting of or embedded with long slender fragments of (especially) wood having sharp points | Synonyms: slivery |
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| (adjective) subject to breaking into sharp slender pieces | - |
| split | (adjective) (especially of wood) cut or ripped longitudinally with the grain | - |
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| (adjective) having been divided; having the unity destroyed | Synonyms: disconnected, disunited, fragmented |
| splitting | (adjective) resembling a sound of violent tearing as of something ripped apart or lightning splitting a tree | Synonyms: rending, ripping |
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| splotched | (adjective) marked with irregularly shaped spots or blots | Synonyms: blotched, blotchy |
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| spoilable | (adjective) liable to decay or spoil or become putrid | Synonyms: decayable, putrefiable, putrescible |
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| spoiled | (adjective) having the character or disposition harmed by pampering or oversolicitous attention | Synonyms: spoilt |
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| (adjective) (of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition | Synonyms: bad, spoilt |
| spoilt | (adjective) affected by blight; anything that mars or prevents growth or prosperity | Synonyms: blighted |
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| (adjective) having the character or disposition harmed by pampering or oversolicitous attention | Synonyms: spoiled |
| (adjective) (of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition | Synonyms: bad, spoiled |
| spoken | (adjective) uttered through the medium of speech or characterized by speech; sometimes used in combination | - |
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| spondaic | (adjective) of or consisting of spondees | - |
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| spongelike | (adjective) like a sponge in being able to absorb liquids and yield it back when compressed | Synonyms: spongy |
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| (adjective) easily squashed; resembling a sponge in having soft porous texture and compressibility | Synonyms: spongy, squashy, squishy |
| spongy | (adjective) like a sponge in being able to absorb liquids and yield it back when compressed | Synonyms: spongelike |
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| (adjective) easily squashed; resembling a sponge in having soft porous texture and compressibility | Synonyms: spongelike, squashy, squishy |
| spontaneous | (adjective) happening or arising without apparent external cause | Synonyms: self-generated |
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| (adjective) said or done without having been planned or written in advance | Synonyms: ad-lib, unwritten |
| spooky | (adjective) unpredictably excitable (especially of horses) | Synonyms: flighty, nervous, skittish |
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| spoopy | (adjective) funny and spooky at the same time | - |
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| sporadic | (adjective) recurring in scattered and irregular or unpredictable instances | - |
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| sporogenous | (adjective) producing spores or reproducing by means of spores | - |
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| sporting | (adjective) relating to or used in sports | - |
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| (adjective) involving risk or willingness to take a risk | - |
| (adjective) exhibiting or calling for sportsmanship or fair play | Synonyms: clean, sportsmanlike, sporty |
| (adjective) preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance | Synonyms: betting, card-playing, dissipated, gambling |
| sportive | (adjective) relating to or interested in sports | - |
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| (adjective) given to merry frolicking | Synonyms: coltish, frolicky, frolicsome, rollicking |
| sportsmanlike | (adjective) exhibiting or calling for sportsmanship or fair play | Synonyms: clean, sporting, sporty |
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| sporty | (adjective) appropriate for sport or engagement in a sport | - |
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| (adjective) (used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display | Synonyms: flashy, gaudy, jazzy, showy |
| (adjective) exhibiting or calling for sportsmanship or fair play | Synonyms: clean, sporting, sportsmanlike |
| spotless | (adjective) completely neat and clean | Synonyms: immaculate, speckless, spic-and-span, spic, spick-and-span, spick |
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| spotted | (adjective) having spots or patches (small areas of contrasting color or texture) | Synonyms: patched, spotty |
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| spotty | (adjective) lacking consistency | Synonyms: scratchy, uneven |
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| (adjective) having spots or patches (small areas of contrasting color or texture) | Synonyms: patched, spotted |
| spousal | (adjective) relating to a spouse | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to a wedding | Synonyms: bridal, nuptial |
| spouting | (adjective) propelled violently in a usually narrow stream | Synonyms: jetting, spurting, squirting |
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| sprawling | (adjective) spreading out in different directions or distributed irregularly | Synonyms: rambling, straggling, straggly |
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| sprawly | (adjective) extended out irregularly | - |
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| spread | (adjective) distributed or spread over a considerable extent | Synonyms: dispersed |
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| (adjective) fully extended in width | Synonyms: outspread |
| (adjective) prepared or arranged for a meal; especially having food set out | - |
| sprigged | (adjective) decorated with designs of sprigs | - |
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| sprightly | (adjective) full of spirit and vitality | - |
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| springless | (adjective) lacking in elasticity or vitality | - |
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| springlike | (adjective) resembling a spring or the action of a spring | - |
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| springy | (adjective) (of movements) light and confidently active | - |
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| (adjective) elastic; rebounds readily | Synonyms: bouncy, live, lively, resilient |
| sprouted | (adjective) (of growing vegetation) having just emerged from the ground | - |
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| spruce | (adjective) marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners | Synonyms: dapper, dashing, jaunty, natty, raffish, rakish, snappy, spiffy |
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| spry | (adjective) moving quickly and lightly | Synonyms: agile, nimble, quick |
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| spumy | (adjective) emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation | Synonyms: bubbling, bubbly, effervescing, foaming, foamy, frothy |
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