First Names Rhyming SPENGLER
English Words Rhyming SPENGLER
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES SPENGLER AS A WHOLE:
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH SPENGLER (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 7 Letters (pengler) - English Words That Ends with pengler:
Rhyming Words According to Last 6 Letters (engler) - English Words That Ends with engler:
Rhyming Words According to Last 5 Letters (ngler) - English Words That Ends with ngler:
| angler | noun (n.) One who angles. |
| | noun (n.) A fish (Lophius piscatorius), of Europe and America, having a large, broad, and depressed head, with the mouth very large. Peculiar appendages on the head are said to be used to entice fishes within reach. Called also fishing frog, frogfish, toadfish, goosefish, allmouth, monkfish, etc. |
| brangler | noun (n.) A quarrelsome person. |
| bungler | noun (n.) A clumsy, awkward workman; one who bungles. |
| commingler | noun (n.) One that commingles; specif., a device for noiseless heating of water by steam, in a vessel filled with a porous mass, as of pebbles. |
| dangler | noun (n.) One who dangles about or after others, especially after women; a trifler. |
| entangler | noun (n.) One that entangles. |
| jangler | noun (n.) An idle talker; a babbler; a prater. |
| | noun (n.) A wrangling, noisy fellow. |
| jingler | noun (n.) One who, or that which, jingles. |
| jongler | noun (n.) In the Middle Ages, a court attendant or other person who, for hire, recited or sang verses, usually of his own composition. See Troubadour. |
| | noun (n.) A juggler; a conjuror. See Juggler. |
| mangler | noun (n.) One who mangles or tears in cutting; one who mutilates any work in doing it. |
| | noun (n.) One who smooths with a mangle. |
| mingler | noun (n.) One who mingles. |
| shingler | noun (n.) One who shingles. |
| | noun (n.) A machine for shingling puddled iron. |
| spangler | noun (n.) One who, or that which, spangles. |
| strangler | noun (n.) One who, or that which, strangles. |
| wrangler | noun (n.) An angry disputant; one who disputes with heat or peevishness. |
| | noun (n.) One of those who stand in the first rank of honors in the University of Cambridge, England. They are called, according to their rank, senior wrangler, second wrangler, third wrangler, etc. Cf. Optime. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (gler) - English Words That Ends with gler:
| antiguggler | noun (n.) A crooked tube of metal, to be introduced into the neck of a bottle for drawing out the liquid without disturbing the sediment or causing a gurgling noise. |
| boggler | noun (n.) One who boggles. |
| bugler | noun (n.) One who plays on a bugle. |
| eggler | noun (n.) One who gathers, or deals in, eggs. |
| giggler | noun (n.) One who giggles or titters. |
| goggler | noun (n.) A carangoid oceanic fish (Trachurops crumenophthalmus), having very large and prominent eyes; -- called also goggle-eye, big-eyed scad, and cicharra. |
| haggler | noun (n.) One who haggles or is difficult in bargaining. |
| | noun (n.) One who forestalls a market; a middleman between producer and dealer in London vegetable markets. |
| higgler | noun (n.) One who higgles. |
| inveigler | noun (n.) One who inveigles. |
| juggler | noun (n.) One who practices or exhibits tricks by sleight of hand; one skilled in legerdemain; a conjurer. |
| | noun (n.) A deceiver; a cheat. |
| niggler | noun (n.) One who niggles. |
| ogler | noun (n.) One who ogles. |
| smuggler | noun (n.) One who smuggles. |
| | noun (n.) A vessel employed in smuggling. |
| straggler | noun (n.) One who straggles, or departs from the direct or proper course, or from the company to which he belongs; one who falls behind the rest; one who rambles without any settled direction. |
| | noun (n.) A roving vagabond. |
| | noun (n.) Something that shoots, or spreads out, beyond the rest, or too far; an exuberant growth. |
| | noun (n.) Something that stands alone or by itself. |
| struggler | noun (n.) One who struggles. |
| wiggler | noun (n.) The young, either larva or pupa, of the mosquito; -- called also wiggletail. |
| wriggler | noun (n.) One who, or that which, wriggles. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ler) - English Words That Ends with ler:
| abler | adjective (a.) comp. of Able. |
| | superlative (a.) superl. of Able. |
| aller | adjective (a.) Of all; -- used in composition; as, alderbest, best of all, alderwisest, wisest of all. |
| | adjective (a.) Same as Alder, of all. |
| ambler | noun (n.) A horse or a person that ambles. |
| annealer | noun (n.) One who, or that which, anneals. |
| annueler | noun (n.) A priest employed in saying annuals, or anniversary Masses. |
| annuller | noun (n.) One who annuls. |
| antler | noun (n.) The entire horn, or any branch of the horn, of a cervine animal, as of a stag. |
| appealer | noun (n.) One who makes an appeal. |
| archbutler | noun (n.) A chief butler; -- an officer of the German empire. |
| ashler | noun (n.) Hewn or squared stone; also, masonry made of squared or hewn stone. |
| | noun (n.) In the United States especially, a thin facing of squared and dressed stone upon a wall of rubble or brick. |
| assailer | noun (n.) One who assails. |
| assembler | noun (n.) One who assembles a number of individuals; also, one of a number assembled. |
| babbler | noun (n.) An idle talker; an irrational prater; a teller of secrets. |
| | noun (n.) A hound too noisy on finding a good scent. |
| | noun (n.) A name given to any one of family (Timalinae) of thrushlike birds, having a chattering note. |
| backsettler | noun (n.) One living in the back or outlying districts of a community. |
| baffler | noun (n.) One who, or that which, baffles. |
| bailer | noun (n.) See Bailor. |
| | noun (n.) One who bails or lades. |
| | noun (n.) A utensil, as a bucket or cup, used in bailing; a machine for bailing water out of a pit. |
| bamboozler | noun (n.) A swindler; one who deceives by trickery. |
| batfowler | noun (n.) One who practices or finds sport in batfowling. |
| batteler | noun (n.) Alt. of Battler |
| battler | noun (n.) A student at Oxford who is supplied with provisions from the buttery; formerly, one who paid for nothing but what he called for, answering nearly to a sizar at Cambridge. |
| bawler | noun (n.) One who bawls. |
| beguiler | noun (n.) One who, or that which, beguiles. |
| besprinkler | noun (n.) One who, or that which, besprinkles. |
| bewailer | noun (n.) One who bewails or laments. |
| bicycler | noun (n.) One who rides a bicycle. |
| blackmailer | noun (n.) One who extorts, or endeavors to extort, money, by black mailing. |
| boiler | noun (n.) One who boils. |
| | noun (n.) A vessel in which any thing is boiled. |
| | noun (n.) A strong metallic vessel, usually of wrought iron plates riveted together, or a composite structure variously formed, in which steam is generated for driving engines, or for heating, cooking, or other purposes. |
| | noun (n.) A sunken reef; esp., a coral reef on which the sea breaks heavily. |
| bookseller | noun (n.) One who sells books. |
| bordeller | noun (n.) A keeper or a frequenter of a brothel. |
| bottler | noun (n.) One who bottles wine, beer, soda water, etc. |
| bowler | noun (n.) One who plays at bowls, or who rolls the ball in cricket or any other game. |
| | noun (n.) A derby hat. |
| brabbler | noun (n.) A clamorous, quarrelsome, noisy fellow; a wrangler. |
| brawler | noun (n.) One that brawls; wrangler. |
| bridler | noun (n.) One who bridles; one who restrains and governs, as with a bridle. |
| broiler | noun (n.) One who excites broils; one who engages in or promotes noisy quarrels. |
| | noun (n.) One who broils, or cooks by broiling. |
| | noun (n.) A gridiron or other utensil used in broiling. |
| | noun (n.) A chicken or other bird fit for broiling. |
| brotheler | noun (n.) One who frequents brothels. |
| bubbler | noun (n.) One who cheats. |
| | noun (n.) A fish of the Ohio river; -- so called from the noise it makes. |
| | verb (v. t.) To cheat; to deceive. |
| buckler | noun (n.) A kind of shield, of various shapes and sizes, worn on one of the arms (usually the left) for protecting the front of the body. |
| | noun (n.) One of the large, bony, external plates found on many ganoid fishes. |
| | noun (n.) The anterior segment of the shell of trilobites. |
| | noun (n.) A block of wood or plate of iron made to fit a hawse hole, or the circular opening in a half-port, to prevent water from entering when the vessel pitches. |
| | verb (v. t.) To shield; to defend. |
| burler | noun (n.) One who burls or dresses cloth. |
| bustler | noun (n.) An active, stirring person. |
| butler | noun (n.) An officer in a king's or a nobleman's household, whose principal business it is to take charge of the liquors, plate, etc.; the head servant in a large house. |
| caballer | noun (n.) One who cabals. |
| cabbler | noun (n.) One who works at cabbling. |
| cackler | noun (n.) A fowl that cackles. |
| | noun (n.) One who prattles, or tells tales; a tattler. |
| cajoler | noun (n.) A flatterer; a wheedler. |
| caller | noun (n.) One who calls. |
| | adjective (a.) Cool; refreshing; fresh; as, a caller day; the caller air. |
| | adjective (a.) Fresh; in good condition; as, caller berrings. |
| caviler | noun (n.) Alt. of Caviller |
| caviller | noun (n.) One who cavils. |
| chandler | noun (n.) A maker or seller of candles. |
| | noun (n.) A dealer in other commodities, which are indicated by a word prefixed; as, ship chandler, corn chandler. |
| choler | noun (n.) The bile; -- formerly supposed to be the seat and cause of irascibility. |
| | noun (n.) Irritation of the passions; anger; wrath. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH SPENGLER (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 7 Letters (spengle) - Words That Begins with spengle:
Rhyming Words According to First 6 Letters (spengl) - Words That Begins with spengl:
Rhyming Words According to First 5 Letters (speng) - Words That Begins with speng:
Rhyming Words According to First 4 Letters (spen) - Words That Begins with spen:
| 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]. |
| 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 SPENGLER:
English Words which starts with 'spe' and ends with 'ler':
| speller | noun (n.) One who spells. |
| | noun (n.) A spelling book. |
English Words which starts with 'sp' and ends with 'er':
| spader | noun (n.) One who, or that which, spades; specifically, a digging machine. |
| spanker | noun (n.) One who spanks, or anything used as an instrument for spanking. |
| | noun (n.) The after sail of a ship or bark, being a fore-and-aft sail attached to a boom and gaff; -- sometimes called driver. See Illust. under Sail. |
| | noun (n.) One who takes long, quick strides in walking; also, a fast horse. |
| | noun (n.) Something very large, or larger than common; a whopper, as a stout or tall person. |
| | noun (n.) A small coin. |
| spanner | noun (n.) One who, or that which, spans. |
| | noun (n.) The lock of a fusee or carbine; also, the fusee or carbine itself. |
| | noun (n.) An iron instrument having a jaw to fit a nut or the head of a bolt, and used as a lever to turn it with; a wrench; specifically, a wrench for unscrewing or tightening the couplings of hose. |
| | noun (n.) A contrivance in some of the ealier steam engines for moving the valves for the alternate admission and shutting off of the steam. |
| sparer | noun (n.) One who spares. |
| sparger | noun (n.) A vessel with a perforated cover, for sprinkling with a liquid; a sprinkler. |
| sparker | noun (n.) A spark arrester. |
| sparkler | noun (n.) One who scatters; esp., one who scatters money; an improvident person. |
| | noun (n.) One who, or that which, sparkles. |
| | noun (n.) A tiger beetle. |
| spawner | noun (n.) A mature female fish. |
| | noun (n.) Whatever produces spawn of any kind. |
| specter | noun (n.) Alt. of Spectre |
| spectioneer | noun (n.) Same as Specsioneer. |
| spectrometer | noun (n.) A spectroscope fitted for measurements of the luminious spectra observed with it. |
| spectrophotometer | noun (n.) An instrument for measuring or comparing the intensites of the colors of the spectrum. |
| speechifier | noun (n.) One who makes a speech or speeches; an orator; a declaimer. |
| speechmaker | noun (n.) One who makes speeches; one accustomed to speak in a public assembly. |
| speeder | noun (n.) One who, or that which, speeds. |
| | noun (n.) A machine for drawing and twisting slivers to form rovings. |
| speer | noun (n.) A sphere. |
| | verb (v. t.) To ask. |
| spelter | noun (n.) Zinc; -- especially so called in commerce and arts. |
| spewer | noun (n.) One who spews. |
| sphenographer | noun (n.) One skilled in sphenography; a sphenographist. |
| spherometer | noun (n.) An instrument for measuring the curvature of spherical surface, as of lenses for telescope, etc. |
| sphigmometer | noun (n.) See Sphygmometer. |
| sphincter | noun (n.) A muscle which surrounds, and by its contraction tends to close, a natural opening; as, the sphincter of the bladder. |
| | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a sphincter; as, a sphincter muscle. |
| sphygmometer | noun (n.) An instrument for measuring the strength of the pulse beat; a sphygmograph. |
| spicer | noun (n.) One who seasons with spice. |
| | noun (n.) One who deals in spice. |
| spider | noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of arachnids comprising the order Araneina. Spiders have the mandibles converted into poison fangs, or falcers. The abdomen is large and not segmented, with two or three pairs of spinnerets near the end, by means of which they spin threads of silk to form cocoons, or nests, to protect their eggs and young. Many species spin also complex webs to entrap the insects upon which they prey. The eyes are usually eight in number (rarely six), and are situated on the back of the cephalothorax. See Illust. under Araneina. |
| | noun (n.) Any one of various other arachnids resembling the true spiders, especially certain mites, as the red spider (see under Red). |
| | noun (n.) An iron pan with a long handle, used as a kitchen utensil in frying food. Originally, it had long legs, and was used over coals on the hearth. |
| | noun (n.) A trevet to support pans or pots over a fire. |
| | noun (n.) A skeleton, or frame, having radiating arms or members, often connected by crosspieces; as, a casting forming the hub and spokes to which the rim of a fly wheel or large gear is bolted; the body of a piston head; a frame for strengthening a core or mold for a casting, etc. |
| spiller | noun (n.) One who, or that which, spills. |
| | noun (n.) A kind of fishing line with many hooks; a boulter. |
| spilter | noun (n.) Any one of the small branches on a stag's head. |
| spinnaker | noun (n.) A large triangular sail set upon a boom, -- used when running before the wind. |
| spinner | noun (n.) One who, or that which, spins one skilled in spinning; a spinning machine. |
| | noun (n.) A spider. |
| | noun (n.) A goatsucker; -- so called from the peculiar noise it makes when darting through the air. |
| | noun (n.) A spinneret. |
| spinster | noun (n.) A woman who spins, or whose occupation is to spin. |
| | noun (n.) A man who spins. |
| | noun (n.) An unmarried or single woman; -- used in legal proceedings as a title, or addition to the surname. |
| | noun (n.) A woman of evil life and character; -- so called from being forced to spin in a house of correction. |
| spirifer | noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of fossil brachipods of the genus Spirifer, or Delthyris, and allied genera, in which the long calcareous supports of the arms form a large spiral, or helix, on each side. |
| spiritualizer | noun (n.) One who spiritualizes. |
| spirometer | noun (n.) An instrument for measuring the vital capacity of the lungs, or the volume of air which can be expelled from the chest after the deepest possible inspiration. Cf. Pneumatometer. |
| spitter | noun (n.) One who ejects saliva from the mouth. |
| | noun (n.) One who puts meat on a spit. |
| | noun (n.) A young deer whose antlers begin to shoot or become sharp; a brocket, or pricket. |
| splasher | noun (n.) One who, or that which, splashes. |
| | noun (n.) One of the guarde over the wheels, as of a carriage, locomotive, etc. |
| | noun (n.) A guard to keep off splashes from anything. |
| splinter | noun (n.) To split or rend into long, thin pieces; to shiver; as, the lightning splinters a tree. |
| | noun (n.) To fasten or confine with splinters, or splints, as a broken limb. |
| | noun (n.) A thin piece split or rent off lengthwise, as from wood, bone, or other solid substance; a thin piece; a sliver; as, splinters of a ship's mast rent off by a shot. |
| | verb (v. i.) To become split into long pieces. |
| splitter | noun (n.) One who, or that which, splits. |
| splutter | noun (n.) A confused noise, as of hasty speaking. |
| | verb (v. i.) To speak hastily and confusedly; to sputter. |
| splutterer | noun (n.) One who splutters. |
| spoiler | noun (n.) One who spoils; a plunderer; a pillager; a robber; a despoiler. |
| | noun (n.) One who corrupts, mars, or renders useless. |
| spoilsmonger | noun (n.) One who promises or distributes public offices and their emoluments as the price of services to a party or its leaders. |
| sponger | noun (n.) One who sponges, or uses a sponge. |
| | noun (n.) One employed in gathering sponges. |
| | noun (n.) Fig.: A parasitical dependent; a hanger-on. |
| spooler | noun (n.) One who, or that which, spools. |
| sporter | noun (n.) One who sports; a sportsman. |
| spotter | noun (n.) One who spots. |
| spouter | noun (n.) One who, or that which, spouts. |
| spreader | noun (n.) One who, or that which, spreads, expands, or propogates. |
| | noun (n.) A machine for combining and drawing fibers of flax to form a sliver preparatory to spinning. |
| springer | noun (n.) One who, or that which, springs; specifically, one who rouses game. |
| | noun (n.) A young plant. |
| | noun (n.) The impost, or point at which an arch rests upon its support, and from which it seems to spring. |
| | noun (n.) The bottom stone of an arch, which lies on the impost. The skew back is one form of springer. |
| | noun (n.) The rib of a groined vault, as being the solid abutment for each section of vaulting. |
| | noun (n.) The grampus. |
| | noun (n.) A variety of the field spaniel. See Spaniel. |
| | noun (n.) A species of antelope; the sprinkbok. |
| sprinkler | noun (n.) One who sprinkles. |
| | noun (n.) An instrument or vessel used in sprinkling; specifically, a watering pot. |
| sprinter | noun (n.) One who sprints; one who runs in sprint races; as, a champion sprinter. |
| spuller | noun (n.) One employed to inspect yarn, to see that it is well spun, and fit for the loom. |
| spurner | noun (n.) One who spurns. |
| spurrer | noun (n.) One who spurs. |
| spurrier | noun (n.) One whose occupation is to make spurs. |
| sputter | noun (n.) Moist matter thrown out in small detached particles; also, confused and hasty speech. |
| | verb (v. i.) To spit, or to emit saliva from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking. |
| | verb (v. i.) To utter words hastily and indistinctly; to speak so rapidly as to emit saliva. |
| | verb (v. i.) To throw out anything, as little jets of steam, with a noise like that made by one sputtering. |
| | verb (v. t.) To spit out hastily by quick, successive efforts, with a spluttering sound; to utter hastily and confusedly, without control over the organs of speech. |
| sputterer | noun (n.) One who sputters. |
| spectrobolometer | noun (n.) A combination of spectroscope and bolometer for determining the distribution of energy in a spectrum. |
| spoonflower | noun (n.) The yautia. |
| sprayer | noun (n.) One that sprays; any instrument for vaporizing and spraying liquids. |
