6-letter words starting with sp
- 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.
- spruce — any evergreen, coniferous tree of the genus Picea, of the pine family, having short, angular, needle-shaped leaves attached singly around twigs and bearing hanging cones with persistent scales.
- sprucy — spruce2 (def 1).
- spruik — to make or give a speech, especially extensively or elaborately; spiel; orate.
- spruit — (in southern Africa) a small stream.
- sprung — a simple past tense and past participle of spring.
- spryly — active; nimble; agile; energetic; brisk.
- spuddy — short and fat
- spuggy — a house sparrow
- spuing — to discharge the contents of the stomach through the mouth; vomit.
- spukie — Chiefly Boston. a hero sandwich.
- spunky — plucky; spirited.
- spurge — any of numerous plants of the genus Euphorbia, having a milky juice and flowers with no petals or sepals.
- spurne — to spur
- spurry — any of several plants belonging to the genus Spergula, of the pink family, especially S. arvensis, having white flowers and numerous linear leaves.
- sputum — matter, as saliva mixed with mucus or pus, expectorated from the lungs and respiratory passages.
- spy on — a person employed by a government to obtain secret information or intelligence about another, usually hostile, country, especially with reference to military or naval affairs.
- spycam — a hidden camera used for surveillance
- spyhop — a vertical half-rise out of the water performed by a whale in order to view the surroundings. a springing bounce in tall grasses performed by certain land mammals, as foxes and wolves, to view the surroundings.
- spying — a person employed by a government to obtain secret information or intelligence about another, usually hostile, country, especially with reference to military or naval affairs.