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— English words —

• 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.
• spire n. A sharp or tapering point.
• spire n. (Architecture) A tapering structure built on a roof or tower, especially as one of the central architectural…
• spire n. The top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit.
• spire n. (Mining) A tube or fuse for communicating fire to the charge in blasting.
• spire v. (Of a seed, plant etc.) to sprout, to send forth the early shoots of growth; to germinate.
• spire v. To grow upwards rather than develop horizontally.
• spire v. (Transitive) To furnish with a spire.
• spire v. (Intransitive, obsolete) To breathe.
• spire n. One of the sinuous foldings of a serpent or other reptile; a coil.
• spire n. A spiral.
• spire n. (Geometry) The part of a spiral generated in one revolution of the straight line about the pole.
• 'spire v. (Informal, dialectal) Aphetic form of inspire.

— Foreign words, define in English —

• Middle english
  • spire n. Alternative form of spere (“sphere”).
• Norwegian bokmål
  • spire n. Sprout.
  • spire v. To sprout.
• Venetian
  • spire n. Plural of spira.

— English word, defined in French —

• spire n. (Architecture) Flèche.

— English word, defined in Italian —

• spire s. (Architettura) guglia, pinnacolo.

— In French —

• spire n.f. (Géométrie) Le tour d’une spirale.
• spire n.f. (Architecture) Base d’une colonne, quand la figure ou le…
• spire n.f. (Physique) Circuit parcouru par un courant électrique lorsqu’il…
• spire n.f. (En particulier) (Physique) Un seul tour du circuit électrique…
• Spire n.prop. (Géographie) Ville, commune et arrondissement d’Allemagne…

— In Italian —

• spire s. Plurale di spira.

101 English words from 19 English definitions

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11 English words from 8 foreign definitions

Architecture arrondissement Base circuit commune courant figure Flèche par Physique tour

1 foreign word from 19 English definitions

spira

20 foreign words from 8 foreign definitions

Allemagne Architettura circuit␣électrique colonne courant␣électrique électrique En␣particulier Géographie Géométrie guglia parcouru particulier pinnacolo Plurale quand seul spira spirale une Ville

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

spirea spired 'spired spirem spires Spires 'spires spireas spireme spirems spirene spirelet spiremes spirenes Spireses spireless spirelets spirelike spireward spirewise spirendolol

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

aspired aspirer aspires aspirers aspirest aspireth inspired inspirer inspires respired respirer respires suspired suspires unspired conspired conspirer conspires inspirers inspirest inspireth perspired perspirer perspires reaspired reaspires respirers respirest respireth acrospired acrospires aspirement azaspirene conspirers conspirest conspireth inspiredly perspirers reinspired reinspires transpired transpires uninspired uninspires unrespired aspirements awe-inspired awe-inspires bioinspired bio-inspired +27 words

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

aspire inspire respire suspire conspire perspire reaspire acrospire reinspire transpire uninspire awe-inspire coconspire hydrospire leptospire misinspire sigmaspire sweetspire photorespire broached␣spire evapotranspire

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

ire IrE IRE Ire. PIR SPI

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

Eri. iPS IPs IPS rip Rip RIP rips RIPs

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

peris Peris piers Piers Pires pries prise resip ripes Speir spier Spier

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

Arispe aspire berisp crepis Crespi cripes Cripes emirps EPIRBs Epirus espier esprit gipser Grieps gripes hipers irreps Kipers lisper Lisper misper opries paires paries Paries Parise Pearis Peirse perais peries perils Perins perish Perlis Perris Persia Persic persin persis Persis pervis Pierse pierst Pifers pikers pilers piners Piners pipers PIREPs +77 words

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

eirs EIRs epis Epis EPIs EPRs Eris ERPs ERSP IEPs ipes IPRs ires irps IRPs IRSP Iser -iser Peis peri Peri peri- pers pers. Pers. pier pies PIEs PIRs pisé pres Pres pres. Pres. prie pris reis reps Reps Reps. resi resp RESP resp. Ries ripe rips RIPs rise Rise risp Seip Seri SERP SIer sipe Sipe sire Sper spie

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

Scire shire Shire -shire spare Spare spere spice Spice SPICE spide spife spike Spike spile spime spine Spirk spiro Spiro spiro- spirt spiry spite spore S'pore spyre Suire swire Swire

2 lipograms (New words found when removing only one letter.)

sire spie

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