First Names Rhyming SPENCER
English Words Rhyming SPENCER
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES SPENCER AS A WHOLE:
| spencer | noun (n.) One who has the care of the spence, or buttery. |
| | noun (n.) A short jacket worn by men and by women. |
| | noun (n.) A fore-and-aft sail, abaft the foremast or the mainmast, hoisted upon a small supplementary mast and set with a gaff and no boom; a trysail carried at the foremast or mainmast; -- named after its inventor, Knight Spencer, of England [1802]. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH SPENCER (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 6 Letters (pencer) - English Words That Ends with pencer:
Rhyming Words According to Last 5 Letters (encer) - English Words That Ends with encer:
| evidencer | noun (n.) One whi gives evidence. |
| experiencer | noun (n.) One who experiences. |
| | noun (n.) An experimenter. |
| fencer | noun (n.) One who fences; one who teaches or practices the art of fencing with sword or foil. |
| influencer | noun (n.) One who, or that which, influences. |
| intelligencer | noun (n.) One who, or that which, sends or conveys intelligence or news; a messenger. |
| penitencer | noun (n.) A priest who heard confession and enjoined penance in extraordinary cases. |
| reverencer | noun (n.) One who regards with reverence. |
| sentencer | noun (n.) One who pronounced a sentence or condemnation. |
| silencer | noun (n.) One that silences; |
| | noun (n.) The muffler of an internal-combustion engine. |
| | noun (n.) Any of various devices to silence the humming noise of telegraph wires. |
| | noun (n.) A device for silencing the report of a firearm shooting its projectiles singly, as a tubular attachment for the muzzle having circular plates that permit the passage of the projectile but impart a rotary motion to, and thus retard, the exploding gases. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (ncer) - English Words That Ends with ncer:
| advancer | noun (n.) One who advances; a promoter. |
| | noun (n.) A second branch of a buck's antler. |
| affiancer | noun (n.) One who makes a contract of marriage between two persons. |
| announcer | noun (n.) One who announces. |
| balancer | noun (n.) One who balances, or uses a balance. |
| | noun (n.) In Diptera, the rudimentary posterior wing. |
| bouncer | noun (n.) One who bounces; a large, heavy person who makes much noise in moving. |
| | noun (n.) A boaster; a bully. |
| | noun (n.) A bold lie; also, a liar. |
| | noun (n.) Something big; a good stout example of the kind. |
| cancer | noun (n.) A genus of decapod Crustacea, including some of the most common shore crabs of Europe and North America, as the rock crab, Jonah crab, etc. See Crab. |
| | noun (n.) The fourth of the twelve signs of the zodiac. The first point is the northern limit of the sun's course in summer; hence, the sign of the summer solstice. See Tropic. |
| | noun (n.) A northern constellation between Gemini and Leo. |
| | noun (n.) Formerly, any malignant growth, esp. one attended with great pain and ulceration, with cachexia and progressive emaciation. It was so called, perhaps, from the great veins which surround it, compared by the ancients to the claws of a crab. The term is now restricted to such a growth made up of aggregations of epithelial cells, either without support or embedded in the meshes of a trabecular framework. |
| chiromancer | noun (n.) One who practices chiromancy. |
| conveyancer | noun (n.) One whose business is to draw up conveyances of property, as deeds, mortgages, leases, etc. |
| convincer | noun (n.) One who, or that which, convinces; one who wins over by proof. |
| countenancer | noun (n.) One who countenances, favors, or supports. |
| dancer | noun (n.) One who dances or who practices dancing. |
| demilancer | noun (n.) A soldier of light cavalry of the 16th century, who carried a demilance. |
| denouncer | noun (n.) One who denounces, or declares, as a menace. |
| discountenancer | noun (n.) One who discountenances; one who disfavors. |
| encumbrancer | noun (n.) Same as Incumbrancer. |
| enhancer | noun (n.) One who enhances; one who, or that which, raises the amount, price, etc. |
| geomancer | noun (n.) One who practices, or is versed in, geomancy. |
| grievancer | noun (n.) One who occasions a grievance; one who gives ground for complaint. |
| incumbrancer | noun (n.) One who holds an incumbrance, or some legal claim, lien, or charge on an estate. |
| insurancer | noun (n.) One who effects insurance; an insurer; an underwriter. |
| lancer | noun (n.) One who lances; one who carries a lance; especially, a member of a mounted body of men armed with lances, attached to the cavalry service of some nations. |
| | noun (n.) A lancet. |
| | noun (n.) A set of quadrilles of a certain arrangement. |
| mincer | noun (n.) One who minces. |
| necromancer | noun (n.) One who practices necromancy; a sorcerer; a wizard. |
| nuisancer | noun (n.) One who makes or causes a nuisance. |
| prancer | noun (n.) A horse which prances. |
| pronouncer | noun (n.) One who pronounces, utters, or declares; also, a pronouncing book. |
| remembrancer | noun (n.) One who, or that which, serves to bring to, or keep in, mind; a memento; a memorial; a reminder. |
| | noun (n.) A term applied in England to several officers, having various functions, their duty originally being to bring certain matters to the attention of the proper persons at the proper time. |
| renouncer | noun (n.) One who renounces. |
| romancer | noun (n.) One who romances. |
| ropedancer | noun (n.) One who dances, walks, or performs acrobatic feats, on a rope extended through the air at some height. |
| wincer | noun (n.) One who, or that which, winces, shrinks, or kicks. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (cer) - English Words That Ends with cer:
| adducer | noun (n.) One who adduces. |
| amercer | noun (n.) One who amerces. |
| amphimacer | noun (n.) A foot of three syllables, the middle one short and the others long, as in cast/tas. |
| artificer | noun (n.) An artistic worker; a mechanic or manufacturer; one whose occupation requires skill or knowledge of a particular kind, as a silversmith. |
| | noun (n.) One who makes or contrives; a deviser, inventor, or framer. |
| | noun (n.) A cunning or artful fellow. |
| | noun (n.) A military mechanic, as a blacksmith, carpenter, etc.; also, one who prepares the shells, fuses, grenades, etc., in a military laboratory. |
| bracer | noun (n.) That which braces, binds, or makes firm; a band or bandage. |
| | noun (n.) A covering to protect the arm of the bowman from the vibration of the string; also, a brassart. |
| | noun (n.) A medicine, as an astringent or a tonic, which gives tension or tone to any part of the body. |
| defacer | noun (n.) One who, or that which, defaces or disfigures. |
| dicer | noun (n.) A player at dice; a dice player; a gamester. |
| disgracer | noun (n.) One who disgraces. |
| displacer | noun (n.) One that displaces. |
| | noun (n.) The funnel part of the apparatus for solution by displacement. |
| divorcer | noun (n.) The person or cause that produces or effects a divorce. |
| embracer | noun (n.) One who embraces. |
| enforcer | noun (n.) One who enforces. |
| enticer | noun (n.) One who entices; one who incites or allures to evil. |
| falcer | noun (n.) One of the mandibles of a spider. |
| fethcer | noun (n.) One wo fetches or brings. |
| filacer | noun (n.) A former officer in the English Court of Common Pleas; -- so called because he filed the writs on which he made out process. |
| fleecer | noun (n.) One who fleeces or strips unjustly, especially by trickery or fraund. |
| forcer | noun (n.) One who, or that which, forces or drives. |
| | noun (n.) The solid piston of a force pump; the instrument by which water is forced in a pump. |
| | noun (n.) A small hand pump for sinking pits, draining cellars, etc. |
| greengrocer | noun (n.) A retailer of vegetables or fruits in their fresh or green state. |
| grocer | noun (n.) A trader who deals in tea, sugar, spices, coffee, fruits, and various other commodities. |
| inducer | noun (n.) One who, or that which, induces or incites. |
| introducer | noun (n.) One who, or that which, introduces. |
| justicer | noun (n.) One who administers justice; a judge. |
| macer | noun (n.) A mace bearer; an officer of a court. |
| menacer | noun (n.) One who menaces. |
| mercer | noun (n.) Originally, a dealer in any kind of goods or wares; now restricted to a dealer in textile fabrics, as silks or woolens. |
| morricer | noun (n.) A morris dancer. |
| noticer | noun (n.) One who notices. |
| officer | noun (n.) One who holds an office; a person lawfully invested with an office, whether civil, military, or ecclesiastical; as, a church officer; a police officer; a staff officer. |
| | noun (n.) Specifically, a commissioned officer, in distinction from a warrant officer. |
| | verb (v. t.) To furnish with officers; to appoint officers over. |
| | verb (v. t.) To command as an officer; as, veterans from old regiments officered the recruits. |
| opificer | noun (n.) An artificer; a workman. |
| pacer | noun (n.) One who, or that which, paces; especially, a horse that paces. |
| piecer | noun (n.) One who pieces; a patcher. |
| | noun (n.) A child employed in spinning mill to tie together broken threads. |
| piercer | noun (n.) One who, or that which, pierces or perforates |
| | noun (n.) An instrument used in forming eyelets; a stiletto. |
| | noun (n.) A piercel. |
| | noun (n.) The ovipositor, or sting, of an insect. |
| | noun (n.) An insect provided with an ovipositor. |
| placer | noun (n.) One who places or sets. |
| | noun (n.) A deposit of earth, sand, or gravel, containing valuable mineral in particles, especially by the side of a river, or in the bed of a mountain torrent. |
| practicer | noun (n.) One who practices, or puts in practice; one who customarily performs certain acts. |
| | noun (n.) One who exercises a profession; a practitioner. |
| | noun (n.) One who uses art or stratagem. |
| prefacer | noun (n.) The writer of a preface. |
| producer | noun (n.) One who produces, brings forth, or generates. |
| | noun (n.) One who grows agricultural products, or manufactures crude materials into articles of use. |
| | noun (n.) A furnace for producing combustible gas which is used for fuel. |
| racer | noun (n.) One who, or that which, races, or contends in a race; esp., a race horse. |
| | noun (n.) The common American black snake. |
| | noun (n.) One of the circular iron or steel rails on which the chassis of a heavy gun is turned. |
| reducer | noun (n.) One who, or that which, reduces. |
| | noun (n.) A contrivance for reducing the dimensions of one part so as to fit it to another, as a reducing coupling, or a device for holding a drilling a chuck. |
| | noun (n.) A reducing motion. |
| | noun (n.) A reducing valve. |
| | noun (n.) A hydraulic device for reducing pressure and hence increasing movement, used to transmit the load from the hydraulic support of the lower shackle to the lever weighing apparatus in some kinds of heavy testing machines. |
| | noun (n.) A reducing agent, either a developer or an agent for reducing density. |
| rejoicer | noun (n.) One who rejoices. |
| reproducer | noun (n.) One who, or that which, reproduces. |
| | noun (n.) In a phonograph, a device containing a sounding diaphragm and the needle or stylus that traverses the moving record, for reproducing the sound. |
| | noun (n.) In a manograph, a device for reproducing the engine stroke on a reduced scale. |
| sacrificer | noun (n.) One who sacrifices. |
| saucer | noun (n.) A small pan or vessel in which sauce was set on a table. |
| | noun (n.) A small dish, commonly deeper than a plate, in which a cup is set at table. |
| | noun (n.) Something resembling a saucer in shape. |
| | noun (n.) A flat, shallow caisson for raising sunken ships. |
| | noun (n.) A shallow socket for the pivot of a capstan. |
| searcer | noun (n.) One who sifts or bolts. |
| | noun (n.) A searce, or sieve. |
| seducer | noun (n.) One who, or that which, seduces; specifically, one who prevails over the chastity of a woman by enticements and persuasions. |
| sicer | noun (n.) A strong drink; cider. |
| slicer | noun (n.) One who, or that which, slices; specifically, the circular saw of the lapidary. |
| spicer | noun (n.) One who seasons with spice. |
| | noun (n.) One who deals in spice. |
| subofficer | noun (n.) An under or subordinate officer. |
| surfacer | noun (n.) A form of machine for dressing the surface of wood, metal, stone, etc. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH SPENCER (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 6 Letters (spence) - Words That Begins with spence:
| 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. |
Rhyming Words According to First 5 Letters (spenc) - Words That Begins with spenc:
Rhyming Words According to First 4 Letters (spen) - Words That Begins with spen:
| spending | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spend |
| | noun (n.) The act of expending; expenditure. |
| spender | noun (n.) One who spends; esp., one who spends lavishly; a prodigal; a spendthrift. |
| spendthrift | noun (n.) One who spends money profusely or improvidently; a prodigal; one who lavishes or wastes his estate. Also used figuratively. |
| | adjective (a.) Prodigal; extravagant; wasteful. |
| spendthrifty | adjective (a.) Spendthrift; prodigal. |
| spenserian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faerie Queene." |
| spent | adjective (a.) Exhausted; worn out; having lost energy or motive force. |
| | adjective (a.) Exhausted of spawn or sperm; -- said especially of fishes. |
| | (imp. & p. p.) of Spend |
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (spe) - Words That Begins with spe:
| speaking | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Speak |
| | adjective (a.) Uttering speech; used for conveying speech; as, man is a speaking animal; a speaking tube. |
| | adjective (a.) Seeming to be capable of speech; hence, lifelike; as, a speaking likeness. |
| speakable | adjective (a.) Capable of being spoken; fit to be spoken. |
| | adjective (a.) Able to speak. |
| speaker | noun (n.) One who speaks. |
| | noun (n.) One who utters or pronounces a discourse; usually, one who utters a speech in public; as, the man is a good speaker, or a bad speaker. |
| | noun (n.) One who is the mouthpiece of others; especially, one who presides over, or speaks for, a delibrative assembly, preserving order and regulating the debates; as, the Speaker of the House of Commons, originally, the mouthpiece of the House to address the king; the Speaker of a House of Representatives. |
| | noun (n.) A book of selections for declamation. |
| speakership | noun (n.) The office of speaker; as, the speakership of the House of Representatives. |
| speking | noun (n.) The act of uttering words. |
| | noun (n.) Public declamation; oratory. |
| spear | noun (n.) A long, pointed weapon, used in war and hunting, by thrusting or throwing; a weapon with a long shaft and a sharp head or blade; a lance. |
| | noun (n.) Fig.: A spearman. |
| | noun (n.) A sharp-pointed instrument with barbs, used for stabbing fish and other animals. |
| | noun (n.) A shoot, as of grass; a spire. |
| | noun (n.) The feather of a horse. See Feather, n., 4. |
| | noun (n.) The rod to which the bucket, or plunger, of a pump is attached; a pump rod. |
| | verb (v. t.) To pierce with a spear; to kill with a spear; as, to spear a fish. |
| | verb (v. i.) To shoot into a long stem, as some plants. See Spire. |
| spearing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spear |
| spearer | noun (n.) One who uses a spear; as, a spearer of fish. |
| spearfish | noun (n.) A large and powerful fish (Tetrapturus albidus) related to the swordfish, but having scales and ventral fins. It is found on the American coast and the Mediterranean. |
| | noun (n.) The carp sucker. |
| spearhead | noun (n.) The pointed head, or end, of a spear. |
| spearman | noun (n.) One who is armed with a spear. |
| spearmint | noun (n.) A species of mint (Mentha viridis) growing in moist soil. It vields an aromatic oil. See Mint, and Mentha. |
| spearwood | noun (n.) An Australian tree (Acacia Doratoxylon), and its tough wood, used by the natives for spears. |
| spearwort | noun (n.) A name given to several species of crowfoot (Ranunculus) which have spear-shaped leaves. |
| speary | adjective (a.) Having the form of a spear. |
| spece | noun (n.) Species; kind. |
| specht | noun (n.) A woodpecker. |
| special | noun (n.) A particular. |
| | noun (n.) One appointed for a special service or occasion. |
| | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a species; constituting a species or sort. |
| | adjective (a.) Particular; peculiar; different from others; extraordinary; uncommon. |
| | adjective (a.) Appropriate; designed for a particular purpose, occasion, or person; as, a special act of Parliament or of Congress; a special sermon. |
| | adjective (a.) Limited in range; confined to a definite field of action, investigation, or discussion; as, a special dictionary of commercial terms; a special branch of study. |
| | adjective (a.) Chief in excellence. |
| specialism | noun (n.) Devotion to a particular and restricted part or branch of knowledge, art, or science; as, medical specialism. |
| specialist | noun (n.) One who devotes himself to some specialty; as, a medical specialist, one who devotes himself to diseases of particular parts of the body, as the eye, the ear, the nerves, etc. |
| speciality | noun (n.) A particular or peculiar case; a particularity. |
| | noun (n.) See Specialty, 3. |
| | noun (n.) The special or peculiar mark or characteristic of a person or thing; that for which a person is specially distinguished; an object of special attention; a special occupation or object of attention; a specialty. |
| | noun (n.) An attribute or quality peculiar to a species. |
| specialization | noun (n.) The act of specializing, or the state of being spezialized. |
| | noun (n.) The setting apart of a particular organ for the performance of a particular function. |
| specialty | noun (n.) Particularity. |
| | noun (n.) A particular or peculiar case. |
| | noun (n.) A contract or obligation under seal; a contract by deed; a writing, under seal, given as security for a debt particularly specified. |
| | noun (n.) That for which a person is distinguished, in which he is specially versed, or which he makes an object of special attention; a speciality. |
| specie | noun (n.) Coin; hard money. |
| | () abl. of L. species sort, kind. Used in the phrase in specie, that is, in sort, in kind, in (its own) form. |
| species | noun (n.) Visible or sensible presentation; appearance; a sensible percept received by the imagination; an image. |
| | noun (n.) A group of individuals agreeing in common attributes, and designated by a common name; a conception subordinated to another conception, called a genus, or generic conception, from which it differs in containing or comprehending more attributes, and extending to fewer individuals. Thus, man is a species, under animal as a genus; and man, in its turn, may be regarded as a genus with respect to European, American, or the like, as species. |
| | noun (n.) In science, a more or less permanent group of existing things or beings, associated according to attributes, or properties determined by scientific observation. |
| | noun (n.) A sort; a kind; a variety; as, a species of low cunning; a species of generosity; a species of cloth. |
| | noun (n.) Coin, or coined silver, gold, ot other metal, used as a circulating medium; specie. |
| | noun (n.) A public spectacle or exhibition. |
| | noun (n.) A component part of compound medicine; a simple. |
| | noun (n.) An officinal mixture or compound powder of any kind; esp., one used for making an aromatic tea or tisane; a tea mixture. |
| | noun (n.) The form or shape given to materials; fashion or shape; form; figure. |
| specifiable | adjective (a.) Admitting specification; capable of being specified. |
| specific | noun (n.) A specific remedy. See Specific, a., 3. |
| | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a species; characterizing or constituting a species; possessing the peculiar property or properties of a thing which constitute its species, and distinguish it from other things; as, the specific form of an animal or a plant; the specific qualities of a drug; the specific distinction between virtue and vice. |
| | adjective (a.) Specifying; definite, or making definite; limited; precise; discriminating; as, a specific statement. |
| | adjective (a.) Exerting a peculiar influence over any part of the body; preventing or curing disease by a peculiar adaption, and not on general principles; as, quinine is a specific medicine in cases of malaria. |
| | adjective (a.) Anything having peculiar adaption to the purpose to which it is applied. |
| specifical | adjective (a.) Specific. |
| specificalness | noun (n.) The quality of being specific. |
| specification | noun (n.) The act of specifying or determining by a mark or limit; notation of limits. |
| | noun (n.) The designation of particulars; particular mention; as, the specification of a charge against an officer. |
| | noun (n.) A written statement containing a minute description or enumeration of particulars, as of charges against a public officer, the terms of a contract, the description of an invention, as in a patent; also, a single article, item, or particular, an allegation of a specific act, as in a charge of official misconduct. |
| specifying | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Specify |
| specollum | noun (n.) See Stylet, 2. |
| specimen | noun (n.) A part, or small portion, of anything, or one of a number of things, intended to exhibit the kind and quality of the whole, or of what is not exhibited; a sample; as, a specimen of a man's handwriting; a specimen of painting; aspecimen of one's art. |
| speciosity | noun (n.) The quality or state of being specious; speciousness. |
| | noun (n.) That which is specious. |
| specious | adjective (a.) Presenting a pleasing appearance; pleasing in form or look; showy. |
| | adjective (a.) Apparently right; superficially fair, just, or correct, but not so in reality; appearing well at first view; plausible; as, specious reasoning; a specious argument. |
| speck | noun (n.) The blubber of whales or other marine mammals; also, the fat of the hippopotamus. |
| | noun (n.) A small discolored place in or on anything, or a small place of a color different from that of the main substance; a spot; a stain; a blemish; as, a speck on paper or loth; specks of decay in fruit. |
| | noun (n.) A very small thing; a particle; a mite; as, specks of dust; he has not a speck of money. |
| | noun (n.) A small etheostomoid fish (Ulocentra stigmaea) common in the Eastern United States. |
| | verb (v. t.) To cause the presence of specks upon or in, especially specks regarded as defects or blemishes; to spot; to speckle; as, paper specked by impurities in the water used in its manufacture. |
| specking | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Speck |
| speckle | noun (n.) A little or spot in or anything, of a different substance or color from that of the thing itself. |
| | verb (v. t.) To mark with small spots of a different color from that of the rest of the surface; to variegate with spots of a different color from the ground or surface. |
| speckling | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Speckle |
| speckled | adjective (a.) Marked or variegated with small spots of a different color from that of the rest of the surface. |
| | (imp. & p. p.) of Speckle |
| speckledness | noun (n.) The quality of being speckled. |
| specksioneer | noun (n.) The chief harpooner, who also directs in cutting up the speck, or blubber; -- so called among whalers. |
| speckt | noun (n.) A woodpecker. See Speight. |
| spectacle | noun (n.) Something exhibited to view; usually, something presented to view as extraordinary, or as unusual and worthy of special notice; a remarkable or noteworthy sight; a show; a pageant; a gazingstock. |
| | noun (n.) A spy-glass; a looking-glass. |
| | noun (n.) An optical instrument consisting of two lenses set in a light frame, and worn to assist sight, to obviate some defect in the organs of vision, or to shield the eyes from bright light. |
| | noun (n.) Fig.: An aid to the intellectual sight. |
| spectacled | adjective (a.) Furnished with spectacles; wearing spectacles. |
| | adjective (a.) Having the eyes surrounded by color markings, or patches of naked skin, resembling spectacles. |
| spectacular | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a shows; of the nature of a show. |
| | adjective (a.) Adapted to excite wonder and admiration by a display of pomp or of scenic effects; as, a spectacular celebration of some event; a spectacular play. |
| | adjective (a.) Pertaining to spectacles, or glasses for the eyes. |
| spectant | adjective (a.) Looking forward. |
| spectation | noun (n.) Regard; aspect; appearance. |
| spectator | noun (n.) One who on; one who sees or beholds; a beholder; one who is personally present at, and sees, any exhibition; as, the spectators at a show. |
| spectatorial | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a spectator. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH SPENCER:
English Words which starts with 'spe' and ends with 'cer':
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. |
| 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. |
