Third-person singular simple present indicative form of blip
claps
claps
noun
plural of clap
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of clap
clasp
clasp
noun
(in the singular) An embrace, a grasp, or handshake.
A fastener or holder, particularly one that clasps.
verb
(transitive) To take hold of; to grasp.
To shut or fasten together with, or as if with, a clasp.
clips
clips
noun
plural of clip
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of clip
clops
clops
noun
plural of clop
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of clop
elaps
elops
flaps
flaps
noun
(farriery, archaic) A disease in the mouths of horses involving inflammation in the cheeks or lips.
plural of flap
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flap
flips
flips
noun
plural of flip
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flip
flops
flops
noun
plural of flop
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flop
glops
glops
noun
plural of glop
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of glop
gulps
gulps
noun
plural of gulp
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gulp
helps
helps
noun
plural of help
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of help
islip
kelps
kelps
noun
plural of kelp
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of kelp
klips
klops
lamps
lamps
noun
plural of lamp
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lamp
lapis
lapis
noun
Ellipsis of lapis lazuli.
lapps
lapse
lapse
noun
(law) A common-law rule that if the person to whom property is willed were to die before the testator, then the gift would be ineffective.
(meteorology) A marked decrease in air temperature with increasing altitude because the ground is warmer than the surrounding air.
(theology) A fall or apostasy.
A decline or fall in standards.
A pause in continuity.
A temporary failure; a slip.
A termination of a right etc., through disuse or neglect.
An interval of time between events.
memory lapse
verb
(intransitive) To become void.
(intransitive) To fall away gradually; to subside.
(intransitive) To fall into error or heresy.
To fall or pass from one proprietor to another, or from the original destination, by the omission, negligence, or failure of somebody, such as a patron or legatee.
To slip into a bad habit that one is trying to avoid.
lapsi
lapsi
noun
(Christianity, historical) Apostates who renounced their faith under persecution by the Ancient Roman authorities.
leaps
leaps
noun
plural of leap
lepas
lepas
noun
Any of the genus Lepas of pedunculated barnacles found attached to floating timber, bottoms of ships, etc.; a goose barnacle.
lepus
limps
limps
noun
plural of limp
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of limp
lipps
lipse
lisps
lisps
noun
plural of lisp
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lisp
loops
loops
noun
plural of loop
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of loop
lopes
lopes
noun
plural of lope
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lope
loups
loups
noun
plural of loup
lumps
lumps
noun
(informal) A beating or verbal abuse.
plural of lump
lupis
lupus
lupus
noun
(pathology) Any of a number of autoimmune diseases, the most common of which is systemic lupus erythematosus.
olpes
olpes
noun
plural of olpe
opals
opals
noun
plural of opal
pails
pails
noun
plural of pail
palas
palas
noun
A tree of eastern India and Burma, Butea monosperma.
plural of pala
pales
pales
noun
plural of pale
plural of palea
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pale
palis
palls
palls
noun
plural of pall
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pall
palms
palms
noun
plural of palm
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of palm
palos
palps
palps
noun
plural of palp
palsy
palsy
adj
(colloquial) Chummy, friendly.
noun
(pathology) Complete or partial muscle paralysis of a body part, often accompanied by a loss of feeling and uncontrolled body movements such as shaking.
verb
To paralyse, either completely or partially.
palus
palus
noun
(marine biology) A vertical pillar along the inner septal margin of a coral.
(planetology) A small plain (compared to mare) on the surface of a planet or satellite.
pasol
pasul
pawls
pawls
noun
plural of pawl
peals
peals
noun
plural of peal
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of peal
peels
peels
noun
plural of peel
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of peel
peles
pelfs
pelfs
noun
plural of pelf
pelts
pelts
noun
plural of pelt
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pelt
piles
piles
noun
(informal, piles of) A large amount of.
(pathology) Haemorrhoids.
Many women get piles when pregnant.
plural of pile
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pile
pilis
pilis
noun
plural of pili
pills
pills
noun
plural of pill
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pill
pilos
pilus
pilus
noun
(biochemistry) A bacterial protein that has several biochemical functions
(microbiology) A hairlike appendage found on the cell surface of many bacteria.
A hair.
plans
plans
noun
plural of plan
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of plan
plash
plash
noun
(UK, dialectal) A small pool of standing water; a puddle.
A splash, or the sound made by a splash.
A sudden downpour.
The branch of a tree partly cut or bent, and bound to, or intertwined with, other branches.
verb
(intransitive) To splash.
(transitive) To bend down a bough (in order to pick fruit from it).
(transitive) To cause a splash.
(transitive) To cut partly, or to bend and intertwine the branches of.
(transitive) To splash or sprinkle with colouring matter.
plasm
plasm
noun
(biology, archaic) Protoplasm.
A membrane or cell layer, especially one in an embryo that later develops into a structure; the constituent cells of such layer.
A mold or matrix in which anything is cast or formed to a particular shape.
plass
plats
plats
noun
plural of plat
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of plat
plays
plays
noun
plural of play
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of play
pleas
pleas
noun
plural of plea
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of plea
plebs
plebs
noun
(historical) The plebeian class of Ancient Rome.
The common people, especially (derogatory) the mob.
plural of pleb
pleis
plews
plews
noun
plural of plew
plies
plies
noun
plural of plie
plural of ply
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ply
pliss
pliss
adv
Pronunciation spelling of please, representing primarily German or Slavic accented English.
plods
plods
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of plod
plops
plops
noun
plural of plop
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of plop
ploss
plots
plots
noun
plural of plot
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of plot
plows
plows
noun
plural of plow
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of plow
ploys
ploys
noun
plural of ploy
plugs
plugs
noun
plural of plug
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of plug
plums
plums
noun
plural of plum
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of plum
plush
plush
adj
(UK) Very expensive, or appearing expensive; opulent, luxurious.
(UK) Very extravagant.
(of a man-made object) Having a soft, fluffy exterior.
noun
A plush toy.
A textile fabric with a nap or shag on one side, longer and softer than the nap of velvet.
poles
poles
noun
plural of pole
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pole
polis
polis
noun
(countable, Scotland, Ireland, Tyneside) A police officer.
(historical) A Greek city-state.
(uncountable, Scotland, Ireland, Tyneside) The police.
polls
polls
noun
(politics, government) A place where votes are cast in elections.
plural of poll
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of poll
polos
polos
noun
plural of polo
polys
polys
noun
plural of poly
pools
pools
noun
plural of pool
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pool
psalm
psalm
noun
(religion, music) A sacred song; a poetical composition for use in the praise or worship of God.
One of the hymns by David and others, collected into one book of the Old Testament, or a modern metrical version of such a hymn for public worship.
verb
To extol in psalms; to make music; to sing
pulas
pulas
noun
The East Indian leguminous tree Butea monosperma.
pules
pules
noun
plural of pule
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pule
pulis
pulls
pulls
noun
plural of pull
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pull
pulps
pulps
noun
plural of pulp
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pulp
pulse
pulse
noun
(also electronics) A brief increase in the strength of an electrical signal; an impulse.
(chiefly biology, chemistry) An (increased) amount of a substance (such as a drug or an isotopic label) given over a short time.
(cooking, chiefly attributively) A setting on a food processor which causes it to work in a series of short bursts rather than continuously, in order to break up ingredients without liquidizing them; also, a use of this setting.
(figuratively) A beat or throb; also, a repeated sequence of such beats or throbs.
(figuratively) The focus of energy or vigour of an activity, place, or thing; also, the feeling of bustle, busyness, or energy in a place; the heartbeat.
(music, prosody) The beat or tactus of a piece of music or verse; also, a repeated sequence of such beats.
(uncountable) Annual leguminous plants (such as beans, lentils, and peas) yielding grains or seeds used as food for humans or animals; (countable) such a plant; a legume.
(uncountable) Edible grains or seeds from leguminous plants, especially in a mature, dry condition; (countable) a specific kind of such a grain or seed.
A brief burst of electromagnetic energy, such as light, radio waves, etc.
A normally regular beat felt when arteries near the skin (for example, at the neck or wrist) are depressed, caused by the heart pumping blood through them.
Synonym of autosoliton (“a stable solitary localized structure that arises in nonlinear spatially extended dissipative systems due to mechanisms of self-organization”)
The nature or rate of this beat as an indication of a person's health.
verb
(intransitive, chiefly figuratively and literary) To expand and contract repeatedly, like an artery when blood is flowing though it, or the heart; to beat, to throb, to vibrate, to pulsate.
(intransitive, figuratively) Of an activity, place, or thing: to bustle with energy and liveliness; to pulsate.
(transitive, also figuratively) To emit or impel (something) in pulses or waves.
(transitive, chiefly biology, chemistry) To give to (something, especially a cell culture) an (increased) amount of a substance, such as a drug or an isotopic label, over a short time.
(transitive, cooking) To operate a food processor on (some ingredient) in short bursts, to break it up without liquidizing it.
To apply an electric current or signal that varies in strength to (something).
To manipulate (an electric current, electromagnetic wave, etc.) so that it is emitted in pulses.
purls
purls
noun
plural of purl
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of purl
pylas
pylos
pylos
Proper noun
A town and an ancient city in the Messenia prefecture, Greece
salep
salep
noun
A starch or jelly made out of plants in the Orchidaceae family, such as the early-purple orchid (Orchis mascula).
Alternative form of saloop (“aromatic drink originally made with salep”)
salop
salop
noun
Alternative form of saloop
salpa
salpa
noun
salp
salps
salps
noun
plural of salp
saple
scalp
scalp
noun
(Scotland) A bed or stratum of shellfish.
(figurative) The top; the summit.
(figuratively) A victory, especially at the expense of someone else.
(heraldry) The skin of the head of a stag with the horns attached.
(historical) A part of the skin of the head, with the hair attached, formerly cut or torn off from an enemy by warriors in some cultures as a token of victory.
(now dialectal) The top of the head; the skull.
The part of the head where the hair grows from, or used to grow from.
verb
(Canada, US, slang) To resell, especially tickets, usually for an inflated price, often illegally.
(finance) On an open outcry exchange trading floor, to buy and sell rapidly for one's own account, aiming to buy from a seller and a little later sell to a buyer, making a small profit from the difference (roughly the amount of the bid/offer spread, or less).
(gambling) To bet on opposing competitors so as to make a profit from the bookmaker.
(milling) To brush the hairs or fuzz from (wheat grains, etc.) in the process of high milling.
(surgery) To remove the skin of.
(transitive) To destroy the political influence of.
(transitive) To remove the grass from.
To remove the scalp (part of the head from where the hair grows), by brutal act or accident.
To screen or sieve ore before further processing.
scelp
scelp
noun
Alternative form of skelp (“narrow strip of rolled or forged metal”)
sculp
sculp
verb
(obsolete, sometimes humorous) To sculpture; to carve or engrave.
(transitive) To flay.
sepal
sepal
noun
(botany) One of the component parts of the calyx, particularly when the sepals in a plant's calyx are not fused into a single structure.
shlep
shlep
noun
Alternative form of schlep
siple
skelp
skelp
noun
(Scotland) A large portion.
(Scotland) A squall; a heavy fall of rain.
A blow; a smart stroke.
A narrow strip of rolled or forged metal, ready to be bent and welded to form a pipe.
verb
(intransitive, Scotland) To move briskly along.
(transitive) To bend round (a skelp) in tube-making.
(transitive) To form (a plate or bar of metal, etc.) into a skelp.
(transitive, Scotland, Northern England) To beat or slap.
skulp
slamp
slape
slape
adj
(UK, dialect) crafty; hypocritical
(UK, dialect) slippery; smooth
slapp
slaps
slaps
noun
A two-player reaction game in which opponents slap each other's hands.
plural of slap
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of slap
sleep
sleep
noun
(countable, informal) An act or instance of sleeping.
(informal, metonymically) A night.
(uncountable) Rheum, crusty or gummy discharge found in the corner of the eyes after waking, whether real or a figurative objectification of sleep (in the sense of reduced consciousness).
(uncountable) The state of reduced consciousness during which a human or animal rests in a daily rhythm.
A state of plants, usually at night, when their leaflets approach each other and the flowers close and droop, or are covered by the folded leaves.
The hibernation of animals.
verb
(computing, intransitive) To wait for a period of time without performing any action.
(computing, transitive) To place into a state of hibernation.
(intransitive) To be careless, inattentive, or unconcerned; not to be vigilant; to live thoughtlessly.
(intransitive) To be dead; to lie in the grave.
(intransitive) To be, or appear to be, in repose; to be quiet; to be unemployed, unused, or unagitated; to rest; to lie dormant.
(intransitive) To rest in a state of reduced consciousness.
(intransitive, of a spinning top or yo-yo) To spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion.
(transitive) To accommodate in beds.
(transitive) To be slumbering in (a state).
(transitive) To cause (a spinning top or yo-yo) to spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion.
(transitive, reflexive) To achieve or make happen by manner of sleep.
slemp
slept
slept
verb
simple past tense and past participle of sleep
slipe
slipe
noun
A sledge runner on which a skip is dragged in a mine.
slips
slips
noun
(cricket) the area of the field covered by fielders in the slip positions; the slip fielders collectively
plural of slip
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of slip
slipt
slipt
verb
(archaic) simple past tense and past participle of slip
sloop
sloop
noun
(military) A sailing warship, smaller than a frigate, with its guns all on one deck.
(military) A sloop-of-war, smaller than a frigate, larger than a corvette.
(nautical) A single-masted sailboat with only one headsail.
slope
slope
adj
(obsolete) Sloping.
adv
(obsolete) slopingly
noun
(mathematics) The ratio of the vertical and horizontal distances between two points on a line; zero if the line is horizontal, undefined if it is vertical.
(mathematics) The slope of the line tangent to a curve at a given point.
(vulgar, offensive, ethnic slur) A person of Chinese or other East Asian descent.
An area of ground that tends evenly upward or downward.
The angle a roof surface makes with the horizontal, expressed as a ratio of the units of vertical rise to the units of horizontal length (sometimes referred to as run).
The degree to which a surface tends upward or downward.
verb
(colloquial, usually followed by a preposition) To try to move surreptitiously.
(intransitive) To tend steadily upward or downward.
(military) To hold a rifle at a slope with forearm perpendicular to the body in front holding the butt, the rifle resting on the shoulder.
(transitive) To form with a slope; to give an oblique or slanting direction to; to incline or slant.
slops
slops
noun
(South Africa) plural of slop (“rubber thong sandals”)
(nautical, dated) Clothing and bedding issued to sailors.
(nautical, historical) Sailors’ breeches ending just below the knees or above the ankles, worn mainly in XVIII century.
(obsolete) Loose trousers.
plural of slop (“scraps fed to animals; household wastewater”)
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of slop
slopy
slopy
adj
Characterised by a slope or slopes; sloping
slorp
slump
slump
noun
(Scotland) The gross amount; the mass; the lump.
(Scotland) The noise made by anything falling into a hole, or into a soft, miry place.
(UK, dialect) A boggy place.
(slang by extension) A period when a person goes without the expected amount of sex or dating.
A cobbler-like dessert cooked on a stove.
A heavy or helpless collapse; a slouching or drooping posture; a period of poor activity or performance, especially an extended period.
A measure of the fluidity of freshly mixed concrete, based on how much the concrete formed in a standard slump cone sags when the cone is removed.
verb
(intransitive) To collapse heavily or helplessly.
(intransitive) To decline or fall off in activity or performance.
(intransitive) To slouch or droop.
(transitive) To lump; to throw together messily.
(transitive, slang) To cause to collapse; to hit hard; to render unsconscious; to kill.
To fall or sink suddenly through or in, when walking on a surface, as on thawing snow or ice, a bog, etc.
slurp
slurp
noun
A loud sucking noise, especially one made in eating or drinking.
A mouthful of liquid sucked up.
verb
(intransitive) To make a loud sucking noise.
(transitive) To eat or drink noisily.
slype
slype
noun
(architecture) A covered passageway, especially one connecting the transept of a cathedral or monastery to the chapter house.
spail
spald
spald
verb
(Northern England and Scotland) To split.
spale
spale
noun
(Now chiefly dialectal, Scotland) A chip or splinter of wood.
(shipbuilding) One of a number of cross-bands fastened temporarily to the frames to keep them in place until properly secured.
A lath; a shaving or chip, as of wood or stone.
A strengthening cross timber.
spall
spall
noun
(obsolete, rare) The shoulder.
A splinter, fragment or chip, especially of stone.
verb
(transitive) To reduce, as irregular blocks of stone, to an approximately level surface by hammering.
(transitive, intransitive) To break into fragments or small pieces.
spalt
spalt
adj
(of wood) Brittle.
Heedless; clumsy; pert; saucy.
noun
Spelter.
verb
(transitive, intransitive) To break off pieces, or have them broken off, especially with an axe etc; to splinter.
spawl
spawl
noun
Alternative form of spall
Scattered or ejected spittle.
verb
(obsolete, transitive) To say in a rough manner.
(obsolete, transitive, intransitive) To scatter spittle from the mouth; to spit.
speal
speel
speel
noun
(chiefly South Africa) A story; a spiel.
(dialect) A splinter; a strip of wood or metal.
(dialectal, rural, Northern England, Scotland) A game.
verb
(dialect, Australia) To run.
(dialect, Scottish and Northern English) To climb.
(dialectal, rural, Northern England, Scotland) To lake, play, sport, take amusement.
To talk at length, to spiel.
speil
spelk
spelk
noun
(Northern English) A rod or switch.
(Northern English) A splinter, usually of wood.
(Northern English) A wooden splinter caught under the skin.
(aerospace) Unusably short lengths of fibre-reinforced material, such as prepreg.
verb
(transitive, Northern English) To use a spelk in or on.
spell
spell
noun
(colloquial) An indefinite period of time (usually with a qualifier); by extension, a relatively short distance.
(colloquial, US) A period of illness, or sudden interval of bad spirits, disease etc.
(cricket) An uninterrupted series of alternate overs bowled by a single bowler.
(dialectal) A splinter, usually of wood; a spelk.
(informal) A definite period (of work or other activity).
(obsolete) Speech, discourse.
A magical effect or influence induced by an incantation or formula.
A period of rest; time off.
A shift (of work); (rare) a set of workers responsible for a specific turn of labour.
The wooden bat in the game of trap ball, or knurr and spell.
Words or a formula supposed to have magical powers.
verb
(intransitive) To be able to write or say the letters that form words.
(intransitive, colloquial) To rest from work for a time.
(obsolete) To speak, to declaim.
(obsolete) To tell; to relate; to teach.
(transitive) Of letters: to compose (a word).
(transitive) To indicate that (some event) will occur.
(transitive) To rest (someone or something), to give someone or something a rest or break.
(transitive) To work in place of (someone).
(transitive, figuratively, with “out”) To clarify; to explain in detail.
(transitive, obsolete) To read (something) as though letter by letter; to peruse slowly or with effort.
(transitive, sometimes with “out”) To write or say the letters that form a word or part of a word.
To constitute; to measure.
To put under the influence of a spell; to affect by a spell; to bewitch; to fascinate; to charm.
spelt
spelt
noun
(dialect, Northern England, Scotland) A thin piece of wood or metal; a splinter.
(metalworking) Spelter.
A grain, considered either a subspecies of wheat, Triticum aestivum subsp. spelta, or a separate species Triticum spelta or Triticum dicoccon.
verb
(chiefly Britain) simple past tense and past participle of spell
(obsolete) To split; to break; to spalt.
spial
spial
noun
(obsolete) A spy.
(obsolete) Espionage.
spiel
spiel
noun
(music) An early form of rap music.
A game of curling.
A lengthy and extravagant speech or argument usually intended to persuade.
verb
(intransitive) To give a sales pitch; to promote by speaking.
(intransitive) To talk at length.
spile
spile
noun
(US) A spout inserted in a maple (or other tree) to draw off sap.
(obsolete or dialectal) A splinter.
A pile; a post or girder.
A spigot or plug used to stop the hole in a barrel or cask.
verb
(US, dialect, transitive, intransitive) spoil.
(transitive) To drive piles into.
(transitive) To support by means of spiles.
To draw off (a liquid) using a spile.
To plug (a hole) with a spile.
To provide (a barrel, tree etc.) with a spile.
spill
spill
noun
(Australian politics) A declaration that the leadership of a parliamentary party is vacant, and open for re-election. Short form of leadership spill.
(countable) A mess of something that has been dropped.
(mining) One of the thick laths or poles driven horizontally ahead of the main timbering in advancing a level in loose ground.
(obsolete) A small sum of money.
A fall or stumble.
A metallic rod or pin.
A peg or pin for plugging a hole, as in a cask; a spile.
A small stick or piece of paper used to light a candle, cigarette etc by the transfer of a flame from a fire.
verb
(intransitive) To spread out or fall out, as above.
(nautical) To relieve a sail from the pressure of the wind, so that it can be more easily reefed or furled, or to lessen the strain.
(obsolete, intransitive) To be destroyed, ruined, or wasted; to come to ruin; to perish; to waste.
(of a knot) To come undone.
(transitive) To cause to flow out and be lost or wasted; to shed.
(transitive) To drop something so that it spreads out or makes a mess; to accidentally pour.
(transitive) To drop something that was intended to be caught.
(transitive) To reveal information to an uninformed party.
(transitive, Australian politics) To open the leadership of a parliamentary party for re-election.
(transitive, slang, obsolete) To cause to be thrown from a mount, a carriage, etc.
To cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal, ivory, etc.; to inlay.
To mar; to damage; to destroy by misuse; to waste.
spilt
spilt
adj
That has been spilled.
verb
(chiefly Britain) simple past tense and past participle of spill
splad
splat
splat
noun
(computing, slang) The Command key on an Apple Macintosh.
A children's game in which one person, in the centre of a circle of players, points and says "SPLAT!" at another player. That player then ducks down and the two players either side of them point and say "SPLAT!". The slowest to react is and eliminated from the game. The final is settled by a Mexican standoff.
A move in playboating involving stalling in place while positioned vertically against a solid object in the water.
The asterisk *
The hash symbol #
The irregular shape of a viscous liquid or soft solid which has hit a solid surface.
The narrow wooden centre piece of a chair back.
The sharp, atonal sound of a liquid or soft solid hitting a solid surface.
verb
(computer graphics, transitive) To combine different textures by applying an alpha channel map to the higher levels, revealing the layers underneath where the map is partially or completely transparent.
(intransitive) To hit a flat surface and deform into an irregular shape.
(transitive) To splatter.
splay
splay
adj
Flat and ungainly.
Spread out; turned outward.
noun
A slope or bevel, especially of the sides of a door or window, by which the opening is made larger at one face of the wall than at the other, or larger at each of the faces than it is between them.
verb
(computing theory, transitive) To rearrange (a splay tree) so that a desired element is placed at the root.
(obsolete, UK, dialect) To spay; to castrate.
To dislocate, as a shoulder bone.
To spread; spread out.
To turn on one side; to render oblique; to slope or slant, as the side of a door, window, etc.
splet
split
split
adj
(London stock exchange) Designating ordinary stock that has been divided into preferred ordinary and deferred ordinary.
(algebra, of a short exact sequence) Having the middle group equal to the direct product of the others.
(of coffee) Comprising half decaffeinated and half caffeinated espresso.
(stock exchange, historical, of quotations) Given in sixteenths rather than eighths.
(stock exchange, of an order, sale, etc.) Divided so as to be done or executed part at one time or price and part at another time or price.
Divided.
noun
(athletics) The elapsed time at specific intermediate points in a race.
(baseball, slang) A split-finger fastball.
(bodybuilding) A workout routine as seen by its distribution of muscle groups or the extent and manner they are targeted in a microcycle.
(bowling) A result of a first throw that leaves two or more pins standing with one or more pins between them knocked down.
(construction) A tear resulting from tensile stresses.
(gambling) A division of a stake happening when two cards of the kind on which the stake is laid are dealt in the same turn.
(gymnastics, cheerleading, dance, usually in the phrase "to do the splits") A maneuver of spreading or sliding the feet apart until the legs are flat on the floor 180 degrees apart, either sideways to the body or with one leg in front and one behind, thus lowering the body completely to the floor in an upright position.
(leather manufacture) One of the sections of a skin made by dividing it into two or more thicknesses.
(music) A recording containing songs by multiple artists.
(video games) The elapsed time at specific intermediate points in a speedrun.
A bottle of wine containing 37.5 centiliters, half the volume of a standard 75-centiliter bottle; a demi.
A breach or separation, as in a political party; a division.
A crack or longitudinal fissure.
A dessert or confection resembling a banana split.
A piece that is split off, or made thin, by splitting; a splinter; a fragment.
A split shot or split stroke.
A unit of measure used for champagne or other spirits: 18.75 centiliters or one quarter of a standard 75-centiliter bottle. Commercially comparable to ¹⁄₂₀ (US) gallon, which is ¹⁄₂ of a fifth.
verb
(algebra, transitive and intransitive, acts on a polynomial) To factor into linear factors.
(intransitive) To burst out laughing.
(intransitive, of a couple) To separate.
(intransitive, of something solid, particularly wood) To break along the grain fully or partly along a more or less straight line.
(intransitive, politics) To vote for candidates of opposite parties.
(intransitive, slang, dated) To divulge a secret; to betray confidence; to peach.
(sports, especially baseball) For both teams involved in a doubleheader to win one game each and lose another.
(transitive) To share; to divide.
(transitive, ergative, of something solid) To divide fully or partly along a more or less straight line.
(transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) break up; to throw into discord.
(transitive, intransitive, slang) To leave.
To be broken; to be dashed to pieces.
spoil
spoil
noun
(Also in plural: spoils) Plunder taken from an enemy or victim.
(archaic) The act of taking plunder from an enemy or victim; spoliation, pillage, rapine.
(uncountable) Material (such as rock or earth) removed in the course of an excavation, or in mining or dredging. Tailings. Such material could be utilised somewhere else.
verb
(aviation) To reduce the lift generated by an airplane or wing by deflecting air upwards, usually with a spoiler.
(intransitive) Of food, to become bad, sour or rancid; to decay.
(transitive) To render (a ballot paper) invalid by deliberately defacing it.
(transitive) To reveal the ending or major events of (a story etc.); to ruin (a surprise) by exposing it ahead of time.
(transitive) To ruin the character of, by overindulgence; to coddle or pamper to excess.
(transitive) To ruin; to damage (something) in some way making it unfit for use.
(transitive, archaic) To strip (someone who has been killed or defeated) of their arms or armour.
(transitive, archaic) To strip or deprive (someone) of their possessions; to rob, despoil.
(transitive, intransitive, archaic) To plunder, pillage (a city, country etc.).
(transitive, obsolete) To carry off (goods) by force; to steal.
spole
spole
noun
The small wheel near the distaff of a spinning wheel.