| 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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