Spice

Definition: Spice

Spice

Noun

1. Aromatic substances of vegetable origin used as a preservative.

2. Any of a variety of pungent aromatic vegetable substances used for flavoring food.

3. The property of being seasoned with spice and so highly flavored.

Verb

1. Make more interesting or flavorful, either in the literal or in a metaphorical sense; "Spice the soup"; "Spice up the evening by inviting a belly dancer".

2. Add herbs or spices to.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "spice" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1374. (references)

Botanical

Dream Interpretation

Literature

Slang in 1811

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

SPICE

SPICE

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

Synonyms: Spice

Condiment

Verb: season, spice, flavor, spice up. (render pungent).

Noun: condiment, seasoning, sauce, spice, relish, appetizer.

Mixture

Tinge, tincture, touch, dash, smack, sprinkling, spice, seasoning, infusion, soupcon.

Multiformity

Phrase: "harmoniously confused"; " variety's the very spice of life".

Pungency

Render -pungent. Adjective: season, spice, salt, pepper, pickle, brine, devil. smoke, chew, take snuff.

Smallness

Small quan modicum, trace, hint, minimum; vanishing point; material point, atom, particle, molecule, corpuscle, point, speck, dot, mote, jot, iota, ace; minutiae, details; look, thought, idea, soupcon, dab, dight, whit, tittle, shade, shadow; spark, scintilla, gleam; touch, cast; grain, scruple, granule, globule, minim, sup, sip, sop, spice, drop, droplet, sprinkling, dash, morceau, screed, smack, tinge, tincture; inch, patch, scantling, tatter, cantlet, flitter, gobbet, mite, bit, morsel, crumb, seed, fritter, shive; snip, snippet; snick, snack, snatch, slip, scrag; chip, chipping; shiver, sliver, driblet, clipping, paring, shaving, hair.

Crosswords: Spice

Old Spice. Phil says it's a timeless classic (My Girl; writing credit: Laurice Elehwany. Starring Dan Aykroyd as Harry Sultenfuss, Jamie Lee Curtis as Shelly DeVoto, Macaulay Culkin as Thomas J. Sennett, and Anna Chlumsky as Vada Sultenfuss.)

Sugar and spice and everything nice (That '70s Show; writing credit: Stacia Raymond)

I just thought I'd spice it up a bit. I mean, why say 'Hello' when you can say 'Hellooooooooo' (Ed; writing credit: Steven Joel Kerzner)

My old man's Trojans and his Old Spice after shave (Keeping The Faith; performing artist: Billy Joel)

And I feel nice, like sugar and spice ("I Got You (I Feel Good)"; performing artist: James Brown)

Spice of life (Starry Eyed Surprise; performing artist: Paul Oakenfold)

Hey i know it's just a song but it's spice for the recipe (WALKIN' ON THE SUN; performing artist: Smash Mouth)

Spice Girls, Darkchild 2000 (Holler; performing artist: Spice Girls)

I tried to be a chef--figured it would add a little spice to my life, but I just didn't have the thyme. (references; author: unknown)

Toledo Employees of Wolfson's Spice Mills (1900)

Old Spice (1999)

Salsa & Spice 5 (1997)

Erotic World of Anne Spice (1995)

Delicacy Spice (1993)

Spice Up Your Life (performing artist: Spice Girls)

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

References

• Gaban Spice Co., Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Complete Spice Book: From Allspice to Vanilla, the Ultimate Companion to the Ancient and Everyday Wonders on Your Spice Rack (reference)

• Madhur Jaffrey's Spice Kitchen: Fifty Recipes Introducing Indian Spices and Aromatic Seeds (reference)

• Winning With One-Liners: 3,400 Hilarious Laugh Lines to Tickle Your Funny Bone & Spice Up Your Speeches (reference)

• The Spice Lilies: Eastern Secrets to Healing with Ginger, Turmeric, Cardamom, and Galangale (reference)

• Secrets of Saffron : The Vagabond Life of the World's Most Seductive Spice (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Sugar & Spice (reference)

• Penthouse: Tropical Spice (reference)

• Ring of Fire - An Indonesian Odyssey - Spice Island Saga (Vol.1) (reference)

• Spice Girls - Girl Power (Live in Istanbul) (reference)

• Dips, Lifts, and Solos to Spice up Your Salsa (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Classical Spice (reference)

• Spice (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Controller- Spice (reference)

• Spice World (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• 6-piece Crib Bedding Set - Sugar and Spice (reference)

• Lamp Shade - Sugar and Spice (reference)

• Kamenstein MKI Design Circa Revolving Nickel-Plated Spice Rack, with 15 Filled Spice Jars (reference)

• WMF Ceramill Glass Spice Mill (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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

Billy devoted himself exclusively to the spice cake. Credit: Library of Congress.

Forty-year-old spice jars in Miller and Brown's store. Wilson, New York. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

It is not required to label a food if a minor ingredient of the food, such as a spice, has been irradiated itself. (references)

Talk to a dietitian about other spices for your food. The dietitian can help you find spice blends without sodium or potassium. (references)

Business

Leading deodorant brands include Fa, Lady’s Speed Stick, Rexona and Secret while leading shaving cream and foam brands are Gillette, Florena, Nivea, Denim, Old Spice, Mennen and Harley Davidson. (references)

Economic History

United Kingdom

Attracted by the spice trade, English mercantile interests spread first to the Far East. (references)

Switzerland

Food/Nutrition: Offerings consist of fat-free bouillon, sauces and salt-free spice mixes, mostly prepared and tasted on the spot. (references)

Micronesia

European explorers--first the Portuguese in search of the Spice Islands (Indonesia) and then the Spanish--reached the Carolines in the 16th century, with the Spanish establishing sovereignty. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "spice": add spice ♦ five spice powder ♦ have a spice of ♦ pond spice ♦ powdered spice ♦ spice bush ♦ spice cake ♦ spice cookie ♦ spice dealer ♦ spice Islands ♦ spice Lisp ♦ spice of ♦ spice rack ♦ spice tree ♦ spice up ♦ variety is the spice of life. Additional references.

Beginning with "spice": Spice-box, spice-rack, spice-rich, spice-ridden, Spice-sellers, spice-trade, spice-trading.

Ending with "spice": five-spice.

Albanian

nuancë (cast, color, colour, nuance, shade, tincture, tinge, tint, undertone), erëz. (various references)

Arabic 

‏تابل (condiment), ‏تبل بالفلفل, ‏تبل (flavor, flavour, relish, salt), ‏طيب (delicious, good, perfume, savory, scent), ‏بهار (condiment, relish, seasoning). (various references)

Bulgarian 

следа (footprint, ghost, odor, odour, print, rag, relic, relish, remnant, rudiment, savor, savour, scar, scent, scintilla, shadow, show, shred, sign, tang, touch, trace, track, trail, train, trait, vestige, whiff), оттенък (hue, overtone, savor, savour, strain, tincture, tinge, touch, undertone), нещо което придава вкус, нещо което придава пикантност (sauce), нещо което придава интерес, жилка (fiber, fibre, film, nerve, strain, streak, stria, thread, tinge, vein), приятен мирис, примесвам (admix, dash, interlard, intermix, mix, mix in, shoot through), придавам пикантност, придавам интерес, подправям (adulterate, cook, debase, doctor, dose, dress, fabricate, falsify, fiddle, fix up, flavour, forge, gaff, imitate, load, raise, salt, season, sophisticate, wangle), подправка (alloy, condiment, counterfeit, doctor, flavoring, flavouring, forgery, herb, imitation, relish, sauce, seasoning). (various references)

Chinese 

香料 . (various references)

Cornish

spýsa. (various references)

Czech

koření (condiment, salt, seasoning, spices, zest). (various references)

Danish

simulatorprogram specielt for IC (simulation program with integrated circuit emphasis), krydderier (spices). (various references)

Dutch

kruiden (flavor, flavour, season). (various references)

Esperanto

spico, spici, spican. (various references)

Faeroese

krydd. (various references)

Farsi 

چاشنی غذا (Ketchup), ادویه زدن به , ادویه (Condiment). (various references)

Finnish

mikropiirien simulointiohjelma (simulation program with integrated circuit emphasis), mauste (condiment, flavour, seasoning), maustaa (season), höyste (flavour, relish, seasoning), höystää (enrich, season), aromiaine, aromi (aroma, flavour). (various references)

French

épice, assaisonner. (various references)

German

Gewürz (condiment, herb, seasoning), würzen (Flavor, flavour, season, seasonings, to season), Würze (aroma, condiment, relish, salt, seasoning, spiciness, wort), Spezerei (exotic delicacy). (various references)

Greek 

καρύκευμα (condiment, flavoring, flavouring, relish, seasoning), καρυκεύω (flavour), μπαχαρικό. (various references)

Hebrew 

מרקח (perfume), לתבל (flavour, salt, sauce, season), תבלין (condiment, flavoring, flavour, flavouring, relish, seasoning, zest), בשם (balsam, fragrance, odor, odour, perfume, scent), סממן (drug, flavour, perfume, savor, savour). (various references)

Hungarian

fûszerez (relish, season), fûszer (condiment), fűszer (condiment, herb, relish, sauce, savour). (various references)

Indonesian

membumbui (season). (various references)

Italian

aromatizzare (Flavor, flavour, season, seasonings). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

薬味 (condiment), 香味料 , 香味 , スナック麺 (circlip, snack noodle, snake, snake dance, snakeskin, snap, snap ring, snapshot, snatch, sneak in, sneak out, sneak preview, sneaker, snob, snobbism, snooker, snoopy, snorkel, snow, snow boat, snow gun, snow mobile, snow surfing, snow tire, spark, spark plug, sparkling wine, sparring, sparring partner, spatula, sperm bank, spider, spike, spike heel, spiked shoes, spiker, spiky cut, spiral, spurt, spy, studded snow tire). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

こうみりょう, こうみ (deliciousness, taste flavor), スパイス , やくみ (condiment). (various references)

Korean 

향미료 (Basil, Spices). (various references)

Manx

spiosal (embalm), spiosaghey (embalm), spios. (various references)

Norwegian

kryddek. (various references)

Pig Latin

icespay.(various references)

Portuguese

temperar (anneal, attemper, chasten, douse, flavor, flavour, harden, moderate, quench, sauce, season, temper, zest), especiarias (spices), condimentar (flavor, flavour, sauce, season). (various references)

Romanian

sare (pep, salt, salts), mirodenie (Flavor, flavoring, flavour, flavouring, relish, zest), gust picant, drege (arrange, darn, doctor, Flavor, flavour, juggle, mend, piece, readjust, refit, renew, renovate, repair, restore, retouch, season, set to rights, tinker, vamp up), da caracter picant unei povestiri, condimenta (Flavor, flavour, pepper, relish, savor, savour, season), condiment (condiment, Flavor, flavoring, flavour, flavouring, relish, sauce, seasoning), aromat (aromatic, flavored, flavorous, flavorsome, flavoured, flavoursome, fragrant, nectareous, spicy). (various references)

Romansch

cundiment. (various references)

Russian 

специя (flavoring, flavouring, spices), пряность (spiciness), приправлять специя. (various references)

Scottish

spiosradh, spìosradh. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

začiniti (flavor, flavour, lard, season), začin (condiment, dressing, flavoring, flavouring, relish, seasoning). (various references)

Spanish

especia (caress), condimentar (Flavor, flavour, season, seasonings). (various references)

Swedish

krydda (condiment, Flavor, flavoring, flavour, flavouring, salt, season, seasoning, zest). (various references)

Thai

ใส่เครื่องเทศ, เครื่องเทศ. (various references)

Turkish

bahar (flower, may, spring, springtide, springtime, youth). (various references)

Ukrainian

спеція, пікантність (ginger, piquancy), присмак (aftertaste, aroma, flavour, odor, odour, raciness, tinct, tincture, tinge, waft), приправляти спеціями. (various references)

Vietnamese 

vẻ (aspect, cast, colour, colouring, manner, note, tang), một chút (shred, somewhat, tittle, tot, trifle), một ít (few). (various references)

�im. (various references)

aromata, aromataque, aromatibus, aromatum, condimentum, odoramentis, odoramentorum. (various references)

basam. (various references)

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

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

Derivations

Words beginning with "spice": spicebush, spicebushes, spiced, spiceless, spicer, spiceries, spicers, spicery, spices, spicey. (additional references)

Words ending with "spice": allspice, auspice, hospice. (additional references)

Words containing "spice": allspices, aruspices, auspices, haruspices, hospices. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Spice" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aspice, epice, pspice, Rspce, saice, scipe, seice, sica, Sicca, Sice, Sici, sicu, siec, spache, spca, spcie, speche, specre, Speshnev, spica, spicata, spicey, spiche, spide, spie, spiece, Spik, spikey, spise, sprich, stice. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: epics, sepic.

-1 letter: ceps, epic, ices, pecs, pice, pics, pies, sice, sipe, spec, spic.

-2 letters: cep, cis, ice, pec, pes, pic, pie, pis, psi, sec, sei, sic, sip.

-3 letters: es, is, pe, pi, si.

+1 letter: apices, biceps, copies, cripes, pieces, precis, prices, septic, specie, spicae, spiced, spicer, spices, spicey, splice.

+2 letters: aseptic, auspice, capsize, ceriphs, cesspit, ciphers, copiers, cowpies, crisped, crispen, crisper, depicts, discept, eclipse, episcia, hospice, icecaps, incepts, inscape, inspect, ipecacs, peckish, pectins, pelvics, pencils, peptics, piceous, pickers, pickets, pickles, piecers, pierces, pincers, pinches, piscine, pitches, plaices, poetics, polices, precise, pricers, princes, pumices, recipes, sceptic, scrapie, septics, skeptic, spacier, special, species, specify, spermic, sphenic, spheric, spicate, spicers, spicery, spicier, spicule, splenic, spliced, splicer, splices, triceps.