| spoiler |
one that spoils. [3 definitions] |
| spoilsman |
a person who seeks or receives a share in political spoils, or who advocates the spoils system. |
| spoilsport |
a person who, by words or actions, spoils the pleasure of others. |
| spoils system |
the political practice, by the winning candidates or party in an election, of rewarding loyal or supportive persons with appointments to public office. |
| spoke1 |
past tense of speak. |
| spoke2 |
a rod or bar radiating from the center of a wheel and connected to the outer rim. [3 definitions] |
| spoken |
past participle of speak. [3 definitions] |
| spokeshave |
a cutting or planing tool consisting of a blade set between two handles, used to trim and smooth curved surfaces of wood. |
| spokesman |
a man who speaks for one or more other persons. |
| spokesperson |
a person who speaks for one or more others. |
| spokeswoman |
a woman who speaks for one or more other persons. |
| spoliation |
the act or practice of seizing others' goods, such as the plundering of neutral ships by the navy of a warring nation. [2 definitions] |
| spondee |
a metrical foot having two long and accented syllables. |
| spondylitis |
inflammation of one or more vertebrae. |
| sponge |
any of various aquatic animals with a porous body and a tough fibrous or calcareous skeleton formed of irregular clumps or branched masses that are attached to underwater surfaces. [10 definitions] |
| sponge bath |
a cleansing of the body with a wet sponge or cloth rather than washing in a tub or shower. |
| sponge cake |
a light spongy cake made with eggs, flour, sugar, and other ingredients, but no shortening. |
| sponger |
a person or vessel that harvests sponges. [2 definitions] |
| sponge rubber |
a light porous spongelike rubber used in rubber balls, gaskets, insulation, and the like; foam rubber. |
| spongiform |
resembling a sponge in appearance or texture. |
| spongy |
resembling a sponge in lightness, porosity, absorbency, or esp. resiliency. |