Index of English words, starting with "sp"

(1) - Spotty (a.) Full of spots; marked with spots.

(1) - Spousal (n.) Marriage; nuptials; espousal; -- generally used in the plural; as, the spousals of Hippolita.
(2) - Spousal (a.) Of or pertaining to a spouse or marriage; nuptial; matrimonial; conjugal; bridal; as, spousal rites; spousal ornaments.

(1) - Spouse (n.) To wed; to espouse.
(2) - Spouse (n.) A married man, in distinct from a spousess or married woman; a bridegroom or husband.
(3) - Spouse (n.) A man or woman engaged or joined in wedlock; a married person, husband or wife.

(1) - Spouseless (a.) Destitute of a spouse; unmarried.

(1) - Spout (v. t.) A discharge or jet of water or other liquid, esp. when rising in a column; also, a waterspout.
(2) - Spout (v. t.) A trough for conducting grain, flour, etc., into a receptacle.
(3) - Spout (v. t.) That through which anything spouts; a discharging lip, pipe, or orifice; a tube, pipe, or conductor of any kind through which a liquid is poured, or by which it is conveyed in a stream from one place to another; as, the spout of a teapot; a spout for conducting water from the roof of a building.
(4) - Spout (v. i.) To utter a speech, especially in a pompous manner.
(5) - Spout (v. i.) To eject water or liquid in a jet.
(6) - Spout (v. i.) To issue with with violence, or in a jet, as a liquid through a narrow orifice, or from a spout; as, water spouts from a hole; blood spouts from an artery.
(7) - Spout (v. t.) To pawn; to pledge; as, spout a watch.
(8) - Spout (v. t.) To utter magniloquently; to recite in an oratorical or pompous manner.
(9) - Spout (v. t.) To throw out forcibly and abudantly, as liquids through an office or a pipe; to eject in a jet; as, an elephant spouts water from his trunk.