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Words starting with S

Words that start with S

Six slippery snakes sailed southward on a silver ship to Sydney.

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Spaghetti is a type of long, thin pasta. It is originally from Italy. Spaghetti is most often served with a tomato sauce and cheese.
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Sis forSpanish

Spanish is the language spoken in Spain, someone from Spain, or describes anything to do with Spain.
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Sis forSpanner

A spanner is another name for a wrench.
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Sparring is a term for a fight, usually one for training purposes. Sparring might also mean a fight as part of a competition, and can be used to talk about a non-physical contest, such as verbal sparring. Once a fight is fueled by emotion and gets out of control, it isn't sparring.
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Sis forSpark

A spark is a tiny piece of something, usually metal, that is glowing red-hot. Sparks are often made when you strike two surfaces together very hard and bits of one surface are broken off. The sparks in the picture were made by an angle grinder.
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Sis forSparkle

Something sparkles when it gives off little sparks, or it looks like it gives off sparks. If something reflects lots of small points of light, like the sparkling wave in the picture, it is said to sparkle. Wine or other drinks that have bubbles in are also described as sparkling.

Sis forSparse

Something is described as sparse if the things on it or in it are spread quite far apart from each other. The picture is of a sparse forest, with big spaces between the trees. The opposite of sparse is dense or thick.

Sis forSpeak

When you speak to someone, you use your mouth to make words that say something.
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Sis forSpeaker

A speaker, or loudspeaker, is a device that converts electrical signals into sound. They do this by using that electrical signal to vibrate a cone-shaped device at particular frequencies that are encoded by the signal, which produces sound. Larger cones are better at making low sounds, smaller ones are better at making high sounds.

Sis forSpear

A spear is one of the oldest weapons. It is essentially a long, pointed stick that you throw at people or animals. More modern spears had bronze or iron tips, which both made them easier to throw and more likely to damage the target.