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SPIAL

Definition: SPIAL

SPIAL

Noun

1. A spy; a scout.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Note: Spial \Spi"al\, noun. A spy; a scout. [Obsolete]. (Websters 1913)


Synonyms within Context: SPIAL

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Warning

Watchtower, beacon, signal post; lighthouse; (indication of locality). sentinel, sentry; watch, watchman; watch and ward; watchdog, bandog, housedog; patrol, patrolman, vedette, picket, bivouac, scout, spy, spial; undercover agent, mole, plainclothesman; advanced guard, rear guard; lookout.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Derivations: SPIAL

Derivations

Words ending with "SPIAL": espial. (additional references)

Words containing "SPIAL": espials. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "SPIAL"

Words rhyming with "SPIAL" (pronounced 'Spi"al'): Abyssal, Accrual, Accusal, Actinozoal, Adjournal, Albuminoidal, Amenorrhoeal, Anomal, Anthropoidal, Apogeal, Apohyal, Appraisal, Apprizal, Approval, Arachnoidal, Arctogeal, Arousal, Arrival, Asteroidal, Avowal, Axal, Balmoral, Banal, Basihyal, Beheadal, Bequeathal, Bestowal, Betrayal, Betrothal, Burghal, Carousal, Catarrhal, Cemental, Ceratohyal, Choroidal, Cital, Coastal, Cockal, Colloidal, Comprisal, Conchoidal, Conoidal, Convival, CORAL, Coralloidal, Cordal, Cotidal, Crinoidal, Croupal, Crustal. (additional references)

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Anagrams: SPIAL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: lapis, pails, spail.

Words within the letters "a-i-l-p-s"

-1 letter: ails, alps, laps, lipa, lips, lisp, pail, pals, pial, pias, sail, salp, sial, slap, slip.

-2 letters: ail, ais, alp, als, asp, lap, las, lip, lis, pal, pas, pia, pis, psi, sal, sap, sip, spa.

-3 letters: ai, al, as, is, la, li, pa, pi, si.

 Words containing the letters "a-i-l-p-s"
 

+1 letter: espial, lapins, limpas, lipase, milpas, palais, palish, pastil, phials, pibals, pilafs, pilaus, pilaws, pipals, plaids, plains, plaits, salpid, spails, spinal, spiral, spital.

 

+2 letters: alipeds, alpines, apicals, apishly, aplasia, aplites, apostil, applies, apsidal, caliphs, caplins, display, elapids, espials, impalas, impales, inclasp, kaliphs, lapides, lapises, lapsing, lipases, lipomas, magilps, misplan, misplay, paisley, paliest, palings, palmist, palship, palsied, palsies, pasquil, pastils, paulins, pilaffs, pillars, pineals, plaices, plaints, planish, plasmic, plasmid, plasmin, plastic, plastid, platies, pleiads, psalmic, salpian, salpids, salpinx, sapling, sappily, shiplap, slipway, soapily, spacial, spaniel, spatial, special, spicula, spinals, spinula, spirals, spirula, spitals, splenia, talipes, topsail, waspily.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: SPIAL


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 50 49 41 4C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...    .--.    ..    .-    .-..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01010000 01001001 01000001 01001100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#80 &#73 &#65 &#76

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0050 0049 0041 004C

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5350433546

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Derivations
3. Rhymes
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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