| 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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| spool | (noun) a winder around which thread or tape or film or other flexible materials can be wound | Synonyms: bobbin, reel |
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| (verb) wind onto a spool or a reel | - |
| (verb) transfer data intended for a peripheral device (usually a printer) into temporary storage | - |
| spoon | (noun) a piece of cutlery with a shallow bowl-shaped container and a handle; used to stir or serve or take up food | - |
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| (noun) formerly a golfing wood with an elevated face | - |
| (noun) as much as a spoon will hold | Synonyms: spoonful |
| (verb) scoop up or take up with a spoon | - |
| (verb) snuggle and lie in a position where one person faces the back of the others | Synonyms: smooch |
| spoonbill | (noun) wading birds having a long flat bill with a tip like a spoon | - |
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| spoondrift | (noun) spray blown up from the surface of the sea | Synonyms: spindrift |
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| spoonerism | (noun) transposition of initial consonants in a pair of words | - |
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| spoonfeed | (verb) teach without challenging the students | - |
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| (verb) feed with a spoon | - |
| spoonfeeding | (noun) feeding someone (as a baby) from a spoon | - |
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| (noun) teaching in an overly simplified way that discourages independent thought | - |
| spoonflower | (noun) tropical American aroid having edible tubers that are cooked and eaten like yams or potatoes | Synonyms: malanga, tannia, Xanthosoma atrovirens, Xanthosoma sagittifolium, yautia |
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| spoonful | (noun) as much as a spoon will hold | Synonyms: spoon |
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| spoonie | (noun) someone with a chronic illness | - |
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| spoopy | (adjective) funny and spooky at the same time | - |
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| spoor | (noun) the trail left by a person or an animal; what the hunter follows in pursuing game | - |
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| sporadic | (adjective) recurring in scattered and irregular or unpredictable instances | - |
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| sporadically | (adverb) in a sporadic manner | Synonyms: periodically |
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| sporadicalness | (noun) The quality of being rare and scattered in occurrence. | - |
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| sporangiophore | (noun) stalk bearing one or more sporangia | - |
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| sporangium | (noun) organ containing or producing spores | Synonyms: spore case, spore sac |
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| spore | (noun) a small usually single-celled asexual reproductive body produced by many nonflowering plants and fungi and some bacteria and protozoans and that are capable of developing into a new individual without sexual fusion | - |
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| sporocarp | (noun) specialized leaf branch in certain aquatic ferns that encloses the sori or clusters of sporangia | Synonyms: spore case |
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| sporogenous | (adjective) producing spores or reproducing by means of spores | - |
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| sporophore | (noun) a spore-bearing branch or organ: the part of the thallus of a sporophyte that develops spores; in ferns and mosses and liverworts is practically equivalent to the sporophyte | - |
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| sporophyl | (noun) leaf in ferns and mosses that bears the sporangia | Synonyms: sporophyll |
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| sporophyll | (noun) leaf in ferns and mosses that bears the sporangia | Synonyms: sporophyl |
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| sporophyte | (noun) the spore-producing individual or phase in the life cycle of a plant having alternation of generations | - |
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| sporotrichosis | (noun) a chronic fungal infection of the skin and lymph nodes | - |
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| sporozoan | (noun) parasitic spore-forming protozoan | - |
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| sporozoite | (noun) one of the minute active bodies into which sporozoans divide in one stage of their life cycle | - |
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| sporran | (noun) a fur or leather pouch worn at the front of the kilt as part of the traditional dress of Scottish Highlanders | - |
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| sport | (noun) an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition | Synonyms: athletics |
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| (noun) the occupation of athletes who compete for pay | - |
| (noun) verbal wit or mockery (often at another's expense but not to be taken seriously) | Synonyms: fun, play |
| (noun) someone who engages in sports | - |
| (noun) (biology) an organism that has characteristics resulting from chromosomal alteration | Synonyms: mutant, mutation, variation |
| (noun) a person known for the way she (or he) behaves when teased or defeated or subjected to trying circumstances | - |
| (noun) (Maine colloquial) a temporary summer resident of Maine | Synonyms: summercater |
| (verb) play boisterously | Synonyms: cavort, disport, frisk, frolic, gambol, lark, lark about, rollick, romp, run around, skylark |
| (verb) wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner | Synonyms: boast, feature |
| sportfishing | (noun) the act of someone who fishes as a diversion | Synonyms: fishing |
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| sportiness | (noun) The characteristic appearance and behavior of people who partake in sports. | - |
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| sporting | (adjective) relating to or used in sports | - |
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| (adjective) involving risk or willingness to take a risk | - |
| (adjective) exhibiting or calling for sportsmanship or fair play | Synonyms: clean, sportsmanlike, sporty |
| (adjective) preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance | Synonyms: betting, card-playing, dissipated, gambling |
| sportingly | (adverb) so as to be sporting; in a sporting manner | - |
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| sportive | (adjective) relating to or interested in sports | - |
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| (adjective) given to merry frolicking | Synonyms: coltish, frolicky, frolicsome, rollicking |
| sportively | (adverb) in a merry sportive manner | - |
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| sportiveness | (noun) lively high-spirited playfulness | Synonyms: friskiness, frolicsomeness |
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| sportsball | (noun) Sports of an unspecified kind, usually condescending | - |
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| sportscast | (noun) a broadcast of sports news or commentary | - |
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| (verb) broadcast a sports event | - |
| sportscaster | (noun) an announcer who reads sports news or describes sporting events | Synonyms: sports announcer, sports commentator |
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| sportsman | (noun) a male who engages in sports | - |
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| sportsmanlike | (adjective) exhibiting or calling for sportsmanship or fair play | Synonyms: clean, sporting, sporty |
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| sportsmanship | (noun) fairness in following the rules of the game | - |
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| sportswear | (noun) attire worn for sport or for casual wear | Synonyms: activewear, athletic wear |
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| sportswoman | (noun) a female who engages in sports | - |
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| sportswriter | (noun) a journalist who writes about sports | Synonyms: sports writer |
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| sporty | (adjective) appropriate for sport or engagement in a sport | - |
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| (adjective) (used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display | Synonyms: flashy, gaudy, jazzy, showy |
| (adjective) exhibiting or calling for sportsmanship or fair play | Synonyms: clean, sporting, sportsmanlike |
| sporulate | (verb) convert into spores | - |
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| (verb) produce spores | - |
| sporulation | (noun) asexual reproduction by the production and release of spores | Synonyms: monogenesis |
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| spot | (noun) an act that brings discredit to the person who does it | Synonyms: blot, smear, smirch, stain |
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| (noun) a business establishment for entertainment | - |
| (noun) a lamp that produces a strong beam of light to illuminate a restricted area; used to focus attention of a stage performer | Synonyms: spotlight |
| (noun) a playing card with a specified number of pips on it to indicate its value | - |
| (noun) a blemish made by dirt | Synonyms: blot, daub, slur, smear, smirch, smudge |
| (noun) a small contrasting part of something | Synonyms: dapple, fleck, maculation, patch, speckle |
| (noun) an outstanding characteristic | Synonyms: point |
| (noun) a section of an entertainment that is assigned to a specific performer or performance | - |
| (noun) a short section or illustration (as between radio or tv programs or in a magazine) that is often used for advertising | - |
| (noun) a mark on a die or on a playing card (shape depending on the suit) | Synonyms: pip |
| (noun) a point located with respect to surface features of some region | Synonyms: place, topographic point |
| (noun) a small piece or quantity of something | Synonyms: bit |
| (noun) a slight attack of illness | Synonyms: touch |
| (verb) mark with a spot or spots so as to allow easy recognition | - |
| (verb) become spotted | - |
| (verb) make a spot or mark onto | Synonyms: blob, blot, fleck |
| (verb) mar or impair with a flaw | Synonyms: blemish |
| (verb) catch sight of | Synonyms: descry, espy, spy |
| (verb) detect with the senses | Synonyms: discern, distinguish, make out, pick out, recognise, recognize, tell apart |
| spotless | (adjective) completely neat and clean | Synonyms: immaculate, speckless, spic-and-span, spic, spick-and-span, spick |
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| spotlessly | (adverb) in a spotless manner | - |
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| spotlessness | (noun) the state of being spotlessly clean | Synonyms: immaculateness |
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| spotlight | (noun) a lamp that produces a strong beam of light to illuminate a restricted area; used to focus attention of a stage performer | Synonyms: spot |
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| (noun) a focus of public attention | Synonyms: glare, limelight, public eye |
| (verb) illuminate with a spotlight, as in the theater | - |
| (verb) move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent | Synonyms: foreground, highlight, play up |
| spots | (noun) spots before the eyes caused by opaque cell fragments in the vitreous humor and lens | Synonyms: floater, musca volitans, muscae volitantes |
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| spotted | (adjective) having spots or patches (small areas of contrasting color or texture) | Synonyms: patched, spotty |
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| spottedness | (noun) the quality or state of being marked with spots. | - |
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| spotter | (noun) someone who is the first to observe something | Synonyms: discoverer, finder |
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| (noun) a worker employed to apply spots (as markers or identifiers) | - |
| (noun) a worker employed at a dry-cleaning establishment to remove spots | - |
| (noun) a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event | Synonyms: lookout, lookout man, picket, scout, sentinel, sentry, watch |