spat

4 letters in word "spat": A P S T.

Anagrams of spat:

• apts

• past

• pats

• stap

• taps

Words found within spat:

apt as asp at pa pas pat pst sap sat spa st ta tap tas

• Definitions:
• come down like raindrops; "Bullets were spatting down on us" become permanently attached; "mollusks or oysters spat" strike with a sound like that of falling rain; "Bullets were spatting the leaves" applaud: clap one's hands or shout after performances to indicate approval engage in a brief and petty quarrel bicker: a quarrel about petty points spawn; "oysters spat" a cloth covering (a legging) that covers the instep and ankles a young oyster or other bivalve clap: clap one's hands together; "The children were clapping to the music"
• The spat (symbol S), from the Latin Spatium ("Space") is an obsolete unit of distance used in astronomy. It is equal to one billion kilometres (1 Tm or 1012 m).
• The stage in a mollusc’s lifecycle in which it goes from being free swimming to attaching itself to a substrate.
• The spawn of an oyster or shellfish.
• Early juvenile oysters that have settled by attaching to a hard substrate.
• tiny single corallites that form immediately after the metamorphosis of planula larvae
• Newly settled spawn of bivalve shellfish that has been cultivated in a laboratory or hatchery or collected from the wild using a variety of techniques (eg, monofilament lines, cement-coated collectors, etc.).
• Young oysters during early growth on a hard substrate. The spat set is the process of settling and attachment of planktonic larvae and onset of shell growth, establishing new recruitment on a reef.
• a short covering for the shoe, usually of felt buttoned over ankle and instep.
• An oyster larva before it forms its shell.

• spastics ←
• spasticity ←
• spasticities ←
• spat
• → spatangoid
• → spatangoids
• → spatchcock