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Spayings
- noun - neutering a female by removing the ovaries
Specials
- noun - a dish or meal given prominence in e.g. a restaurant
- a special offering (usually temporary and at a reduced price) that is featured in advertising; "they are having a special on pork chops"
- a television production that features a particular person or work or topic; "the last of a series of BBC specials on Iran is being shown tonight"
Speciate
- verb - evolve so as to lead to a new species or develop in a way most suited to the environment
Specific
- adjective - (sometimes followed by `to') applying to or characterized by or distinguishing something particular or special or unique; "rules with specific application"; "demands specific to the job"; "a specific and detailed account of the accident"
- a fact about some part (as opposed to general); "he always reasons from the particular to the general"
- a medicine that has a mitigating effect on a specific disease; "quinine is a specific for malaria"
- being or affecting a disease produced by a particular microorganism or condition; used also of stains or dyes used in making microscope slides; "quinine is highly specific for malaria"; "a specific remedy"; "a specific stain is one having a specific affinity for particular structural elements"
- Definite
- relating to or distinguishing or constituting a taxonomic species; "specific characters"
- stated explicitly or in detail; "needed a specific amount"
Specimen
- noun - a bit of tissue or blood or urine that is taken for diagnostic purposes; "they collected a urine specimen for urinalysis"
- an example regarded as typical of its class
Specious
- adjective - based on pretense; deceptively pleasing; "the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"; "meretricious praise"; "a meretricious argument"
- plausible but false; "a specious claim"; "spurious inferences"
Spiciest
- adjective - having an agreeably pungent taste
- producing a burning sensation on the taste nerves; "hot salsa"; "jalapeno peppers are very hot"
- suggestive of sexual impropriety; "a blue movie"; "blue jokes"; "he skips asterisks and gives you the gamy details"; "a juicy scandal"; "a naughty wink"; "naughty words"; "racy anecdotes"; "a risque story"; "spicy gossip"
Spikiest
- adjective - having or as if having especially high-pitched spots; "absence of peaky highs and beefed-up bass"
Spilikin
- - One of a number of small pieces or pegs of wood, ivory, bone, or other material, for playing a game, or for counting the score in a game, as in cribbage. In the plural (spilikins), a game played with such pieces; pushpin.
Spiniest
- adjective - having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.; "a horse with a short bristly mane"; "bristly shrubs"; "burred fruits"; "setaceous whiskers"
- having spines; "the dorsal fin is spinous"