| SPIRE | • spire n. (Now rare) The stalk or stem of a plant. • spire n. A young shoot of a plant; a spear. • spire n. Any of various tall grasses, rushes, or sedges, such as the marram, the reed canary-grass, etc. |
| ASPIRE | • aspire v. (Intransitive) To have a strong desire or ambition to achieve something. • aspire v. (Transitive, obsolete) To go as high as, to reach the top of (something). • aspire v. (Intransitive, archaic, literary) To move upward; to be very tall. |
| EMPIRE | • empire n. A political unit, typically having an extensive territory or comprising a number of territories or nations… • empire n. A political unit ruled by an emperor or empress. • empire n. The group of states or other territories that owe allegiance to an imperial power (foreign to them)… |
| EXPIRE | • expire v. (Intransitive) To die. • expire v. (Intransitive) To lapse and become invalid. • expire v. (Intransitive) To come to an end; to conclude. |
| UMPIRE | • umpire n. (Tennis, badminton) The official who presides over a tennis match sat on a high chair. • umpire n. (Cricket) One of the two white-coated officials who preside over a cricket match. • umpire n. (Baseball) One of the officials who preside over a baseball game. |
| INSPIRE | • inspire v. (Transitive) To infuse into the mind; to communicate to the spirit; to convey, as by a divine or supernatural… • inspire v. (Transitive) To infuse into; to affect, as with a superior or supernatural influence; to fill with what… • inspire v. (Intransitive) To draw in by the operation of breathing; to inhale. |
| RAMPIRE | • rampire n. (Archaic) A rampart. • rampire v. (Archaic, transitive) To fortify with a rampart; to form into a rampart. • RAMPIRE n. a flat-topped defensive mound. |
| RESPIRE | • respire v. (Intransitive) To breathe in and out successively. • respire v. (Cytology, intransitive) To take up oxygen and produce carbon dioxide through oxidation. • respire v. (Transitive) To (inhale and) exhale; to breathe. |
| SAMPIRE | • sampire n. Alternative form of samphire. • SAMPIRE n. a fleshy coastal plant; glasswort, also SAMPHIRE. |
| SUSPIRE | • suspire v. (Literary) To breathe. • suspire v. (Literary) To exhale. • suspire v. (Literary) To sigh. |
| VAMPIRE | • vampire n. A mythological undead creature said to feed on the blood of the living. • vampire n. (Colloquial) A person with the medical condition systemic lupus erythematosus, colloquially known as… • vampire n. A blood-sucking bat; vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus). |
| CONSPIRE | • conspire v. (Intransitive) To secretly plot or make plans together, often with the intention to bring bad or illegal results. • conspire v. (Intransitive) To agree, to concur to one end. • conspire v. (Transitive) To work together to bring about. |
| PERSPIRE | • perspire v. (Transitive, intransitive) To emit (sweat or perspiration) through the skin’s pores. • perspire v. (Intransitive) To be evacuated or excreted, or to exude, through the pores of the skin. • PERSPIRE v. to exude sweat through the pores of the skin. |
| ACROSPIRE | • acrospire n. (Botany) The sprout at the end of a seed when it begins to germinate. • acrospire v. To put forth the first sprout. • ACROSPIRE n. the first real shoot developing in a germinating grain seed. |
| REINSPIRE | • reinspire v. To inspire again. • REINSPIRE v. to inspire anew. |
| TRANSPIRE | • transpire v. (Transitive, intransitive) To give off (Vapour, waste matter etc.); to exhale (An odour etc.). • transpire v. (Obsolete, intransitive) To perspire. • transpire v. (Botany, intransitive) Of plants, to give off water and waste products through the stomata. |
| LEPTOSPIRE | • leptospire n. Any bacterium of the genus Leptospira. • LEPTOSPIRE n. any of a genus of slender aerobic spirochetes. |