Spiral is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SPIRAL in dictionary:

VERB:
• to move in spiral fashion
• move in a spiral course
• cause to have a spiral shape or follow a spiral course
• show a continuous and dramatic increase
• decrease or deteriorate continuously
• to wind or move in a spiral course
• form a spiral
• move in a spiral or zigzag course
• move in a spiral
NOUN:
• a spiral curve, shape, pattern, or object
• a progressive rise or fall of prices, wages, etc., each responding to an upward or downward stimulus provided by a previous one
• a process of deterioration through the continuous increase or decrease of a specified feature
• continuous curve formed by a point winding about a central axis
• a plane curve traced by a point circling about the center but at increasing distances from the center
• a curve that lies on the surface of a cylinder or cone and cuts the element at a constant angle
• a continuously accelerating change in the economy
• ornament consisting of a curve on a plane that winds around a center with an increasing distance from the center
• a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops
• flying downward in a helical path with a large radius
ADJECTIVE:
• winding like the thread of a screw
• winding in a continuous and gradually widening (or tightening) curve, either around a central point on a flat plane or about an axis so as to form a cone
• winding in a continuous curve of constant diameter about a central axis, as though along a cylinder; helical.
• (of a stairway) constantly turning in one direction as it rises, around a solid or open centre
• (of a fracture) curving round a long bone lengthwise.
• Winding or circling round a center or pole and gradually receding from it; as, the spiral curve of a watch spring.
• Winding round a cylinder or imaginary axis, and at the same time rising or advancing forward; winding like the thread of a screw; helical.
• Of or pertaining to a spiral; like a spiral.
• A plane curve, not reentrant, described by a point, called the generatrix, moving along a straight line according to a mathematical law, while the line is revolving about a fixed point called the pole. Cf. Helix.
• Anything which has a spiral form, as a spiral shell.
• in the shape of a coil
• having the form of a spiral
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to move like a spiral (a type of plane curve)

Words related to SPIRAL

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Words that contain SPIRAL

spirals9 spiraled11 spirally13 spiraling12 spiralism13 spiralist11 spirality14 spiralled12 spiralisms14 spiralists12 spiralling13 spiralizer21 spiraliser12 leptospiral15 multispiral15 spiraliform18 spiralities13 spiralizers22 spiralisers13

How to use SPIRAL in a sentence

• The Witch came running twinklingly down a spiral stairway.
• It is delivered by one continuous spiral movement of the bayonet into the opening.
• The tiny white spiral of smoke grew to a thick white cloud which rolled over the edge of the ridge and sank toward the valley.
• Rowing takes one set of muscles and stretches them through and through, till you feel yourself turning into one long spiral spring from finger-tips to toes.
• They next descended rapidly the spiral staircase of the tower, and, opening the portal, admitted the whole of their companions.
• The inhabited part of the building was reached by a spiral staircase enclosed by a tower.
• You can even enter by the gate outside the city, which opens into the spiral staircase, and reach your apartment and mine without passing through Rome.
• For a moment Gahan stood in silent waiting, then casting aside discretion he moved on again down the spiral.
• He had advanced but a short distance from the bottom of the spiral when he recognized that he was in the pits below the palace.
• And Alan, looking at it now and then as he ate his breakfast, saw a thin spiral of smoke rising from the chimney, but no other sign of life.
• Clearly a vicious spiral, which in the end could only bring disaster.
• Under the room known as the Cabinet de Saint-Louis, in the Tour Bonbec, there is a spiral stair leading to these dens.
• Alexander, following the spiral of the path, came upon the view of such a spot as this.
• They are oval or elliptical in cross-section, and when they emerge from the skin they grow into a long spiral.
• An ancient vessel-shaped spiral basket for sacred meal and treasures.
• The latter are elongated spindle-shaped cells with thick brown spiral bands on the inside of their thin walls.
• This opens into the chimney, and there you see a spiral staircase that leads up to the room where the meetings are held.
• What will the next turn of their spiral bring, I wonder? A vast battle of intellect, perhaps, when wars of blood have been forgotten.
• It was a glorious, dependable roar, but suddenly, in the midst of a spiral movement, I noticed a change in the sound.
• Near the end fasten a spiral spring, S, which can be obtained almost anywhere.
• The fibre walls are torn across obliquely and usually in a spiral direction.
• There are methods for readily detecting spiral grain.
• I wonder if the primal motion of unknown powers, like electricity, for instance, is spiral.
• A second spiral of smoke was stealing upward through the mist.
• The spiral staircase, it will be seen, leads to the lower gallery for viewing the picture.
• In the disk type of phonograph, the groove varies sidewise from its normal true spiral.
• In a tall glass the rind of a Syrian orange was arranged in spiral form.

Similar words containing SPIR without suffix al

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