Synonyms of the word

spatter

• v. (transitive) To splash with small droplets.
• v. (transitive) To distribute by sprinkling; to sprinkle around.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To injure by aspersion; to defame.

bespatter

• v. (transitive) To spatter or cover with something; sprinkle with anything liquid, or with any wet or adhesive…
• v. (transitive) To soil by spattering.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To asperse with calumny or reproach; shend.

blob

• n. A shapeless or amorphous mass; a vague shape or amount, especially of a liquid or semisolid substance;…
• n. In astronomy, a large cloud of gas. In particular, an extended Lyman-Alpha blob is a huge body of gas…
• n. (dialect) A bubble, a bleb.
• n. A small freshwater fish (Uranidea richardsoni); the miller's thumb.
• v. (transitive) To drop in the form of a blob or blobs.
• v. (transitive) To drop a blob or blobs onto, cover with blobs.
• v. (intransitive) To fall in the form of a blob or blobs.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To relax idly and mindlessly; to veg out.
• n. Alternative spelling of BLOB.

blot

• n. A blemish, spot or stain made by a coloured substance.
• n. (by extension) A stain on someone's reputation or character; a disgrace.
• n. (biochemistry) A method of transferring proteins, DNA or RNA, onto a carrier.
• n. (backgammon) an exposed piece in backgammon.
• v. (transitive) to cause a blot (on something) by spilling a coloured substance.
• v. (intransitive) to soak up or absorb liquid.
• v. (transitive) To dry (writing, etc.) with blotting paper.
• v. (transitive) To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink.
• v. (transitive) To impair; to damage; to mar; to soil.
• v. (transitive) To stain with infamy; to disgrace.
• v. (transitive) To obliterate, as writing with ink; to cancel; to efface; generally with out.
• v. (transitive) To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow.

disperse

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To scatter in different directions.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To break up and disappear; to dissipate.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To disseminate.
• v. (physics, transitive, intransitive) To separate rays of light etc. according to wavelength; to refract.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To distribute throughout.
• adj. Scattered or spread out.

dot

• n. A small spot.
• n. (grammar) A punctuation mark used to indicate the end of a sentence or an abbreviated part of a word;…
• n. A diacritical mark comprised of a small opaque circle above or below any of various letters of the Latin…
• n. (mathematics) A symbol used for separating the fractional part of a decimal number from the whole part,…
• n. One of the two symbols used in Morse code.
• n. (obsolete) A lump or clot.
• n. Anything small and like a speck comparatively; a small portion or specimen.
• n. (cricket, informal) A dot ball.
• v. (transitive) To cover with small spots (of some liquid).
• v. (transitive) To add a dot (the symbol) or dots to.
• v. To mark by means of dots or small spots.
• v. To mark or diversify with small detached objects.
• prep. Dot product of the previous vector and the following vector.
• n. (US, Louisiana) A dowry.

dust

• n. (uncountable) Fine, dry particles of matter found in the air and covering the surface of objects, typically…
• n. (countable) The act of cleaning by dusting.
• n. (obsolete) A single particle of earth or other material.
• n. The earth, as the resting place of the dead.
• n. The earthy remains of bodies once alive; the remains of the human body.
• n. (figuratively) Something worthless.
• n. (figuratively) A low or mean condition.
• n. (slang, dated) cash; money (in reference to gold dust).
• n. (mathematics) A totally disconnected set of points with a fractal structure.
• v. (transitive) To remove dust from.
• v. (intransitive) To remove dust; to clean by removing dust.
• v. (intransitive) Of a bird, to cover itself in sand or dry, dusty earth.
• v. (transitive) To spray or cover something with fine powder or liquid.
• v. (chiefly US slang) To leave; to rush off.
• v. To reduce to a fine powder; to levigate.

fleck

• n. A flake.
• n. A lock, as of wool.
• n. A small spot or streak; a speckle.
• v. (transitive) To mark with small spots.

noise

• n. Various sounds, usually unwanted or unpleasant.
• n. Sound or signal generated by random fluctuations.
• n. (technology) Unwanted part of a signal. (Signal to noise ratio).
• n. (genetics) The measured level of variation in gene expression among cells, regardless of source, within…
• n. Rumour or complaint.
• n. (obsolete) Music, in general; a concert; also, a company of musicians; a band.
• n. (music) A genre of rock music that uses static and other non-musical sounds, also influenced by art rock.
• v. (intransitive) To make a noise; to sound.
• v. (transitive) To spread news of; to spread as rumor or gossip.

painting

• v. present participle of paint.
• n. (countable) An illustration or artwork done with the use of paint(s).
• n. (uncountable) The action of applying paint to a surface.
• n. (uncountable) The same activity as an art form.

patter

• n. The soft sound of feet walking on a hard surface.
• v. To make irregularly repeated sounds of low-to-moderate magnitude and lower-than-average pitch.
• v. To spatter; to sprinkle.
• n. Glib and rapid speech, such as from an auctioneer, or banter during a sports event.
• v. To speak in such a way – glibly and rapidly, such as from an auctioneer, or when bantering during a sports…
• n. One who pats.

pitter-patter

• n. A soft, percussive sound, as of tiny feet or rain on a rooftop.

plash

• n. (Britain, dialectal) A small pool of standing water; a puddle.
• n. A splash, or the sound made by a splash.
• v. (intransitive) To splash.
• v. (transitive) To cause a splash.
• v. (transitive) To splash or sprinkle with colouring matter.
• n. The branch of a tree partly cut or bent, and bound to, or intertwined with, other branches.
• v. (transitive) To cut partly, or to bend and intertwine the branches of.

rain

• n. Condensed water falling from a cloud.
• n. (figuratively) Any matter moving or falling, usually through air, and especially if liquid or otherwise…
• n. (figuratively) An instance of particles or larger pieces of matter moving or falling through air.
• v. (impersonal) To have rain fall from the sky.
• v. To fall as or like rain.
• v. (intransitive) To fall like rain.
• v. (transitive) To issue (something) in large quantities.

scatter

• v. (ergative) To (cause to) separate and go in different directions; to disperse.
• v. (transitive) To distribute loosely as by sprinkling.
• v. (transitive, physics) To deflect (radiation or particles).
• v. (intransitive) To occur or fall at widely spaced intervals.
• v. (transitive) To frustrate, disappoint, and overthrow.
• v. (transitive) To be dispersed upon.

spattering

• v. present participle of spatter.
• n. Something spattered.

spit

• n. A rod on which meat is grilled (UK English) or broiled (US English).
• n. A narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula.
• n. The depth to which a spade goes in digging; a spade; a spadeful.
• v. To impale on a spit.
• v. To attend to a spit; to use a spit.
• v. To spade; to dig.
• v. (intransitive, transitive) To evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth.
• v. To rain or snow slightly, or with sprinkles.
• v. (transitive) To utter violently.
• v. (transitive, slang, hip-hop) To rap, utter.
• n. (uncountable) Saliva, especially when expectorated.
• n. (countable) An instance of spitting.

splash

• n. (onomatopoeia) The sound made by an object hitting a liquid.
• n. A small amount of liquid.
• n. A small amount (of color).
• n. A mark or stain made from a small amount of liquid.
• n. An impact or impression.
• n. (computing, informal) splash screen.
• n. (wrestling) A body press; A move where the wrestler jumps forward from a raised platform such as the top…
• v. To hit or agitate liquid so that part of it separates from the principal liquid mass.
• v. To disperse a fluid suddenly; to splatter.
• v. (transitive) to hit or expel liquid at.
• v. To create an impact or impression; to print, post or publicize prominently.
• v. (transitive) To spend (money).
• v. To launch a ship.

splashing

• v. present participle of splash.
• n. An action that splashes.

splatter

• n. An uneven shape or mess created by something dispersing on impact.
• n. (attributive) A genre of gory horror.
• v. (intransitive) To splash; to scatter; to land or strike in an uneven, distributed mess.
• v. (transitive) To cause (something) to splatter.
• v. (transitive) To spatter (something or somebody).

splattering

• v. present participle of splatter.
• n. A mess of something splattered.

splosh

• v. to make the sound of splashing.
• v. to traverse mushy or marshy wetlands.
• v. to spill or spill over.
• n. (countable) A heavy splashing sound.
• n. (uncountable, Britain, slang) Tea (the drink).

splutter

• v. To sputter.
• v. To spray droplets while speaking.
• v. To speak hurriedly and confusedly.
• v. To perform to a substandard level.

spot

• n. A round or irregular patch on the surface of a thing having a different color, texture etc. and generally…
• n. A stain or disfiguring mark.
• n. A pimple, papule or pustule.
• n. A small, unspecified amount or quantity.
• n. (slang, US) A bill of five-dollar or ten-dollar denomination in dollars.
• n. A location or area.
• n. A parking space.
• n. (sports) An official determination of placement.
• n. A bright lamp; a spotlight.
• n. (US, advertising) A brief advertisement or program segment on television.
• n. Difficult situation; predicament.
• n. (gymnastics, dance, weightlifting) One who spots (supports or assists a maneuver, or is prepared to assist…
• n. (soccer) Penalty spot.
• n. The act of spotting or noticing something.
• n. A variety of the common domestic pigeon, so called from a spot on its head just above the beak.
• n. A food fish (Leiostomus xanthurus) of the Atlantic coast of the United States, with a black spot behind…
• n. The southern redfish, or red horse (Sciaenops ocellatus), which has a spot on each side at the base of…
• n. (in the plural, brokers' slang, dated) Commodities, such as merchandise and cotton, sold for immediate…
• n. An autosoliton.
• n. (finance) A decimal point; point.
• v. (transitive) To see, find; to pick out, notice, locate, distinguish or identify.
• v. (finance) To loan a small amount of money to someone.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To stain; to leave a spot (on).
• v. To remove, or attempt to remove, a stain.
• v. (gymnastics, dance, weightlifting, climbing) To support or assist a maneuver, or to be prepared to assist…
• v. (dance) To keep the head and eyes pointing in a single direction while turning.
• v. To stain; to blemish; to taint; to disgrace; to tarnish, as reputation.
• v. To cut or chip (timber) in preparation for hewing.
• v. To place an object at a location indicated by a spot. Notably in billiards or snooker.
• adj. (commerce) Available on the spot; on hand for immediate payment or delivery.

sprinkle

• v. (transitive) To cause (a substance) to fall in fine drops (for a liquid substance) or small pieces (for…
• v. (transitive) To cover (an object) by sprinkling a substance on to it.
• v. (intransitive) To drip in fine drops, sometimes sporadically.
• v. (transitive) To baptize by the application of a few drops, or a small quantity, of water; hence, to cleanse;…
• n. A light covering with a sprinkled substance.
• n. A light rain shower.

sputter

• n. Moist matter thrown out in small detached particles; also, confused and hasty speech.
• v. To spit, or to emit saliva from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking.
• v. To utter words hastily and indistinctly; to speak so rapidly as to emit saliva.
• v. To throw out anything, as little jets of steam, with a noise like that made by one sputtering.
• v. (transitive) To spit out hastily by quick, successive efforts, with a spluttering sound; to utter hastily…
• v. (physics, intransitive) To cause surface atoms or electrons of a solid to be ejected by bombarding it…
• v. (physics, transitive) To coat the surface of an object by sputtering.

sputtering

• v. present participle of sputter.
• n. A noise that sputters.
• n. The ejection of atoms from the surface of a solid or liquid following bombardment with ions, atoms or…

swash

• n. The water that washes up on shore after an incoming wave has broken.
• n. (typography) a long, protruding ornamental line or pen stroke found in some typefaces and styles of calligraphy.
• n. A narrow sound or channel of water lying within a sand bank, or between a sand bank and the shore, or…
• n. (obsolete) Liquid filth; wash; hog mash.
• n. (obsolete) A blustering noise.
• n. (obsolete) swaggering behaviour.
• n. (obsolete) A swaggering fellow; a swasher.
• n. (architecture) An oval figure, whose mouldings are oblique to the axis of the work.
• v. (intransitive) To swagger; to bluster and brag.
• v. (intransitive) To dash or flow noisily; to splash.
• v. (intransitive) To fall violently or noisily.
• adj. Soft, like overripe fruit; swashy; squashy.