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Spinnaker
- noun - a large and usually triangular headsail; carried by a yacht as a headsail when running before the wind
Spinneret
- - One of the special jointed organs situated on the under side, and near the end, of the abdomen of spiders, by means of which they spin their webs. Most spiders have three pairs of spinnerets, but some have only two pairs. The ordinary silk line of the spider is composed of numerous smaller lines jointed after issuing from the spinnerets.
Spinosity
- - The quality or state of being spiny or thorny; spininess.
Spinozism
- - The form of Pantheism taught by Benedict Spinoza, that there is but one substance, or infinite essence, in the universe, of which the so-called material and spiritual beings and phenomena are only modes, and that one this one substance is God.
Spinozist
- - A believer in Spinozism.
Spinsters
- noun - an elderly unmarried woman
- someone who spins (who twists fibers into threads)
Spinulous
- - Covered with small spines.
Spiracles
- noun - a breathing orifice
Spiraling
- verb - form a spiral; "The path spirals up the mountain"
- in the shape of a coil
- move in a spiral or zigzag course
- 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"