Name Report For First Name SPENCE:
SPENCE
First name SPENCE's origin is English. SPENCE means "dispenser: provider". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with SPENCE below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of spence.(Brown names are of the same origin (English) with SPENCE and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with SPENCE - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming SPENCE
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES SPENCE AS A WHOLE:
spencerNAMES RHYMING WITH SPENCE (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 5 Letters (pence) - Names That Ends with pence:
Rhyming Names According to Last 4 Letters (ence) - Names That Ends with ence:
caydence clemence essence florence kadence kadience kaedence kaydence kaydience darence darrence laurence lawrence lorence nahcomence tarrence terrence ryence cadence patience terence torence torrenceRhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (nce) - Names That Ends with nce:
candance yohance lance ance aviance caidance france kaidance kaydance morgance ronce chance chaunce darrance derrance leodegrance leodegraunce leonce lorance ponce prince terrance torrance vance vince laudegrance bellance constance dorranceRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (ce) - Names That Ends with ce:
fenice alarice canace circe dice dirce eunice eurydice glauce helice kalonice benoyce prentice anstice eustace maurice aleece aleyece alice allyce alyce anice annice berenice bernice bernyce brandice brandyce candace candice candyce caprice catrice cherice clarice danice darice delice denice deniece derorice dulce ellice ellyce elyce felice galice ganiceNAMES RHYMING WITH SPENCE (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 5 Letters (spenc) - Names That Begins with spenc:
Rhyming Names According to First 4 Letters (spen) - Names That Begins with spen:
spengler spenserRhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (spe) - Names That Begins with spe:
spear sped speed spelding speranza spereRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (sp) - Names That Begins with sp:
spalding spangler spark sparke sproul sproule sprowle spyridonNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH SPENCE:
First Names which starts with 'sp' and ends with 'ce':
First Names which starts with 's' and ends with 'e':
sadie sae saffire sage sahale saidie saige salbatore salhdene sallie salome salvadore salvatore sanbourne sandrine sanersone sanuye sapphire sarajane sauville saveage saville sawyere sce scirwode scolaighe scottie scoville seamere searle sebastene sebastiene sebastienne sebe sebille sedge selassie selassiee sele selene selwine semele sente seoirse serafine seraphine serihilde severne seyane shace shadoe shae shaine shalene shanaye shane shantae sharlene shaundre shawe shawnette shayde shaye shaylee shayne sherborne sherbourne sherburne sherise shermarke shiye shizhe'e siddalee sidonie sifiye sigehere sigfriede sighle sigune sike sile silvestre simone sinclaire sine sive skene skete skippere skye slade slaine slainie slanie sloane smythe sofie solaine solange solonieEnglish Words Rhyming SPENCE
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES SPENCE AS A WHOLE:
| dispence | noun (v. i. & n.) See Dispense. |
| spence | noun (n.) A place where provisions are kept; a buttery; a larder; a pantry. |
| noun (n.) The inner apartment of a country house; also, the place where the family sit and eat. |
| spencer | noun (n.) One who has the care of the spence, or buttery. |
| noun (n.) A short jacket worn by men and by women. | |
| noun (n.) A fore-and-aft sail, abaft the foremast or the mainmast, hoisted upon a small supplementary mast and set with a gaff and no boom; a trysail carried at the foremast or mainmast; -- named after its inventor, Knight Spencer, of England [1802]. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH SPENCE (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 5 Letters (pence) - English Words That Ends with pence:
| fourpence | noun (n.) A British silver coin, worth four pence; a groat. |
| noun (n.) A name formerly given in New England to the Spanish half real, a silver coin worth six and a quarter cents. |
| ninepence | noun (n.) An old English silver coin, worth nine pence. |
| noun (n.) A New England name for the Spanish real, a coin formerly current in the United States, as valued at twelve and a half cents. |
| pence | noun (n.) pl. of Penny. See Penny. |
| (pl. ) of Penny |
| sixpence | noun (n.) An English silver coin of the value of six pennies; half a shilling, or about twelve cents. |
| threepence | noun (n.) A small silver coin of three times the value of a penny. |
| twelvepence | noun (n.) A shilling sterling, being about twenty-four cents. |
| twopence | noun (n.) A small coin, and money of account, in England, equivalent to two pennies, -- minted to a fixed annual amount, for almsgiving by the sovereign on Maundy Thursday. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (ence) - English Words That Ends with ence:
| abhorrence | noun (n.) Extreme hatred or detestation; the feeling of utter dislike. |
| abscondence | noun (n.) Fugitive concealment; secret retirement; hiding. |
| absence | noun (n.) A state of being absent or withdrawn from a place or from companionship; -- opposed to presence. |
| noun (n.) Want; destitution; withdrawal. | |
| noun (n.) Inattention to things present; abstraction (of mind); as, absence of mind. |
| absistence | noun (n.) A standing aloof. |
| abstinence | noun (n.) The act or practice of abstaining; voluntary forbearance of any action, especially the refraining from an indulgence of appetite, or from customary gratifications of animal or sensual propensities. Specifically, the practice of abstaining from intoxicating beverages, -- called also total abstinence. |
| noun (n.) The practice of self-denial by depriving one's self of certain kinds of food or drink, especially of meat. |
| accedence | noun (n.) The act of acceding. |
| accidence | noun (n.) The accidents, of inflections of words; the rudiments of grammar. |
| noun (n.) The rudiments of any subject. |
| accrescence | noun (n.) Continuous growth; an accretion. |
| acescence | noun (n.) Alt. of Acescency |
| acquiescence | noun (n.) A silent or passive assent or submission, or a submission with apparent content; -- distinguished from avowed consent on the one hand, and on the other, from opposition or open discontent; quiet satisfaction. |
| noun (n.) Submission to an injury by the party injured. | |
| noun (n.) Tacit concurrence in the action of another. |
| acturience | noun (n.) Tendency or impulse to act. |
| adherence | noun (n.) The quality or state of adhering. |
| noun (n.) The state of being fixed in attachment; fidelity; steady attachment; adhesion; as, adherence to a party or to opinions. |
| adolescence | noun (n.) The state of growing up from childhood to manhood or womanhood; youth, or the period of life between puberty and maturity, generally considered to be, in the male sex, from fourteen to twenty-one. Sometimes used with reference to the lower animals. |
| affluence | noun (n.) A flowing to or towards; a concourse; an influx. |
| noun (n.) An abundant supply, as of thought, words, feelings, etc.; profusion; also, abundance of property; wealth. |
| albescence | noun (n.) The act of becoming white; whitishness. |
| alkalescence | noun (n.) Alt. of Alkalescency |
| altiloquence | noun (n.) Lofty speech; pompous language. |
| antecedence | noun (n.) The act or state of going before in time; precedence. |
| noun (n.) An apparent motion of a planet toward the west; retrogradation. |
| apparence | noun (n.) Appearance. |
| appendence | noun (n.) Alt. of Appendency |
| appertinence | noun (n.) See Appurtenance. |
| appetence | noun (n.) A longing; a desire; especially an ardent desire; appetite; appetency. |
| arborescence | noun (n.) The state of being arborescent; the resemblance to a tree in minerals, or crystallizations, or groups of crystals in that form; as, the arborescence produced by precipitating silver. |
| armipotence | noun (n.) Power in arms. |
| audience | adjective (a.) The act of hearing; attention to sounds. |
| adjective (a.) Admittance to a hearing; a formal interview, esp. with a sovereign or the head of a government, for conference or the transaction of business. | |
| adjective (a.) An auditory; an assembly of hearers. Also applied by authors to their readers. |
| belligerence | noun (n.) Alt. of Belligerency |
| beneficence | noun (n.) The practice of doing good; active goodness, kindness, or charity; bounty springing from purity and goodness. |
| benevolence | noun (n.) The disposition to do good; good will; charitableness; love of mankind, accompanied with a desire to promote their happiness. |
| noun (n.) An act of kindness; good done; charity given. | |
| noun (n.) A species of compulsory contribution or tax, which has sometimes been illegally exacted by arbitrary kings of England, and falsely represented as a gratuity. |
| blandiloquence | noun (n.) Mild, flattering speech. |
| breviloquence | noun (n.) A brief and pertinent mode of speaking. |
| cadence | noun (n.) The act or state of declining or sinking. |
| noun (n.) A fall of the voice in reading or speaking, especially at the end of a sentence. | |
| noun (n.) A rhythmical modulation of the voice or of any sound; as, music of bells in cadence sweet. | |
| noun (n.) Rhythmical flow of language, in prose or verse. | |
| noun (n.) See Cadency. | |
| noun (n.) Harmony and proportion in motions, as of a well-managed horse. | |
| noun (n.) A uniform time and place in marching. | |
| noun (n.) The close or fall of a strain; the point of rest, commonly reached by the immediate succession of the tonic to the dominant chord. | |
| noun (n.) A cadenza, or closing embellishment; a pause before the end of a strain, which the performer may fill with a flight of fancy. | |
| verb (v. t.) To regulate by musical measure. |
| calescence | noun (n.) Growing warmth; increasing heat. |
| calorescence | noun (n.) The conversion of obscure radiant heat into light; the transmutation of rays of heat into others of higher refrangibility. |
| candescence | noun (n.) See Incandescence. |
| centrifugence | noun (n.) The property or quality of being centrifugal. |
| centripetence | noun (n.) Centripetency. |
| circumference | noun (n.) The line that goes round or encompasses a circular figure; a periphery. |
| noun (n.) A circle; anything circular. | |
| noun (n.) The external surface of a sphere, or of any orbicular body. | |
| verb (v. t.) To include in a circular space; to bound. |
| circumfluence | noun (n.) A flowing round on all sides; an inclosing with a fluid. |
| circumjacence | noun (n.) Condition of being circumjacent, or of bordering on every side. |
| clarence | noun (n.) A close four-wheeled carriage, with one seat inside, and a seat for the driver. |
| clemence | noun (n.) Clemency. |
| coalescence | noun (n.) The act or state of growing together, as similar parts; the act of uniting by natural affinity or attraction; the state of being united; union; concretion. |
| coexistence | noun (n.) Existence at the same time with another; -- contemporary existence. |
| cognoscence | noun (n.) Cognizance. |
| coherence | noun (n.) Alt. of Coherency |
| coincidence | noun (n.) The condition of occupying the same place in space; as, the coincidence of circles, surfaces, etc. |
| noun (n.) The condition or fact of happening at the same time; as, the coincidence of the deaths of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. | |
| noun (n.) Exact correspondence in nature, character, result, circumstances, etc.; concurrence; agreement. |
| competence | noun (n.) Alt. of Competency |
| complacence | noun (n.) Alt. of Complacency |
| concrescence | noun (n.) Coalescence of particles; growth; increase by the addition of particles. |
| concupiscence | noun (n.) Sexual lust; morbid carnal passion. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (nce) - English Words That Ends with nce:
| abaisance | noun (n.) Obeisance. |
| abearance | noun (n.) Behavior. |
| aberrance | noun (n.) Alt. of Aberrancy |
| abeyance | noun (n.) Expectancy; condition of being undetermined. |
| noun (n.) Suspension; temporary suppression. |
| abidance | noun (n.) The state of abiding; abode; continuance; compliance (with). |
| abodance | noun (n.) An omen; a portending. |
| abundance | noun (n.) An overflowing fullness; ample sufficiency; great plenty; profusion; copious supply; superfluity; wealth: -- strictly applicable to quantity only, but sometimes used of number. |
| acceptance | noun (n.) The act of accepting; a receiving what is offered, with approbation, satisfaction, or acquiescence; esp., favorable reception; approval; as, the acceptance of a gift, office, doctrine, etc. |
| noun (n.) State of being accepted; acceptableness. | |
| noun (n.) An assent and engagement by the person on whom a bill of exchange is drawn, to pay it when due according to the terms of the acceptance. | |
| noun (n.) The bill itself when accepted. | |
| noun (n.) An agreeing to terms or proposals by which a bargain is concluded and the parties are bound; the reception or taking of a thing bought as that for which it was bought, or as that agreed to be delivered, or the taking possession as owner. | |
| noun (n.) An agreeing to the action of another, by some act which binds the person in law. | |
| noun (n.) Meaning; acceptation. |
| accordance | noun (n.) Agreement; harmony; conformity. |
| accustomance | noun (n.) Custom; habitual use. |
| achievance | noun (n.) Achievement. |
| acquaintance | noun (n.) A state of being acquainted, or of having intimate, or more than slight or superficial, knowledge; personal knowledge gained by intercourse short of that of friendship or intimacy; as, I know the man; but have no acquaintance with him. |
| noun (n.) A person or persons with whom one is acquainted. |
| acquittance | noun (n.) The clearing off of debt or obligation; a release or discharge from debt or other liability. |
| noun (n.) A writing which is evidence of a discharge; a receipt in full, which bars a further demand. | |
| verb (v. t.) To acquit. |
| acustumaunce | noun (n.) See Accustomance. |
| admirance | noun (n.) Admiration. |
| admittance | noun (n.) The act of admitting. |
| noun (n.) Permission to enter; the power or right of entrance; also, actual entrance; reception. | |
| noun (n.) Concession; admission; allowance; as, the admittance of an argument. | |
| noun (n.) Admissibility. | |
| noun (n.) The act of giving possession of a copyhold estate. | |
| noun (n.) The reciprocal of impedance. |
| advance | adjective (a.) Before in place, or beforehand in time; -- used for advanced; as, an advance guard, or that before the main guard or body of an army; advance payment, or that made before it is due; advance proofs, advance sheets, pages of a forthcoming volume, received in advance of the time of publication. |
| verb (v. t.) To bring forward; to move towards the van or front; to make to go on. | |
| verb (v. t.) To raise; to elevate. | |
| verb (v. t.) To raise to a higher rank; to promote. | |
| verb (v. t.) To accelerate the growth or progress; to further; to forward; to help on; to aid; to heighten; as, to advance the ripening of fruit; to advance one's interests. | |
| verb (v. t.) To bring to view or notice; to offer or propose; to show; as, to advance an argument. | |
| verb (v. t.) To make earlier, as an event or date; to hasten. | |
| verb (v. t.) To furnish, as money or other value, before it becomes due, or in aid of an enterprise; to supply beforehand; as, a merchant advances money on a contract or on goods consigned to him. | |
| verb (v. t.) To raise to a higher point; to enhance; to raise in rate; as, to advance the price of goods. | |
| verb (v. t.) To extol; to laud. | |
| verb (v. i.) To move or go forward; to proceed; as, he advanced to greet me. | |
| verb (v. i.) To increase or make progress in any respect; as, to advance in knowledge, in stature, in years, in price. | |
| verb (v. i.) To rise in rank, office, or consequence; to be preferred or promoted. | |
| verb (v.) The act of advancing or moving forward or upward; progress. | |
| verb (v.) Improvement or progression, physically, mentally, morally, or socially; as, an advance in health, knowledge, or religion; an advance in rank or office. | |
| verb (v.) An addition to the price; rise in price or value; as, an advance on the prime cost of goods. | |
| verb (v.) The first step towards the attainment of a result; approach made to gain favor, to form an acquaintance, to adjust a difference, etc.; an overture; a tender; an offer; -- usually in the plural. | |
| verb (v.) A furnishing of something before an equivalent is received (as money or goods), towards a capital or stock, or on loan; payment beforehand; the money or goods thus furnished; money or value supplied beforehand. |
| affiance | noun (n.) Plighted faith; marriage contract or promise. |
| noun (n.) Trust; reliance; faith; confidence. | |
| verb (v. t.) To betroth; to pledge one's faith to for marriage, or solemnly promise (one's self or another) in marriage. | |
| verb (v. t.) To assure by promise. |
| affirmance | noun (n.) Confirmation; ratification; confirmation of a voidable act. |
| noun (n.) A strong declaration; affirmation. |
| aggrievance | noun (n.) Oppression; hardship; injury; grievance. |
| aidance | noun (n.) Aid. |
| allegeance | noun (n.) Allegation. |
| allegiance | noun (n.) The tie or obligation, implied or expressed, which a subject owes to his sovereign or government; the duty of fidelity to one's king, government, or state. |
| noun (n.) Devotion; loyalty; as, allegiance to science. |
| alliance | noun (n.) The state of being allied; the act of allying or uniting; a union or connection of interests between families, states, parties, etc., especially between families by marriage and states by compact, treaty, or league; as, matrimonial alliances; an alliance between church and state; an alliance between France and England. |
| noun (n.) Any union resembling that of families or states; union by relationship in qualities; affinity. | |
| noun (n.) The persons or parties allied. | |
| verb (v. t.) To connect by alliance; to ally. |
| allowance | noun (n.) Approval; approbation. |
| noun (n.) The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance. | |
| noun (n.) Acknowledgment. | |
| noun (n.) License; indulgence. | |
| noun (n.) That which is allowed; a share or portion allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty, or as appropriate for any purpose; a stated quantity, as of food or drink; hence, a limited quantity of meat and drink, when provisions fall short. | |
| noun (n.) Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances; as, to make allowance for the inexperience of youth. | |
| noun (n.) A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret. | |
| noun (n.) To put upon a fixed allowance (esp. of provisions and drink); to supply in a fixed and limited quantity; as, the captain was obliged to allowance his crew; our provisions were allowanced. |
| allurance | noun (n.) Allurement. |
| ambulance | noun (n.) A field hospital, so organized as to follow an army in its movements, and intended to succor the wounded as soon as possible. Often used adjectively; as, an ambulance wagon; ambulance stretcher; ambulance corps. |
| noun (n.) An ambulance wagon or cart for conveying the wounded from the field, or to a hospital. |
| amenance | noun (n.) Behavior; bearing. |
| annoyance | noun (n.) The act of annoying, or the state of being annoyed; molestation; vexation; annoy. |
| noun (n.) That which annoys. |
| appearance | noun (n.) The act of appearing or coming into sight; the act of becoming visible to the eye; as, his sudden appearance surprised me. |
| noun (n.) A thing seed; a phenomenon; a phase; an apparition; as, an appearance in the sky. | |
| noun (n.) Personal presence; exhibition of the person; look; aspect; mien. | |
| noun (n.) Semblance, or apparent likeness; external show. pl. Outward signs, or circumstances, fitted to make a particular impression or to determine the judgment as to the character of a person or a thing, an act or a state; as, appearances are against him. | |
| noun (n.) The act of appearing in a particular place, or in society, a company, or any proceedings; a coming before the public in a particular character; as, a person makes his appearance as an historian, an artist, or an orator. | |
| noun (n.) Probability; likelihood. | |
| noun (n.) The coming into court of either of the parties; the being present in court; the coming into court of a party summoned in an action, either by himself or by his attorney, expressed by a formal entry by the proper officer to that effect; the act or proceeding by which a party proceeded against places himself before the court, and submits to its jurisdiction. |
| appendance | noun (n.) Something appendant. |
| appertinance | noun (n.) Alt. of Appertinence |
| appliance | noun (n.) The act of applying; application; [Obs.] subservience. |
| noun (n.) The thing applied or used as a means to an end; an apparatus or device; as, to use various appliances; a mechanical appliance; a machine with its appliances. |
| approvance | noun (n.) Approval. |
| appurtenance | noun (n.) That which belongs to something else; an adjunct; an appendage; an accessory; something annexed to another thing more worthy; in common parlance and legal acceptation, something belonging to another thing as principal, and which passes as incident to it, as a right of way, or other easement to land; a right of common to pasture, an outhouse, barn, garden, or orchard, to a house or messuage. In a strict legal sense, land can never pass as an appurtenance to land. |
| arrivance | noun (n.) Arrival. |
| arrogance | noun (n.) The act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner; that species of pride which consists in exorbitant claims of rank, dignity, estimation, or power, or which exalts the worth or importance of the person to an undue degree; proud contempt of others; lordliness; haughtiness; self-assumption; presumption. |
| ascendance | noun (n.) Same as Ascendency. |
| assemblance | noun (n.) Resemblance; likeness; appearance. |
| noun (n.) An assembling; assemblage. |
| assistance | noun (n.) The act of assisting; help; aid; furtherance; succor; support. |
| noun (n.) An assistant or helper; a body of helpers. | |
| noun (n.) Persons present. |
| assonance | noun (n.) Resemblance of sound. |
| noun (n.) A peculiar species of rhyme, in which the last acce`ted vow`l and tnose whioh follow it in one word correspond in sound with the vowels of another word, while the consonants of the two words are unlike in sound; as, calamo and platano, baby and chary. | |
| noun (n.) Incomplete correspondence. |
| assurance | noun (n.) The act of assuring; a declaration tending to inspire full confidence; that which is designed to give confidence. |
| noun (n.) The state of being assured; firm persuasion; full confidence or trust; freedom from doubt; certainty. | |
| noun (n.) Firmness of mind; undoubting, steadiness; intrepidity; courage; confidence; self-reliance. | |
| noun (n.) Excess of boldness; impudence; audacity; as, his assurance is intolerable. | |
| noun (n.) Betrothal; affiance. | |
| noun (n.) Insurance; a contract for the payment of a sum on occasion of a certain event, as loss or death. | |
| noun (n.) Any written or other legal evidence of the conveyance of property; a conveyance; a deed. |
| attemperance | noun (n.) Temperance; attemperament. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH SPENCE (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 5 Letters (spenc) - Words That Begins with spenc:
Rhyming Words According to First 4 Letters (spen) - Words That Begins with spen:
| spending | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spend |
| noun (n.) The act of expending; expenditure. |
| spender | noun (n.) One who spends; esp., one who spends lavishly; a prodigal; a spendthrift. |
| spendthrift | noun (n.) One who spends money profusely or improvidently; a prodigal; one who lavishes or wastes his estate. Also used figuratively. |
| adjective (a.) Prodigal; extravagant; wasteful. |
| spendthrifty | adjective (a.) Spendthrift; prodigal. |
| spenserian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faerie Queene." |
| spent | adjective (a.) Exhausted; worn out; having lost energy or motive force. |
| adjective (a.) Exhausted of spawn or sperm; -- said especially of fishes. | |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Spend |
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (spe) - Words That Begins with spe:
| speaking | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Speak |
| adjective (a.) Uttering speech; used for conveying speech; as, man is a speaking animal; a speaking tube. | |
| adjective (a.) Seeming to be capable of speech; hence, lifelike; as, a speaking likeness. |
| speakable | adjective (a.) Capable of being spoken; fit to be spoken. |
| adjective (a.) Able to speak. |
| speaker | noun (n.) One who speaks. |
| noun (n.) One who utters or pronounces a discourse; usually, one who utters a speech in public; as, the man is a good speaker, or a bad speaker. | |
| noun (n.) One who is the mouthpiece of others; especially, one who presides over, or speaks for, a delibrative assembly, preserving order and regulating the debates; as, the Speaker of the House of Commons, originally, the mouthpiece of the House to address the king; the Speaker of a House of Representatives. | |
| noun (n.) A book of selections for declamation. |
| speakership | noun (n.) The office of speaker; as, the speakership of the House of Representatives. |
| speking | noun (n.) The act of uttering words. |
| noun (n.) Public declamation; oratory. |
| spear | noun (n.) A long, pointed weapon, used in war and hunting, by thrusting or throwing; a weapon with a long shaft and a sharp head or blade; a lance. |
| noun (n.) Fig.: A spearman. | |
| noun (n.) A sharp-pointed instrument with barbs, used for stabbing fish and other animals. | |
| noun (n.) A shoot, as of grass; a spire. | |
| noun (n.) The feather of a horse. See Feather, n., 4. | |
| noun (n.) The rod to which the bucket, or plunger, of a pump is attached; a pump rod. | |
| verb (v. t.) To pierce with a spear; to kill with a spear; as, to spear a fish. | |
| verb (v. i.) To shoot into a long stem, as some plants. See Spire. |
| spearing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spear |
| spearer | noun (n.) One who uses a spear; as, a spearer of fish. |
| spearfish | noun (n.) A large and powerful fish (Tetrapturus albidus) related to the swordfish, but having scales and ventral fins. It is found on the American coast and the Mediterranean. |
| noun (n.) The carp sucker. |
| spearhead | noun (n.) The pointed head, or end, of a spear. |
| spearman | noun (n.) One who is armed with a spear. |
| spearmint | noun (n.) A species of mint (Mentha viridis) growing in moist soil. It vields an aromatic oil. See Mint, and Mentha. |
| spearwood | noun (n.) An Australian tree (Acacia Doratoxylon), and its tough wood, used by the natives for spears. |
| spearwort | noun (n.) A name given to several species of crowfoot (Ranunculus) which have spear-shaped leaves. |
| speary | adjective (a.) Having the form of a spear. |
| spece | noun (n.) Species; kind. |
| specht | noun (n.) A woodpecker. |
| special | noun (n.) A particular. |
| noun (n.) One appointed for a special service or occasion. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a species; constituting a species or sort. | |
| adjective (a.) Particular; peculiar; different from others; extraordinary; uncommon. | |
| adjective (a.) Appropriate; designed for a particular purpose, occasion, or person; as, a special act of Parliament or of Congress; a special sermon. | |
| adjective (a.) Limited in range; confined to a definite field of action, investigation, or discussion; as, a special dictionary of commercial terms; a special branch of study. | |
| adjective (a.) Chief in excellence. |
| specialism | noun (n.) Devotion to a particular and restricted part or branch of knowledge, art, or science; as, medical specialism. |
| specialist | noun (n.) One who devotes himself to some specialty; as, a medical specialist, one who devotes himself to diseases of particular parts of the body, as the eye, the ear, the nerves, etc. |
| speciality | noun (n.) A particular or peculiar case; a particularity. |
| noun (n.) See Specialty, 3. | |
| noun (n.) The special or peculiar mark or characteristic of a person or thing; that for which a person is specially distinguished; an object of special attention; a special occupation or object of attention; a specialty. | |
| noun (n.) An attribute or quality peculiar to a species. |
| specialization | noun (n.) The act of specializing, or the state of being spezialized. |
| noun (n.) The setting apart of a particular organ for the performance of a particular function. |
| specialty | noun (n.) Particularity. |
| noun (n.) A particular or peculiar case. | |
| noun (n.) A contract or obligation under seal; a contract by deed; a writing, under seal, given as security for a debt particularly specified. | |
| noun (n.) That for which a person is distinguished, in which he is specially versed, or which he makes an object of special attention; a speciality. |
| specie | noun (n.) Coin; hard money. |
| () abl. of L. species sort, kind. Used in the phrase in specie, that is, in sort, in kind, in (its own) form. |
| species | noun (n.) Visible or sensible presentation; appearance; a sensible percept received by the imagination; an image. |
| noun (n.) A group of individuals agreeing in common attributes, and designated by a common name; a conception subordinated to another conception, called a genus, or generic conception, from which it differs in containing or comprehending more attributes, and extending to fewer individuals. Thus, man is a species, under animal as a genus; and man, in its turn, may be regarded as a genus with respect to European, American, or the like, as species. | |
| noun (n.) In science, a more or less permanent group of existing things or beings, associated according to attributes, or properties determined by scientific observation. | |
| noun (n.) A sort; a kind; a variety; as, a species of low cunning; a species of generosity; a species of cloth. | |
| noun (n.) Coin, or coined silver, gold, ot other metal, used as a circulating medium; specie. | |
| noun (n.) A public spectacle or exhibition. | |
| noun (n.) A component part of compound medicine; a simple. | |
| noun (n.) An officinal mixture or compound powder of any kind; esp., one used for making an aromatic tea or tisane; a tea mixture. | |
| noun (n.) The form or shape given to materials; fashion or shape; form; figure. |
| specifiable | adjective (a.) Admitting specification; capable of being specified. |
| specific | noun (n.) A specific remedy. See Specific, a., 3. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a species; characterizing or constituting a species; possessing the peculiar property or properties of a thing which constitute its species, and distinguish it from other things; as, the specific form of an animal or a plant; the specific qualities of a drug; the specific distinction between virtue and vice. | |
| adjective (a.) Specifying; definite, or making definite; limited; precise; discriminating; as, a specific statement. | |
| adjective (a.) Exerting a peculiar influence over any part of the body; preventing or curing disease by a peculiar adaption, and not on general principles; as, quinine is a specific medicine in cases of malaria. | |
| adjective (a.) Anything having peculiar adaption to the purpose to which it is applied. |
| specifical | adjective (a.) Specific. |
| specificalness | noun (n.) The quality of being specific. |
| specification | noun (n.) The act of specifying or determining by a mark or limit; notation of limits. |
| noun (n.) The designation of particulars; particular mention; as, the specification of a charge against an officer. | |
| noun (n.) A written statement containing a minute description or enumeration of particulars, as of charges against a public officer, the terms of a contract, the description of an invention, as in a patent; also, a single article, item, or particular, an allegation of a specific act, as in a charge of official misconduct. |
| specifying | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Specify |
| specollum | noun (n.) See Stylet, 2. |
| specimen | noun (n.) A part, or small portion, of anything, or one of a number of things, intended to exhibit the kind and quality of the whole, or of what is not exhibited; a sample; as, a specimen of a man's handwriting; a specimen of painting; aspecimen of one's art. |
| speciosity | noun (n.) The quality or state of being specious; speciousness. |
| noun (n.) That which is specious. |
| specious | adjective (a.) Presenting a pleasing appearance; pleasing in form or look; showy. |
| adjective (a.) Apparently right; superficially fair, just, or correct, but not so in reality; appearing well at first view; plausible; as, specious reasoning; a specious argument. |
| speck | noun (n.) The blubber of whales or other marine mammals; also, the fat of the hippopotamus. |
| noun (n.) A small discolored place in or on anything, or a small place of a color different from that of the main substance; a spot; a stain; a blemish; as, a speck on paper or loth; specks of decay in fruit. | |
| noun (n.) A very small thing; a particle; a mite; as, specks of dust; he has not a speck of money. | |
| noun (n.) A small etheostomoid fish (Ulocentra stigmaea) common in the Eastern United States. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cause the presence of specks upon or in, especially specks regarded as defects or blemishes; to spot; to speckle; as, paper specked by impurities in the water used in its manufacture. |
| specking | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Speck |
| speckle | noun (n.) A little or spot in or anything, of a different substance or color from that of the thing itself. |
| verb (v. t.) To mark with small spots of a different color from that of the rest of the surface; to variegate with spots of a different color from the ground or surface. |
| speckling | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Speckle |
| speckled | adjective (a.) Marked or variegated with small spots of a different color from that of the rest of the surface. |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Speckle |
| speckledness | noun (n.) The quality of being speckled. |
| specksioneer | noun (n.) The chief harpooner, who also directs in cutting up the speck, or blubber; -- so called among whalers. |
| speckt | noun (n.) A woodpecker. See Speight. |
| spectacle | noun (n.) Something exhibited to view; usually, something presented to view as extraordinary, or as unusual and worthy of special notice; a remarkable or noteworthy sight; a show; a pageant; a gazingstock. |
| noun (n.) A spy-glass; a looking-glass. | |
| noun (n.) An optical instrument consisting of two lenses set in a light frame, and worn to assist sight, to obviate some defect in the organs of vision, or to shield the eyes from bright light. | |
| noun (n.) Fig.: An aid to the intellectual sight. |
| spectacled | adjective (a.) Furnished with spectacles; wearing spectacles. |
| adjective (a.) Having the eyes surrounded by color markings, or patches of naked skin, resembling spectacles. |
| spectacular | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a shows; of the nature of a show. |
| adjective (a.) Adapted to excite wonder and admiration by a display of pomp or of scenic effects; as, a spectacular celebration of some event; a spectacular play. | |
| adjective (a.) Pertaining to spectacles, or glasses for the eyes. |
| spectant | adjective (a.) Looking forward. |
| spectation | noun (n.) Regard; aspect; appearance. |
| spectator | noun (n.) One who on; one who sees or beholds; a beholder; one who is personally present at, and sees, any exhibition; as, the spectators at a show. |
| spectatorial | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a spectator. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH SPENCE:
English Words which starts with 'sp' and ends with 'ce':
| space | noun (n.) Extension, considered independently of anything which it may contain; that which makes extended objects conceivable and possible. |
| noun (n.) Place, having more or less extension; room. | |
| noun (n.) A quantity or portion of extension; distance from one thing to another; an interval between any two or more objects; as, the space between two stars or two hills; the sound was heard for the space of a mile. | |
| noun (n.) Quantity of time; an interval between two points of time; duration; time. | |
| noun (n.) A short time; a while. | |
| noun (n.) Walk; track; path; course. | |
| noun (n.) A small piece of metal cast lower than a face type, so as not to receive the ink in printing, -- used to separate words or letters. | |
| noun (n.) The distance or interval between words or letters in the lines, or between lines, as in books. | |
| noun (n.) One of the intervals, or open places, between the lines of the staff. | |
| noun (n.) To walk; to rove; to roam. | |
| noun (n.) To arrange or adjust the spaces in or between; as, to space words, lines, or letters. |
| spanpiece | noun (n.) The collar of a roof; sparpiece. |
| sparpiece | noun (n.) The collar beam of a roof; the spanpiece. |
| speece | noun (n.) Species; sort. |
| spice | noun (n.) Species; kind. |
| noun (n.) A vegetable production of many kinds, fragrant or aromatic and pungent to the taste, as pepper, cinnamon, nutmeg, mace, allspice, ginger, cloves, etc., which are used in cookery and to flavor sauces, pickles, etc. | |
| noun (n.) Figuratively, that which enriches or alters the quality of a thing in a small degree, as spice alters the taste of food; that which gives zest or pungency; a slight flavoring; a relish; hence, a small quantity or admixture; a sprinkling; as, a spice of mischief. | |
| verb (v. t.) To season with spice, or as with spice; to mix aromatic or pungent substances with; to flavor; to season; as, to spice wine; to spice one's words with wit. | |
| verb (v. t.) To fill or impregnate with the odor of spices. | |
| verb (v. t.) To render nice or dainty; hence, to render scrupulous. |
| splice | noun (n.) A junction or joining made by splicing. |
| verb (v. t.) To unite, as two ropes, or parts of a rope, by a particular manner of interweaving the strands, -- the union being between two ends, or between an end and the body of a rope. | |
| verb (v. t.) To unite, as spars, timbers, rails, etc., by lapping the two ends together, or by applying a piece which laps upon the two ends, and then binding, or in any way making fast. | |
| verb (v. t.) To unite in marrige. |
| spruce | noun (n.) Neat, without elegance or dignity; -- formerly applied to things with a serious meaning; now chiefly applied to persons. |
| noun (n.) Sprightly; dashing. | |
| adjective (a.) Any coniferous tree of the genus Picea, as the Norway spruce (P. excelsa), and the white and black spruces of America (P. alba and P. nigra), besides several others in the far Northwest. See Picea. | |
| adjective (a.) The wood or timber of the spruce tree. | |
| adjective (a.) Prussia leather; pruce. | |
| verb (v. t.) To dress with affected neatness; to trim; to make spruce. | |
| verb (v. i.) To dress one's self with affected neatness; as, to spruce up. |
| spumescence | noun (n.) The state of being foamy; frothiness. |
| spynace | noun (n.) Alt. of Spyne |
| spinescence | noun (n.) The state or quality of being spinescent or spiny; also, a spiny growth or covering, as of certain animals. |
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