Words that start with S

Sis forSplash

A splash happens when something hits water fast. You make a big splash if you jump into a swimming pool. The splash in the picture is from someone throwing stones into a pond.

Verbs

A diagram showing the spleen in the body.

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Sis forSpleen

The spleen is an organ located inside the abdomen. The spleen is part of the immune system, and its job is to filter old and abnormal blood cells from the blood stream.

Body parts

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Sis forSplinter

A splinter is a tiny piece of wood that is sharp at one end. You can get splinters in your hands if you work with splintery wood without gloves on.

Medical

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You split something by hitting it so that it breaks lengthways along its grain. The rock in the picture has been split down the middle. Large blocks of wood are usually split with an axe to turn them into firewood.

Verbs

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Sis forSpoke (Wheel)

Spoke is a singular of spokes, which form part of a wheel.

Parts of things

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Sis forSpokes

Spokes are the thin parts of a wheel that connect the center of the wheel to the edges. Not all wheels have spokes, some are solid. Almost all kinds of bicycle wheels have spokes. Spoked wheels are lighter than solid wheels.

Automotive

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Sis forSponge

A modern day sponge is made from a kind of plastic that has been filled with bubbles while it is still liquid. The result is that sponges are soft and full of small holes. Sponges are great for cleaning things with, and because of the holes they are very good at soaking up spilled liquids. Before modern sponges were invented, people used to use sea sponge skeletons as cleaning sponges.

List of bathroom items

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Sis forSpool

A spool is a cylinder-shaped object that you wrap something around. Most spools are used to store thread or cables.

List of devices

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Sis forSpoon

A spoon is used for picking up food that isn't very hard or is in very small pieces, such as cereal, soup or stew. A very big spoon for serving soup is called a ladle.

List of table setting items

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Sis forSpore

Spores are the way some bacteria, fungi, ferns and algae reproduce. One spore can grow into a whole new organism. Spores are similar to seeds but they only need one parent not a male and a female parent like is needed to make seeds. Spores are also much smaller than seeds and do not have food reserves inside them.

Plant parts