Index of English words, starting with "sp"

(1) - Spectrum (n.) A luminous appearance, or an image seen after the eye has been exposed to an intense light or a strongly illuminated object. When the object is colored, the image appears of the complementary color, as a green image seen after viewing a red wafer lying on white paper. Called also ocular spectrum.
(2) - Spectrum (n.) The several colored and other rays of which light is composed, separated by the refraction of a prism or other means, and observed or studied either as spread out on a screen, by direct vision, by photography, or otherwise. See Illust. of Light, and Spectroscope.
(3) - Spectrum (n.) An apparition; a specter.

(1) - Specular (a.) Affording view.
(2) - Specular (a.) Assisting sight, as a lens or the like.
(3) - Specular (a.) Of or pertaining to a speculum; conducted with the aid of a speculum; as, a specular examination.
(4) - Specular (a.) Having the qualities of a speculum, or mirror; having a smooth, reflecting surface; as, a specular metal; a specular surface.

(1) - Speculate (v. t.) To consider attentively; as, to speculate the nature of a thing.
(2) - Speculate (v. i.) To purchase with the expectation of a contingent advance in value, and a consequent sale at a profit; -- often, in a somewhat depreciative sense, of unsound or hazardous transactions; as, to speculate in coffee, in sugar, or in bank stock.
(3) - Speculate (v. i.) To view subjects from certain premises given or assumed, and infer conclusions respecting them a priori.
(4) - Speculate (v. i.) To consider by turning a subject in the mind, and viewing it in its different aspects and relations; to meditate; to contemplate; to theorize; as, to speculate on questions in religion; to speculate on political events.

(1) - Speculation (n.) A game at cards in which the players buy from one another trumps or whole hands, upon a chance of getting the highest trump dealt, which entitles the holder to the pool of stakes.
(2) - Speculation (n.) Power of sight.
(3) - Speculation (n.) A conclusion to which the mind comes by speculating; mere theory; view; notion; conjecture.
(4) - Speculation (n.) Any business venture in involving unusual risks, with a chance for large profits.
(5) - Speculation (n.) The act or practice of buying land, goods, shares, etc., in expectation of selling at a higher price, or of selling with the expectation of repurchasing at a lower price; a trading on anticipated fluctuations in price, as distinguished from trading in which the profit expected is the difference between the retail and wholesale prices, or the difference of price in different markets.
(6) - Speculation (n.) The act or process of reasoning a priori from premises given or assumed.
(7) - Speculation (n.) Mental view of anything in its various aspects and relations; contemplation; intellectual examination.
(8) - Speculation (n.) Examination by the eye; view.
(9) - Speculation (n.) The act of speculating.

(1) - Speculative (a.) Of or pertaining to speculation in land, goods, shares, etc.; as, a speculative dealer or enterprise.
(2) - Speculative (a.) Of or pertaining to vision; also, prying; inquisitive; curious.
(3) - Speculative (a.) Involving, or formed by, speculation; ideal; theoretical; not established by demonstration.
(4) - Speculative (a.) Given to speculation; contemplative.