noun

• (colloquial) Clipping of specification.
  "job spec"
• (colloquial) Clipping of speculation.
  "This is told in confidence to the servant-man or woman who opens the door—‘be so good as tell the lady as much,’ says the hawker, ‘for really I’m afraid to carry the goods much longer, and I have already sold enough to pay me well enough for my spec—go, there’s a good girl, tell your missus I have splendid goods, and am willing almost to give them away, and if we makes a deal of it, why I don’t mind giving you a handsome present for yourself.’"
• (linguistics) Abbreviation of specifier.
• (linguistics) Clipping of specifier.

verb

• (transitive) To specify, especially in a formal specification document.
  "I've found some professional yards want everything specced out completely while a home builder will just do things the way he wants."

noun

• (conservation) Initialism of Species of European Conservation Concern.