Specter

Definition: Specter

Specter

Noun

1. A mental representation of some haunting experience; "he looked like he had seen a ghost"; "it aroused specters from his past".

2. A ghostly appearing figure; "we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "specter" was first used: 1605. (references)

Synonyms: Specter

Demon

Ghost, revenant, specter, apparition, spirit, shade, shadow, vision; hobglobin, goblin, orc; wraith, spook, boggart, banshee, loup-garou, lemures; evil eye.

Ugliness

Eyesore, object, witch, hag, figure, sight, fright; monster; dog, woofer, pig; octopus, specter, scarecrow, harridan, satyr, toad, monkey, baboon, Caliban, Aesop, "monstrum horrendum informe ingens cui lumen ademptum".

Crosswords: Specter

Specter of the Rose (1946)

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Books

• Intellectuals and McCarthy: The Radical Specter (reference)

• Specter of the Past (Star Wars: The Hand of Thrawn, Book One) (reference)

• The Houdini Specter (reference)

• The Specter from the Magician's Museum (reference)

• The Specter of Democracy (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Rodeo Beat Tandem Specter (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Specter of war hangs over President Woodrow Wilson as he is reading] / McKee Barclay. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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A specter of a man came through the dark shed

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Economic History

Uzbekistan

There is a strong preference for UAPT to work with foreign companies on further distribution of its frequency specter in 1800 MHz. (references)

Morocco

The specter of head-to-head competition with EU counterparts because of the Association agreement has made Moroccan manufacturers especially keen to improve their production quality and efficiency, and they are interested in American partners. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "specter": Brocken specter ♦ mountain specter ♦ specter bat ♦ specter candle ♦ specter shrimp. Additional references.

Chinese 

幽靈 , 幽灵 (Phantom, spectre, spook). (various references)

Farsi 

وهم (Delusion, Fancy, Fiction, Mirage, Whim), تخیل , خیال وفکر, روح (Esprit, Ghost, Numen, Phantom, Psyche, Spirit, Spook, Sprite, Umber, Umbra, Wraith, Zinc, Zing). (various references)

German

Geist (esprit, ghost, intellect, mettle, mind, phantom, psyche, spirit, wit). (various references)

Greek 

φάσμα (phantasm, range, spectre, spectrum, vision, wraith), φάντασμα (apparition, bogey, bogy, genie, ghost, gnome, hobgoblin, phantasm, phantom, pixy, spook, sprite, wraith). (various references)

Hebrew 

צל בל�"ות. (various references)

Hungarian

szellem (appearance, cock of the walk, genious, ghost, intellect, jinn, jinnee, jinni, mind, moral, morale, poltergeist, shade, shadow, soul, spectre, spirit, spook, wit), kísértet (apparition, appearance, bogey, boggle, bogy, eidolon, ghost, phantasm, phantom, poltergeist, shadow, spectre, spook, vampire, wraith). (various references)

Italian

spettro (ghost, shadow, spectre, spectrum, spirit, spook, wraith), fantasma (apparition, bogeyman, ghost, ghoul, phantom, shadow, spectre, wraith). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

幽霊 (apparition, ghost, phantom). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

スペクター (spectre), ゆうれい (apparition, ghost, phantom), もののけ (ghost). (various references)

Korean 

� � � (ghost, spectre). (various references)

Pig Latin

ecterspay.(various references)

Russian 

призрак (bogeyman, ghost, illusion, phantasm 1, phantom, shadow, shape, spectre, spright, wraith). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

sablast (bogle, ghost, spook, visitant), avet (apparition, bogey, bogle, ghost, phantom, spook, visitant). (various references)

Spanish

espectro (bogey, bogie, bogy, ghost, spectre, spectrum, spook). (various references)

Swedish

spöke (apparition, bogey, boggard, bugaboo, bugbear, fright, ghost, phantom, spectre, spirit, spook). (various references)

Turkish

vesvese (anxiety, delusion, solicitude, spectre), kuruntu (chimera, cobweb, delusion, fancy, fantasy, fears, hip, hypochondria, imagination, misgiving, phantasy, shyness, spectre, the dismals, unfounded suspicion, vapor, vapour, vision), hayalet (apparition, ghost, phantasm, phantom, shade, shades, shadow, spectre, spirit, spook, sprite, wraith), hayal (bubble, castles in spain, castles in the air, day dream, delusion, dream, fancy, fantasy, illusion, illusiveness, imagination, phantasy, pink elephant, pipe dream, reflection, reverie, shadow, simulacrum, spectre, vision, waking dream), ürkütücü şey (dread, spectre). (various references)

Vietnamese 

điều lo ngại ám ảnh (spectre). (various references)

idola, idoli, idolis, idolo, idolorum, idolum, phantasma, phasma phasmatis, spectrum. (various references)

masca. (various references)

bugge. (various references)

spectre. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "specter": specters. (additional references)

Words ending with "specter": respecter. (additional references)

Words containing "specter": respecters. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Specter" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aspected, Pechter, psykter, scpeter, Sechter, Secteur, septer, specre, spectar, spectir, spector, spectre, speecher, spencter, Speshnev, spicata, spincter. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: recepts, respect, scepter, sceptre, spectre.

-1 letter: certes, creeps, crepes, erects, pester, peters, preset, recept, resect, secret, terces.

-2 letters: cepes, ceres, cetes, creep, crepe, crept, crest, erect, ester, peers, perse, peter, prees, prese, prest, reest, reset, scree, speer, spree, steep, steer, stere, strep, terce, terse, trees.

-3 letters: cees, cepe, ceps, cere, cete, erst, pecs, peer, pees, pert, pest, pets, pree.

+1 letter: crepiest, excerpts, percents, percepts, perfects, precents, precepts, prefects, prelects, receipts, respects, scepters, sceptred, sceptres, specters, spectres.

+2 letters: accepters, becarpets, cerotypes, copresent, creepiest, depicters, perfectas, perfectos, persecute, picketers, pocketers, praefects, praelects, precisest, preelects, preenacts, preerects, prentices, prescient, preselect, pretences, prosected, prosecute, reaccepts, recarpets, receptors, reinspect, repatches, respected, respecter, sceptered, supercute, tricepses.

+3 letters: archetypes, carpenters, cooperates, copresents, crepitates, deprecates, disrespect, epicenters, escarpment, excerpters, excerptors, imperfects, imprecates, intercepts, interspace, pacesetter, pederastic, percolates, perfecters, perfectest, persecuted, persecutee, persecutes, persecutor, preachiest, precedents, precentors, preceptors, predicates, preselects, princelets, procreates, prosecuted, prosecutes, prospected, puckeriest, putrescent, putrescine, recaptures, receptions, recipients, recomputes, reinspects, replicates, resculpted, respecters, respectful, respecting, respective, retrospect, sceptering, spermaceti, spirochete, waterscape.