sputter
/spətər/
verbnoun
7 letters2 syllables9 points in Scrabble®11 points in WWF®
DEFINITIONS7
VERB
1
Climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling.
2
Utter with a spitting sound, as if in a rage.
3
Spit up in an explosive manner.
4
Cause to undergo a process in which atoms are removed.
“The solar wind protons must sputter away the surface atoms of the dust”
5
NOUNMake an explosive sound.
“sputtering engines”
1
The noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively.
2
An utterance (of words) with spitting sounds (as in rage).
WORD FORMS
Related formsputtering
GAME SCORES
Scrabble®9 points
Words With Friends®11 points
Double word18 points
Triple word27 points
GOOD TO KNOW
Pig Latinutterspay
Starts & ends withS … R
Syllablessput · ter
SYNONYMS & RELATED13
SAME LETTERS, DIFFERENT WORDS
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