split, v. rive, [cleave], sunder, [rend], [divide], [separate], [rift], burst, [rupture], disunite, disrupt.

split, n. [crack], [rent], fissure, [rift]; (Colloq.) [breach], [separation], disunion, [rupture].

split, a. [cleft], [riven], divided, sundered, [rent], disunited [cloven].

splitting, n. fission, cleavage, riving, sundering, rupture disruption. Associated words: fissile, fissility.

splotch, n. [smear], smudge, smutch, [daub], [spot], [stain].

spoil, v. [plunder], [rob], [pillage], [ravage], depredate, despoil [devastate], [sack]; [corrupt], [vitiate], [debase], [mar], [demoralize], deprave, sophisticate, infect, [defile], [contaminate]; [disfigure], [deface], [damage]; [decay], [addle], putrefy, [rot].

spoil, n. [plunder], [pillage], [booty], [prize], [gain], [loot]; [waste], [robbery], [devastation], sacking, [rapine], spoliation; [corruption], [decay], [vitiation].

spoke, n. radius, [ray]; [rung], [round].

spoken, a. [oral], nuncupative, parole.

spokesman, n. [speaker], [mouthpiece], prolocutor.