What it means
- (noun) A fine, gentle, dispersed mist of liquid. “The sailor could feel the spray from the waves.”
- (noun) A pressurized container; an atomizer.
- (noun) Any of numerous commercial products, including paints, cosmetics, and insecticides, that are dispensed from containers in this manner.
- (noun) A jet of fine medicated vapour, used either as an application to a diseased part or to charge the air of a room with a disinfectant or a deodorizer.
- (noun) A side channel or branch of the runner of a flask, made to distribute the metal to all parts of the mold.
- (noun) A group of castings made in the same mold and connected by sprues formed in the runner and its branches.
- (noun) The allocation and filling of blocks of memory with the same byte sequence, hoping to establish that sequence in a certain predetermined location as part of an exploit.
- (verb) To project a liquid in a dispersive manner toward something. “The firemen sprayed the house.”
- (verb) To project in a dispersive manner. “Spray some ointment on that scratch.”
- (verb) To project many small items dispersively.
- (verb) To urinate in order to mark territory.
- (verb) To allocate blocks of memory from (a heap, etc.), and fill them with the same byte sequence, hoping to establish that sequence in a certain predetermined location as part of an exploit. “to spray the heap of a target process”
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Letter analysis
- Spray contains 5 letters: 1 vowel(s) and 4 consonant(s).
- It uses 5 unique letters.
- Estimated syllable count: 1.
- Scrabble-style letter score: 10.
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Other 5-letter words
- abaci
- aback
- abaft
- abase
- abash
- abate
- abbey
- abbot
- abeam
- abets
- abhor
- abide
- abler
- abode
- abort
- about
- above
- abuse
Words starting with SPR
- sprain
- sprained
- spraining
- sprains
- sprang
- sprat
- sprats
- sprawl
- sprawled
- sprawling
- sprawls
- sprayed
- sprayer
- sprayers
- spraying
- sprays
- spread
- spreader
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Words ending with RAY
Common questions
What does Spray mean?
A fine, gentle, dispersed mist of liquid.
What are the anagrams of Spray?
Valid anagrams: prays, raspy.
How many letters are in Spray?
Spray has 5 letters.
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