sponges
Definitions
Noun
- A porous mass of interlacing fibers that forms the internal skeleton of various marine animals and usable to absorb water or any porous rubber or cellulose product similarly used
- Someone able to acquire new knowledge and skills rapidly and easily
- A follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage
- Primitive multicellular marine animal whose porous body is supported by a fibrous skeletal framework; usually occurs in sessile colonies
Verb
- Wipe with a sponge, so as to clean or moisten
- Ask for and get free; be a parasite
- Erase with a sponge; as of words on a blackboard
- Soak up with a sponge
- Gather sponges, in the ocean
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| 1 | sausages | 3 | 5 |
| 2 | splashes | 2 | 2 |
| 3 | surmises | 3 | 2 |
| 4 | science's | 3 | 1 |
| 5 | screeches | 2 | 1 |
| 6 | stances | 2 | 1 |
| 7 | supposes | 3 | 1 |
| 8 | synapses | 3 | 1 |
| 9 | cetus's | 3 | 0 |
| 10 | circus's | 3 | 0 |
| 11 | ostriches | 3 | 0 |
| 12 | sarage's | 3 | 0 |
| 13 | sciences' | 3 | 0 |
| 14 | sconces | 2 | 0 |
| 15 | sellars's | 3 | 0 |
| 16 | service's | 3 | 0 |
| 17 | services' | 3 | 0 |
| 18 | smilgis | 2 | 0 |
| 19 | soros's | 3 | 0 |
| 20 | speakes's | 2 | 0 |
| 21 | spinfizz | 2 | 0 |
| 22 | splices | 2 | 0 |
| 23 | squeezes | 2 | 0 |
| 24 | starches | 2 | 0 |
| 25 | stearns's | 2 | 0 |
| 26 | strauss's | 2 | 0 |
| 27 | suffices | 3 | 0 |
| 28 | summers's | 3 | 0 |
| 29 | surpasses | 3 | 0 |
| 30 | sybase's | 3 | 0 |
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Term
Definitions: 9
Fragments: 1
Sound Alikes: 30
Spelled Like: 20
Words that Follow: 0
Words that Precede: 0
Statistically Associated: 0
Consonant Matches: 0
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