Unscramble spiral

Definition of spiral

adjective:

• in the shape of a coil. Synonyms: coiling, helical, spiraling, turbinate, volute, voluted, whorled.

noun:

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

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", "the young people gyrated on the dance floor". Synonyms: coil, gyrate.
• form a spiral; "The path spirals up the mountain".
• move in a spiral or zigzag course. Synonyms: corkscrew.

Related words

hank.

Words nearby

spinal.

Rhymes with

antiviral, viral.