| SPIRAEA | • spiraea n. Alternative form of spirea. • Spiraea prop.n. A taxonomic genus within the family Rosaceae – the spireas and certain meadowsweets. • Spiræa prop.n. Alternative form of Spiraea. |
| SPIRALS | • spirals n. Plural of spiral. • spirals v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of spiral. • SPIRAL v. to move in spiral fashion. |
| SPIRANT | • spirant n. (Linguistics, dated) A fricative. • SPIRANT n. a sound produced by narrowing the air passage. |
| SPIREAS | • spireas n. Plural of spirea. • SPIREA n. (Greek) a group of plants, including hardhack and meadowsweet, also SPIRAEA. |
| SPIREME | • spireme n. (Dated, biochemistry) the tangled mass of strands of chromatin seen in the early stages of mitosis… • SPIREME n. a filament forming part of a cell nucleus, also SPIREM. |
| SPIREMS | • spirems n. Plural of spirem. • SPIREM n. a filament forming part of a cell nucleus, also SPIREME. |
| SPIRICS | • spirics n. Plural of spiric. • SPIRIC n. a curve, the plane section of a tore. |
| SPIRIER | • SPIRY adj. tall, slender and tapering. |
| SPIRING | • spiring v. Present participle of spire. • 'spiring v. Present participle of ’spire. • SPIRE v. to rise in a tapering manner. |
| SPIRITS | • spirits v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of spirit. • spirits n. Plural of spirit. • spirits n. Distilled alcoholic beverages. |
| SPIRITY | • spirity adj. Full of spirit; spirited. • SPIRITY adj. (dialect) spirited; spirituous. |
| SPIROID | • SPIROID adj. resembling a spiral. |
| SPIRTED | • spirted v. Simple past tense and past participle of spirt. • SPIRT v. to emit liquid forcibly, also SPURT. |
| SPIRTLE | • spirtle n. Alternative spelling of spurtle. • spirtle v. Archaic spelling of spurtle. • SPIRTLE n. a wooden stick for stirring porridge, also SPURTLE. |
| SPIRULA | • spirula n. Any mollusk of the cephalopod genus Spirula, of which Spirula spirula is the only extant species. • Spirula prop.n. A taxonomic genus within the family Spirulidae – certain deep-water cephalopod mollusks, about 40mm… • SPIRULA n. (Latin) a spiral-shelled mollusk. |