Sprays
/spɹeɪz/
Scrabble:11 ptsWWF:11 pts6 letters
Definition of Sprays
noun
- A fine, gentle, dispersed mist of liquid.
"The sailor could feel the spray from the waves."
- A pressurized container; an atomizer.
- Any of numerous commercial products, including paints, cosmetics, and insecticides, that are dispensed from containers in this manner.
- 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.
- A side channel or branch of the runner of a flask, made to distribute the metal to all parts of the mold.
verb
- To project a liquid in a dispersive manner toward something.
"The firemen sprayed the house."
- To project in a dispersive manner.
"Spray some ointment on that scratch."
- To project many small items dispersively.
- To urinate in order to mark territory.
- 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"
Anagrams of Sprays
Letter Values
s1
p3
r1
a1
y4
s1
Total: 11 Scrabble points
Rhymes With Sprays
Word Validity & Sources
SOWPODS (International Scrabble): Valid
TWL (US/Canada Scrabble): Valid
Words With Friends: Valid
Last verified: December 2024
Dictionary data sourced from SOWPODS (178,691 words), combining TWL (Tournament Word List) and the Collins Scrabble Words dictionary. Definitions from Free Dictionary API and Wordnik.
About the Word "Sprays"
Sprays is a 6-letter word that scores 11 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words With Friends.
Using "Sprays" in Word Games
When playing Scrabble or Words With Friends, "sprays" is a medium-scoring word.