| cockspur | (noun) small spiny West Indian tree | Synonyms: Pisonia aculeata |
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| (noun) widely grown stout Old World hay and pasture grass | Synonyms: cocksfoot, Dactylis glomerata, orchard grass |
| disputable | (adjective) capable of being disproved | Synonyms: debatable |
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| (adjective) open to argument or debate | Synonyms: arguable, debatable, moot |
| disputant | (noun) a person who disputes; who is good at or enjoys controversy | Synonyms: controversialist, eristic |
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| disputation | (noun) the formal presentation of a stated proposition and the opposition to it (usually followed by a vote) | Synonyms: debate, public debate |
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| (noun) a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement | Synonyms: arguing, argument, contention, contestation, controversy, disceptation, tilt |
| disputatious | (adjective) inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits | Synonyms: combative, contentious, disputative, litigious |
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| disputatiously | (adverb) in a disputatious manner | Synonyms: argumentatively |
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| disputative | (adjective) inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits | Synonyms: combative, contentious, disputatious, litigious |
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| dispute | (noun) coming into conflict with | Synonyms: contravention |
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| (noun) a disagreement or argument about something important | Synonyms: conflict, difference, difference of opinion |
| (verb) take exception to | Synonyms: challenge, gainsay |
| (verb) have a disagreement over something | Synonyms: altercate, argufy, quarrel, scrap |
| disputed | (adjective) subject to disagreement and debate | - |
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| finespun | (adjective) developed in excessively fine detail | Synonyms: hairsplitting |
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| (adjective) developed with extreme delicacy and subtlety | Synonyms: delicate |
| homespun | (adjective) made of cloth spun or woven in the home | - |
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| (adjective) of textiles; having a rough surface | Synonyms: nubbly, nubby, slubbed, tweedy |
| (adjective) characteristic of country life | Synonyms: cracker-barrel |
| (noun) a rough loosely woven fabric originally made with yarn that was spun at home | - |
| hotspur | (noun) a rash or impetuous person | - |
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| indisputability | (noun) the quality of being beyond question or dispute or doubt | Synonyms: indubitability, unquestionability, unquestionableness |
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| indisputable | (adjective) impossible to doubt or dispute | Synonyms: sure |
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| (adjective) not open to question; obviously true | Synonyms: incontestable, undisputable |
| larkspur | (noun) any of numerous cultivated plants of the genus Delphinium | - |
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| sandspur | (noun) grass of the eastern United States and tropical America having spikelets enclosed in prickly burs | Synonyms: Cenchrus tribuloides, field sandbur, sandbur |
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| spud | (noun) a sharp hand shovel for digging out roots and weeds | Synonyms: stump spud |
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| (noun) an edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland | Synonyms: Irish potato, murphy, potato, tater, white potato |
| (verb) produce buds, branches, or germinate | Synonyms: bourgeon, burgeon forth, germinate, pullulate, shoot, sprout |
| (verb) initiate drilling operations, as for petroleum | - |
| spue | (verb) eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: barf, be sick, cast, cat, chuck, disgorge, honk, puke, purge, regorge, regurgitate, retch, sick, spew, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomit up |
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| (verb) expel or eject (saliva or phlegm or sputum) from the mouth | Synonyms: ptyalise, ptyalize, spew, spit |
| spume | (noun) foam or froth on the sea | - |
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| (verb) make froth or foam and become bubbly | Synonyms: froth, suds |
| spumy | (adjective) emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation | Synonyms: bubbling, bubbly, effervescing, foaming, foamy, frothy |
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| spunk | (noun) the courage to carry on | Synonyms: heart, mettle, nerve |
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| (noun) material for starting a fire | Synonyms: kindling, punk, tinder, touchwood |
| spunky | (adjective) willing to face danger | Synonyms: game, gamey, gamy, gritty, mettlesome, spirited |
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| (adjective) showing courage | Synonyms: feisty, plucky |
| spur | (noun) a sharp prod fixed to a rider's heel and used to urge a horse onward | Synonyms: gad |
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| (noun) a railway line connected to a trunk line | Synonyms: branch line, spur track |
| (noun) a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something | Synonyms: goad, goading, prod, prodding, spurring, urging |
| (noun) tubular extension at the base of the corolla in some flowers | - |
| (noun) any sharply pointed projection | Synonyms: acantha, spine |
| (verb) goad with spurs | - |
| (verb) equip with spurs | - |
| (verb) strike with a spur | - |
| (verb) give heart or courage to | Synonyms: goad |
| (verb) incite or stimulate | - |
| spurge | (noun) any of numerous plants of the genus Euphorbia; usually having milky often poisonous juice | - |
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| spurious | (adjective) false or fake; not what it appears to be | Synonyms: inauthentic, unauthentic |
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| (adjective) plausible but false | Synonyms: specious |
| (adjective) born out of wedlock | Synonyms: bastardly, misbegot, misbegotten |
| (adjective) ostensibly valid, but not actually valid | - |
| spuriously | (adverb) in a false and spurious manner | - |
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| spuriousness | (noun) state of lacking genuineness | - |
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| spurn | (verb) reject with contempt | Synonyms: disdain, freeze off, pooh-pooh, reject, scorn, turn down |
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| spurned | (adjective) rebuffed (by a lover) without warning | Synonyms: jilted, rejected |
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| spurner | (noun) a person who rejects (someone or something) with contempt | - |
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| spurring | (noun) a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something | Synonyms: goad, goading, prod, prodding, spur, urging |
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| spurt | (noun) the occurrence of a sudden discharge (as of liquid) | Synonyms: jet, spirt, squirt |
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| (verb) wet with a spurt of liquid | Synonyms: squirt |
| (verb) move or act with a sudden increase in speed or energy | Synonyms: forge, spirt |
| (verb) gush forth in a sudden stream or jet | Synonyms: gush, spirt, spout |
| spurting | (adjective) propelled violently in a usually narrow stream | Synonyms: jetting, spouting, squirting |
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| sputnik | (noun) a Russian artificial satellite | - |
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| sputter | (noun) an utterance (of words) with spitting sounds (as in rage) | Synonyms: splutter |
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| (noun) the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively | Synonyms: spatter, spattering, splatter, splattering, splutter, sputtering |
| (verb) spit up in an explosive manner | Synonyms: spit out, splutter |
| (verb) cause to undergo a process in which atoms are removed | - |
| (verb) utter with a spitting sound, as if in a rage | Synonyms: splutter |
| (verb) climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling | Synonyms: clamber, scramble, shin, shinny, skin, struggle |
| (verb) make an explosive sound | - |
| sputtering | (noun) the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively | Synonyms: spatter, spattering, splatter, splattering, splutter, sputter |
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| sputum | (noun) expectorated matter; saliva mixed with discharges from the respiratory passages; in ancient and medieval physiology it was believed to cause sluggishness | Synonyms: phlegm |
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| undisputable | (adjective) not open to question; obviously true | Synonyms: incontestable, indisputable |
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| undisputed | (adjective) generally agreed upon; not subject to dispute | Synonyms: unchallenged, unquestioned |
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| undisputedly | (adverb) in an unarguable and undisputed manner | Synonyms: inarguably, unarguably |
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