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Word Unit: spongi-, spongio-, spong-, spongo- + (Greek > Latin: sponge).

Word Unit: Sponsoring and/or Supporting Word Info: Direct and Indirect Business & Individual Contributions (Sponsors with the biggest donations rank highest in each category).

Word Unit: sporo, spor (Greek: seed, a sowing).

Word Unit: Sporozoa, Parasitic Protozoans .

Word Unit: Sport (Latin > French: to seek amusement, literally, "to carry oneself in the opposite direction").

Word Unit: spous- (Latin: betrothed man, groom; betrothed woman, bride; both come from sponsus, past participle of spondere, "to promise, betroth" from Old French, espous [masculine], espouse [feminine]).

This spous- unit is directly related to the spond-, spons- unit.

Word Unit: spurci- + (Latin: dirty, foul, impure; spurcus, spurcitia).

Word Unit: sput- + (Latin: spit, saliva, expectorated matter).

Other related saliva and/or spittle units: ptyalo-; salivo-; sialo-.

Word Unit: squam- + (Latin: scale; like scales).

Word Unit: stalac-, stalag- + (Greek > Latin: dropping, dripping; trickling; to drip, to drop, to trickle).

Related "cave, cavern" word sources: cav-, cavern; speleo-; spelunc-, spelunk-; troglo--.

Word Unit: Stalactites, Stalagmites, and Stalacto-Stalagmites (also known as "dripstones").

Word Unit: staphyl-, staphylo- + (Greek: bunch of grapes, uvula [that which resembles a grape hanging from a stock]; staphylococci, grape-shaped bacteria occurring in irregular clusters).

Cross references of word families that are derived directly, or indirectly, from: "grape, grapes": acin-; racem-; uveo-; uvul-.

Word Unit: stato-, stat-, sta-, -static, -stasi, staso-, -stasis, -stasia, -stacy, -stitute, -stitution, -sist (Latin: standing, to stay, to make firm, fixed; cause to stand, to put, to place, to put in place; to stand still).

Related word families intertwined with "to place, placing, to put; to add; to stay; to attach" word units: fix-; pon-; prosth-; the-, thes-.

Word Unit: stauro-, staur- + (Greek: upright stake; hence, "rood, cross"; cross-shaped, crosslike, crossed).

Word Unit: -staxis, -stactic, -stactical, -stactically (Greek: a trickling; oozing; to drip, dripping; denoting a flow of some kind, or from some source).

Word Unit: steato-, steat- + (Greek: fat; suet, tallow).

Related fat-word units: adipo-; lard; lipo-; obeso-; oleo-; omento-; pimelo-; pio-; sebo-.

Word Unit: Steganography (a secretly hidden coding that dates back to ancient Greece and is used in the modern era).

Word Unit: stego-, steg-, stegano- (Greek: covering, covered, to cover; roof).

Word Unit: stele-, stel-, -stele, -stelic + (Greek: an inscribed stone slab; a block of stone, gravestone; a column, a pillar [also a reference to certain plant structures]).

Related "stone, rock" word families: lapid-; litho-; petro-; saxi-.

Word Unit: stell- (Latin: star).

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