(architecture) A projection from the round base of a column, occupying the angle of a square plinth upon which the base rests, or bringing the bottom bed of the base to a nearly square form. It is generally carved in leafage.
(architecture) The short wooden buttress of a post.
(botany) A short thin side shoot from a branch, especially one that bears fruit or, in conifers, the shoots that bear the leaves.
(carpentry) A brace strengthening a post and some connected part, such as a rafter or crossbeam; a strut.
(electronics) A spurious tone, one that interferes with a signal in a circuit and is often masked underneath that signal.
(figurative) Anything that inspires or motivates, as a spur does a horse.
(geology) A mountain that shoots from another mountain or range and extends some distance in a lateral direction, or at right angles.
(mining) A branch of a vein.
(rail transport) A very short branch line of a railway line.
(shipbuilding) A curved piece of timber serving as a half to support the deck where a whole beam cannot be placed.
(shipbuilding) A piece of timber fixed on the bilgeways before launching, having the upper ends bolted to the vessel's side.
(transport) A short branch road of a motorway, freeway or major road.
A jab given with the spurs.
A rigid implement, often roughly y-shaped, that is fixed to one's heel for the purpose of prodding a horse. Often worn by, and emblematic of, the cowboy or the knight.
A spiked iron worn by seamen upon the bottom of the boot, to enable them to stand upon the carcass of a whale to strip off the blubber.
A tern.
A wall in a fortification that crosses a part of a rampart and joins to an inner wall.
An appendage or spike pointing rearward, near the foot, for instance that of a rooster.
Any protruding part connected at one end, for instance a highway that extends from another highway into a city.
Ergotized rye or other grain.
Roots, tree roots.
The track of an animal, such as an otter; a spoor.
verb
(intransitive) To press forward; to travel in great haste.
(obsolete, dialectal) Alternative form of speer.
(transitive) To prod (especially a horse) on the side or flank, with the intent to urge motion or haste, to gig.
(transitive) To put spurs on.
(transitive) To urge or encourage to action, or to a more vigorous pursuit of an object
To form a spur (senses 17-18 of the noun)
sput
sput
noun
An annular reinforcement in a steam boiler, to strengthen a place where a hole is made.
sump
sump
noun
(automotive) The crankcase or oil reservoir of an internal combustion engine.
(construction) An intentional depression around a drain or scupper that promotes drainage.
(nautical) The pit at the lowest point in a circulating or drainage system (FM 55-501).
A completely flooded cave passage, sometimes passable by diving.
A hollow or pit into which liquid drains, such as a cesspool, cesspit or sink.
The lowest part of a mineshaft into which water drains.
verb
(intransitive) Of a cave passage, to end in a sump, or to fill completely with water on occasion.
supa
supe
supe
noun
(Cambridge University slang) Clipping of supervision.
(dated, slang, theater) Clipping of supernumerary.: An extra or walk-on.
(fiction) Short for superhero.
(informal) Abbreviation of superintendent.
(informal) Abbreviation of supervisor.
supp
supr
sups
sups
noun
plural of sup
supt
supt
verb
(archaic) simple past tense and past participle of sup
susp
susp
adj
(medicine) Abbreviation of suspected.
Abbreviation of suspended.
Abbreviation of suspicious.
noun
(law enforcement) Abbreviation of suspect.
tapu
tapu
noun
Alternative form of taboo
toup
tump
tump
noun
(Britain, rare) A mound or hillock.
(uncommon) A tumpline.
verb
(US, dialect) To draw or drag, as a deer or other animal after it has been killed.
(intransitive, Southern US) To fall over.
(transitive) To form a mass of earth or a hillock around.
(transitive, Southern US) to bump, knock (usually used with "over", possibly a combination of "tip" and "dump")
tupi
tups
tups
noun
plural of tup
turp
uitp
umph
umph
intj
Alternative form of humph (“sound of doubt or disapproval”)
Alternative form of oof (“sound of loss of air from the body, as when struck”)
umps
umps
noun
plural of ump
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ump
umpy
upas
upas
noun
(uncountable) A poison prepared from the climbing plant Strychnos tieute.
(uncountable) A virulent poison used in Java and the adjacent islands for poisoning arrows derived from the tree.
(usually countable) A tree, Antiaris toxicaria, of the mulberry family, common in the forests of Java and the neighboring islands, with poisonous secretions.
upby
updo
updo
noun
A woman's hairdo in which most hair is kept above the neck
upds
upgo
upgo
verb
(archaic) to go up
upis
upla
upon
upon
prep
At (a prescribed point in time).
Being followed by another so as to form a series.
On.
Physically above and in contact with.
Physically directly supported by.
upsy
upsy
intj
Diminutive of upsadaisy.
upwa
urep
usmp
uspo
usps
uucp
uucp
Proper noun
Unix-to-Unix Copy Protocol, a file transfer protocol used on networks, traditionally used for Usenet and e-mail transfers
waup
whup
whup
verb
(Southern US or African-American Vernacular, dialect) Alternative form of whoop (“to whip, thrash, or defeat”).