First Names Rhyming SPENSER
English Words Rhyming SPENSER
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES SPENSER AS A WHOLE:
| dispenser | noun (n.) One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors. |
| spenserian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faerie Queene." |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH SPENSER (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 6 Letters (penser) - English Words That Ends with penser:
| accipenser | noun (n.) See Acipenser. |
| acipenser | noun (n.) A genus of ganoid fishes, including the sturgeons, having the body armed with bony scales, and the mouth on the under side of the head. See Sturgeon. |
| recompenser | noun (n.) One who recompenses. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 5 Letters (enser) - English Words That Ends with enser:
| censer | noun (n.) A vessel for perfumes; esp. one in which incense is burned. |
| condenser | noun (n.) One who, or that which, condenses. |
| | noun (n.) An instrument for condensing air or other elastic fluids, consisting of a cylinder having a movable piston to force the air into a receiver, and a valve to prevent its escape. |
| | noun (n.) An instrument for concentrating electricity by the effect of induction between conducting plates separated by a nonconducting plate. |
| | noun (n.) A lens or mirror, usually of short focal distance, used to concentrate light upon an object. |
| | noun (n.) An apparatus for receiving and condensing the volatile products of distillation to a liquid or solid form, by cooling. |
| | noun (n.) An apparatus, separate from the cylinder, in which the exhaust steam is condensed by the action of cold water or air. See Illust. of Steam engine. |
| defenser | noun (n.) Defender. |
| incenser | noun (n.) One who instigates or incites. |
| licenser | noun (n.) One who gives a license; as, a licenser of the press. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (nser) - English Words That Ends with nser:
| cleanser | noun (n.) One who, or that which, cleanses; a detergent. |
| merganser | noun (n.) Any bird of the genus Merganser, and allied genera. They are allied to the ducks, but have a sharply serrated bill. |
| rinser | noun (n.) One who, or that which, rinses. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ser) - English Words That Ends with ser:
| abaiser | noun (n.) Ivory black or animal charcoal. |
| abaser | noun (n.) He who, or that which, abases. |
| abuser | noun (n.) One who abuses [in the various senses of the verb]. |
| accuser | noun (n.) One who accuses; one who brings a charge of crime or fault. |
| advertiser | noun (n.) One who, or that which, advertises. |
| adviser | noun (n.) One who advises. |
| amasser | noun (n.) One who amasses. |
| amuser | noun (n.) One who amuses. |
| analyser | noun (n.) Same as Analyze, Analyzer, etc. |
| appeaser | noun (n.) One who appeases; a pacifier. |
| apposer | noun (n.) An examiner; one whose business is to put questions. Formerly, in the English Court of Exchequer, an officer who audited the sheriffs' accounts. |
| appraiser | noun (n.) One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates. |
| asperser | noun (n.) One who asperses; especially, one who vilifies another. |
| blesser | noun (n.) One who blesses; one who bestows or invokes a blessing. |
| booser | noun (n.) A toper; a guzzler. See Boozer. |
| bouser | noun (n.) A toper; a boozer. |
| braiser | noun (n.) A kettle or pan for braising. |
| browser | noun (n.) An animal that browses. |
| bruiser | noun (n.) One who, or that which, bruises. |
| | noun (n.) A boxer; a pugilist. |
| | noun (n.) A concave tool used in grinding lenses or the speculums of telescopes. |
| canvasser | noun (n.) One who canvasses. |
| carouser | noun (n.) One who carouses; a reveler. |
| catechiser | noun (n.) One who catechises. |
| causer | noun (n.) One who or that which causes. |
| chaser | noun (n.) One who or that which chases; a pursuer; a driver; a hunter. |
| | noun (n.) Same as Chase gun, esp. in terms bow chaser and stern chaser. See under Bow, Stern. |
| | noun (n.) One who chases or engraves. See 5th Chase, and Enchase. |
| | noun (n.) A tool with several points, used for cutting or finishing screw threads, either external or internal, on work revolving in a lathe. |
| chastiser | noun (n.) One who chastises; a punisher; a corrector. |
| chooser | noun (n.) One who chooses; one who has the power or right of choosing; an elector. |
| circumciser | noun (n.) One who performs circumcision. |
| closer | noun (n.) One who, or that which, closes; specifically, a boot closer. See under Boot. |
| | noun (n.) A finisher; that which finishes or terminates. |
| | noun (n.) The last stone in a horizontal course, if of a less size than the others, or a piece of brick finishing a course. |
| composer | noun (n.) One who composes; an author. Specifically, an author of a piece of music. |
| | noun (n.) One who, or that which, quiets or calms; one who adjusts a difference. |
| compromiser | noun (n.) One who compromises. |
| confesser | noun (n.) One who makes a confession. |
| controverser | noun (n.) A disputant. |
| converser | noun (n.) One who engages in conversation. |
| courser | noun (n.) One who courses or hunts. |
| | noun (n.) A swift or spirited horse; a racer or a war horse; a charger. |
| | noun (n.) A grallatorial bird of Europe (Cursorius cursor), remarkable for its speed in running. Sometimes, in a wider sense, applied to running birds of the Ostrich family. |
| creaser | noun (n.) A tool, or a sewing-machine attachment, for making lines or creases on leather or cloth, as guides to sew by. |
| | noun (n.) A tool for making creases or beads, as in sheet iron, or for rounding small tubes. |
| | noun (n.) A tool for making the band impression distinct on the back. |
| criticiser | noun (n.) One who criticises; a critic. |
| cruiser | noun (n.) One who, or a vessel that, cruises; -- usually an armed vessel. |
| | noun (n.) A man-of-war less heavily armed and armored than a battle ship, having great speed, and generally of from two thousand to twelve thousand tons displacement. |
| curser | noun (n.) One who curses. |
| debaser | noun (n.) One who, or that which, debases. |
| deforser | noun (n.) A deforciant. |
| deposer | noun (n.) One who deposes or degrades from office. |
| | noun (n.) One who testifies or deposes; a deponent. |
| despiser | noun (n.) One who despises; a contemner; a scorner. |
| deviser | noun (n.) One who devises. |
| diffuser | noun (n.) One who, or that which, diffuses. |
| disburser | noun (n.) One who disburses money. |
| discloser | noun (n.) One who discloses. |
| discourser | noun (n.) One who discourse; a narrator; a speaker; an haranguer. |
| | noun (n.) The writer of a treatise or dissertation. |
| discusser | noun (n.) One who discusses; one who sifts or examines. |
| disguiser | noun (n.) One who, or that which, disguises. |
| | noun (n.) One who wears a disguise; an actor in a masquerade; a masker. |
| disperser | noun (n.) One that disperses. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH SPENSER (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 6 Letters (spense) - Words That Begins with spense:
Rhyming Words According to First 5 Letters (spens) - Words That Begins with spens:
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. |
| 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 SPENSER:
English Words which starts with 'spe' and ends with 'ser':
English Words which starts with 'sp' and ends with 'er':
| spader | noun (n.) One who, or that which, spades; specifically, a digging machine. |
| spangler | noun (n.) One who, or that which, spangles. |
| 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. |
| speller | noun (n.) One who spells. |
| | noun (n.) A spelling book. |
| 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. |
