(UK, Australia) A bag for carrying toiletries, as when travelling.

(figuratively, informal, derogatory) Someone who or something that takes the fun out of life; a killjoy.

A fine and soft variety of commercial sponges (Spongia officinalis).

A porous, grayish-black form of platinum.

(cooking) To leaven a small mass of flour, to be used in leavening a larger quantity.

A type of bathing, usually conducted in hospitals, which involves washing someone with a sponge. Usually the person being washed is bed-ridden.

A light, soft, baked dessert (commonly layered with cream and jam) that is typically made with flour, sugar, baking powder and eggs, and has a firm, yet well aerated structure, similar to that of a sea sponge.

Crude titanium metal that has not yet been refined or forged

Any of many sponges, of the class Calcarea, having skeletons composed of spicules of calcium carbonate

Synonym of honeycomb toffee