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Spate
- noun - (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money"
- a sudden forceful flow
- the occurrence of a water flow resulting from sudden rain or melting snow
Speke
- noun - English explorer who with Sir Richard Burton was the first European to explore Lake Tanganyika; he also discovered Lake Victoria and named it (1827-1864)
Spere
- - To search; to pry; to ask; to inquire.
Spice
- noun - add herbs or spices to
- any of a variety of pungent aromatic vegetable substances used for flavoring food
- aromatic substances of vegetable origin used as a preservative
- make more interesting or flavorful; "Spice up the evening by inviting a belly dancer"
- the property of being seasoned with spice and so highly flavored
Spike
- noun - (botany) an indeterminate inflorescence bearing sessile flowers on an unbranched axis
- a large stout nail; "they used spikes to fasten the rails to a railroad tie"
- a long, thin sharp-pointed implement (wood or metal); "one of the spikes impaled him"
- a sharp rise followed by a sharp decline; "the seismograph showed a sharp spike in response to the temblor"
- a sharp-pointed projection along the top of a fence or wall (or a dinosaur)
- a transient variation in voltage or current
- a very high narrow heel on women's shoes
- add alcohol to (beverages); "the punch is spiked!"
- any holding device consisting of a rigid, sharp-pointed object; "the spike pierced the receipts and held them in order"
- bring forth a spike or spikes; "my hyacinths and orchids are spiking now"
- each of the sharp points on the soles of athletic shoes to prevent slipping (or the shoes themselves); "the second baseman sharpened his
Spile
- noun - a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure
- a plug used to close a hole in a barrel or flask
Spine
- noun - a sharp rigid animal process or appendage; as a porcupine quill or a ridge on a bone or a ray of a fish fin
- a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf
- any sharply pointed projection
- the part of a book's cover that encloses the inner side of the book's pages and that faces outward when the book is shelved; "the title and author were printed on the spine of the book"
- the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord; "the fall broke his back"
Spire
- noun - a tall tower that forms the superstructure of a building (usually a church or temple) and that tapers to a point at the top
Spite
- noun - feeling a need to see others suffer
- hurt the feelings of; "She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests"; "This remark really bruised my ego"
- malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty
- Nastiness