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— English words —

• spiral n. (Geometry) A curve that is the locus of a point that rotates about a fixed point while continuously…
• spiral n. (Informal) A helix.
• spiral n. A self-sustaining process with a lot of momentum involved, so it is difficult to accelerate or stop it at once.
• spiral n. (Rail transport) A section of track that forms a circle and crosses over itself, used for gaining height…
• spiral adj. Helical, like a spiral.
• spiral v. (Intransitive) To move along the path of a spiral or helix.
• spiral v. (Transitive) To cause something to spiral.
• spiral v. (Figuratively, intransitive) To increase continually.

— Foreign words, define in English —

• Danish
  • spiral n. Spiral.
• Hungarian
  • spirál n. Spiral.
  • spirál n. (Informal) coil, intrauterine device (IUD).
• Northern sami
  • spiral n. Hip.
• Norwegian bokmål - Norwegian nynorsk
  • spiral n. A spiral, coil.
  • spiral n. A coil (contraceptive device).
• Romanian
  • spiral adj. Spiral.
• Swedish
  • spiral n. A spiral.
  • spiral n. An intrauterine device, a coil (contraceptive device).

— English words, defined in French —

• spiral adj. Spiral, en spirale.
• spiral n. Spirale (objet d’une forme spirale).
• spiral n. Volute.
• spiral v. Tourner en spirale.
• spiral v. (Sens figuré) Tomber dans un cercle vicieux.

— English word, defined in Italian —

• spiral s. Spirale.

— In French —

• spiral adj.m. Qui a la forme d’une spirale.
• spiral adj.m. (Par confusion) Qui a la forme d’une hélice.
• spiral n.m. (Horlogerie) Petit ressort qui règle l’échappement du balancier…

68 English words from 17 English definitions

about accelerate along a␣lot and at␣once cause circle coil continually continuously contraceptive crosses crosses␣over curve device difficult Figuratively fixed fixed␣point for forms gaining Geometry height Helical helix Hip increase Informal intransitive intrauterine intrauterine␣device involved itself IUD like locus lot momentum move move␣along of␣a once over path point process Rail Rail␣transport rotates section self self-sustaining something something␣to spiral stop sustaining that that␣is the track Transitive transport used while with

10 English words from 9 foreign definitions

a␣la confusion dans forme objet Par Petit Sens Spiral Volute

16 foreign words from 9 foreign definitions

balancier cercle cercle␣vicieux échappement figuré hélice Horlogerie qui règle ressort Sens␣figuré spirale Tomber Tourner une vicieux

61 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

spirali spirals spiraled spiralin spirally spiral␣arm spiralian spiraling spiralise spiralism spiralist spirality spiralize spiralled spiral␣arms spiralians spiralings spiralised spiraliser spiralises spiralists spiralized spiralizer spiralizes spirallike spiralling spiral␣pass spiralwise spiral␣worm spiralbound spiral␣dance spiral␣DRAGN spiraliform spiralisers spiralising spiralities spiralizers spiralizing spirallings spiral␣worms spiral␣wrack spiral␣dances spiral␣DRAGNs spiral␣galaxy spiral␣ginger spiral␣nebula spiral␣passes spiral␣wracks spiral␣ganglia spiral␣gingers +11 words

47 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

inspirals suspirals bispiraled inspiraled trispirals despiralize inspiraling minispirals otospiralin semispirals subspirally Ulam␣spirals death␣spirals despiralized despiralizes Ekman␣spirals inspiralling Riess␣spirals superspirals super␣spirals unspiralized annulospirals conchospirals despiralizing golden␣spirals planispirally planospirally purity␣spirals trochospirals counterspirals despiralisation despiralization downward␣spirals Langmuir␣spirals red␣spiral␣galaxy defensive␣spirals despiralisations despiralizations Fibonacci␣spirals graveyard␣spirals arithmetic␣spirals Archimedean␣spirals barred␣spiral␣galaxy Curschmann's␣spirals logarithmic␣spirals Knochenhauer␣spirals barred␣spiral␣galaxies

42 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

inspiral suspiral nonspiral red␣spiral subspiral trispiral antispiral minispiral semispiral Ulam␣spiral death␣spiral Ekman␣spiral leptospiral multispiral paucispiral planispiral planospiral Riess␣spiral superspiral super␣spiral annulospiral brachyspiral conchospiral golden␣spiral helicospiral purity␣spiral quadrispiral trochospiral counterspiral musculospiral streptospiral downward␣spiral Langmuir␣spiral antileptospiral defensive␣spiral Fibonacci␣spiral graveyard␣spiral arithmetic␣spiral Archimedean␣spiral logarithmic␣spiral inflationary␣spiral Knochenhauer␣spiral

6 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

Ira IRA PIR PIRA RAL SPI

14 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

Ari ARI iPS IPs IPS lar LAr LAR lari rip Rip RIP rips RIPs

4 anagrams (New words found by changing the order of the letters.)

Aprils Plairs pliars prials

26 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

Alpiars Apriles Barlips imparls Lapiers LaPrise Liparis pareils parlies Parlins parulis pillars Pillars Plaisir Polaris primals Prislam PrIslam prismal pyralis raspily Skripal spirali spirals spirula uprisal

36 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

ALIPs Alsip April arils lairs Lairs lapis lapsi laris Laris larps LARPs liars lipas Lipas liras LPIRs LRIPs pails pairs Pairs Paril Paris Parsi pials pilar pirls Plair prial rails raips rials Rials Ripas Sapir spial

6 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

spical spinal spiran spital Spital sporal

One lipogram (New word found when removing only one letter.)

spial

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