English words: spell someone's name to spermoduct
300 English words, part 147 of 245 of the words starting with S, A to Z. 31 have a page of their own.
English words spell someone's name to spermoduct
- spell someone's name verb: Alternative form of spell one's name.
- spell things out verb: To provide simple and understandable details.
- spell work noun: Alternative form of spellwork.
- spellability noun: The quality of being spellable.
- spellable adjective: That can be spelled.
- spellathon noun: A spelling bee held to raise money for charity.
- spellbind verb: To place under the influence of a magical spell; to enchant or bewitch with a spell.
- spellbinder noun: Something that is spellbinding, that causes rapt attention.
- spellbinding adjective, noun /ˈspɛlˌbaɪndɪŋ/: Engrossing; fascinating; gaining rapt attention; captivating.
- spellbindingly adverb: In a spellbinding manner.
- spellbook noun: A book of magic spells.
- spellbound adjective /ˈspɛlˌbaʊnd/: Under the influence of a magical spell; enchanted, bewitched, or supernaturally constrained.
- spellcast verb: To cast (a magical spell).
- spellcaster noun: One who casts spells; a magician; a sorcerer.
- spellcasting noun, verb: The casting of magic spells.
- spellcheck noun, verb: The act of spellchecking.
- spellchecker noun: Alternative form of spell checker.
- spellcraft noun: Magical practices involving the casting of spells.
- spelldown noun: A type of spelling bee in which participants sit down as they are eliminated.
- spelled sideways adverb: Indicating an anagram or other approximate rearrangement of the letters in the original term.
- speller noun /ˈspɛ.lə(ɹ)/: A person who spells.
- spellfire noun: The exchange of shots or explosive blasts of spells (from a wand, staff, etc.) as in magical combat.
- spellful adjective: Abounding in spells or charms; enchanting or enchanted
- spellican noun: Alternative form of spillikin.
- spelling noun, verb /ˈspɛl.ɪŋ/: The act, practice, ability, or subject of forming words with letters, or of reading the letters of words; orthography.
- spelling alphabet noun: A set of code words that stand for the usual names of the letters of an alphabet, usually for clarity of communication when spelling out words, especially...
- Spelling B noun: Eggcorn of spelling bee.
- spelling bee noun: A spelling contest or competition where contestants, usually children, are asked to spell out words (orally, letter by letter); the individual or team...
- spelling checker noun: Synonym of spell checker.
- spelling pronunciation noun: A pronunciation that has been modified from its traditional form in order to reflect (one or another interpretation of) the spelling of the word in question.
- spelling reform noun: A deliberate, often authoritatively sanctioned or mandated, change to spelling rules; typically to make the spelling more transparent (see Orthographic depth).
- spelling reformer noun: Someone or something that carries out spelling reform.
- spelling reformist noun: Synonym of spelling reformer
- spelling word noun: A word, especially among several others, for which the spelling is supposed to be memorized and practiced before an upcoming quiz or test in which all of...
- spellingly adverb: Spelling out words from letters.
- spellingwise adverb: In terms of spelling.
- spellmaker noun: One who creates magic spells.
- spellmaking noun: The creation of magic spells.
- Spellman proper noun: A surname.
- spellmaster noun: An expert or consummate spellcaster.
- spellmistress noun: A female expert or consummate spellcaster.
- spellmonger noun: A person who peddles magic spells.
- spello noun: A homophonic spelling mistake.
- spelloff noun: Alternative spelling of spell-off.
- spellout noun: A stage in producing an utterance that comes between syntax and the interface with the phonological form, according to Chomsky's minimalist program.
- spellproof adjective: Resistant to magic spells.
- spellsmith noun: A creator of magic spells.
- spellsword noun /ˈspɛlˌsɔːd/: A character class or archetype in fantasy stories and role-playing games that is capable of harnessing both magic and martial skills, such as melee...
- spellthief noun: In roleplaying games, a character class with inherent magical ability, allowing them to imitate spells cast by others.
- spellweaver noun: A spellcaster.
- spellword noun: A word that acts as a magic spell.
- spellwork noun: Any magical practice involving creating or casting spells, especially new enchantments or spells which are intricate or complex.
- Spelman proper noun: A surname.
- spelt adjective, noun, verb /ˈspɛlt/: A grain, considered either a subspecies of wheat, Triticum aestivum subsp. spelta, or a separate species Triticum spelta or Triticum dicoccon.
- spelter noun, verb: zinc, often in blocks or ingot form.
- speltering noun, verb: A process which directly combines copper and metallic zinc to form an alloy.
- spelterman noun: A person involved in the manufacture of spelter (type of metal).
- Spelthorne proper noun: A local government district with borough status of Surrey, England, comprising the part of Surrey north of the River Thames that was in Middlesex until...
- speltmeal noun: A coarse flour made of spelt.
- spelunc noun: Alternative form of spelunk.
- speluncaphobia noun: A morbid fear of caves or caverns.
- speluncar adjective: Underground, as if in a cave.
- speluncean adjective: Of or relating to spelunking, the exploration of underground caverns.
- spelunk noun, verb /spəˈlʌŋk/: A cave, cavern or grotto.
- spelunker noun: One who explores caves; one who spelunks.
- spelunking noun, verb: The practice or hobby of exploring underground caverns.
- spen noun: Alternative form of spean.
- spenard noun: Ellipsis of Spenard divorce
- spenard divorce noun: mariticide (wives killing husbands)
- spence noun: A buttery or pantry.
- Spencean adjective: Of or relating to Thomas Spence (1750–1814), English radical and advocate of the common ownership of land and a democratic equality of the sexes.
- spencer noun /ˈspɛnsə/: A short double-breasted men's overcoat worn in the 18th and 19th centuries.
- Spencer steak noun: ribeye steak
- Spencerian adjective, noun: Of or relating to Platt Rogers Spencer, US business school activist, or the style of handwriting he developed.
- Spencerianism noun: The Spencerian system of social Darwinism.
- Spencerism noun: A hypothesis of social Darwinism, propounded by Herbert Spencer (1820–1903).
- spencerite noun: A monoclinic-prismatic white mineral containing hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and zinc.
- Spencerport proper noun: A village in the town of Ogden, Monroe County, New York, United States.
- spend noun, verb /spɛnd/: To pay out (money).
- spend a penny verb: To use the toilet.
- spend-all noun: A spendthrift.
- spend good money after bad verb: Alternative form of throw good money after bad.
- spend money like water verb: To spend a lot of money without concern over whether it is spent wisely.
- spend time verb: To dedicate time to an activity.
- spendability noun: The quality of being spendable.
- spendable adjective: Capable of being spent.
- spendaholic noun: A person who is addicted to spending money.
- spendall noun: Alternative form of spend-all.
- spendathon noun: A period of intense spending
- spender noun /ˈspɛndə/: A person who spends money.
- Spenderfic noun: Fan fiction about the character Jeffrey Spender from The X-Files.
- Spenderian adjective: Of or relating to Stephen Spender (1909–1995), English poet, novelist and essayist focusing on themes of social injustice and the class struggle.
- spendful adjective: Inclined to spend money.
- spendible adjective: Alternative form of spendable.
- spendicitis noun: Excessive spending viewed as a medical disorder.
- spendin' verb: Pronunciation spelling of spending.
- spending noun, verb /ˈspɛndɪŋ/: gerund of spend, expenditure.
- spending money noun: A sum of cash kept in one's personal possession, for routine expenses or incidental purchases.
- spending power noun: The income available to households for spending.
- spending spree noun: An expensive series of purchases made in a short time.
- spendless adjective: That cannot be spent or used up; inexhaustible.
- spendthrift adjective, noun /ˈspɛn(d)θɹɪft/: Improvident, profligate, or wasteful.
- spendthrift clause noun: A clause indicating that a trust is intended to operate as a spendthrift trust.
- spendthrift provision noun: Synonym of spendthrift clause
- spendthrift trust noun: A trust that is created for the benefit of a person (often because that beneficiary is unable to control spending) that gives an independent trustee full...
- spendthriftily adverb: in a spendthrift manner
- spendthriftiness noun: The quality of being spendthrifty.
- spendthriftism noun: The condition of being a spendthrift; profligacy.
- spendthriftness noun: The condition of being a spendthrift; profligacy.
- spendthrifty adjective: spendthrift; prodigal
- spendworthy adjective: Worth the expenditure or expense; worth buying.
- spendy adjective /ˈspɛndi/: Expensive, costly.
- Spenerian adjective: Of or relating to Philipp Spener (1635–1705), German Lutheran theologian who essentially founded what would come to be known as pietism.
- Spenerism noun: The religious doctrines of Philipp Spener (1635–1705), German Lutheran theologian.
- Spengler proper noun: A surname from German.
- Spenglerian adjective /spɛŋˈɡlɪəɹiən/: Of or relating to Oswald Spengler (1880–1936), German historian and philosopher of history, who postulated that human cultures and civilizations are akin to...
- spenno adjective: Expensive.
- spenny adjective /ˈspɛni/: Expensive.
- Spennymoor proper noun: A town and civil parish with a town council in County Durham, England (OS grid ref NZ2533).
- spense noun: Alternative form of spence.
- Spenser proper noun /ˈspɛnsɚ/: A surname originating as an occupation, variant of Spencer, a rare spelling variant of Spencer.
- Spenserian adjective, noun: Of or pertaining to Edmund Spenser (c.1552–1599), English poet, or his works.
- Spenserian sonnet noun: A sonnet comprising three quatrains with the latter rhyme part being carried over from one quatrain to the next, and a concluding couplet, therefore...
- Spenserian stanza noun: A strophe of eight decasyllabic lines and an alexandrine, having three rhymes: the first and third; the second, fourth, fifth, and seventh; and the sixth,...
- Spenseriana noun: Objects, materials, or documents relating to the poet Edmund Spenser.
- Spenserianism noun: writing in a Spenserian style
- Spenserism noun: A word or phrase due to Edmund Spenser (c.1552–1599), English poet.
- 'spensive adjective: Pronunciation spelling of expensive.
- Spensonian adjective /spɛnˈsəʊ.ni.ən/: Relating to or characteristic of Thomas Spence or his fictional Utopian country Spensonia.
- spent adjective, verb /spɛnt/: Consumed, used up, exhausted, depleted.
- spent force noun: A person, organization, or process which is no longer influential, effective, or robust.
- speos noun: A tomb or temple carved from the solid rock
- Sper proper noun: A surname.
- Spera proper noun: A surname.
- sperable adjective: hopeful or hoped for
- speract noun: A decapeptide from the outer jelly of the Strongylocentrotus purpuratus sea urchin egg that binds with sperm.
- speradine noun: Any of a group of polycyclic oxindole alkaloids present in some fungi
- Speranza proper noun: A surname from Italian.
- sperate adjective /ˈspɪəɹət/: hoped for
- spere noun /spɪəɹ/: The fixed structure between the great hall and the screens passage in an English medieval timber house.
- sperg out verb: Synonym of sperg (“to have a meltdown; to ramble excessively”).
- sperge noun /spɜː(ɹ)d͡ʒ/: A charge of wash for the still.
- spergula noun: Any of the plants of the genus Spergula.
- spergulin noun: A fluorescent substance found in the seeds of Spergula.
- sperling noun: A European smelt (Osmerus eperlanus).
- sperm noun, verb /spɜɹm/: The reproductive cell or gamete of the male; a spermatozoon.
- sperm bank noun: A place where sperm from donors is stored for future use in artificial insemination.
- sperm blossom noun: A child; one’s offspring.
- sperm cell noun: Sperm; spermatozoon.
- sperm count noun: The number of spermatozoa in a given amount of ejaculate (typically one millilitre), often used as a gauge of male fertility.
- sperm donor noun: A man who donates sperm, usually anonymously, to a sperm bank or fertility clinic.
- sperm morula noun: spermosphere
- sperm oil noun: Whale oil that is extracted from a sperm whale.
- sperm sac noun: Synonym of spermatophore.
- sperm sack noun: Alternative form of sperm sac.
- sperm whale noun: A whale, Physeter macrocephalus, the largest of the toothed whales.
- sperm whale oil noun: Synonym of sperm oil.
- sperm-whale porpoise noun: Synonym of northern bottlenose whale
- sperma- prefix: Of or relating to sperm.
- spermaceti noun /ˌspɜːməˈsiːti/: A wax obtained from the head of sperm whales and used to make cosmetics, etc; humans separate it out from sperm oil.
- spermaceti organ noun: An organ present in the heads of toothed whales of the family Physeteroidea, in particular the sperm whale.
- spermaceti whale noun: Synonym of sperm whale.
- spermadhesin noun: Any of a family of proteins associated with the surface of sperm cells of some mammals
- spermaduct noun: Synonym of vas deferens.
- spermagglutinate verb: To undergo spermagglutination
- spermagglutinating adjective, verb: Causing spermagglutination
- spermagglutination noun: agglutination of sperm
- spermagone noun: Alternative form of spermogonium.
- spermagonial adjective: Alternative form of spermogonial.
- spermagonium noun: Alternative spelling of spermogonium.
- spermalege noun: A special-purpose organ found in bedbugs that appears to have evolved to mitigate the effects of traumatic insemination. It has two embryologically distinct...
- spermaphore noun: the placenta (part of the ovary from ovules form)
- spermaphyte noun: Alternative form of spermatophyte.
- spermaphytic adjective: Synonym of spermatophytic.
- spermarche noun: The beginning of production of sperm in the testicles at puberty.
- spermarium noun: Synonym of spermary.
- spermary noun: An organ in which spermatozoa are developed; a sperm gland; a testicle.
- spermat- prefix: Alternative form of spermato- (“seed”).
- spermatagonium noun: Alternative form of spermatogonium.
- spermatangial adjective: Relating to spermatangia
- spermatangium noun: Synonym of gametangium.
- spermatheca noun /ˌspɜːməˈθiːkə/: A small sac within the reproductive tract of some female invertebrates, such as insects, which stores sperm until it is used to fertilize the ova.
- spermathecal adjective: Of or pertaining to a spermatheca.
- spermatial adjective: Of or relating to the spermatium.
- spermatic adjective /spɚˈmætɪk/: Of, pertaining to, or resembling sperm.
- spermatic cord noun: The cord, consisting of the vas deferens, nerves, and blood vessels, that runs from the abdominal cavity to the testicle in the scrotum.
- spermatical adjective: spermatic
- spermatically adverb: In a spermatic manner.
- spermaticidal adjective: Alternative form of spermatocidal.
- spermaticide noun: Alternative form of spermatocide.
- spermatid noun: A haploid cell, produced by meiosis of a spermatocyte, that develops into a spermatozoon
- spermatidogenesis noun: The creation of spermatids from secondary spermatocytes during spermatogenesis.
- spermatiferous adjective: Bearing the spermatium.
- spermatin noun: A substance allied to alkali albumin and to mucin, present in semen, to which it is said to impart the mucilaginous character.
- spermatiophore noun: Alternative form of spermatophore.
- spermatise verb: Alternative form of spermatize.
- spermatism noun: Spermism.
- spermatist noun: Synonym of spermist.
- spermatium noun /spɜː(ɹ)ˈmeɪʃiəm/: One of the motionless spermatozoids in the conceptacles of certain fungi.
- spermatization noun: The process, or the result of spermatizing
- spermatize verb: To produce or emit sperm.
- spermato- prefix: seed
- spermatoblast noun: A spermatocyte.
- spermatoblastic adjective: of or relating to a spermatoblast
- spermatocele noun: A retention cyst of a tubule of the rete testis or the head of the epididymis distended with barely watery fluid that contains spermatozoa.
- spermatocidal adjective: Synonym of spermicidal.
- spermatocide noun: spermicide
- spermatocrit noun: An indicator of spermatozoa density based on the proportion of solid packed material in semen after centrifugation.
- spermatocyst noun: Synonym of spermatocele.
- spermatocystic adjective: Relating to spermatocysts.
- spermatocystitis noun: inflammation of the seminal vesicles
- spermatocytal adjective: Relating to spermatocytes.
- spermatocyte noun: A male gametocyte, from which a spermatozoon develops.
- spermatocytic adjective: Relating to, or having the form of spermatocytes
- spermatocytogenesis noun: The production of spermatocytes
- spermatodactyl noun: A modified chelicera used to transfer sperm from the male to the female
- spermatogemma noun: spermosphere
- spermatogenesis noun: The process of sperm production in the testes.
- spermatogenetic adjective: Of or pertaining to spermatogenesis.
- spermatogenic adjective: of or relating to spermatogenesis
- spermatogenically adverb: With reference to spermatogenesis
- spermatogenous adjective: Producing sperm.
- spermatogeny noun: The generation of spermatozoa.
- spermatogonangium noun: The structure that carries the spermatogonia
- spermatogonial adjective /ˌspɜː(ɹ)mətəˈɡəʊniəl/: Of or pertaining to the spermatogonia.
- spermatogonially adverb: By means of a spermatogonium
- spermatogonic adjective: Relating to spermatogonia
- spermatogonium noun: Any of the undifferentiated cells in the male gonads that become spermatocytes; a spermatoblast
- spermatoid adjective, noun: Resembling sperm or semen.
- spermatokinetic adjective: Tending to produce the male element.
- spermatological adjective: Relating to spermatology.
- spermatologist noun: One who studies spermatology.
- spermatology noun: The scientific study of sperm.
- spermatoon noun: A spermatid.
- spermatophagous adjective: Relating to spermatophagy
- spermatophagy noun: Phagocytosis of sperm cells.
- spermatophobia noun: A form of hypochondriasis in which the patient erroneously believes himself to be suffering from spermatorrhea.
- spermatophoral adjective: Relating to spermatophores
- spermatophore noun: A spermospore.
- spermatophoric adjective: Relating to spermatophores
- spermatophorous adjective: Producing seed or sperm; seminiferous.
- spermatophylax noun: A nutritive bolus ejected by some male insects during copulation
- spermatophyte noun: Any plant that bears seeds rather than spores
- spermatophytic adjective: Relating to spermatophytes.
- spermatoproteasome noun: A proteasome present in the testes of some rodents
- spermatorrhea noun: Alternative form of spermatorrhoea.
- spermatorrhoea noun /spə(ɹ)ˌmætəˈɹiːə/: Abnormal emission of the semen without copulation.
- spermatostyle noun: A rod, produced by some beetles, on which sperm is embedded
- spermatotheca noun: Synonym of spermatheca.
- spermatothecal adjective: Relating to the spermatotheca.
- spermatotoxic adjective: toxic to spermatozoa
- spermatotoxicity noun: The quality of being spermatotoxic.
- spermatotoxin noun: Any spermatotoxic substance.
- spermatovum noun: A fecundated ovum.
- spermatoxin noun: Alternative form of spermatotoxin.
- spermatozoal adjective: Of or pertaining to spermatozoa
- spermatozoan adjective, noun: Of or pertaining to spermatozoa.
- spermatozoic adjective /ˌspɜːmətə(ʊ)ˈzəʊɪk/: Of or pertaining to spermatozoa; of the nature of spermatozoa.
- spermatozoid noun /spɜː(ɹ)ˈmætəˌzəʊ.ɪd/: A motile, ciliated male gamete produced in the antheridium of an alga, fern or gymnosperm.
- spermatozooid noun: Alternative form of spermatozoid.
- spermatozoon noun /ˌspɜːmətə(ʊ)ˈzəʊɒn/: A reproductive cell or gamete of a male, carried in semen, that fertilizes an ovum to produce a zygote.
- spermaturia noun: presence of sperm in the urine
- spermed adjective, verb: Having (or having the characteristics associated with) a specified form of sperm
- spermhead noun: The head (main part) of a sperm cell
- -spermia suffix: Forms nouns related to sperm or semen.
- spermiate verb: To release from Sertoli cells into the seminiferous tubule lumen prior to passage to the epididymis.
- spermiation noun: The release of mature spermatozoa from Sertoli cells
- -spermic adjective, suffix /ˈspɜːmɪk/: Of or pertaining to sperm.
- spermicidal adjective, noun: Having the ability to kill sperm.
- spermicide noun /ˈspɜː(ɹ)mɪsaɪd/: A substance used for killing sperm.
- spermidine noun /ˈspɝ.mə.din/: The triamine N-(3-aminopropyl)butane-1,4-diamine, originally obtained from semen, that is involved in cell metabolism.
- spermidium noun: An achene.
- spermiducal adjective: Relating to the spermiduct or vas deferens.
- spermiduct noun: Synonym of vas deferens.
- spermies noun: sperm, spermatozoa
- spermin noun: Alternative form of spermine.
- sperminated adjective: Reacted or polymerized with spermine
- sperminator noun: A man who impregnates a woman or women.
- spermine noun: A polyamine, N,N'-bis(3-aminopropyl) butane-1,4-diamine, originally extracted from sperm, that is involved in cellular metabolism.
- spermio- prefix: Spermatozoon, mature sperm cell
- spermiogenesis noun: The final stage of spermatogenesis. It involves the maturation of the spermatids into spermatozoa.
- spermiogenetic adjective: spermiogenic
- spermiogenic adjective: Relating to spermiogenesis
- spermiogram noun: Synonym of semenogram.
- spermiostasis noun: The abnormal accumulation of spermatozoa in the epididymides and ductus deferens (of horses)
- spermiostatic adjective: That reduces the motility of sperm
- spermioteleosis noun: The development of the spermatogonium following spermiogenesis
- spermiotoxic adjective: toxic to spermatozoa
- spermiotoxicity noun: The condition of being spermiotoxic
- spermism noun: The belief, held by spermists, that the male sperm holds the whole germ of the future animal.
- spermist noun: One who believed that the complete human being was contained in the sperm rather than the ovum.
- spermjacking noun: The practice where a woman surreptitiously collects a man's sperm after sex (e.g. from a used condom), or stops using birth control without telling her male...
- spermless adjective: Without sperm.
- spermlessness noun: Absence of sperm.
- spermlike adjective: Resembling sperm or an individual sperm.
- spermo- prefix: Alternative form of spermato-
- spermoblast noun: a spermatocyte
- spermococcus noun: The nucleus of a spermatozoon
- spermoderm noun: A seed coat or testa.
- spermoduct noun: Synonym of vas deferens
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Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0): each word's first meaning. A word with a page of its own links to it; for the rest, this line is PlainSpell's entry. Total under S: 73,223 words, in 245 parts.