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Meanings of Spice:

noun

An aromatic or pungent vegetable substance used to flavour food, e.g. cloves, pepper, or cumin.

Usage examples:

The cake is packed with spices

verb

Flavour with spice.

Usage examples:

I've spiced the stew with cloves, pepper, and fennel seed

Meanings of Spicebush:

noun

A north american shrub with aromatic leaves, bark, and fruit. the leaves were formerly used for a tea and the fruit as an allspice substitute.

Usage examples:

Smaller trees and shrubs include red maple, carolina allspice, and the fragrant spicebush.

Meanings of Spices:

noun

An aromatic or pungent vegetable substance used to flavour food, e.g. cloves, pepper, or cumin.

Usage examples:

The cake is packed with spices

verb

Flavour with spice.

Usage examples:

I've spiced the stew with cloves, pepper, and fennel seed

Meanings of Spicey:

adjective

Flavoured with or fragrant with spice.

Usage examples:

Pasta in a spicy tomato sauce

Meanings of Spicier:

adjective

Flavoured with or fragrant with spice.

Usage examples:

Pasta in a spicy tomato sauce

Meanings of Spiciest:

adjective

Flavoured with or fragrant with spice.

Usage examples:

Pasta in a spicy tomato sauce

Meanings of Spiciness:

noun

The quality of containing strong flavours from spices, or the degree to which something has this quality

Usage examples:

I like the spiciness of indian food., you can specify the preferred level of spiciness., de benedet…

Meanings of Spick:

adjective

(especially of a place) very clean and tidy

Usage examples:

Their house is always spick and span., the council spends a lot of money keeping the town spick and…

Meanings of Spick and span:

adjective

Very clean and neat

Meanings of Spicks:

adjective

(especially of a place) very clean and tidy

Usage examples:

Their house is always spick and span., the council spends a lot of money keeping the town spick and…

Meanings of Spicula:

noun

A hard, pointed projection on part of a plant or animal; a spine or prickle.

Usage examples:

Some of the fibres are thickly covered with extremely minute spicula, occasionally aggregated into …

Meanings of Spicule:

noun

A minute sharp-pointed object or structure that is typically present in large numbers, such as a fine particle of ice.

Usage examples:

A general overview on the structural organization of the proteinaceous filament inside spicules is …

Meanings of Spicy:

adjective

Flavoured with or fragrant with spice.

Usage examples:

Pasta in a spicy tomato sauce

Meanings of Spider:

noun

An eight-legged predatory arachnid with an unsegmented body consisting of a fused head and thorax and a rounded abdomen. spiders have fangs that inject venom into their prey, and most kinds spin webs in which to capture insects.

Usage examples:

When they reduce pesticide use, they see a lot more beneficial predatory insects: spiders and paras…

verb

An eight-legged predatory arachnid with an unsegmented body consisting of a fused head and thorax and a rounded abdomen. spiders have fangs which inject poison into their prey, and most kinds spin webs in which to capture insects.

Meanings of Spiderman:

noun

A us cartoon, tv, and film character who develops special powers, such as great strength and the ability to cling to surfaces, after being bitten by a radioactive spider.

Meanings of Spiders:

noun

An eight-legged predatory arachnid with an unsegmented body consisting of a fused head and thorax and a rounded abdomen. spiders have fangs that inject venom into their prey, and most kinds spin webs in which to capture insects.

Usage examples:

When they reduce pesticide use, they see a lot more beneficial predatory insects: spiders and paras…

verb

An eight-legged predatory arachnid with an unsegmented body consisting of a fused head and thorax and a rounded abdomen. spiders have fangs which inject poison into their prey, and most kinds spin webs in which to capture insects.

Meanings of Spiderwebbed:

verb

Cover with a pattern resembling a spiderweb.

Usage examples:

A glass block spiderwebbed with cracks

noun

A web made by a spider.

Usage examples:

The costume was enough to send a person with arachnophobia into fits with its spiderweb and small s…

Meanings of Spied:

verb

Work for a government or other organization by secretly obtaining information about enemies or competitors.

Usage examples:

He agreed to spy for the west

noun

A person employed by a government or other organization to secretly obtain information on an enemy or competitor.

Usage examples:

They served as clerks and couriers, telephone and telegraph operators, code and cipher analysts, an…

Meanings of Spiegeleisen:

noun

An alloy of iron and manganese, used in steel-making.

Usage examples:

Realising the enormous value of his discovery he continued with his experiments to master the facts…

Meanings of Spiel:

noun

An elaborate or glib speech or story, typically one used by a salesperson.

Usage examples:

He delivers a breathless and effortless spiel in promotion of his new novel

verb

Reel off; recite.

Usage examples:

He solemnly spieled all he knew

Meanings of Spieling:

verb

Reel off; recite.

Usage examples:

He solemnly spieled all he knew

noun

An elaborate or glib speech or story, typically one used by a salesperson.

Usage examples:

He delivers a breathless and effortless spiel in promotion of his new novel

Meanings of Spif:

noun

An amount of money paid by an employer or the manufacturer of a product to a sales person for selling a particular product

Usage examples:

The company says it doesn't pay spiffs because the product is so good, they don't have to pay sales…

Meanings of Spiff:

verb

Make someone or something attractive, smart, or stylish.

Usage examples:

He arrived all spiffed up in a dinner jacket

noun

An amount of money paid by an employer or the manufacturer of a product to a sales person for selling a particular product

Usage examples:

The company says it doesn't pay spiffs because the product is so good, they don't have to pay sales…

Meanings of Spiffed:

verb

Make someone or something attractive, smart, or stylish.

Usage examples:

He arrived all spiffed up in a dinner jacket

phrasal verb

To make someone or something look more stylish, or cleaner and tidier

Usage examples:

He's really spiffed up his wardrobe since he started his new job.

Meanings of Spiffiest:

adjective

Smart in appearance.

Usage examples:

A spiffy new outfit