| sprachgefuhl | (noun) an intuitive feeling for the natural idiom of a language | - |
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| sprag | (noun) a chock or bar wedged under a wheel or between the spokes to prevent a vehicle from rolling down an incline | - |
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| (noun) a wooden prop used to support the roof of a mine | Synonyms: pitprop |
| sprain | (noun) a painful injury to a joint caused by a sudden wrenching of its ligaments | - |
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| (verb) twist suddenly so as to sprain | Synonyms: rick, turn, twist, wrench, wrick |
| sprat | (noun) small herring processed like a sardine | Synonyms: brisling, Clupea sprattus |
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| (noun) small fatty European fish; usually smoked or canned like sardines | Synonyms: brisling |
| sprawl | (noun) an ungainly posture with arms and legs spread about | Synonyms: sprawling |
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| (noun) an aggregation or continuous network of urban communities | Synonyms: conurbation, urban sprawl |
| (verb) sit or lie with one's limbs spread out | - |
| (verb) go, come, or spread in a rambling or irregular way | Synonyms: straggle |
| sprawler | (noun) a person who sprawls | - |
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| sprawling | (adjective) spreading out in different directions or distributed irregularly | Synonyms: rambling, straggling, straggly |
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| (noun) an ungainly posture with arms and legs spread about | Synonyms: sprawl |
| sprawly | (adjective) extended out irregularly | - |
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| spray | (noun) a dispenser that turns a liquid (such as perfume) into a fine mist | Synonyms: atomiser, atomizer, nebuliser, nebulizer, sprayer |
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| (noun) flower arrangement consisting of a single branch or shoot bearing flowers and foliage | - |
| (noun) a jet of vapor | - |
| (noun) a quantity of small objects flying through the air | Synonyms: spraying |
| (noun) water in small drops in the atmosphere; blown from waves or thrown up by a waterfall | - |
| (noun) a pesticide in suspension or solution; intended for spraying | - |
| (verb) scatter in a mass or jet of droplets | - |
| (verb) be discharged in sprays of liquid | - |
| (verb) cover by spraying with a liquid | - |
| sprayer | (noun) a dispenser that turns a liquid (such as perfume) into a fine mist | Synonyms: atomiser, atomizer, nebuliser, nebulizer, spray |
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| (noun) a worker who applies spray to a surface | - |
| spraying | (noun) the application of a liquid in the form of small particles ejected from a sprayer | - |
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| (noun) the dispersion of fungicides or insecticides or fertilizer on growing crops (often from a low-flying aircraft) | Synonyms: crop-dusting |
| (noun) a quantity of small objects flying through the air | Synonyms: spray |
| spread | (adjective) distributed or spread over a considerable extent | Synonyms: dispersed |
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| (adjective) fully extended in width | Synonyms: outspread |
| (adjective) prepared or arranged for a meal; especially having food set out | - |
| (noun) act of extending over a wider scope or expanse of space or time | Synonyms: spreading |
| (noun) decorative cover for a bed | Synonyms: bed cover, bed covering, bedcover, bedspread, counterpane |
| (noun) farm consisting of a large tract of land along with facilities needed to raise livestock (especially cattle) | Synonyms: cattle farm, cattle ranch, ranch |
| (noun) a haphazard distribution in all directions | Synonyms: scatter |
| (noun) the expansion of a person's girth (especially at middle age) | - |
| (noun) a conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures | Synonyms: gap |
| (noun) two facing pages of a book or other publication | Synonyms: facing pages, spread head, spreadhead |
| (noun) process or result of distributing or extending over a wide expanse of space | Synonyms: spreading |
| (noun) a tasty mixture to be spread on bread or crackers or used in preparing other dishes | Synonyms: paste |
| (noun) a meal that is well prepared and greatly enjoyed | Synonyms: banquet, feast |
| (verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: broadcast, circularise, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, propagate |
| (verb) become widely known and passed on | Synonyms: circulate, go around |
| (verb) distribute or disperse widely | Synonyms: distribute |
| (verb) spread out or open from a closed or folded state | Synonyms: open, spread out, unfold |
| (verb) become distributed or widespread | Synonyms: propagate |
| (verb) cover by spreading something over | - |
| (verb) distribute over a surface in a layer | - |
| (verb) strew or distribute over an area | Synonyms: scatter, spread out |
| (verb) move outward | Synonyms: diffuse, fan out, spread out |
| (verb) spread across or over | Synonyms: overspread |
| spreadeagle | (verb) defeat disastrously | Synonyms: rout, spread-eagle |
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| spreader | (noun) a hand tool for spreading something | - |
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| (noun) a mechanical device for scattering something (seed or fertilizer or sand etc.) in all directions | Synonyms: broadcaster |
| spreadhead | (noun) two facing pages of a book or other publication | Synonyms: facing pages, spread, spread head |
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| spreading | (noun) act of extending over a wider scope or expanse of space or time | Synonyms: spread |
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| (noun) the opening of a subject to widespread discussion and debate | Synonyms: airing, dissemination, public exposure |
| (noun) process or result of distributing or extending over a wide expanse of space | Synonyms: spread |
| spreadsheet | (noun) a screen-oriented interactive program enabling a user to lay out financial data on the screen | - |
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| sprechgesang | (noun) a style of dramatic vocalization between singing and speaking | Synonyms: sprechstimme |
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| sprechstimme | (noun) a style of dramatic vocalization between singing and speaking | Synonyms: sprechgesang |
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| spree | (noun) a brief indulgence of your impulses | Synonyms: fling |
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| (verb) engage without restraint in an activity and indulge, as when shopping | - |
| sprig | (noun) an ornament that resembles a spray of leaves or flowers | - |
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| (noun) a small branch or division of a branch (especially a terminal division); usually applied to branches of the current or preceding year | Synonyms: branchlet, twig |
| sprigged | (adjective) decorated with designs of sprigs | - |
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| sprigger | (noun) a worker who strips the stems from moistened tobacco leaves and binds the leaves together into books | Synonyms: stemmer, stripper |
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| sprightliness | (noun) animation and energy in action or expression | Synonyms: life, liveliness, spirit |
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| sprightly | (adjective) full of spirit and vitality | - |
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| sprigtail | (noun) large grouse of prairies and open forests of western North America | Synonyms: Pedioecetes phasianellus, sharp-tailed grouse, sprig tail |
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| spring | (noun) a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards | Synonyms: bounce, bound, leap, leaping, saltation |
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| (noun) a metal elastic device that returns to its shape or position when pushed or pulled or pressed | - |
| (noun) the elasticity of something that can be stretched and returns to its original length | Synonyms: give, springiness |
| (noun) a point at which water issues forth | - |
| (noun) a natural flow of ground water | Synonyms: fountain, natural spring, outflow, outpouring |
| (noun) the season of growth; spring; the beginning of spring | Synonyms: springtime |
| (verb) develop suddenly | - |
| (verb) produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly | - |
| (verb) spring back; spring away from an impact | Synonyms: bounce, bound, rebound, recoil, resile, reverberate, ricochet, take a hop |
| (verb) move forward by leaps and bounds | Synonyms: bound, jump, leap |
| (verb) develop into a distinctive entity | Synonyms: form, take form, take shape |
| springboard | (noun) a beginning from which an enterprise is launched | Synonyms: jumping-off point, point of departure |
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| (noun) a flexible board for jumping upward | - |
| springbok | (noun) a South African gazelle noted for springing lightly into the air | Synonyms: Antidorcas euchore, Antidorcas marsupialis, springbuck |
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| springbuck | (noun) a South African gazelle noted for springing lightly into the air | Synonyms: Antidorcas euchore, Antidorcas marsupialis, springbok |
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| springer | (noun) a cow about to give birth | Synonyms: springing cow |
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| (noun) a large spaniel with wavy silky coat usually black or liver and white | Synonyms: springer spaniel |
| (noun) the lowest stone in an arch -- from which it springs | Synonyms: impost |
| springiness | (noun) the elasticity of something that can be stretched and returns to its original length | Synonyms: give, spring |
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| springless | (adjective) lacking in elasticity or vitality | - |
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| springlike | (adjective) resembling a spring or the action of a spring | - |
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| springtail | (noun) any of numerous minute wingless primitive insects possessing a special abdominal appendage that allows the characteristic nearly perpetual springing pattern; found in soil rich in organic debris or on the surface of snow or water | Synonyms: collembolan |
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| springtide | (noun) a greater than average tide occurring during the new and full moons | - |
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| (noun) a swelling rush of anything | - |
| springtime | (noun) the season of growth; spring; the beginning of spring | Synonyms: spring |
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| springy | (adjective) (of movements) light and confidently active | - |
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| (adjective) elastic; rebounds readily | Synonyms: bouncy, live, lively, resilient |
| sprinkle | (noun) the act of sprinkling or splashing water | Synonyms: sparge, sprinkling |
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| (noun) a light shower that falls in some locations and not others nearby | Synonyms: scattering, sprinkling |
| (verb) scatter with liquid; wet lightly | Synonyms: besprinkle, sparge |
| (verb) cause (a liquid) to spatter about, especially with force | Synonyms: splash, splosh |
| (verb) distribute loosely | Synonyms: disperse, dot, dust, scatter |
| (verb) rain gently | Synonyms: patter, pitter-patter, spatter, spit |
| sprinkler | (noun) mechanical device that attaches to a garden hose for watering lawn or garden | - |
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| sprinkles | (noun) bits of sweet chocolate used as a topping on e.g. ice cream | Synonyms: jimmies |
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| sprinkling | (noun) the act of sprinkling water in baptism (rare) | Synonyms: aspersion |
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| (noun) the act of sprinkling or splashing water | Synonyms: sparge, sprinkle |
| (noun) a light shower that falls in some locations and not others nearby | Synonyms: scattering, sprinkle |
| (noun) a small number (of something) dispersed haphazardly | Synonyms: scattering |
| sprint | (noun) a quick run | Synonyms: dash |
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| (verb) run very fast, usually for a short distance | - |
| sprinter | (noun) someone who runs a short distance at top speed | - |
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| sprit | (noun) a light spar that crosses a fore-and-aft sail diagonally | - |
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| sprite | (noun) a small being, human in form, playful and having magical powers | Synonyms: faerie, faery, fairy, fay |
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| sprites | (noun) atmospheric electricity (lasting 10 msec) appearing as globular flashes of red (pink to blood-red) light rising to heights of 60 miles (sometimes seen together with elves) | Synonyms: red sprites |
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| spritsail | (noun) a fore-and-aft sail extended by a sprit | - |
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| spritz | (noun) a quick squirt of some liquid (usually carbonated water) | - |
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| (verb) cover (a location) wholly or partially by squirting a liquid onto it | - |
| (verb) eject (a liquid) quickly | - |
| spritzer | (noun) a mixed drink made of wine mixed with a sparkling water | - |
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| sprocket | (noun) thin wheel with teeth that engage with a chain | Synonyms: sprocket wheel |
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| (noun) tooth on the rim of gear wheel | Synonyms: cog |
| (noun) roller that has teeth on the rims to pull film or paper through | - |
| sprog | (noun) a child | - |
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| (noun) a new military recruit | - |
| sprout | (noun) a newly grown bud (especially from a germinating seed) | - |
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| (noun) any new growth of a plant such as a new branch or a bud | - |
| (verb) put forth and grow sprouts or shoots | Synonyms: stock |
| (verb) produce buds, branches, or germinate | Synonyms: bourgeon, burgeon forth, germinate, pullulate, shoot, spud |
| sprouted | (adjective) (of growing vegetation) having just emerged from the ground | - |
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| sprouter | (noun) A device for sprouting seeds. | Synonyms: seed sprouter |
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| sprouting | (noun) the process whereby seeds or spores sprout and begin to grow | Synonyms: germination |
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| spruce | (adjective) marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners | Synonyms: dapper, dashing, jaunty, natty, raffish, rakish, snappy, spiffy |
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| (noun) any coniferous tree of the genus Picea | - |
| (noun) light soft moderately strong wood of spruce trees; used especially for timbers and millwork | - |
| (verb) dress and groom with particular care, as for a special occasion | Synonyms: slick up, smarten up, spruce up |
| (verb) make neat, smart, or trim | Synonyms: slick up, smarten up, spiff up, spruce up, titivate, tittivate |
| sprucely | (adverb) in a fashionable manner | Synonyms: modishly, smartly |
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| spruceness | (noun) the state of being neat and smart and trim | Synonyms: neatness |
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| sprue | (noun) a chronic disorder that occurs in tropical and non-tropical forms and in both children and adults; nutrients are not absorbed; symptoms include foul-smelling diarrhea and emaciation | Synonyms: psilosis, tropical sprue |
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| spry | (adjective) moving quickly and lightly | Synonyms: agile, nimble, quick |
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