| speakable | (adjective) capable of being uttered in words or sentences | Synonyms: utterable |
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| speaking | (adjective) capable of or involving speech or speaking | - |
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| (adjective) capable of speech | Synonyms: speech-endowed |
| special | (adjective) for a special service or occasion | - |
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| (adjective) first and most important | Synonyms: particular |
| (adjective) adapted to or reserved for a particular purpose | - |
| (adjective) having a specific function or scope | Synonyms: limited |
| (adjective) surpassing what is common or usual or expected | Synonyms: especial, exceptional, particular |
| (adjective) added to a regular schedule | Synonyms: extra |
| (adjective) unique or specific to a person or thing or category | Synonyms: particular, peculiar |
| specialised | (adjective) developed or designed for a special activity or function | Synonyms: specialized |
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| specialistic | (adjective) of or related to or characteristic of specialists | - |
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| (adjective) showing focused training | - |
| specialized | (adjective) developed or designed for a special activity or function | Synonyms: specialised |
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| specifiable | (adjective) capable of being specified | - |
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| specific | (adjective) (sometimes followed by `to') applying to or characterized by or distinguishing something particular or special or unique | - |
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| (adjective) being or affecting a disease produced by a particular microorganism or condition; used also of stains or dyes used in making microscope slides | - |
| (adjective) relating to or distinguishing or constituting a taxonomic species | - |
| (adjective) stated explicitly or in detail | - |
| specified | (adjective) clearly and explicitly stated | - |
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| specious | (adjective) plausible but false | Synonyms: spurious |
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| (adjective) based on pretense; deceptively pleasing | Synonyms: gilded, glossy, meretricious |
| specked | (adjective) having a pattern of dots | Synonyms: dotted, flecked, speckled, stippled |
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| speckled | (adjective) having a pattern of dots | Synonyms: dotted, flecked, specked, stippled |
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| speckless | (adjective) completely neat and clean | Synonyms: immaculate, spic-and-span, spic, spick-and-span, spick, spotless |
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| spectacled | (adjective) wearing, or having the face adorned with, eyeglasses or an eyeglass | Synonyms: bespectacled, monocled |
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| spectacular | (adjective) having a quality that thrusts itself into attention | Synonyms: outstanding, prominent, salient, striking |
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| (adjective) characteristic of spectacles or drama | - |
| (adjective) sensational in appearance or thrilling in effect | Synonyms: dramatic, striking |
| spectral | (adjective) of or relating to a spectrum | - |
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| (adjective) resembling or characteristic of a phantom | Synonyms: apparitional, ghostlike, ghostly, phantasmal, spiritual |
| spectrographic | (adjective) relating to or employing a spectrograph | - |
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| spectrometric | (adjective) of or relating to or involving spectrometry | - |
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| 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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