| 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 |
| spider | (noun) predatory arachnid with eight legs, two poison fangs, two feelers, and usually two silk-spinning organs at the back end of the body; they spin silk to make cocoons for eggs or traps for prey | - |
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| (noun) a skillet made of cast iron | - |
| (noun) a computer program that prowls the internet looking for publicly accessible resources that can be added to a database; the database can then be searched with a search engine | Synonyms: wanderer |
| spiderflower | (noun) any of various often strong-smelling plants of the genus Cleome having showy spider-shaped flowers | Synonyms: cleome |
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| 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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| spiderwort | (noun) any plant of the family Commelinaceae | Synonyms: dayflower |
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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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| spiegel | (noun) pig iron containing manganese; used as a deoxidizing agent and to raise the manganese content in making steel | Synonyms: spiegel iron, spiegeleisen |
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| spiegeleisen | (noun) pig iron containing manganese; used as a deoxidizing agent and to raise the manganese content in making steel | Synonyms: spiegel, spiegel iron |
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| spiel | (noun) plausible glib talk (especially useful to a salesperson) | Synonyms: line of gab, patter |
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| (verb) speak at great length (about something) | - |
| (verb) replay (as a melody) | Synonyms: play |
| spiff | (noun) attractiveness in appearance or dress or manner | - |
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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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| spigot | (noun) a regulator for controlling the flow of a liquid from a reservoir | Synonyms: faucet |
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| (noun) a plug for a bunghole in a cask | Synonyms: tap |
| spik | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for persons of Latin American descent | Synonyms: spic, spick |
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| spike | (noun) sports equipment consisting of a sharp point on the sole of a shoe worn by athletes | - |
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| (noun) a large stout nail | - |
| (noun) any holding device consisting of a rigid, sharp-pointed object | Synonyms: spindle |
| (noun) a long, thin sharp-pointed implement (wood or metal) | - |
| (noun) a sharp-pointed projection along the top of a fence or wall (or a dinosaur) | - |
| (noun) a very high narrow heel on women's shoes | Synonyms: spike heel, stiletto heel |
| (noun) each of the sharp points on the soles of athletic shoes to prevent slipping (or the shoes themselves) | - |
| (noun) a transient variation in voltage or current | - |
| (noun) a sharp rise followed by a sharp decline | - |
| (noun) (botany) an indeterminate inflorescence bearing sessile flowers on an unbranched axis | - |
| (noun) fruiting spike of a cereal plant especially corn | Synonyms: capitulum, ear |
| (verb) add alcohol to (beverages) | Synonyms: fortify, lace |
| (verb) bring forth a spike or spikes | Synonyms: spike out |
| (verb) manifest a sharp increase | - |
| (verb) pierce with a sharp stake or point | Synonyms: empale, impale, transfix |
| (verb) secure with spikes | - |
| (verb) stand in the way of | - |
| spiked | (adjective) having a long sharp point | - |
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| spikelet | (noun) a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf | Synonyms: pricker, prickle, spine, sticker, thorn |
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| spikelike | (adjective) resembling a spike | - |
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| spikemoss | (noun) any of numerous fern allies of the genus Selaginella | Synonyms: little club moss, spike moss |
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| spikenard | (noun) an aromatic ointment used in antiquity | Synonyms: nard |
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| spiky | (adjective) having or as if having especially high-pitched spots | Synonyms: peaky |
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| spile | (noun) a plug used to close a hole in a barrel or flask | Synonyms: bung |
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| (noun) a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure | Synonyms: pile, piling, stilt |
| spill | (noun) the act of allowing a fluid to escape | Synonyms: release, spillage |
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| (noun) a sudden drop from an upright position | Synonyms: fall, tumble |
| (noun) a channel that carries excess water over or around a dam or other obstruction | Synonyms: spillway, wasteweir |
| (noun) liquid that is spilled | - |
| (verb) reduce the pressure of wind on (a sail) | - |
| (verb) reveal information | Synonyms: talk |
| (verb) cause or allow (a solid substance) to flow or run out or over | Synonyms: disgorge, shed |
| (verb) pour out in drops or small quantities or as if in drops or small quantities | Synonyms: pour forth, shed |
| (verb) cause or allow (a liquid substance) to run or flow from a container | Synonyms: slop, splatter |
| (verb) flow, run or fall out and become lost | Synonyms: run out |
| spillage | (noun) the act of allowing a fluid to escape | Synonyms: release, spill |
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| (noun) the amount that has spilled | - |
| spiller | (noun) a long fishing line with many shorter lines and hooks attached to it (usually suspended between buoys) | Synonyms: setline, trawl, trawl line, trotline |
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| (noun) an attacker who sheds or spills blood | Synonyms: shedder |
| spillikin | (noun) a thin strip of wood used in playing the game of jackstraws | Synonyms: jackstraw |
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| spillikins | (noun) a game in which players try to pick each jackstraw (or spillikin) off of a pile without moving any of the others | Synonyms: jackstraws |
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| spillover | (noun) (economics) any indirect effect of public expenditure | - |
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| spillway | (noun) a channel that carries excess water over or around a dam or other obstruction | Synonyms: spill, wasteweir |
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| spin | (noun) the act of rotating rapidly | Synonyms: twirl, twist, twisting, whirl |
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| (noun) a short drive in a car | - |
| (noun) rapid descent of an aircraft in a steep spiral | Synonyms: tailspin |
| (noun) a distinctive interpretation (especially as used by politicians to sway public opinion) | - |
| (noun) a swift whirling motion (usually of a missile) | - |
| (verb) prolong or extend | Synonyms: spin out |
| (verb) twist and turn so as to give an intended interpretation | - |
| (verb) work natural fibers into a thread | - |
| (verb) form a web by making a thread | - |
| (verb) make up a story | - |
| (verb) stream in jets, of liquids | - |
| (verb) revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis | Synonyms: gyrate, reel, spin around, whirl |
| (verb) cause to spin | Synonyms: birl, twirl, whirl |
| spinach | (noun) dark green leaves; eaten cooked or raw in salads | - |
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| (noun) southwestern Asian plant widely cultivated for its succulent edible dark green leaves | Synonyms: prickly-seeded spinach, spinach plant, Spinacia oleracea |
| spinal | (adjective) of or relating to the spine or spinal cord | - |
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| (noun) anesthesia of the lower half of the body; caused by injury to the spinal cord or by injecting an anesthetic beneath the arachnoid membrane that surrounds the spinal cord | Synonyms: spinal anaesthesia, spinal anesthesia |
| spinally | (adverb) in the spine | - |
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| spindle | (noun) a stick or pin used to twist the yarn in spinning | - |
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| (noun) any of various rotating shafts that serve as axes for larger rotating parts | Synonyms: arbor, mandrel, mandril |
| (noun) a piece of wood that has been turned on a lathe; used as a baluster, chair leg, etc. | - |
| (noun) any holding device consisting of a rigid, sharp-pointed object | Synonyms: spike |
| (noun) (biology) tiny fibers that are seen in cell division; the fibers radiate from two poles and meet at the equator in the middle | - |
| spindleberry | (noun) any shrubby trees or woody vines of the genus Euonymus having showy usually reddish berries | Synonyms: spindle tree, spindleberry tree |
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| spindlelegs | (noun) long thin legs | Synonyms: spindleshanks |
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| (noun) a thin person with long thin legs | Synonyms: spindleshanks |
| spindleshanks | (noun) long thin legs | Synonyms: spindlelegs |
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| (noun) a thin person with long thin legs | Synonyms: spindlelegs |
| spindly | (adjective) long and lean | Synonyms: lank |
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| spindrift | (noun) spray blown up from the surface of the sea | Synonyms: spoondrift |
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| spine | (noun) a sharp rigid animal process or appendage; as a porcupine quill or a ridge on a bone or a ray of a fish fin | - |
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| (noun) the part of a book's cover that encloses the inner side of the book's pages and that faces outward when the book is shelved | Synonyms: backbone |
| (noun) the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord | Synonyms: back, backbone, rachis, spinal column, vertebral column |
| (noun) a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf | Synonyms: pricker, prickle, spikelet, sticker, thorn |
| (noun) any sharply pointed projection | Synonyms: acantha, spur |
| spinel | (noun) a hard glassy mineral consisting of an oxide of magnesium and aluminum; occurs in various colors that are used as gemstones | - |
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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 |
| spinelessness | (noun) the quality of lacking a strong character; an irresolute disposition | - |
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| spinet | (noun) early model harpsichord with only one string per note | - |
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| (noun) a small and compactly built upright piano | - |
| spininess | (noun) the quality of being covered with prickly thorns or spines | Synonyms: bristliness, prickliness, thorniness |
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| spinmeister | (noun) a public relations person who tries to forestall negative publicity by publicizing a favorable interpretation of the words or actions of a company or political party or famous person | Synonyms: spin doctor |
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| spinnability | (noun) the quality of being suitable for spinning or the capability of being spun (used of textile fibers) | - |
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| spinnable | (adjective) capable of being spun into fibres | Synonyms: spinnbar |
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| (adjective) capable or susceptible to being influenced by biased information | - |
| spinnaker | (noun) a large and usually triangular headsail; carried by a yacht as a headsail when running before the wind | - |
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| spinnbar | (adjective) capable of being spun into fibres | Synonyms: spinnable |
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| spinnbarkeit | (noun) the capacity of a viscous liquid (especially the cervical mucus) to be drawn out into a strand or blown up into a bubble | - |
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| spinner | (noun) fisherman's lure; revolves when drawn through the water | - |
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| (noun) board game equipment that consists of a dial and an arrow that is spun to determine the next move in the game | - |
| (noun) someone who spins (who twists fibers into threads) | Synonyms: spinster, thread maker |
| spinney | (noun) a copse that shelters game | - |
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| spinning | (noun) creating thread | - |
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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 |
| spinster | (noun) an elderly unmarried woman | Synonyms: old maid |
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| (noun) someone who spins (who twists fibers into threads) | Synonyms: spinner, thread maker |
| spinsterhood | (noun) the state of being a spinster (usually an elderly unmarried woman) | - |
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| 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 |
| spiracle | (noun) a breathing orifice | - |
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| spiraea | (noun) any rosaceous plant of the genus Spiraea; has sprays of small white or pink flowers | Synonyms: spirea |
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| (noun) a Japanese shrub that resembles members of the genus Spiraea; widely cultivated in many varieties for its dense panicles of flowers in many colors; often forced by florists for Easter blooming | Synonyms: Astilbe japonica, spirea |
| spiral | (adjective) in the shape of a coil | Synonyms: coiling, helical, spiraling, spiralling, turbinate, volute, voluted, whorled |
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| (noun) flying downward in a helical path with a large radius | - |
| (noun) a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops | Synonyms: coil, helix, volute, whorl |
| (noun) ornament consisting of a curve on a plane that winds around a center with an increasing distance from the center | Synonyms: volute |
| (noun) a continuously accelerating change in the economy | - |
| (noun) a plane curve traced by a point circling about the center but at increasing distances from the center | - |
| (noun) a curve that lies on the surface of a cylinder or cone and cuts the element at a constant angle | Synonyms: helix |
| (verb) to wind or move in a spiral course | Synonyms: coil, gyrate |
| (verb) move in a spiral or zigzag course | Synonyms: corkscrew |
| (verb) form a spiral | - |
| 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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| spirally | (adverb) with spirals | - |
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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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| (noun) a continuant consonant produced by breath moving against a narrowing of the vocal tract | Synonyms: fricative, fricative consonant |
| spire | (noun) a tall tower that forms the superstructure of a building (usually a church or temple) and that tapers to a point at the top | Synonyms: steeple |
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| spirea | (noun) any rosaceous plant of the genus Spiraea; has sprays of small white or pink flowers | Synonyms: spiraea |
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| (noun) a Japanese shrub that resembles members of the genus Spiraea; widely cultivated in many varieties for its dense panicles of flowers in many colors; often forced by florists for Easter blooming | Synonyms: Astilbe japonica, spiraea |
| spirilla | (noun) any flagellated aerobic bacteria having a spirally twisted rodlike form | Synonyms: spirillum |
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| spirillum | (noun) any flagellated aerobic bacteria having a spirally twisted rodlike form | Synonyms: spirilla |
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| (noun) spirally twisted elongate rodlike bacteria usually living in stagnant water | - |
| spirit | (noun) a fundamental emotional and activating principle determining one's character | - |
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| (noun) animation and energy in action or expression | Synonyms: life, liveliness, sprightliness |
| (noun) an inclination or tendency of a certain kind | Synonyms: heart |
| (noun) the intended meaning of a communication | Synonyms: intent, purport |
| (noun) any incorporeal supernatural being that can become visible (or audible) to human beings | Synonyms: disembodied spirit |
| (noun) the vital principle or animating force within living things | - |
| (noun) the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people | Synonyms: feel, feeling, flavor, flavour, look, smell, tone |
| (noun) the state of a person's emotions (especially with regard to pleasure or dejection) | Synonyms: emotional state |
| (verb) infuse with spirit | Synonyms: inspirit, spirit up |
| 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 |
| spiritedly | (adverb) in a spirited or lively manner; with animation and vivacity | - |
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| spiritedness | (noun) quality of being active or spirited or alive and vigorous | Synonyms: animation, brio, invigoration, vivification |
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| spiritise | (verb) imbue with a spirit | Synonyms: spiritize |
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| spiritism | (noun) concern with things of the spirit | Synonyms: otherworldliness, spiritualism, spirituality |
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| spiritize | (verb) imbue with a spirit | Synonyms: spiritise |
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| spiritless | (adjective) lacking ardor or vigor or energy | - |
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| (adjective) evidencing little spirit or courage; overly submissive or compliant | Synonyms: meek |
| spiritlessness | (noun) the trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally | Synonyms: apathy, indifference, numbness |
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| spiritous | (adjective) containing or of the nature of alcohol | Synonyms: spirituous |
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| spirits | (noun) an alcoholic beverage that is distilled rather than fermented | Synonyms: booze, hard drink, hard liquor, John Barleycorn, liquor, strong drink |
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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 |
| (noun) a kind of religious song originated by Blacks in the southern United States | Synonyms: Negro spiritual |
| spiritualisation | (noun) the act of making something spiritual; infusing it with spiritual content | Synonyms: spiritualization |
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| spiritualise | (verb) purify from the corrupting influences of the world | Synonyms: spiritualize |
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| (verb) give a spiritual meaning to; read in a spiritual sense | Synonyms: spiritualize |
| spiritualism | (noun) concern with things of the spirit | Synonyms: otherworldliness, spiritism, spirituality |
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| (noun) the belief that the spirits of dead people can communicate with people who are still alive (especially via a medium) | - |
| (noun) (theology) any doctrine that asserts the separate existence of God | - |
| spiritualist | (adjective) of or relating to or connected with spiritualism | Synonyms: spiritualistic |
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| (noun) someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and the dead | Synonyms: medium, sensitive |