1. Subject to breaking into sharp slender pieces 
2. Resembling or consisting of or embedded with long slender fragments of (especially) wood having sharp points
   "a rough splintery floor of old pine boards"
   - slivery

See also: breakable, splinter

• nebulousness
• NEC
• necessarian
• necessarily
• necessary
• necessitarian
• necessitarianism
• necessitate
• necessitous
• necessity
• neck
• neck and neck
• neck bone
• neck brace
• neck exercise
• neck of the woods
• neck opening
• neck ruff
• neck sweetbread
• neck-deep
• Neckar
• Neckar River
• neckband
• neckcloth
• necked