| allspice | (noun) ground dried berrylike fruit of a West Indian allspice tree; suggesting combined flavors of cinnamon and nutmeg and cloves | - |
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| (noun) aromatic West Indian tree that produces allspice berries | Synonyms: allspice tree, Pimenta dioica, pimento tree |
| (noun) deciduous shrubs having aromatic bark; eastern China; southwestern and eastern United States | - |
| aspic | (noun) savory jelly based on fish or meat stock used as a mold for meats or vegetables | - |
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| auspicate | (verb) commence in a manner calculated to bring good luck | - |
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| (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate |
| auspice | (noun) a favorable omen | - |
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| auspices | (noun) kindly endorsement and guidance | Synonyms: aegis, protection |
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| auspicious | (adjective) auguring favorable circumstances and good luck | - |
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| auspiciously | (adverb) in an auspicious manner | Synonyms: propitiously |
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| auspiciousness | (noun) the favorable quality of strongly indicating a successful result | Synonyms: propitiousness |
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| conspicuous | (adjective) obvious to the eye or mind | - |
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| (adjective) without any attempt at concealment; completely obvious | Synonyms: blatant, blazing |
| conspicuously | (adverb) in a manner tending to attract attention | - |
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| (adverb) in a prominent way | Synonyms: prominently |
| conspicuousness | (noun) high visibility | - |
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| (noun) the state of being conspicuous | - |
| despicability | (noun) unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values | Synonyms: baseness, contemptibility, despicableness, sordidness |
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| despicable | (adjective) morally reprehensible | Synonyms: slimy, ugly, unworthy, vile, worthless, wretched |
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| despicableness | (noun) unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values | Synonyms: baseness, contemptibility, despicability, sordidness |
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| despicably | (adverb) in a despicable manner | - |
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| hospice | (noun) a program of medical and emotional care for the terminally ill | - |
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| (noun) a lodging for travelers (especially one kept by a monastic order) | - |
| inauspicious | (adjective) not auspicious; boding ill | Synonyms: unfortunate |
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| (adjective) contrary to your interests or welfare | Synonyms: adverse, untoward |
| (adjective) presaging ill fortune | Synonyms: ill, ominous |
| inauspiciously | (adverb) in an inauspicious manner | Synonyms: unpropitiously |
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| inauspiciousness | (noun) the quality of suggesting an unsuccessful result | Synonyms: unpropitiousness |
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| inconspicuous | (adjective) not prominent or readily noticeable | Synonyms: invisible |
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| inconspicuously | (adverb) in a manner intended to avoid attracting attention | - |
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| inconspicuousness | (noun) the quality of being not easily seen | - |
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| mispickel | (noun) a silver-white or grey ore of arsenic | Synonyms: arsenopyrite |
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| oversuspicious | (adjective) unduly suspicious | - |
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| perspicacious | (adjective) mentally acute or penetratingly discerning | Synonyms: clear-eyed, clear-sighted |
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| (adjective) acutely insightful and wise | Synonyms: sagacious, sapient |
| perspicaciousness | (noun) intelligence manifested by being astute (as in business dealings) | Synonyms: astuteness, perspicacity, shrewdness |
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| perspicacity | (noun) the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions | Synonyms: judgement, judgment, sound judgement, sound judgment |
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| (noun) intelligence manifested by being astute (as in business dealings) | Synonyms: astuteness, perspicaciousness, shrewdness |
| perspicuity | (noun) clarity as a consequence of being perspicuous | Synonyms: perspicuousness, plainness |
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| perspicuous | (adjective) (of language) transparently clear; easily understandable | Synonyms: crystal clear, limpid, lucid, luculent, pellucid |
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| perspicuously | (adverb) in a clear and lucid manner | Synonyms: limpidly, lucidly, pellucidly |
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| perspicuousness | (noun) clarity as a consequence of being perspicuous | Synonyms: perspicuity, plainness |
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| prospicience | (noun) seeing ahead; knowing in advance; foreseeing | Synonyms: farsightedness, foresight, prevision |
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| prospicient | (adjective) planning prudently for the future | Synonyms: farseeing, farsighted, foresighted, foresightful, long, longsighted |
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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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| (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for persons of Latin American descent | Synonyms: spick, spik |
| spicate | (adjective) having or relating to spikes | - |
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| spiccato | (noun) bowing in such a way that the bow bounces lightly off the strings | Synonyms: spiccato bowing |
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| spice | (noun) the property of being seasoned with spice and so highly flavored | Synonyms: spicery, spiciness |
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| (noun) any of a variety of pungent aromatic vegetable substances used for flavoring food | - |
| (noun) aromatic substances of vegetable origin used as a preservative | - |
| (verb) make more interesting or flavorful | Synonyms: spice up |
| (verb) add herbs or spices to | Synonyms: spice up, zest |
| spiceberry | (noun) spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil | Synonyms: boxberry, checkerberry, teaberry, wintergreen |
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| (noun) shrub with coral-red berries; Japan to northern India | Synonyms: Ardisia crenata, coralberry |
| spicebush | (noun) deciduous shrub of the eastern United States having highly aromatic leaves and bark and yellow flowers followed by scarlet or yellow berries | Synonyms: American spicebush, Benjamin bush, Benzoin odoriferum, Lindera benzoin, spice bush |
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| (noun) straggling aromatic shrub of southwestern United States having fragrant brown flowers | Synonyms: California allspice, Calycanthus occidentalis |
| spicemill | (noun) a mill for grinding spices | - |
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| spicery | (noun) the property of being seasoned with spice and so highly flavored | Synonyms: spice, spiciness |
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| spicily | (adverb) with strong spices; in a spicy manner | Synonyms: piquantly |
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| spiciness | (noun) the property of being seasoned with spice and so highly flavored | Synonyms: spice, spicery |
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| (noun) behavior or language bordering on indelicacy | Synonyms: gaminess, raciness, ribaldry |
| spick | (adjective) completely neat and clean | Synonyms: immaculate, speckless, spic-and-span, spic, spick-and-span, spotless |
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| (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for persons of Latin American descent | Synonyms: spic, spik |
| spicule | (noun) small pointed structure serving as a skeletal element in various marine and freshwater invertebrates e.g. sponges and corals | Synonyms: spiculum |
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| spiculum | (noun) small pointed structure serving as a skeletal element in various marine and freshwater invertebrates e.g. sponges and corals | Synonyms: spicule |
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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 |
| suspicion | (noun) being of a suspicious nature | Synonyms: suspiciousness |
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| (noun) doubt about someone's honesty | Synonyms: distrust, misgiving, mistrust |
| (noun) an impression that something might be the case | Synonyms: hunch, intuition |
| (noun) the state of being suspected | - |
| suspicious | (adjective) openly distrustful and unwilling to confide | Synonyms: leery, mistrustful, untrusting, wary |
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| (adjective) not as expected | Synonyms: fishy, funny, shady, suspect |
| suspiciously | (adverb) with suspicion | - |
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| suspiciousness | (noun) being of a suspicious nature | Synonyms: suspicion |
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| unsuspicious | (adjective) not suspicious | Synonyms: unsuspecting |
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