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Specula
- noun - a medical instrument for dilating a bodily passage or cavity in order to examine the interior
- a mirror (especially one made of polished metal) for use in an optical instrument
Spicily
- adverb - with strong spices; in a spicy manner; "the soup was spicily flavored"
Spicula
- noun - small pointed structure serving as a skeletal element in various marine and freshwater invertebrates e.g. sponges and corals
Spicule
- noun - small pointed structure serving as a skeletal element in various marine and freshwater invertebrates e.g. sponges and corals
Spinals
- noun - anesthesia of the lower half of the body; caused by injury to the spinal cord or by injecting an anesthetic beneath the arachnoid membrane that surrounds the spinal cord
Spindle
- noun - (biology) tiny fibers that are seen in cell division; the fibers radiate from two poles and meet at the equator in the middle; "chromosomes are distributed by spindles in mitosis and meiosis"
- a piece of wood that has been turned on a lathe; used as a baluster, chair leg, etc.
- a stick or pin used to twist the yarn in spinning
- any holding device consisting of a rigid, sharp-pointed object; "the spike pierced the receipts and held them in order"
- any of various rotating shafts that serve as axes for larger rotating parts
Spindly
- adjective - long and lean
- more spindly
Spinels
- noun - a hard glassy mineral consisting of an oxide of magnesium and aluminum; occurs in various colors that are used as gemstones
Spirals
- noun - 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
- a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops; "a coil of rope"
- flying downward in a helical path with a large radius
- form a spiral; "The path spirals up the mountain"
- move in a spiral or zigzag course
- ornament consisting of a curve on a plane that winds around a center with an increasing distance from the center
- 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"