6-letter words containing sp
- spited — a malicious, usually petty, desire to harm, annoy, frustrate, or humiliate another person; bitter ill will; malice.
- spites — a malicious, usually petty, desire to harm, annoy, frustrate, or humiliate another person; bitter ill will; malice.
- spivvy — spiffy.
- splake — the hybrid offspring of a lake trout and a brook trout.
- splash — to wet or soil by dashing masses or particles of water, mud, or the like; spatter: Don't splash her dress!
- splayd — an implement combining the functions of knife, fork, and spoon
- spleen — a highly vascular, glandular, ductless organ, situated in humans at the cardiac end of the stomach, serving chiefly in the formation of mature lymphocytes, in the destruction of worn-out red blood cells, and as a reservoir for blood.
- splen- — spleno-
- splice — to join together or unite (two ropes or parts of a rope) by the interweaving of strands.
- spliff — a marijuana cigarette, especially a large or very potent one.
- spline — a long, narrow, thin strip of wood, metal, etc.; slat.
- splint — a thin piece of wood or other rigid material used to immobilize a fractured or dislocated bone, or to maintain any part of the body in a fixed position.
- splits — to divide or separate from end to end or into layers: to split a log in two.
- splore — a frolic; revel; carousal.
- splosh — to scatter (liquid) vigorously about in blobs
- spoils — to damage severely or harm (something), especially with reference to its excellence, value, usefulness, etc.: The water stain spoiled the painting. Drought spoiled the corn crop.
- spoilt — a simple past tense and past participle of spoil.
- spoked — a simple past tense of speak.
- spoken — a past participle of speak.
- spokes — a simple past tense of speak.
- sponge — any aquatic, chiefly marine animal of the phylum Porifera, having a porous structure and usually a horny, siliceous or calcareous internal skeleton or framework, occurring in large, sessile colonies.
- spongy — of the nature of or resembling a sponge; light, porous, and elastic or readily compressible, as pith or bread.
- spoofy — in the nature of a spoof; jokey or parodic
- spooky — like or befitting a spook or ghost; suggestive of spooks.
- spoony — foolishly or sentimentally amorous.
- sporal — Biology. a walled, single- to many-celled, reproductive body of an organism, capable of giving rise to a new individual either directly or indirectly.
- spores — Biology. a walled, single- to many-celled, reproductive body of an organism, capable of giving rise to a new individual either directly or indirectly.
- sporo- — (in botany) spore
- sports — of, relating to, or used in sports or a particular sport: sport fishing.
- sporty — flashy; showy.
- sposhy — slushy; dirty and wet
- spotty — full of, having, or occurring in spots: spotty coloring.
- spouse — either member of a married pair in relation to the other; one's husband or wife.
- spouty — tending to spout water
- sprack — alert and vigorous
- spraid — chapped
- sprain — to overstrain or wrench (the ligaments of an ankle, wrist, or other joint) so as to injure without fracture or dislocation.
- sprang — a simple past tense of spring.
- sprawl — to be stretched or spread out in an unnatural or ungraceful manner: The puppy's legs sprawled in all directions.
- spread — to draw, stretch, or open out, especially over a flat surface, as something rolled or folded (often followed by out).
- sprees — a river in E Germany, flowing N through Berlin to the Havel River. 220 miles (354 km) long.
- sprent — sprinkled.
- sprier — active; nimble; agile; energetic; brisk.
- spring — String PRocessING language
- sprint — to race or move at full speed, especially for a short distance, as in running, rowing, etc.
- sprite — an elf, fairy, or goblin.
- sprits — a small pole or spar crossing a fore-and-aft sail diagonally from the mast to the upper aftermost corner, serving to extend the sail.
- spritz — to spray briefly and quickly; squirt: He spritzed a little soda in his drink.
- sproat — a fishhook having a circular bend.
- sprout — to begin to grow; shoot forth, as a plant from a seed.