speech, a. [utterance], speaking; [language], [talk], [conversation], parlance, [words]; [tongue], dialect; patois; [discourse], [oration], [address], [plea], declamation, [dissertation], epilogue, allocution, exhortation, disquisition, effusion, descant; [harangue], [diatribe], [tirade], [screed], rhapsody, philippic, invective, [rant]; [soliloquy], [monologue]; [dialogue]; colloquy; trialogue; interlocution; improvisation; toast; equivocation, prevarication, [quibbling]; ambages, pseudology, amphibology, amphiboly, dilogy. Associated words: extempore, extemporaneous, extemporize, extemporization, [impromptu], improvise, improvisation, brogue, aphasia, amnesia, oratory, elocution, rhetoric, [oratorical], rhetorical, rhetorician, elocutionary, peroration, [voluble], volubility, [fluent], fluency.
speechless, a. [dumb], [mute], aphasic, inarticulate.
speechlessness, n. [dumbness], muteness, obmutescence, taciturnity, aphasia.
speed, n. velocity, [swiftness], [rapidity], celerity, [haste], expedition, [dispatch], posthaste; impetuosity. Associated words: tachymeter, tachometer, trechometer, stathmograph, [momentum], [impetus].
speed, v. [hurry], [hasten]; accelerate, expedite, [quicken], [dispatch], facilitate; prosper, [favor].
speedy, a. [swift], [quick], [fast], [rapid], [fleet], [hasty], [hurried], expeditious.
spell, n. [charm], incantation, exorcism; [period], [season], [interval].
spell, v. orthographize; decipher, [read], [unravel], [unfold]; [charm], [bewitch].
spellbound, a. fascinated, charmed, enchanted, bewitched.
speller, n. orthographist, orthographer.