Definitions for specialty

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specialty spe·cial·ty

Spelling: [spesh-uh l-tee]

IPA: /ˈspɛʃ əl ti/

Specialty is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 715 anagrams from letters in specialty (aceilpsty).

Definitions for specialty

noun

1. a special or distinctive quality, mark, state, or condition.
2. a special subject of study, line of work, area of interest, or the like:
3. an article or service particularly dealt in, rendered, manufactured, etc., or one to which the provider, dealer, or manufacturer claims to devote special care:
4. an article of unusual or superior design or quality.
5. a novelty; a new article.
6. an article with such strong consumer demand that it is at least partially removed from price competition.
7. a special or particular point, item, matter, characteristic, or peculiarity.
8. Law. a special agreement, contract, etc., expressed in an instrument under seal. a negotiable instrument not under seal.

adjective

1. Theater. performing or performed in a manner that is unusual or not customary for a type of act, especially a performance involving dexterity or ingenuity, as a patter song: (of a song or dance) isolated from the rest of the show:

Origin of specialty

1300-50; Middle English specialte Middle French especialte Late Latin speciālitās. See special, -ity

Examples for specialty

MK Chambers Company    Michigan-based supplier of specialty machining.

As Cornish men we should adopt the specialty of our province, and become miners.

The notion to morph a specialty tortilla chip into a taco shell at first may sound like it would be a snap.

specialty after specialty would be unveiled and teams would work on them.

I speak as a connoisseur, for faces are a specialty of mine.

This house makes a specialty of seed-corn and we believe that they will do what they say they will.

Conestoga Wood Specialties Corporation A Pennsylvania-based wood cabinet and specialty products manufacturer.

His family ran a butcher shop in a part of town so tough that their specialty was broken leg of lamb.

Back in the 1990s, he ran afoul of the American Board of Ophthalmology (ABO), the certifying organization for his specialty.

She has made a specialty of Angoras, and her collection is famous.