| spittlebug | (noun) small leaping herbivorous insect that lives in a mass of protective froth which it and its larvae secrete | Synonyms: spittle insect |
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| spittoon | (noun) a receptacle for spit (usually in a public place) | Synonyms: cuspidor |
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| spitz | (noun) any of various stocky heavy-coated breeds of dogs native to northern regions having pointed muzzles and erect ears with a curled furry tail | - |
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| spiv | (noun) a person without employment who makes money by various dubious schemes; goes about smartly dressed and having a good time | - |
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| splanchnic | (adjective) relating to or affecting the viscera | Synonyms: visceral |
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| splash | (noun) the act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface | Synonyms: spatter, spattering, splashing, splattering |
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| (noun) the act of scattering water about haphazardly | Synonyms: splashing |
| (noun) a patch of bright color | - |
| (noun) the sound like water splashing | Synonyms: plash |
| (noun) a small quantity of something moist or liquid | Synonyms: dab, splatter |
| (noun) a prominent or sensational but short-lived news event | Synonyms: stir |
| (verb) dash a liquid upon or against | Synonyms: plash, spatter, splatter, splosh, swash |
| (verb) cause (a liquid) to spatter about, especially with force | Synonyms: splosh, sprinkle |
| (verb) strike and dash about in a liquid | - |
| (verb) soil or stain with a splashed liquid | - |
| (verb) mark or overlay with patches of contrasting color or texture; cause to appear splashed or spattered | - |
| (verb) walk through mud or mire | Synonyms: slop, slosh, splosh, squelch, squish |
| (verb) make a splashing sound | Synonyms: slosh, slush, splosh |
| splashboard | (noun) protective covering consisting of a broad plank along a gunwale to keep water from splashing over the side | Synonyms: washboard |
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| (noun) protective covering consisting of a panel to protect people from the splashing water or mud etc. | Synonyms: dashboard, splasher |
| splashdown | (noun) a landing of a spacecraft in the sea at the end of a space flight | - |
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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 | - |
| splasher | (noun) a protective covering over or beside a wheel to protect the upper part of a vehicle from splashes of mud | - |
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| (noun) protective covering consisting of a panel to protect people from the splashing water or mud etc. | Synonyms: dashboard, splashboard |
| splashiness | (noun) lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity | Synonyms: inflation, ostentation, ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness, pretentiousness, puffiness |
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| splashing | (noun) the act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface | Synonyms: spatter, spattering, splash, splattering |
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| (noun) the act of scattering water about haphazardly | Synonyms: splash |
| 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 |
| splat | (noun) a slat of wood in the middle of the back of a straight chair | - |
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| (noun) a single splash | - |
| (verb) split open and flatten for cooking | - |
| (verb) flatten on impact | - |
| (verb) give off the sound of a bullet flattening on impact | - |
| splatter | (noun) the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively | Synonyms: spatter, spattering, splattering, splutter, sputter, sputtering |
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| (noun) a small quantity of something moist or liquid | Synonyms: dab, splash |
| (verb) cause or allow (a liquid substance) to run or flow from a container | Synonyms: slop, spill |
| (verb) dash a liquid upon or against | Synonyms: plash, spatter, splash, splosh, swash |
| splattered | (adjective) covered with bright patches (often used in combination) | Synonyms: dabbled, spattered, splashed |
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| splattering | (noun) the act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface | Synonyms: spatter, spattering, splash, splashing |
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| (noun) the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively | Synonyms: spatter, spattering, splatter, splutter, sputter, sputtering |
| splay | (adjective) turned outward in an ungainly manner | - |
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| (noun) an outward bevel around a door or window that makes it seem larger | - |
| (verb) move out of position | Synonyms: dislocate, luxate, slip |
| (verb) turn outward | Synonyms: rotate, spread out, turn out |
| (verb) spread open or apart | - |
| splayfoot | (adjective) having feet that turn outward | Synonyms: splayfooted |
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| (noun) a foot afflicted with a fallen arch; abnormally flattened and spread out | Synonyms: flatfoot, pes planus |
| splayfooted | (adjective) having feet that turn outward | Synonyms: splayfoot |
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| spleen | (noun) a large dark-red oval organ on the left side of the body between the stomach and the diaphragm; produces cells involved in immune responses | Synonyms: lien |
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| (noun) a feeling of resentful anger | Synonyms: irascibility, quick temper, short temper |
| spleenwort | (noun) any of various chiefly rock-inhabiting ferns of the genus Asplenium | - |
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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 |
| splendidly | (adverb) wonderfully | Synonyms: excellently, famously, magnificently |
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| (adverb) in an impressively beautiful manner | Synonyms: gorgeously, magnificently, resplendently |
| splendiferous | (adjective) having great beauty and splendor | Synonyms: glorious, resplendent, splendid |
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| splendor | (noun) a quality that outshines the usual | Synonyms: brilliancy, luster, lustre, splendour |
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| (noun) the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand | Synonyms: brilliance, grandeur, grandness, magnificence, splendour |
| splendour | (noun) a quality that outshines the usual | Synonyms: brilliancy, luster, lustre, splendor |
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| (noun) the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand | Synonyms: brilliance, grandeur, grandness, magnificence, splendor |
| splenectomy | (noun) surgical removal of the spleen | - |
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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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| splenitis | (noun) inflammation of the spleen | - |
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| splenius | (noun) either of two flat muscles that extend from the upper vertebrae to the base of the skull and serve to rotate or flex or extend the head and neck | Synonyms: splenius muscle |
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| splenomegaly | (noun) an abnormal enlargement of the spleen | - |
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| splice | (noun) joint made by overlapping two ends and joining them together | Synonyms: lap joint |
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| (noun) a junction where two things (as paper or film or magnetic tape) have been joined together | Synonyms: splicing |
| (verb) join by interweaving strands | - |
| (verb) join the ends of | - |
| (verb) join together so as to form new genetic combinations | - |
| (verb) perform a marriage ceremony | Synonyms: marry, tie, wed |
| splicer | (noun) a mechanical device for joining two pieces of paper or film or magnetic tape | - |
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| (noun) a worker who splices ropes together by interweaving strands | - |
| (noun) a woodworker who joins pieces of wood with a splice | - |
| splicing | (noun) a junction where two things (as paper or film or magnetic tape) have been joined together | Synonyms: splice |
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| spliff | (noun) marijuana leaves rolled into a cigarette for smoking | Synonyms: joint, marijuana cigarette, reefer, stick |
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| spline | (noun) a thin strip (wood or metal) | Synonyms: slat |
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| (noun) a flexible strip (wood or rubber) used in drawing curved lines | - |
| splint | (noun) an orthopedic mechanical device used to immobilize and protect a part of the body (as a broken leg) | - |
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| (noun) a thin sliver of wood | - |
| (verb) support with a splint | - |
| splinter | (noun) a small thin sharp bit of wood or glass or metal | Synonyms: sliver |
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| (verb) break up into splinters or slivers | Synonyms: sliver |
| (verb) withdraw from an organization or communion | Synonyms: break away, secede |
| (verb) divide into slivers or splinters | Synonyms: sliver |
| splintering | (noun) the act of chipping something | Synonyms: chip, chipping |
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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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| splinters | (noun) wood in small pieces or splinters | Synonyms: matchwood |
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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 |
| (noun) division of a group into opposing factions | Synonyms: schism |
| (noun) the act of rending or ripping or splitting something | Synonyms: rent, rip |
| (noun) extending the legs at right angles to the trunk (one in front and the other in back) | - |
| (noun) an increase in the number of outstanding shares of a corporation without changing the shareholders' equity | Synonyms: split up, stock split |
| (noun) (tenpin bowling) a divided formation of pins left standing after the first bowl | - |
| (noun) a dessert of sliced fruit and ice cream covered with whipped cream and cherries and nuts | - |
| (noun) an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart | Synonyms: rent, rip, snag, tear |
| (noun) a lengthwise crack in wood | - |
| (noun) a promised or claimed share of loot or money | - |
| (noun) a bottle containing half the usual amount | - |
| (verb) come open suddenly and violently, as if from internal pressure | Synonyms: break open, burst |
| (verb) separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument | Synonyms: cleave, rive |
| (verb) go one's own way; move apart | Synonyms: part, separate |
| (verb) discontinue an association or relation; go different ways | Synonyms: break, break up, part, separate, split up |
| (verb) separate into parts or portions | Synonyms: carve up, dissever, divide, separate, split up |
| splitsaw | (noun) a handsaw for cutting with the grain of the wood | Synonyms: ripsaw |
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| splitsville | (noun) separation or breakup or divorce | - |
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| splitter | (noun) a taxonomist who classifies organisms into many groups on the basis of relatively minor characteristics | Synonyms: divider |
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| (noun) a worker who splits fish and removes the backbone | - |
| (noun) a laborer who splits logs to build split-rail fences | Synonyms: rail-splitter |
| 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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| splitworm | (noun) greyish-brown moth whose larva is the potato tuberworm | Synonyms: Phthorimaea operculella, potato moth, potato tuber moth |
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| splodge | (noun) an irregularly shaped spot | Synonyms: blotch, splotch |
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| splosh | (verb) dash a liquid upon or against | Synonyms: plash, spatter, splash, splatter, swash |
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| (verb) cause (a liquid) to spatter about, especially with force | Synonyms: splash, sprinkle |
| (verb) walk through mud or mire | Synonyms: slop, slosh, splash, squelch, squish |
| (verb) make a splashing sound | Synonyms: slosh, slush, splash |
| splotch | (noun) an irregularly shaped spot | Synonyms: blotch, splodge |
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| (verb) blotch or spot | - |
| splotched | (adjective) marked with irregularly shaped spots or blots | Synonyms: blotched, blotchy |
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| splurge | (noun) any act of immoderate indulgence | Synonyms: binge, orgy |
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| (noun) an ostentatious display (of effort or extravagance etc.) | - |
| (verb) be showy or ostentatious | - |
| (verb) indulge oneself | Synonyms: fling |
| splutter | (noun) an utterance (of words) with spitting sounds (as in rage) | Synonyms: sputter |
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| (noun) the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively | Synonyms: spatter, spattering, splatter, splattering, sputter, sputtering |
| (verb) spit up in an explosive manner | Synonyms: spit out, sputter |
| (verb) utter with a spitting sound, as if in a rage | Synonyms: sputter |
| spodumene | (noun) a pyroxene mineral consisting of lithium aluminum silicate; a source of lithium | - |
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| spoil | (noun) the act of stripping and taking by force | Synonyms: despoilation, despoilment, despoliation, spoilation, spoliation |
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| (noun) the act of spoiling something by causing damage to it | Synonyms: spoilage, spoiling |
| (noun) (usually plural) valuables taken by violence (especially in war) | - |
| (verb) become unfit for consumption or use | Synonyms: go bad |
| (verb) alter from the original | Synonyms: corrupt |
| (verb) make imperfect | Synonyms: deflower, impair, mar, vitiate |
| (verb) destroy and strip of its possession | Synonyms: despoil, plunder, rape, violate |
| (verb) have a strong desire or urge to do something | Synonyms: itch |
| (verb) hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of | Synonyms: baffle, bilk, cross, foil, frustrate, queer, scotch, thwart |
| (verb) treat with excessive indulgence | Synonyms: baby, cocker, coddle, cosset, featherbed, indulge, mollycoddle, pamper |
| (verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | Synonyms: ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up |
| spoilable | (adjective) liable to decay or spoil or become putrid | Synonyms: decayable, putrefiable, putrescible |
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| (noun) food that will decay rapidly if not refrigerated | Synonyms: perishable |
| spoilage | (noun) the act of spoiling something by causing damage to it | Synonyms: spoil, spoiling |
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| (noun) the process of becoming spoiled | Synonyms: spoiling |
| (noun) the amount that has spoiled | - |
| spoilation | (noun) the act of stripping and taking by force | Synonyms: despoilation, despoilment, despoliation, spoil, spoliation |
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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 |
| spoiler | (noun) a hinged airfoil on the upper surface of an aircraft wing that is raised to reduce lift and increase drag | - |
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| (noun) an airfoil mounted on the rear of a car to reduce lift at high speeds | - |
| (noun) someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war) | Synonyms: despoiler, freebooter, looter, pillager, plunderer, raider |
| (noun) a candidate with no chance of winning but who may draw enough votes to prevent one of the leading candidates from winning | - |
| (noun) someone who pampers or spoils by excessive indulgence | Synonyms: coddler, mollycoddler, pamperer |
| spoiling | (noun) the act of spoiling something by causing damage to it | Synonyms: spoil, spoilage |
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| (noun) the process of becoming spoiled | Synonyms: spoilage |
| spoilsport | (noun) someone who spoils the pleasure of others | Synonyms: killjoy, party pooper, wet blanket |
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| 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 |
| spoke | (noun) support consisting of a radial member of a wheel joining the hub to the rim | Synonyms: radius, wheel spoke |
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| (noun) one of the crosspieces that form the steps of a ladder | Synonyms: rundle, rung |
| spoken | (adjective) uttered through the medium of speech or characterized by speech; sometimes used in combination | - |
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| spokeshave | (noun) a small plane that has a handle on each side of its blade; used for shaping or smoothing cylindrical wooden surfaces (originally wheel spokes) | - |
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| spokesman | (noun) a male spokesperson | - |
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| spokesperson | (noun) an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose | Synonyms: interpreter, representative, voice |
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| spokeswoman | (noun) a female spokesperson | - |
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| spoliation | (noun) the act of stripping and taking by force | Synonyms: despoilation, despoilment, despoliation, spoil, spoilation |
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| (noun) (law) the intentional destruction of a document or an alteration of it that destroys its value as evidence | - |
| spondaic | (adjective) of or consisting of spondees | - |
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| spondaise | (verb) make spondaic | Synonyms: spondaize |
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| spondaize | (verb) make spondaic | Synonyms: spondaise |
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| spondee | (noun) a metrical unit with stressed-stressed syllables | - |
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| spondylarthritis | (noun) arthritis that affects one or more of the intervertebral joints in the spine | - |
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| spondylitis | (noun) inflammation of a spinal joint; characterized by pain and stiffness | - |
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| spondylolisthesis | (noun) a forward dislocation of one vertebra over the one beneath it producing pressure on spinal nerves | - |
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| sponge | (noun) primitive multicellular marine animal whose porous body is supported by a fibrous skeletal framework; usually occurs in sessile colonies | Synonyms: parazoan, poriferan |
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| (noun) a follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage | Synonyms: leech, parasite, sponger |
| (noun) someone able to acquire new knowledge and skills rapidly and easily | Synonyms: quick study |
| (noun) a porous mass of interlacing fibers that forms the internal skeleton of various marine animals and usable to absorb water or any porous rubber or cellulose product similarly used | - |
| (verb) wipe with a sponge, so as to clean or moisten | - |
| (verb) erase with a sponge; as of words on a blackboard | - |
| (verb) soak up with a sponge | - |
| (verb) gather sponges, in the ocean | - |
| (verb) ask for and get free; be a parasite | Synonyms: bum, cadge, grub, mooch |
| spongefly | (noun) hairy-bodied insect whose larvae feed on freshwater sponges | Synonyms: spongillafly |
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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 |
| sponger | (noun) a follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage | Synonyms: leech, parasite, sponge |
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| (noun) a workman employed to collect sponges | - |
| spongillafly | (noun) hairy-bodied insect whose larvae feed on freshwater sponges | Synonyms: spongefly |
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| sponginess | (noun) the porosity of a sponge | - |
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| (noun) the property of being able to occupy less space | Synonyms: compressibility, squeezability |
| spongioblast | (noun) any of various columnar epithelial cells in the central nervous system that develop into neuroglia | - |
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| spongioblastoma | (noun) a fast-growing malignant brain tumor composed of spongioblasts; nearly always fatal | Synonyms: glioblastoma |
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| 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 |
| sponsor | (noun) someone who supports or champions something | Synonyms: patron, supporter |
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| (noun) an advocate who presents a person (as for an award or a degree or an introduction etc.) | Synonyms: presenter |
| (verb) assume sponsorship of | Synonyms: patronise, patronize |
| (verb) assume responsibility for or leadership of | - |
| (verb) do one's shopping at; do business with; be a customer or client of | Synonyms: buy at, frequent, patronise, patronize, shop, shop at |
| sponsorship | (noun) the act of sponsoring (either officially or financially) | - |
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| spontaneity | (noun) the quality of being spontaneous and coming from natural feelings without constraint | Synonyms: spontaneousness |
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| 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 |
| spontaneously | (adverb) in a spontaneous manner | - |
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| (adverb) without advance preparation | Synonyms: ad lib, ad libitum, impromptu |
| spontaneousness | (noun) the quality of being spontaneous and coming from natural feelings without constraint | Synonyms: spontaneity |
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| spoof | (noun) a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way | Synonyms: burlesque, lampoon, mockery, parody, pasquinade, put-on, send-up, sendup, takeoff, travesty |
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| (verb) make a parody of | Synonyms: burlesque, parody |
| spook | (noun) a mental representation of some haunting experience | Synonyms: ghost, shade, specter, spectre, wraith |
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| (noun) someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric | Synonyms: creep, weirdie, weirdo, weirdy |
| (verb) frighten or scare, and often provoke into a violent action | - |
| spookily | (adverb) in an unnatural eery manner | Synonyms: eerily |
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| spooky | (adjective) unpredictably excitable (especially of horses) | Synonyms: flighty, nervous, skittish |
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