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n. A ghostly apparition; a phantom.

n. A haunting or disturbing image or prospect: the terrible specter of nuclear war.

n. A ghostly apparition.

n. Something preternaturally visible; an apparition; a ghost; a phantom.

n.

n. The tarsius.

n. A stick insect.

n. A ghostly apparition; a visible incorporeal human spirit; an appearance of the dead as when living.

n. In zoology: One of many names of gressorial orthopterous insects of the family Phasmidæ; a walking-stick or stick-insect; a specter-insect.

n. The specter-bat.

n. The specter-lemur.

n. A specter-shrimp.

n. Synonyms Apparition, Phantom, etc. See ghost.

n. a ghostly appearing figure

n. a mental representation of some haunting experience

"I can not believe specter is calling out his opponent for "not being a real democrat.""

spectre   

phantasma    shadow    phantasm    phantom    apparition    fantasm   

specter of the brocken   

spectral   

apparition    ghost    phantom    fancy    bogy   

Hector    Rector    Schechter    collector    connecter    connector    defector    detector    director    erector   

spectre    wraith    portent    presentiment    apparition    ghoul    specters    pixy    scourge    inevitability