| 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 |