SPORTULE

Definition: SPORTULE

SPORTULE

Noun

1. A charitable gift or contribution; a gift; an alms; a dole; a largess; a sportula.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Etymology: Sportule \Spor"tule\, noun. [Latin expression sportula little basket, gift, diminutive of sporta basket: compare to the French expression sortule.]. (Websters 1913)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Giving	Alms, largess, bounty, dole, sportule, donative, help, oblation, offertory, honorarium, gratuity, Peter pence, sportula, Christmas box, Easter offering, vail, douceur, drink money, pourboire, trinkgeld, bakshish; fee; (recompense); consideration.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Words rhyming with "SPORTULE" (pronounced 'Spor"tule'): Blastule, Fistule, Frustule, Mutule, Noctule, Pustule. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: poulters.
	Words within the letters "e-l-o-p-r-s-t-u"
	-1 letter: leprous, pelorus, petrols, petrous, posture, poulter, pouters, proteus, replots, sporule, spouter, spurtle, troupes, tupelos.
	-2 letters: erupts, letups, lopers, loupes, luster, lustre, ostler, ouster, outers, petrol, polers, poseur, poster, poults, pouter, presto, proles, pulers, pulser, purest, replot, repots, respot, result, roupet, routes, rustle, sloper, solute, souter, splore, sprout, sterol, stoper, stoure, stupor, sutler.
	Words containing the letters "e-l-o-p-r-s-t-u"
	+1 letter: polluters, poultries, sporulate, upholster.
	+2 letters: outsparkle, peculators, petroleums, poulterers, pyrolusite, speculator, sporulated, sporulates, suppletory, turophiles, underplots, upholsters, upholstery.
	+3 letters: colporteurs, lepromatous, neutrophils, outsparkled, outsparkles, petrolatums, polyestrous, promulgates, protrusible, pyrolusites, repopulates, reupholster, speculators, sporulative, superpolite, supportable, upholstered, upholsterer.
	+4 letters: coleopterous, computerless, counterplans, counterplays, counterpleas, counterplots, counterploys, counterspell, luteotropins, multiplexors, multipurpose, neuroleptics, plutocracies, polyneuritis, popularities, portcullises, portentously, proconsulate, prosecutable, prothalluses, protrusively, reupholsters, seropurulent, somatopleure, sportfulness, superovulate, teleutospore, upholsterers, upholsteries, upholstering, voluptuaries.
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