Spotted Owl The Spotted Owl, Strix occidentalis, is a species of typical owl. It is a resident species of forests in western North America, where it nests in tree holes, old bird of prey nests, or rock crevices. Nests can be between 13 and 66 yards high, usually contain two eggs.
	Spotted Salamander The Spotted Salamander is a mole salamander common in the eastern United States. It can reach 19 cm long and has yellow spots on its back, though some specimens have no spots at all. Their primary habitat are deciduous forests with fish-free ponds or vernal pools for egg laying and larval development.
	Spotted Sandpiper The Spotted Sandpiper is a small shorebird, 18-20 cm long. Adults have short yellowish legs and an orange bill with a dark tip. The body is brown on top and white underneath with black spots. Non-breeding birds, depicted below, do not have the spotted underparts, and are very similar to the closely related Common Sandpiper, A.
	Spotted Skunk The Spotted Skunks are three species of Skunk in the genus Spilogale. The Eastern Spotted Skunk is smaller and more weasel-like than the skunk. Both species are nocturnal and crepuscular. The spotted skunk is faster and more agile than the striped skunk and it has a better pelt.
	Spray painting Spray painting is painting using a device that sprays the paint. There are several different technologies for doing this. #Canned spray paint: The most common type in the consumer market is an Aerosol Paint. #Semi-professional spraypainting: there are a variety of hand-held paint sprayers that either combine the paint with air, or convert the paint to tiny droplets and accelerate these out a nozzle.
	Spreadeagle The term spreadeagle can mean more than one thing: *In heraldry, the spreadeagle is a figure derived from a heraldic depiction of an eagle, with both wings, the body and the legs displayed, and was used as the emblem of a number of states and monarchs. *The following meanings are closely related:
	Spreadsheet A spreadsheet is a rectangular table of information, often financial information. The word came from "spread" in its sense of a newspaper or magazine item that covers two facing pages, extending across the center fold and treating the two pages as one large one. The compound word "spread-sheet" came to mean the format used to present bookkeeping General ledgerwith columns for categories of expenditures across the top, invoices listed down the left margin, and the amount of each payment in the cell where its row a
	Sprechgesang Sprechgesang or Sprechstimme is a technique of vocal production halfway between singing and speaking. Since the end of the 19th century, it has sometimes been called for by composers of european classical music. In the foreword to Pierrot Lunaire, Arnold Schoenberg explains how a good Sprechgesang should be achieved, saying that the indicated rhythms should be adhered to, but that whereas in ordinary singing a constant pitch is maintained through a note, in Sprechgesang th
	Spree The Spree is a river in Saxony, Brandenburg and Berlin, Germany. It is a tributary of the Havel river and 400 km in length. The source is located in the Lusatian Hills on the Czech Republic border. Further north the river enters the Spreewald, a large wetlands area, that is identical with the settlement areas of the Sorbs.
	Spring break Spring break, also March break in Canada, is a week-long recess from studying in early spring at universities and K-12 schools in the United States, Canada, Japan, Korea, China and other countries.
	Spring Peeper The Spring Peeper is a small tree frog widespread throughout the eastern USA. The spring peeper is a small frog, attaining an adult size between 0.75 and 1.5 inches long. They have a dark cross on their backs roughly in the shape of an "X", though sometimes the marking may be indistinct.
	Spring roll Spring rolls are pastry filled mostly with julienning vegetables. Some include strips of meat, usually beef or chicken; others have seafood in them. The filling is wrapped in a thin, flour wrapper, and usually deep fried. Pork is typically used for Vietnamese fried spring rolls.
	Spring scale A spring scale is a weighing scale often used to measure force, such as the force of gravity, exerted on a mass or the force of a person's grip or the force exerted by a towing vehicle. This force is commonly measured in newtons or pound-force for measuring flab.
	Spring training In Major League Baseball, spring training is a series of exhibition games which precedes the regular season. It serves the purpose of both auditioning players for final roster/position spots and giving players practice prior to competitive play. Spring training typically lasts two months, beginning in early February and lasting until a few days before opening day.
	Springboard See also: gymnastics springboard -------------------------------- A springboard or diving board is used for diving and is a board that is itself a Spring, i.e. a linear flex-spring, of the cantilever type. Springboards are commonly fixed by a hinge at one end, and the other end usually hangs over a swimming pool, with a point midway between the hinge and the end resting on an adjustable fulcrum.
	Springtail Springtails form the largest of the three orders of modern Hexapoda that are no longer considered to be insects . The three orders are sometimes grouped together in a class called Entognatha because they have internal mouthparts, but they do not appear to be more closely related to one another than they are to the insects, which have external mouthparts.
	Sprinkles Sprinkles are very small pieces of candy used as a decoration or to add texture to desserts – typically cakes or cupcakes, cookies, doughnuts, ice cream, and some puddings. The candies are usually too small to be eaten individually and are in any case not intended to be eaten by themselves, being nearly flavorless.
	Spritsail The spritsail is a form of three or four-sided, fore-aft sail and its rig. Unlike the gaff rig where the head hangs from a spar along its edge, this rig supports the leech of the sail by means of a spar or spars named a sprit. The forward end of the sprit spar is attached to the mast but which bisects the face of the sail, with the after end of the sprit spar attaching to the peak and/or the clew of the sail.
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	Sprouting Sprouting is the practice of soaking then draining and leaving seeds until they germinate and begin to sprout.
	Spruce Spruce refers to trees of the Genus Picea, a genus of about 35 species of conifer evergreen trees in the Family Pinaceae, found in the northern temperate and boreal regions of the earth. Spruces are large trees, from 20-60 m tall when mature, and can be distinguished by their whorled branches and cone form.
	Spruce beer Spruce beer may refer to a wide range of alcoholic beverage and non-alcoholic beverages flavored with the buds, needles, or essence of spruce trees. Spruce has been a traditional flavoring ingredient throughout the upper latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere where it is found, often substituting for ingredients otherwise not available, such as hops.
	Spruce Grouse The Spruce Grouse, Falcipennis canadensis, is a medium-sized grouse. it:Canachites canadensis
	Spruce Pine The Spruce Pine is a tree found on the coastal plains of the southern United States, from southern South Carolina south to northern Florida and west to southern Louisiana. This pine is a straight-growing, medium sized species, attaining heights of 20-35 m. The leaf are needle-like, in bundles of two, 5-8 cm long, slender, and glossy dark green.
	Spunky Spunky is a fictional character on Rocko's Modern Life. Spunky is Rocko James Wallabee's dog; Spunky looks similar to a whippet. He constantly eats Ed Bighead's salmon bushes.
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	Spurge Spurges are a very large and variable worldwide plant taxon, belonging to the spurge family , or Euphorbiaceae.
	Spurge nettle Spurge nettle, also known as Tread-softly and Finger Rot, is a Perennial plant herb covered with stinging hairs, native to southeastern North America. A member of the family Euphorbiaceae, it is not a true nettle. It prefers sandy, well-drained soil and mostly exists in pine/blackjack oak forests on sandhills, rims of Carolinas bays, dunes, dry pastures, fields and roadsides.
	Spurn Spurn is a narrow sand spit on the tip of the coast of Yorkshire, England that reaches into the North Sea and forms the north bank of the mouth of the Humber estuary. It is over 5 km long, almost half of the width of the estuary at that point, and as little as 45 metres wide in places.
	Sputtering Sputtering is a physics process whereby atoms in a solid target material are ejected into the gas phase due to bombardment of the material by energetic ions. It is commonly used for thin-film deposition, as well as analytical techniques . Sputtering is largely driven by momentum exchange between the ions and atoms in the material, due to collisions.
	Spy satellite A spy satellite is an Earth observation satellite or communications satellite deployed for military or espionage applications. Until the 1970s and even the 1980s, many reconnaissance satellites that took photographs would eject canisters of photographic film, which would descend to earth and be mid-air retrieval as they floated down on parachutes.
	Spyware In the field of computing, the term spyware refers to a broad category of malware designed to intercept or take partial control of a computer's operation without the informed consent of that machine's owner or legitimate user. While the term taken literally suggests software that surreptitiously monitors the user, it has come to refer more broadly to software that subverts the computer's operation for the benefit of a third party.
	Squalidae Squalidae is the family of dogfish sharks. These sharks are characterized by smooth dorsal fin spines, teeth in upper and lower jaws similar in size, caudal peduncle with lateral keels; upper precaudal pit usually present, and caudal fin without subterminal notch. There are eleven species in two genera:
	Squamata Squamata is the largest recent order of reptiles, including lizards and snakes. Members of the order are distinguished by their skins, which bear horny scale or shields. They also possess movable quadrate bones, making it possible to move the upper jaw relative to the braincase.
	Squamous cell carcinoma In medicine, squamous cell carcinoma is a form of cancer of the carcinoma type that may occur in many different organs, including the skin, mouth, esophagus, lungs, and cervix. It is a malignant tumour of epithelium that shows squamous cell differentiation.
	Square root In mathematics, a square root of a number x is a number whose square is x. Every non-negative real number x has a unique non-negative square root, called the principal square root and denoted . For example, the principal square root of 9 is 3 because .
	Squaretail The squaretails are a genus, Tetragonurus, of perciform fishes, the only genus in the family Tetragonuridae. They are found in tropical and subtropical oceans, and feed on jellyfish and ctenophores.
	Squash bug The squash bug of the family Coreidae is a major pest of Squash and pumpkins, and is a vector of plant disease to the plants. These bugs can emit an unpleasant odor when disturbed. Also known as the Western Conifer Bug, these nusainces like flat boards. Unlike most bugs, these ones are active in daylight.
	Squatting Squatting is the act of occupying an abandoned or unoccupied space or building that the squatter does not Land ownership and tenure. Squatters often claim rights over the spaces they have squatted by virtue of occupation, rather than ownership; in this sense, squatting is similar to adverse possession, by which a possessor of real property without Title may eventually gain legal title to the real property.
	Squawk Box Squawk Box can refer to a number of television programmes broadcast by the CNBC group of television channels, at breakfast time on the stations they are aired. Most specifically, it refers to the original US program on which the others are based. The title originates from the term for the use of an intercom in investment banks and stock brokerages to communicate stock deals or sales priorities.
	Squeak The Squeak programming language is a Smalltalk implementation, derived directly from Smalltalk-80, by Smalltalk's originators during their time at Apple Computer and later, at Walt Disney Imagineering, where it was intended for use in internal Disney projects such as a Mickey Mouse PDA.
	Squeegee A squeegee is a tool with a flat, smooth rubber blade, used to remove or control the flow of liquid on a flat surface. It is used for cleaning and in printing.
	Squeeze Squeeze were an England rock music band that came to prominence in the New Wave music period of the late 1970s. The group formed in London in 1974. They are known for their hit songs "Cool For Cats ," "Up The Junction," "Tempted," and "Hourglass ," among many others.
	Squid Squids are a large, diverse group of marine cephalopods. Like all cephalopods, squids are distinguished by having a distinct head, bilateral symmetry, a mantle , and tentacles with suckers; squid, like cuttlefish, have eight arms and two tentacles arranged in pairs.
	SQUID SQUIDs, or Superconducting quantum mechanics Interference Devices, are used to measure extremely small magnetic fields; they are currently the most sensitive such devices known, with noise levels as low as 3 fTHz−. While a typical fridge magnet is ~0.01 tesla , some processes in animals produce very small magnetic fields; typically sized between a microtesla and a tesla .
	Squirrel Squirrel is the common name for rodents of the family Sciuridae . In everyday speech in the English language-speaking world, it usually refers to members of the genus Sciurus and Tamiasciurus. These typical members of the family are tree squirrels with large bushy tails, and are indigenous to Europe, Asia and the Americas.
	Squirrel monkey The squirrel monkeys are the New World monkeys of the genus Saimiri. They are the only genus in the subfamily Saimirinae. Squirrel monkeys live in the tropical forests of Central America and South America. Their range extends from Costa Rica through central Brazil and Bolivia.
	Squirt Squirt is a caffeine-free citrus-flavored soft drink created in 1938 by Herb Bishop. Bishop gave Squirt its name because the drink seemed to "squirt" into your mouth like a freshly squeezed grapefruit. Squirt is naturally flavored and contains grapefruit juice. Another version, Ruby-Red Squirt, was created in 1993, which is a citrus-berry flavor.
	Sri Lanka Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka , is a tropic island nation off the southeast coast of the Indian subcontinent, about 31 kilometres south of India. It is in a strategic position in the Indian Ocean, along major sea trade routes from the Far East to Africa and Europe.
	St John's wort St John's wort used alone refers to the species Hypericum perforatum, also known as Klamath weed or Goat weed, but is used with qualifiers to refer to any species of the genus Hypericum. H. perforatum is sometimes called Common St. John's wort to distinguish it.
	St Josephs St Josephs is a very small Catholic school in the centre of Invercargill, New Zealand. There are also many schools with the name Saint Joseph and this is one of the older schools. One of the new schools is in Ottawa, Canada and is a much more elegant looking school with more money.
	St. Augustine grass St. Augustine grass is a warm season lawn grass that is popular for use in tropical and subtropical regions. It is a low to medium maintenance grass that forms a thick, carpetlike lawn, crowding out most weeds and other grasses.
	St. Elmo's fire St. Elmo's fire is an electromagnetic-luminescence corona discharge caused by the ionization of the air during thunderstorms inside of a strong electric field. Although referred to as "fire", St. Elmo's fire is in fact a low density, relatively low temperature plasma caused by massive Earth's atmosphere electrical potential differences which exceed the dielectric breakdown value of air at around 3 megavolts per meter.
	St. Francis River The Saint Francis River is a tributary of the Mississippi River, about 470 mi long, in southeastern Missouri and northeastern Arkansas in the United States. The river drains a mostly rural area and forms part of the Missouri-Arkansas state line along the western side of the Missouri bootheel.
	St. Johns River The St. Johns River is the longest river in the United States state of Florida, stretching 310 miles from Indian River County, Florida to the Atlantic Ocean in Duval County, Florida. The St. Johns river is the longest river in the United States that flows north.
	Stabbing A stabbing or stab is the penetration of an object by a sharp or pointed object at close range. Stab connotes purposeful action, as by an assassin or murderer, but it is also possible to accidentally stab oneself or others, although such stabbings are rarely serious and still more rarely fatal.
	Stabilizers The Stabilizers were a pop/rock duo founded in the early 1980s by musicians Dave Christenson and Rich Nevens. With Christenson on lead vocals and Nevens on keyboards, they spent the first few years touring the Pennsylvania area and recording original compositions on a 4-track recorder.
	Stable A stable is a building in which livestock, usually horses, are kept. It most commonly means a building that is divided into separate stalls for individual animals. Historically, the headquarters of a unit of cavalry rather than just their horses' accommodation, would be called a stable.
	Stabroek Stabroek is a municipality located in the Belgium province of Antwerp. The municipality comprises the towns of Hoevenen and Stabroek proper. On January 1 2006 Stabroek had a total population of 17,589. The total area is 21.51 square kilometre which gives a population density of 818 inhabitants per km.
	Staccato In musical notation, the Italian word staccato indicates that notes are sounded in a detached and distinctly separate manner, with silence making up the latter part of the time allocated to each note. The rhythm is not affected. Notes identified as staccato should be played or sung abruptly and short.
	Stachys Stachys is a genus of about 300 species of Annual plant and perennial herbaceous plants and shrubs in the family Lamiaceae. The distribution of the genus covers Europe, Asia, Africa, Australasia and North America. Common names include Heal-all, self-heal, woundwort, betony, and hedgenettle.
	Stacked Stacked was an United States television show originally aired in 2005 on Fox Broadcasting Company. It was hailed as the opposite of Cheers, instead of a smart person in a "dumb" place, it is based on the concept of perceived-as-dumb person in a "smart" place.
	Stadium A modern stadium is a place, or venue, for outdoor sports, concerts or other events, consisting of a field or stage partly or completely surrounded by a structure designed to allow spectators to stand or sit and view the event.
	Staff Sergeant Staff Sergeant is a Military rank of non-commissioned officer used in several countries.
	Staff vine The staff vines, also known as staff trees, genus Celastrus, comprise about 30 species of shrubs and vines. They have a wide distribution in eastern Asia, Australasia, Africa and the Americas. The leaves are alternate and simple ovoid, typically 5-20 cm long.
	Staffa Staffa is an island of the Inner Hebrides in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. Staffa lies about 1 E4 m kilometre from the nearest point of Isle of Mull, and 9 km northeast of Iona. It lies almost due north and south, is a kilometre long by about half a kilometre wide, is almost 3 km in circumference, has an area of 71 acres, and its highest point is 42 metre above sea level.
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	Stag beetle The stag beetles are a group of about 1,200 species of beetle in the family Lucanidae, the most well-known species being Lucanus cervus, a large beetle found in much of Europe. Some species grow to 8 cm, but usually they are about 5 cm. The name is derived from the large and distinctive mandibles found on the males, that are used in much the same way as the antlers on stags are between males competing for mates.
	Stage Stage or stages may refer to: * Stage, the area where actors perform * Stage, a one-day segment of a multi-day race. The entire race is sometimes called a stage race * Faunal stage, a subdivision of time on the geologic timescale * Marine isotopic stage, an ancient climate variant
	Stage Door Stage Door is a 1937 RKO film, adapted from the play by the same name, that tells the story of several would-be actresses who live together in a single boarding house. The film stars Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou, Lucille Ball, Huntley Gordon, Eve Arden, Ann Miller, Constance Collier, Gail Patrick and Andrea Leeds.