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Definition: SPUTA |
SPUTAPlural1. Of Sputum |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | The material expelled from the respiratory passages by coughing or clearing the throat. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Excretion | Saliva, spittle, rheum; ptyalism, salivation, catarrh; diarrhoea; ejecta, egesta, sputa; excreta; lava; exuviae; (uncleanness). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: SPUTA |
| English words defined with "SPUTA": Sanguinolent. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "SPUTA": LAUGHTER. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "SPUTA": sputum. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | LAUGHTER, n. An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable. Liability to attacks of laughter is one of the characteristics distinguishing man from the animals -- these being not only inaccessible to the provocation of his example, but impregnable to the microbes having original jurisdiction in bestowal of the disease. Whether laughter could be imparted to animals by inoculation from the human patient is a question that has not been answered by experimentation. Dr. Meir Witchell holds that the infection character of laughter is due to the instantaneous fermentation of sputa diffused in a spray. From this peculiarity he names the disorder Convulsio spargens. |
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| Language | Translations for "SPUTA"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Bulgarian | храчки (phlegm). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | utaspay слюна;плевок (sputum). (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words containing "SPUTA": disputable, disputably, disputant, disputants, disputation, disputations, disputatious, disputatiously, disputatiousness, disputatiousnesses, indisputable, indisputableness, indisputablenesses, indisputably, undisputable. (additional references) | |
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"SPUTA" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: puta, sapta, Scumta, spht, spita, spjut, Sposa, spote, spruta, sprute, spura, sputem, sputo, supea, suta, sutat, sutta. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: stupa. | |
| Words within the letters "a-p-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: past, pats, puts, spat, taps, taus, tups, upas, utas. | |
-2 letters: apt, asp, pas, pat, pus, put, sap, sat, sau, spa, sup, tap, tas, tau, tup, ups, uta, uts. | |
-3 letters: as, at, pa, ta, up, us, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-p-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: catsup, stupas, taupes, upcast. | |
+2 letters: autopsy, catsups, cuspate, dustpan, hutzpas, outpass, outspan, pasteup, pasture, payouts, paystub, peanuts, petasus, pulsant, pulsate, pupates, spatula, stackup, standup, startup, subpart, takeups, teacups, unstrap, upbeats, upcasts, upcoast, updarts, updates, uprates, upstage, upstair, upstand, upstare, upstart, upstate, uptakes, uptears, upwafts, utopias. | |
+3 letters: amputees, aphthous, apterous, autopsic, cajaputs, cajeputs, cajuputs, captious, captures, catchups, chutzpas, cuspated, dustheap, dustpans, epaulets, hutzpahs, kajeputs, matchups, nuptials, opaquest, opuntias, outleaps, outpaces, outplans, outplays, outprays, outspans, outspeak, pantoums, pantsuit, parquets, pasteups, pastural, pastured, pasturer, pastures, patulous, paystubs, petalous, petunias, phaseout, plastrum, plateaus, platypus, plaudits, playsuit, pomatums, postural, puissant, pulsated, pulsates, pulsator, puritans, pursuant, pushcart, pussycat, pustular, raptures, southpaw, spatular, spatulas, stackups, startups, stipular, stumpage, subparts, subtopia, sulphate, supertax, supinate, supplant, taphouse, tempuras, trappous, unplaits, unstraps, updaters, updrafts, upstaged, upstages, upstairs, upstands, upstared, upstares, upstarts, upstater, upstates, upstream, utopians. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Quotations: Non-fiction 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Anagrams 7. Bibliography |
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