spiral

spiral is a 6-letter English word with 15 senses as adjective, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Winding or circling round a center or pole and gradually receding from it; as, the spiral curve of a watch spring. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 10 · 15 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Winding or circling round a center or pole and gradually receding from it; as, the spiral curve of a watch spring.
2. adjective. Winding round a cylinder or imaginary axis, and at the same time rising or advancing forward; winding like the thread of a screw; helical.
3. adjective. Of or pertaining to a spiral; like a spiral.
4. adjective. 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.
5. adjective. Anything which has a spiral form, as a spiral shell.
6. noun. flying downward in a helical path with a large radius
7. noun. a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops

   "a coil of rope"

   Synonyms: coil, helix, volute, whorl

8. noun. ornament consisting of a curve on a plane that winds around a center with an increasing distance from the center

   Synonyms: volute

9. noun. a continuously accelerating change in the economy
10. noun. a plane curve traced by a point circling about the center but at increasing distances from the center
11. noun. a curve that lies on the surface of a cylinder or cone and cuts the element at a constant angle

    Synonyms: helix

12. verb. to wind or move in a spiral course

    "the muscles and nerves of his fine drawn body were coiling for action"

    "black smoke coiling up into the sky"

    Synonyms: coil, gyrate

13. verb. move in a spiral or zigzag course

    Synonyms: corkscrew

14. verb. form a spiral

    "The path spirals up the mountain"

15. adjective. in the shape of a coil

    Synonyms: coiling, helical, spiraling, turbinate, volute, voluted, whorled

Synonyms

coil, helix, volute, whorl, gyrate, corkscrew, coiling, helical, spiraling, turbinate, voluted, whorled

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in spiral:

prisal

Common word forms

spirals, spiraled, spirally, spiraling, spirality, spiralize, spiralled, spiralling

Words from these letters

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