Definition of Spiral

Noun

  • flying downward in a helical path with a large radius
  • a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops
    "a coil of rope"
  • ornament consisting of a curve on a plane that winds around a center with an increasing distance from the center
  • a continuously accelerating change in the economy
  • a curve that lies on the surface of a cylinder or cone and cuts the element at a constant angle
  • a plane curve traced by a point circling about the center but at increasing distances from the center

Verb

  • move in a spiral or zigzag course
  • form a spiral
    "The path spirals up the mountain"
  • 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"
    "the young people gyrated on the dance floor"

Adjective

  • in the shape of a coil
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Word games points for the Spiral

  • Scrabble® score of the spiral (8)
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Unscramble spiral

103 unscramble word found using the letters spiral.
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