SPEAR
First name SPEAR's origin is Other. SPEAR means "spear". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with SPEAR below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of spear.(Brown names are of the same origin (Other) with SPEAR and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
First Names Rhyming SPEAR
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES SPEAR AS A WHOLE:
NAMES RHYMING WITH SPEAR (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 4 Letters (pear) - Names That Ends with pear:
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ear) - Names That Ends with ear:
aurear ear lear gear eibhearRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (ar) - Names That Ends with ar:
fembar anbar izdihar kawthar dagmar devamatar anwar babukar dalmar al-ahmar antar ashquar bazar dahwar dammar dawar dinar ektibar ferar gabbar geedar nahar abdul-jabbar abdul-qahhar azhar jafar sayyar umar yasar zafar mar magar conchobar ferchar huarwar bednar kovar mlynar pekar rybar tesar caesar ejnar hjalmar holgar kolinkar pedar abubakar ausar kontar osahar war gaspar iomar peadar elazar oszkar cesar cezar ingemar adar ashar auriar bethiar ciar dagomar hildemar hildimar izar manaar pilar star tamar taylar adalgar ahmar algar anouar athdar athemar balthazar blar bonnar briar caffar car conchobhar cougar edgar eimar eliazar fearchar ferehar finbar finnbarNAMES RHYMING WITH SPEAR (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 4 Letters (spea) - Names That Begins with spea:
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (spe) - Names That Begins with spe:
sped speed spelding spence spencer spengler spenser 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 SPEAR:
First Names which starts with 'sp' and ends with 'ar':
First Names which starts with 's' and ends with 'r':
sabeer saber sabir sadler saeger sagar saghir sagramour sagremor sahar sahir sakr salhfor salvador samar sameer samir sander sandor saqr sar sarsour sawyer saylor schaeffer schaffer schuyler schyler sciymgeour scur seager seaver seber segar seger seignour semadar sener senghor senior ser sever seymour shaker shakir sherrer shunnar sihr silver silvester sinclair skipper skyelar skylar skyler skyller skylor sofier somer squier sruthair starr steiner stoner suhair suhayr sumer sumernor summer sumner sur surur sutter sylvester symerEnglish Words Rhyming SPEAR
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES SPEAR AS A WHOLE:
eelspear | noun (n.) A spear with barbed forks for spearing eels. |
shakespearean | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or in the style of, Shakespeare or his works. |
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. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH SPEAR (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (pear) - English Words That Ends with pear:
appear | noun (n.) Appearance. |
verb (v. i.) To come or be in sight; to be in view; to become visible. | |
verb (v. i.) To come before the public; as, a great writer appeared at that time. | |
verb (v. i.) To stand in presence of some authority, tribunal, or superior person, to answer a charge, plead a cause, or the like; to present one's self as a party or advocate before a court, or as a person to be tried. | |
verb (v. i.) To become visible to the apprehension of the mind; to be known as a subject of observation or comprehension, or as a thing proved; to be obvious or manifest. | |
verb (v. i.) To seem; to have a certain semblance; to look. |
pear | noun (n.) The fleshy pome, or fruit, of a rosaceous tree (Pyrus communis), cultivated in many varieties in temperate climates; also, the tree which bears this fruit. See Pear family, below. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ear) - English Words That Ends with ear:
arrear | noun (n.) That which is behind in payment, or which remains unpaid, though due; esp. a remainder, or balance which remains due when some part has been paid; arrearage; -- commonly used in the plural, as, arrears of rent, wages, or taxes. |
adverb (adv.) To or in the rear; behind; backwards. |
asmear | adjective (a.) Smeared over. |
bear | noun (n.) A bier. |
noun (n.) Any species of the genus Ursus, and of the closely allied genera. Bears are plantigrade Carnivora, but they live largely on fruit and insects. | |
noun (n.) An animal which has some resemblance to a bear in form or habits, but no real affinity; as, the woolly bear; ant bear; water bear; sea bear. | |
noun (n.) One of two constellations in the northern hemisphere, called respectively the Great Bear and the Lesser Bear, or Ursa Major and Ursa Minor. | |
noun (n.) Metaphorically: A brutal, coarse, or morose person. | |
noun (n.) A person who sells stocks or securities for future delivery in expectation of a fall in the market. | |
noun (n.) A portable punching machine. | |
noun (n.) A block covered with coarse matting; -- used to scour the deck. | |
noun (n.) Alt. of Bere | |
verb (v. t.) To support or sustain; to hold up. | |
verb (v. t.) To support and remove or carry; to convey. | |
verb (v. t.) To conduct; to bring; -- said of persons. | |
verb (v. t.) To possess and use, as power; to exercise. | |
verb (v. t.) To sustain; to have on (written or inscribed, or as a mark), as, the tablet bears this inscription. | |
verb (v. t.) To possess or carry, as a mark of authority or distinction; to wear; as, to bear a sword, badge, or name. | |
verb (v. t.) To possess mentally; to carry or hold in the mind; to entertain; to harbor | |
verb (v. t.) To endure; to tolerate; to undergo; to suffer. | |
verb (v. t.) To gain or win. | |
verb (v. t.) To sustain, or be answerable for, as blame, expense, responsibility, etc. | |
verb (v. t.) To render or give; to bring forward. | |
verb (v. t.) To carry on, or maintain; to have. | |
verb (v. t.) To admit or be capable of; that is, to suffer or sustain without violence, injury, or change. | |
verb (v. t.) To manage, wield, or direct. | |
verb (v. t.) To behave; to conduct. | |
verb (v. t.) To afford; to be to; to supply with. | |
verb (v. t.) To bring forth or produce; to yield; as, to bear apples; to bear children; to bear interest. | |
verb (v. i.) To produce, as fruit; to be fruitful, in opposition to barrenness. | |
verb (v. i.) To suffer, as in carrying a burden. | |
verb (v. i.) To endure with patience; to be patient. | |
verb (v. i.) To press; -- with on or upon, or against. | |
verb (v. i.) To take effect; to have influence or force; as, to bring matters to bear. | |
verb (v. i.) To relate or refer; -- with on or upon; as, how does this bear on the question? | |
verb (v. i.) To have a certain meaning, intent, or effect. | |
verb (v. i.) To be situated, as to the point of compass, with respect to something else; as, the land bears N. by E. | |
verb (v. t.) To endeavor to depress the price of, or prices in; as, to bear a railroad stock; to bear the market. |
bilinear | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or included by, two lines; as, bilinear coordinates. |
binuclear | adjective (a.) Alt. of Binucleate |
bugbear | noun (n.) Something frightful, as a specter; anything imaginary that causes needless fright; something used to excite needless fear; also, something really dangerous, used to frighten children, etc. |
noun (n.) Same as Bugaboo. | |
adjective (a.) Causing needless fright. | |
verb (v. t.) To alarm with idle phantoms. |
chear | noun (n. & v.) See Cheer. |
clear | noun (n.) Full extent; distance between extreme limits; especially; the distance between the nearest surfaces of two bodies, or the space between walls; as, a room ten feet square in the clear. |
superlative (superl.) Free from opaqueness; transparent; bright; light; luminous; unclouded. | |
superlative (superl.) Free from ambiguity or indistinctness; lucid; perspicuous; plain; evident; manifest; indubitable. | |
superlative (superl.) Able to perceive clearly; keen; acute; penetrating; discriminating; as, a clear intellect; a clear head. | |
superlative (superl.) Not clouded with passion; serene; cheerful. | |
superlative (superl.) Easily or distinctly heard; audible; canorous. | |
superlative (superl.) Without mixture; entirely pure; as, clear sand. | |
superlative (superl.) Without defect or blemish, such as freckles or knots; as, a clear complexion; clear lumber. | |
superlative (superl.) Free from guilt or stain; unblemished. | |
superlative (superl.) Without diminution; in full; net; as, clear profit. | |
superlative (superl.) Free from impediment or obstruction; unobstructed; as, a clear view; to keep clear of debt. | |
superlative (superl.) Free from embarrassment; detention, etc. | |
adverb (adv.) In a clear manner; plainly. | |
adverb (adv.) Without limitation; wholly; quite; entirely; as, to cut a piece clear off. | |
verb (v. t.) To render bright, transparent, or undimmed; to free from clouds. | |
verb (v. t.) To free from impurities; to clarify; to cleanse. | |
verb (v. t.) To free from obscurity or ambiguity; to relive of perplexity; to make perspicuous. | |
verb (v. t.) To render more quick or acute, as the understanding; to make perspicacious. | |
verb (v. t.) To free from impediment or incumbrance, from defilement, or from anything injurious, useless, or offensive; as, to clear land of trees or brushwood, or from stones; to clear the sight or the voice; to clear one's self from debt; -- often used with of, off, away, or out. | |
verb (v. t.) To free from the imputation of guilt; to justify, vindicate, or acquit; -- often used with from before the thing imputed. | |
verb (v. t.) To leap or pass by, or over, without touching or failure; as, to clear a hedge; to clear a reef. | |
verb (v. t.) To gain without deduction; to net. | |
verb (v. i.) To become free from clouds or fog; to become fair; -- often followed by up, off, or away. | |
verb (v. i.) To disengage one's self from incumbrances, distress, or entanglements; to become free. | |
verb (v. i.) To make exchanges of checks and bills, and settle balances, as is done in a clearing house. | |
verb (v. i.) To obtain a clearance; as, the steamer cleared for Liverpool to-day. |
cochlear | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the cochlea. |
cudbear | noun (n.) A powder of a violet red color, difficult to moisten with water, used for making violet or purple dye. It is prepared from certain species of lichen, especially Lecanora tartarea. |
noun (n.) A lichen (Lecanora tartarea), from which the powder is obtained. |
curvilinear | adjective (a.) Consisting of, or bounded by, curved lines; as, a curvilinear figure. |
dear | noun (n.) A dear one; lover; sweetheart. |
superlative (superl.) Bearing a high price; high-priced; costly; expensive. | |
superlative (superl.) Marked by scarcity or dearth, and exorbitance of price; as, a dear year. | |
superlative (superl.) Highly valued; greatly beloved; cherished; precious. | |
superlative (superl.) Hence, close to the heart; heartfelt; present in mind; engaging the attention. | |
superlative (superl.) Of agreeable things and interests. | |
superlative (superl.) Of disagreeable things and antipathies. | |
adverb (adv.) Dearly; at a high price. | |
verb (v. t.) To endear. |
drawgear | noun (n.) A harness for draught horses. |
noun (n.) The means or parts by which cars are connected to be drawn. |
drear | noun (n.) Sadness; dismalness. |
adjective (a.) Dismal; gloomy with solitude. |
ear | noun (n.) The organ of hearing; the external ear. |
noun (n.) The sense of hearing; the perception of sounds; the power of discriminating between different tones; as, a nice ear for music; -- in the singular only. | |
noun (n.) That which resembles in shape or position the ear of an animal; any prominence or projection on an object, -- usually one for support or attachment; a lug; a handle; as, the ears of a tub, a skillet, or dish. The ears of a boat are outside kneepieces near the bow. See Illust. of Bell. | |
noun (n.) Same as Acroterium. | |
noun (n.) Same as Crossette. | |
noun (n.) Privilege of being kindly heard; favor; attention. | |
noun (n.) The spike or head of any cereal (as, wheat, rye, barley, Indian corn, etc.), containing the kernels. | |
verb (v. t.) To take in with the ears; to hear. | |
verb (v. i.) To put forth ears in growing; to form ears, as grain; as, this corn ears well. | |
verb (v. t.) To plow or till; to cultivate. |
epitrochlear | adjective (a.) Relating to the epitrochlea. |
fear | noun (n.) A variant of Fere, a mate, a companion. |
noun (n.) A painful emotion or passion excited by the expectation of evil, or the apprehension of impending danger; apprehension; anxiety; solicitude; alarm; dread. | |
noun (n.) Apprehension of incurring, or solicitude to avoid, God's wrath; the trembling and awful reverence felt toward the Supreme Belng. | |
noun (n.) Respectful reverence for men of authority or worth. | |
noun (n.) That which causes, or which is the object of, apprehension or alarm; source or occasion of terror; danger; dreadfulness. | |
noun (n.) To feel a painful apprehension of; to be afraid of; to consider or expect with emotion of alarm or solicitude. | |
noun (n.) To have a reverential awe of; to solicitous to avoid the displeasure of. | |
noun (n.) To be anxious or solicitous for. | |
noun (n.) To suspect; to doubt. | |
noun (n.) To affright; to terrify; to drive away or prevent approach of by fear. | |
verb (v. i.) To be in apprehension of evil; to be afraid; to feel anxiety on account of some expected evil. |
flear | noun (n.) A word or look of derision or mockery. |
noun (n.) A grin of civility; a leer. | |
verb (v. t. & i.) See Fleer. |
forbear | noun (n.) An ancestor; a forefather; -- usually in the plural. |
verb (v. i.) To refrain from proceeding; to pause; to delay. | |
verb (v. i.) To refuse; to decline; to give no heed. | |
verb (v. i.) To control one's self when provoked. | |
verb (v. t.) To keep away from; to avoid; to abstain from; to give up; as, to forbear the use of a word of doubdtful propriety. | |
verb (v. t.) To treat with consideration or indulgence. | |
verb (v. t.) To cease from bearing. |
forebear | noun (n.) An ancestor. See Forbear. |
gear | noun (n.) Clothing; garments; ornaments. |
noun (n.) Goods; property; household stuff. | |
noun (n.) Whatever is prepared for use or wear; manufactured stuff or material. | |
noun (n.) The harness of horses or cattle; trapping. | |
noun (n.) Warlike accouterments. | |
noun (n.) Manner; custom; behavior. | |
noun (n.) Business matters; affairs; concern. | |
noun (n.) A toothed wheel, or cogwheel; as, a spur gear, or a bevel gear; also, toothed wheels, collectively. | |
noun (n.) An apparatus for performing a special function; gearing; as, the feed gear of a lathe. | |
noun (n.) Engagement of parts with each other; as, in gear; out of gear. | |
noun (n.) See 1st Jeer (b). | |
noun (n.) Anything worthless; stuff; nonsense; rubbish. | |
verb (v. t.) To dress; to put gear on; to harness. | |
verb (v. t.) To provide with gearing. | |
verb (v. i.) To be in, or come into, gear. |
head gear | noun (n.) Alt. of Headgear |
headgear | noun (n.) Headdress. |
noun (n.) Apparatus above ground at the mouth of a mine or deep well. |
heartdear | adjective (a.) Sincerely beloved. |
infratrochlear | adjective (a.) Below a trochlea, or pulley; -- applied esp. to one of the subdivisions of the trigeminal nerve. |
interlinear | adjective (a.) Contained between lines; written or inserted between lines already written or printed; containing interlineations; as, an interlinear manuscript, translation, etc. |
intranuclear | adjective (a.) Within the nucleus of a cell; as. the intranuclear network of fibrils, seen in the first stages of karyokinesis. |
laquear | noun (n.) A lacunar. |
lear | noun (n.) Lore; lesson. |
noun (n.) An annealing oven. See Leer, n. | |
adjective (a.) See Leer, a. | |
verb (v. t.) To learn. See Lere, to learn. |
linear | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a line; consisting of lines; in a straight direction; lineal. |
adjective (a.) Like a line; narrow; of the same breadth throughout, except at the extremities; as, a linear leaf. |
mear | noun (n.) A boundary. See Mere. |
mixtilinear | adjective (a.) Containing, or consisting of, lines of different kinds, as straight, curved, and the like; as, a mixtilinear angle, that is, an angle contained by a straight line and a curve. |
multinuclear | adjective (a.) Containing many nuclei; as, multinuclear cells. |
neckwear | noun (n.) A collective term for cravats, collars, etc. |
nuclear | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a nucleus; as, the nuclear spindle (see Illust. of Karyokinesis) or the nuclear fibrils of a cell; the nuclear part of a comet, etc. |
outlinear | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to an outline; being in, or forming, an outline. |
overwear | noun (n.) Clothing worn over the ordinary indoor closing, as overcoats, wraps, etc. |
verb (v. t.) To wear too much; to wear out. |
perinuclear | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a nucleus; situated around a nucleus; as, the perinuclear protoplasm. |
polynuclear | adjective (a.) Containing many nuclei. |
rear | noun (n.) The back or hindmost part; that which is behind, or last in order; -- opposed to front. |
noun (n.) Specifically, the part of an army or fleet which comes last, or is stationed behind the rest. | |
adjective (a.) Being behind, or in the hindmost part; hindmost; as, the rear rank of a company. | |
adverb (adv.) Early; soon. | |
verb (v. t.) To place in the rear; to secure the rear of. | |
verb (v. t.) To raise; to lift up; to cause to rise, become erect, etc.; to elevate; as, to rear a monolith. | |
verb (v. t.) To erect by building; to set up; to construct; as, to rear defenses or houses; to rear one government on the ruins of another. | |
verb (v. t.) To lift and take up. | |
verb (v. t.) To bring up to maturity, as young; to educate; to instruct; to foster; as, to rear offspring. | |
verb (v. t.) To breed and raise; as, to rear cattle. | |
verb (v. t.) To rouse; to stir up. | |
verb (v. i.) To rise up on the hind legs, as a horse; to become erect. |
rectilinear | adjective (a.) Straight; consisting of a straight line or lines; bounded by straight lines; as, a rectineal angle; a rectilinear figure or course. |
sear | noun (n.) The catch in a gunlock by which the hammer is held cocked or half cocked. |
adjective (a.) Alt. of Sere | |
adjective (a.) To wither; to dry up. | |
adjective (a.) To burn (the surface of) to dryness and hardness; to cauterize; to expose to a degree of heat such as changes the color or the hardness and texture of the surface; to scorch; to make callous; as, to sear the skin or flesh. Also used figuratively. |
smear | noun (n.) To overspread with anything unctuous, viscous, or adhesive; to daub; as, to smear anything with oil. |
noun (n.) To soil in any way; to contaminate; to pollute; to stain morally; as, to be smeared with infamy. | |
noun (n.) A fat, oily substance; oinment. | |
noun (n.) Hence, a spot made by, or as by, an unctuous or adhesive substance; a blot or blotch; a daub; a stain. |
supratrochlear | adjective (a.) Situated over or above a trochlea or trochlear surface; -- applied esp. to one of the subdivisions of the trigeminal nerve. |
tear | noun (n.) A drop of the limpid, saline fluid secreted, normally in small amount, by the lachrymal gland, and diffused between the eye and the eyelids to moisten the parts and facilitate their motion. Ordinarily the secretion passes through the lachrymal duct into the nose, but when it is increased by emotion or other causes, it overflows the lids. |
noun (n.) Something in the form of a transparent drop of fluid matter; also, a solid, transparent, tear-shaped drop, as of some balsams or resins. | |
noun (n.) That which causes or accompanies tears; a lament; a dirge. | |
noun (n.) The act of tearing, or the state of being torn; a rent; a fissure. | |
noun (n.) A partially vitrified bit of clay in glass. | |
verb (v. t.) To separate by violence; to pull apart by force; to rend; to lacerate; as, to tear cloth; to tear a garment; to tear the skin or flesh. | |
verb (v. t.) Hence, to divide by violent measures; to disrupt; to rend; as, a party or government torn by factions. | |
verb (v. t.) To rend away; to force away; to remove by force; to sunder; as, a child torn from its home. | |
verb (v. t.) To pull with violence; as, to tear the hair. | |
verb (v. t.) To move violently; to agitate. | |
verb (v. i.) To divide or separate on being pulled; to be rent; as, this cloth tears easily. | |
verb (v. i.) To move and act with turbulent violence; to rush with violence; hence, to rage; to rave. |
trilinear | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or included by, three lines; as, trilinear coordinates. |
trochlear | noun (n.) Shaped like, or resembling, a pulley; pertaining to, or connected with, a trochlea; as, a trochlear articular surface; the trochlear muscle of the eye. |
underwear | noun (n.) That which is worn under the outside clothing; underclothes. |
vertilinear | adjective (a.) Straight; rectilinear. |
year | noun (n.) The time of the apparent revolution of the sun trough the ecliptic; the period occupied by the earth in making its revolution around the sun, called the astronomical year; also, a period more or less nearly agreeing with this, adopted by various nations as a measure of time, and called the civil year; as, the common lunar year of 354 days, still in use among the Mohammedans; the year of 360 days, etc. In common usage, the year consists of 365 days, and every fourth year (called bissextile, or leap year) of 366 days, a day being added to February on that year, on account of the excess above 365 days (see Bissextile). |
noun (n.) The time in which any planet completes a revolution about the sun; as, the year of Jupiter or of Saturn. | |
noun (n.) Age, or old age; as, a man in years. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH SPEAR (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 4 Letters (spea) - Words That Begins with spea:
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. |
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (spe) - Words That Begins with spe:
speking | noun (n.) The act of uttering words. |
noun (n.) Public declamation; oratory. |
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. |
spectatorship | noun (n.) The office or quality of a spectator. |
noun (n.) The act of beholding. |
spectatress | noun (n.) Alt. of Spectatrix |
spectatrix | noun (n.) A female beholder or looker-on. |
specter | noun (n.) Alt. of Spectre |
spectre | noun (n.) Something preternaturally visible; an apparition; a ghost; a phantom. |
noun (n.) The tarsius. | |
noun (n.) A stick insect. | |
noun (n.) See Specter. | |
() A mountain specter (which see), esp. that observed on the Brocken, in the Harz Mountains. |
spectioneer | noun (n.) Same as Specsioneer. |
spectral | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a specter; ghosty. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the spectrum; made by the spectrum; as, spectral colors; spectral analysis. |
spectrological | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to spectrology; as, spectrological studies or experiments. |
spectrology | noun (n.) The science of spectrum analysis in any or all of its relations and applications. |
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. |
spectroscope | noun (n.) An optical instrument for forming and examining spectra (as that of solar light, or those produced by flames in which different substances are volatilized), so as to determine, from the position of the spectral lines, the composition of the substance. |
spectroscopic | adjective (a.) Alt. of Spectroscopical |
spectroscopical | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a spectroscope, or spectroscopy. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH SPEAR:
English Words which starts with 'sp' and ends with 'ar':
spar | noun (n.) An old name for a nonmetallic mineral, usually cleavable and somewhat lustrous; as, calc spar, or calcite, fluor spar, etc. It was especially used in the case of the gangue minerals of a metalliferous vein. |
noun (n.) A contest at sparring or boxing. | |
noun (n.) A movement of offense or defense in boxing. | |
verb (v. t.) A general term any round piece of timber used as a mast, yard, boom, or gaff. | |
verb (v. t.) Formerly, a piece of timber, in a general sense; -- still applied locally to rafters. | |
verb (v. t.) The bar of a gate or door. | |
verb (v. t.) To bolt; to bar. | |
verb (v. t.) To To supply or equip with spars, as a vessel. | |
verb (v. i.) To strike with the feet or spurs, as cocks do. | |
verb (v. i.) To use the fists and arms scientifically in attack or defense; to contend or combat with the fists, as for exercise or amusement; to box. | |
verb (v. i.) To contest in words; to wrangle. |
specular | adjective (a.) Having the qualities of a speculum, or mirror; having a smooth, reflecting surface; as, a specular metal; a specular surface. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a speculum; conducted with the aid of a speculum; as, a specular examination. | |
adjective (a.) Assisting sight, as a lens or the like. | |
adjective (a.) Affording view. |
spicular | adjective (a.) Resembling a dart; having sharp points. |
spiracular | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a spiracle. |