Synonyms of the word splash


SPLASHBEGRIME - BEMIRE - COLLY - COMMOTION - COVER - DAB - DAPPLE - DIRTY - DISPERSE - DISRUPTION - DISTURBANCE - DOT - DUST - FLECK - FLUTTER - FOOTSLOG - GO - GRIME - HOO-HA - HOO-HAH - KERFUFFLE - MACULATION - NOISE - OVERLAY - PAD - PAINTING - PATCH - PLASH - PLOD - SCATTER - SLOG - SLOP - SLOSH - SLUSH - SOIL - SOUND - SPATTER - SPATTERING - SPECKLE - SPLASHING - SPLATTER - SPLATTERING - SPLOSH - SPOT - SPRINKLE - SQUELCH - SQUISH - STIR - SWASH - TO-DO - TRAMP - TRUDGE - WETTING

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.

begrime

  • v. (transitive) To make something dirty; to soil.

bemire

  • v. To soil (or be soiled) with mud.

colly

  • adj. (Britain, dialect) black as coal.
  • v. (transitive, archaic) to make black, as with coal.
  • n. (Britain, dialect) Soot.
  • n. (Britain, dialect) A blackbird.
  • n. (dated) Alternative spelling of collie.

commotion

  • n. A state of turbulent motion.
  • n. An agitated disturbance or a hubbub.
  • n. (euphemistic) Sexual excitement.

cover

  • n. A lid.
  • n. A hiding from view.
  • n. A front and back of a book, magazine, CD package, etc.
  • n. A top sheet of a bed.
  • n. A cover charge.
  • n. A setting at a restaurant table or formal dinner.
  • n. (music) A rerecording of a previously recorded song; a cover version; a cover song.
  • n. (cricket) A fielding position on the off side, between point and mid off, about 30° forward of square;…
  • n. (topology) A set (more often known as a family) of sets, whose union contains the given set.
  • n. (philately) An envelope complete with stamps and postmarks etc.
  • n. (military) A solid object, including terrain, that provides protection from enemy fire.
  • n. (law) In commercial law, a buyer’s purchase on the open market of goods similar or identical to the goods…
  • n. (insurance) An insurance contract; coverage by an insurance contract.
  • n. (espionage) A persona maintained by a spy or undercover operative, cover story.
  • n. The portion of a slate, tile, or shingle that is hidden by the overlap of the course above.
  • n. In a steam engine, the lap of a slide valve.
  • adj. Of or pertaining to the front cover of a book or magazine.
  • adj. (music) Of, pertaining to, or consisting of cover versions.
  • v. (transitive) To place something over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
  • v. (transitive) To be over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
  • v. (transitive) To be upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
  • v. (transitive) To set upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
  • v. (transitive) To invest (oneself with something); to bring upon (oneself).
  • v. (of a publication) To discuss thoroughly; to provide coverage of.
  • v. To deal with.
  • v. To be enough money for.
  • v. (intransitive) To act as a replacement.
  • v. (transitive) To have as an assignment or responsibility.
  • v. (music) To make a cover version of (a song that was originally recorded by another artist).
  • v. (military, law enforcement) To protect using an aimed firearm and the threat of firing; or to protect…
  • v. To provide insurance coverage for.
  • v. To copulate with (said of certain male animals such as dogs and horses).
  • v. (chess, transitive) To protect or control (a piece or square).
  • v. To extend over a given period of time or range, to occupy, to stretch over a given area.

dab

  • v. (transitive) To press lightly in a repetitive motion with a soft object without rubbing.
  • v. (transitive) To apply a substance in this way.
  • v. To strike by a thrust; to hit with a sudden blow or thrust.
  • v. To apply hash oil to a heated surface for the purpose of efficient combustion.
  • v. To perform the dab dance move, by moving both arms to one side of the body parallel with your head.
  • n. A soft tap or blow; a blow or peck from a bird's beak; an aimed blow.
  • n. (African American Vernacular) A soft, playful box given in greeting or approval.
  • n. A small amount, a blob of some soft or wet substance.
  • n. (chiefly in the plural, dated, Britain) Fingerprint.
  • n. A small amount of hash oil.
  • n. A hip hop dance move in which the dancer simultaneously drops the head while raising an arm, briefly resting…
  • adv. With a dab, or sudden contact.
  • n. One skilful or proficient; an expert; an adept.
  • n. A small flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae, especially Limanda limanda; a flounder.
  • n. (US) A sand dab, a small flatfish of genus Citharichthys.
  • adj. (obsolete, back slang) Bad.

dapple

  • n. A mottled marking, usually in clusters.
  • n. An animal with a mottled or spotted skin or coat.
  • adj. Having a mottled or spotted skin or coat, dappled.
  • v. To mark or become marked with mottling or spots.

dirty

  • adj. Unclean; covered with or containing unpleasant substances such as dirt or grime.
  • adj. That makes one unclean; corrupting, infecting.
  • adj. Morally unclean; obscene or indecent, especially sexually.
  • adj. Dishonourable; violating accepted standards or rules.
  • adj. Corrupt, illegal, or improper.
  • adj. Out of tune.
  • adj. Of color, discolored by impurities.
  • adj. (computing) Containing data which need to be written back to a larger memory.
  • adj. (slang) Carrying illegal drugs among one's possessions or inside of one's bloodstream.
  • adj. (informal) Used as an intensifier, especially in conjunction with "great".
  • adj. Sleety; gusty; stormy.
  • adv. In a dirty manner.
  • v. (transitive) To make (something) dirty.
  • v. (transitive) To stain or tarnish (somebody) with dishonor.
  • v. (transitive) To debase by distorting the real nature of (something).
  • v. (intransitive) To become soiled.

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.

disruption

  • n. An interruption to the regular flow or sequence of something.
  • n. A continuing act of disorder.

disturbance

  • n. The act of disturbing, being disturbed.
  • n. Something that disturbs.
  • n. A noisy commotion that causes a hubbub or interruption.
  • n. An interruption of that which is normal or regular.
  • n. (psychology) A serious mental imbalance or illness.

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.

flutter

  • v. (intransitive) To flap or wave quickly but irregularly.
  • v. (intransitive, of a winged animal) To flap the wings without flying; to fly with a light flapping of the…
  • v. (transitive) To cause something to flap.
  • v. (transitive) To drive into disorder; to throw into confusion.
  • n. The act of fluttering; quick and irregular motion.
  • n. A state of agitation.
  • n. An abnormal rapid pulsation of the heart.
  • n. (Britain) A small bet or risky investment.
  • n. (audio, electronics) The rapid variation of signal parameters, such as amplitude, phase, and frequency.

footslog

  • n. An instance of footslogging.
  • v. (intransitive) to walk heavily over a long distance or in a weary manner; to trudge.

go

  • v. To move.
  • v. (intransitive, chiefly of a machine) To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
  • v. (intransitive) To start; to begin (an action or process).
  • v. (intransitive) To take a turn, especially in a game.
  • v. (intransitive) To attend.
  • v. To proceed.
  • v. To follow or travel along (a path).
  • v. (intransitive) To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
  • v. (intransitive) To lead (to a place); to give access to.
  • v. (copula) To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.).
  • v. To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
  • v. (intransitive) To continuously or habitually be in a state.
  • v. To come to (a certain condition or state).
  • v. (intransitive) To change (from one value to another).
  • v. To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
  • v. (intransitive) To tend (toward a result).
  • v. To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
  • v. To pass, to be used up.
  • v. (intransitive) To die.
  • v. (intransitive) To be discarded.
  • v. (intransitive, cricket) To be lost or out.
  • v. To break down or apart.
  • v. (intransitive) To be sold.
  • v. (intransitive) To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
  • v. (transitive, sports) To have a certain record.
  • v. To be authoritative, accepted, or valid.
  • v. To say (something), to make a sound.
  • v. To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
  • v. (intransitive) To resort (to).
  • v. To apply or subject oneself to.
  • v. To fit (in a place, or together with something).
  • v. (intransitive) To date.
  • v. To attack.
  • v. To be in general; to be usually.
  • v. (transitive) To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.
  • v. (transitive) To yield or weigh.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.
  • v. (transitive, colloquial) To enjoy. (Compare go for.).
  • v. (intransitive, colloquial) To urinate or defecate.
  • n. (uncommon) The act of going.
  • n. A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).
  • n. An attempt, a try.
  • n. An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.
  • n. An act; the working or operation.
  • n. (slang, dated) A circumstance or occurrence; an incident.
  • n. (dated) The fashion or mode.
  • n. (dated) Noisy merriment.
  • n. (slang, archaic) A glass of spirits; a quantity of spirits.
  • n. Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.
  • n. (cribbage) The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above…
  • n. A period of activity.
  • n. (obsolete, British slang) A dandy; a fashionable person.
  • n. (board games) A strategic board game, originally from China, in which two players (black and white) attempt…

grime

  • n. Dirt, grease, soot, etc. that is ingrained and difficult to remove.
  • n. (music) A genre of urban music that emerged in London, England, in the early 2000s, primarily a development…
  • v. To begrime; to cake with dirt.

hoo-ha

  • n. A fuss, uproar, commotion or stir; hype; brouhaha, hullabaloo.
  • n. (slang, euphemistic) vagina, vulva.

hoo-hah

  • n. Alternative spelling of hoo-ha (fuss, uproar).
  • n. Alternative spelling of hoo-ha (vagina).

kerfuffle

  • n. (chiefly Britain, informal) A disorderly outburst, disturbance, commotion, or tumult.
  • v. (chiefly Britain, informal) To make a disorderly outburst or commotion.

maculation

  • n. (Shakespearian) The act of spotting; a spot; a blemish. See immaculate.

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.

overlay

  • v. (transitive) To lay, spread, or apply something over or across; cover.
  • v. To overwhelm; to press excessively upon.
  • v. (transitive, now rare, archaic) To lie over (someone, especially a child) in order to smother it; to suffocate.
  • v. (transitive, printing) To put an overlay on.
  • n. (printing) A piece of paper pasted upon the tympan sheet to improve the impression by making it stronger…
  • n. (gambling) Odds which are set higher than expected or warranted. Favorable odds.
  • n. (horse racing) A horse going off at higher odds than it appears to warrant, based on its past performances.
  • n. A decal attached to a computer keyboard to relabel the keys.
  • n. (programming) A block of program code that is loaded over something previously loaded, so as to replace…
  • n. (Internet) A pop-up.

pad

  • n. A flattened mass of anything soft, to sit or lie on.
  • n. A cushion used as a saddle without a tree or frame.
  • n. A soft, or small, cushion.
  • n. A cushion-like thickening of the skin on the under side of the toes of animals.
  • n. The mostly hairless flesh located on the bottom of an animal's foot or paw.
  • n. Any cushion-like part of the human body, especially the ends of the fingers.
  • n. A stuffed guard or protection, especially one worn on the legs of horses to prevent bruising.
  • n. A soft bag or cushion to relieve pressure, support a part, etc.
  • n. A sanitary napkin.
  • n. (US) A floating leaf of a water lily or similar plant.
  • n. (cricket) A soft cover for a batsman's leg that protects it from damage when hit by the ball.
  • n. A kind of cushion for writing upon, or for blotting, especially one formed of many flat sheets of writing…
  • n. A panel or strip of material designed to be sensitive to pressure or touch.
  • n. A keypad.
  • n. A flat surface or area from which a helicopter or other aircraft may land or be launched.
  • n. An electrical extension cord with a multi-port socket one end: "trip cord".
  • n. The effect produced by sustained lower reed notes in a musical piece, most common in blues music.
  • n. A synthesizer instrument sound used for sustained background sounds.
  • n. (US, slang) A bed.
  • n. (colloquial) A place of residence.
  • n. (Britain, slang) A prison cell.
  • n. (cryptography) A random key (originally written on a disposable pad) of the same length as the plaintext.
  • n. A mousepad.
  • n. (electronics) The amount by which a signal has been reduced.
  • n. (nautical) A piece of timber fixed on a beam to fit the curve of the deck.
  • v. (transitive) To stuff.
  • v. (transitive) To furnish with a pad or padding.
  • v. (transitive) To fill or lengthen (a story, one's importance, etc.).
  • v. (transitive) To imbue uniformly with a mordant.
  • v. (transitive, cricket) To deliberately play the ball with the leg pad instead of the bat.
  • n. (Britain, dialectal) A toad.
  • n. (Britain, dialectal, Australia, Ireland) A footpath, particularly one unformed or unmaintained; a road…
  • n. An easy-paced horse; a padnag.
  • n. (Britain, obsolete) A robber that infests the road on foot; a highwayman or footpad.
  • n. The act of highway robbery.
  • n. (Britain, dialectal) A type of wickerwork basket, especially as used as a measure of fish or other goods.
  • v. (transitive) To travel along (a road, path etc.).
  • v. (intransitive) To travel on foot.
  • v. (intransitive) To wear a path by walking.
  • v. (intransitive) To walk softly, quietly or steadily, especially without shoes.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To practise highway robbery.
  • interj. Indicating a soft flat sound, as of bare footsteps.
  • n. The sound of soft footsteps, or a similar noise made by an animal etc.

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.

patch

  • n. A piece of cloth, or other suitable material, sewed or otherwise fixed upon a garment to repair or strengthen…
  • n. A small piece of anything used to repair damage or a breach; as, a patch on a kettle, a roof, etc.
  • n. A repair intended to be used for a limited time; (differs from previous usage in that it is intended to…
  • n. A small, usually contrasting but always somehow different or distinct, part of something else (location,…
  • n. (specifically) A small area, a small plot of land or piece of ground.
  • n. An area of professional responsibility.
  • n. A small piece of black silk stuck on the face or neck to heighten beauty; an imitation beauty mark.
  • n. (medicine) A piece of material used to cover a wound.
  • n. (medicine) An adhesive piece of material, impregnated with a drug, which is worn on the skin; the drug…
  • n. (medicine) A cover worn over a damaged eye, an eyepatch.
  • n. A block on the muzzle of a gun, to do away with the effect of dispart, in sighting.
  • n. (computing) A patch file, a file used for input to a patch program or that describes changes made to a…
  • n. A small piece of material that is manually passed through a gun barrel to clean it.
  • n. A piece of greased cloth or leather used as wrapping for a rifle ball, to make it fit the bore.
  • n. (often patch cable, patch cord, etc.; see also patch panel) A cable connecting two pieces of electrical…
  • n. A sound setting for a musical synthesizer (originally selected by means of a patch cable).
  • v. To mend by sewing on a piece or pieces of cloth, leather, or the like.
  • v. To mend with pieces; to repair by fastening pieces on.
  • v. To make out of pieces or patches, like a quilt.
  • v. To join or unite the pieces of; to patch the skirt.
  • v. A temporary, removable electronic connection, as one between two components in a communications system.
  • v. (generally with the particle "up") To repair or arrange in a hasty or clumsy manner.
  • v. (computing) To make the changes a patch describes; to apply a patch to the files in question. Hence.
  • v. To connect two pieces of electrical equipment using a cable.
  • n. (archaic) A paltry fellow; a rogue; a ninny; a fool.

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.

plod

  • n. A slow or labored walk or other motion or activity.
  • v. (intransitive) To walk or move slowly and heavily or laboriously (+ on, through, over).
  • v. (transitive) To trudge over or through.
  • v. To toil; to drudge; especially, to study laboriously and patiently.
  • n. (obsolete) A puddle.
  • n. (Britain, mildly derogatory, uncountable, usually with "the") the police, police officers.
  • n. (Britain, mildly derogatory, countable) a police officer, especially a low-ranking one.

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.

slog

  • n. (chiefly Britain and Canada) A long, tedious walk, or session of work.
  • n. (cricket) An aggressive shot played with little skill.
  • v. To walk slowly, encountering resistance.
  • v. (by extension) To work slowly and deliberately (overcoming significant boredom).
  • v. To strike something with a heavy blow, especially a ball with a bat.

slop

  • n. (now historical) A loose outer garment; a jacket or overall.
  • n. (in the plural, obsolete) Loose trousers.
  • n. (uncountable) A liquid or semi-solid; goo, paste, mud, domestic liquid waste.
  • n. Scraps used as food for pigs.
  • n. (dated) Human urine or excrement.
  • n. Water or other liquid carelessly spilled or thrown about, as upon a table or a floor; a puddle; a soiled…
  • n. (chiefly plural) Inferior, weak drink or liquid food.
  • v. (transitive) to spill or dump liquid, especially over the rim of a container when it moves.
  • v. (transitive) To spill liquid upon; to soil with a spilled liquid.
  • v. (transitive) In the game of pool or snooker to pocket a ball by accident; in billiards, to make an ill-considered…
  • v. (transitive) to feed pigs.
  • n. (archaic, back slang) A policeman.

slosh

  • v. (intransitive, of a liquid) To shift chaotically; to splash noisily.
  • v. (transitive, of a liquid) To cause to slosh.
  • v. (intransitive) To make a sloshing sound.
  • v. (transitive, of a liquid) To pour noisily, sloppily or in large amounts.
  • v. (intransitive) to move noisily through water or other liquid.
  • v. (Britain, colloquial, transitive) To punch (someone).
  • n. A quantity of a liquid; more than a splash.
  • n. (computing) backslash, the character \.

slush

  • n. Half-melted snow or ice.
  • n. Liquid mud or mire.
  • n. Flavored shaved ice served as a drink.
  • n. A soft mixture of grease and other materials, used for lubrication.
  • n. The refuse grease and fat collected in cooking, especially on shipboard.
  • n. (engineering) A mixture of white lead and lime, used as a paint to prevent oxidation.
  • n. (publishing) Unsolicited manuscripts, as in slush pile.
  • v. To smear with slushy liquid or grease.
  • v. To slosh or splash; to move as, or through, a slushy or liquid substance.
  • v. To paint with a mixture of white lead and lime.

soil

  • n. (uncountable) A mixture of sand and organic material, used to support plant growth.
  • n. (uncountable) The unconsolidated mineral or organic material on the immediate surface of the earth that…
  • n. (uncountable) The unconsolidated mineral or organic matter on the surface of the earth that has been subjected…
  • n. Country or territory.
  • n. That which soils or pollutes; a stain.
  • n. A marshy or miry place to which a hunted boar resorts for refuge; hence, a wet place, stream, or tract…
  • n. Dung; compost; manure.
  • v. (transitive) To make dirty.
  • v. (intransitive) To become dirty or soiled.
  • v. (transitive, figuratively) To stain or mar, as with infamy or disgrace; to tarnish; to sully.
  • v. (reflexive) To dirty one's clothing by accidentally defecating while clothed.
  • v. To make invalid, to ruin.
  • v. To enrich with soil or muck; to manure.
  • n. (uncountable, euphemistic) Faeces or urine etc. when found on clothes.
  • n. (countable, medicine) A bag containing soiled items.
  • n. A wet or marshy place in which a boar or other such game seeks refuge when hunted.
  • v. To feed, as cattle or horses, in the barn or an enclosure, with fresh grass or green food cut for them,…

sound

  • adj. Healthy.
  • adj. Complete, solid, or secure.
  • adj. (mathematics, logic) Having the property of soundness.
  • adj. (Britain, slang) Good; acceptable; decent.
  • adj. (of sleep) Quiet and deep. Sound asleep means sleeping peacefully, often deeply.
  • adj. Heavy; laid on with force.
  • adj. Founded in law; legal; valid; not defective.
  • adv. Soundly.
  • interj. (Britain, slang) Yes; used to show agreement or understanding, generally without much enthusiasm.
  • n. A sensation perceived by the ear caused by the vibration of air or some other medium.
  • n. A vibration capable of causing such sensations.
  • n. (music) A distinctive style and sonority of a particular musician, orchestra etc.
  • n. Noise without meaning; empty noise.
  • v. (intransitive) To produce a sound.
  • v. (copulative) To convey an impression by one's sound.
  • v. (intransitive) To be conveyed in sound; to be spread or published; to convey intelligence by sound.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To resound.
  • v. (intransitive, law, often with in) To arise or to be recognizable as arising in or from a particular area…
  • v. (transitive) To cause to produce a sound.
  • v. (transitive, phonetics, of a vowel or consonant) To pronounce.
  • n. (geography) A long narrow inlet, or a strait between the mainland and an island; also, a strait connecting…
  • n. The air bladder of a fish.
  • n. A cuttlefish.
  • v. (intransitive) Dive downwards, used of a whale.
  • v. To ascertain, or try to ascertain, the thoughts, motives, and purposes of (a person); to examine; to try;…
  • v. Test; ascertain the depth of water with a sounding line or other device.
  • v. (medicine) To examine with the instrument called a sound or sonde, or by auscultation or percussion.
  • n. (medicine) An instrument for probing or dilating; a sonde.
  • n. A long, thin probe for sounding body cavities or canals such as the urethra.

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.

spattering

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

speckle

  • n. A small spot or speck on the skin, plumage or foliage.
  • n. (physics) The random distribution of light when it is scattered by a rough surface.
  • v. To mark with speckles.

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).

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.

squelch

  • v. (transitive, US) to halt, stop, eliminate, stamp out, or put down, often suddenly or by force.
  • v. (transitive, radio technology) to suppress the unwanted hiss or static between received transmissions…
  • v. (intransitive, Britain) to make a sucking, splashing noise as when walking on muddy ground.
  • v. (intransitive, Britain) to walk or step through a substance such as mud.
  • n. A squelching sound.
  • n. (radio technology) suppression of the unwanted hiss or static between received transmissions by adjusting…

squish

  • n. The sound or action of something, especially something moist, being squeezed or crushed.
  • n. (politics, informal, derogatory) A political moderate (term used by conservative activists in the 1980s).
  • v. To squeeze, compress, or crush (especially something moist).

stir

  • v. (transitive, dated) To change the place of in any manner; to move.
  • v. (transitive) To disturb the relative position of the particles of, as of a liquid, by passing something…
  • v. (transitive) To agitate the content of (a container) by passing something through it.
  • v. (transitive) To bring into debate; to agitate; to moot.
  • v. (transitive) To incite to action; to arouse; to instigate; to prompt; to excite.
  • v. (intransitive) To move; to change one’s position.
  • v. (intransitive) To be in motion; to be active or bustling; to exert or busy oneself.
  • v. (intransitive) To become the object of notice; to be on foot.
  • v. (intransitive, poetic) To rise, or be up and about, in the morning.
  • n. The act or result of stirring; agitation; tumult; bustle; noise or various movements.
  • n. Public disturbance or commotion; tumultuous disorder; seditious uproar.
  • n. Agitation of thoughts; conflicting passions.
  • n. (slang) Jail; prison.

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.

to-do

  • n. (archaic) Ado.
  • n. A task that has been noted as one that must be completed, especially on a list.
  • n. A fuss made over something, commotion.

tramp

  • n. (pejorative) A homeless person, a vagabond.
  • n. (pejorative) A disreputable, promiscuous woman; a slut.
  • n. Any ship which does not have a fixed schedule or published ports of call.
  • n. (Australia, New Zealand) A long walk, possibly of more than one day, in a scenic or wilderness area.
  • n. Clipping of trampoline, especially a very small one.
  • n. (in apposition): Of objects, stray and intrusive and unwanted.
  • v. To walk with heavy footsteps.
  • v. To walk for a long time (usually through difficult terrain).
  • v. To hitchhike.
  • v. (transitive) To tread upon forcibly and repeatedly; to trample.
  • v. (transitive) To travel or wander through.
  • v. (transitive, Scotland) To cleanse, as clothes, by treading upon them in water.

trudge

  • n. A tramp, i.e. a long and tiring walk.
  • v. (intransitive) To walk wearily with heavy, slow steps.
  • v. (transitive) To trudge along or over a route etc.

wetting

  • v. present participle of wet.
  • n. The act of making something wet.
  • n. The act of accidental urination on or in something.
  • adj. That makes (something) wet.

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