5-letter words containing sp
- spree — a river in E Germany, flowing N through Berlin to the Havel River. 220 miles (354 km) long.
- sprig — a small spray of some plant with its leaves, flowers, etc.
- sprit — a small pole or spar crossing a fore-and-aft sail diagonally from the mast to the upper aftermost corner, serving to extend the sail.
- sprod — a young salmon in its second year
- sprog — offspring, child
- sprue — a chronic disease, occurring chiefly in the tropics, resulting from malabsorption of nutrients from the small intestine and characterized by diarrhea, ulceration of the mucous membrane of the digestive tract, and a smooth, shining tongue; psilosis.
- sprug — a house sparrow
- spuky — Chiefly Boston. a hero sandwich.
- spume — to eject or discharge as or like foam or froth; spew (often followed by forth).
- spunk — pluck; spirit; mettle.
- spurn — to reject with disdain; scorn.
- spurs — a batch of newly made rag-paper sheets.
- spurt — to gush or issue suddenly in a stream or jet, as a liquid; spout.
- spyal — a spy
- spyri — Johanna [German yaw-hah-nah;; English joh-han-uh-,, -an-uh] /German yɔˈhɑ nɑ;; English dʒoʊˈhæn ə-,, -ˈæn ə/ (Show IPA), 1827–1901, Swiss author.
- tbsp. — In recipes, tbsp. is a written abbreviation for tablespoonful.
- thesp — an actor
- usphs — United States Public Health Service
- vespa — Very Efficient Speculative Parallel Architecture
- vlisp — (language) 1. A Lisp dialect developed by Patrick Greussay <[email protected]> in about 1973 with a fast interpreter and a portable virtual machine. Vlisp introduced the "chronology", a dynamic environment for implementing interrupts. It led to Le_Lisp. See also ObjVlisp. 2. Vincennes LISP.
- wasps — a satirical comedy (422 b.c.) by Aristophanes.
- waspy — Sometimes Disparaging and Offensive. of, relating to, or characteristic of WASPs: a Waspy country club.
- whisp — A flock of snipe.
- wisps — Plural form of wisp.
- wispy — being a wisp or in wisps; wisplike: a wispy plant.
- ylisp — A variant of Xlisp from Hewlett-Packard for the HP-95LX palmtop.