Synonyms of the word

turbinate

• adj. Shaped or spinning like a top.
• adj. In the shape of a coil.
• adj. (zoology) Spiral and decreasing sharply in diameter from base to apex. Used especially of shells.
• adj. (anatomy) Of, or relating to, the turbinate bone.
• n. (anatomy) A turbinal or turbinate bone.
• v. To revolve or spin like a top; to whirl.

bone

• n. (uncountable) A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up…
• n. (countable) Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of bone.
• n. A bone of a fish; a fishbone.
• n. One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone.
• n. Anything made of bone, such as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.
• n. (figuratively) The framework of anything.
• n. An off-white colour, like the colour of bone.
• n. (US, informal) A dollar.
• n. (slang) An erect penis; a boner.
• n. (slang) Dominoes or dice.
• adj. Of an off-white colour, like the colour of bone.
• v. To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.
• v. To fertilize with bone.
• v. To put whalebone into.
• v. (civil engineering) To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line.
• v. (vulgar, slang, of a man) To have sexual intercourse with.
• v. (Australia, dated, in Aboriginal culture) To perform "bone pointing", a ritual that is intended to bring…
• v. (usually with "up") To study.
• v. To polish boots to a shiny finish.
• v. (transitive, slang) To apprehend, steal.
• v. (carpentry, masonry, surveying) To sight along an object or set of objects to check whether they are level…
• n. (slang) Clipping of trombone.

coiled

• v. simple past tense and past participle of coil.
• adj. In the form of coils; having coils.
• adj. Prepared and poised to act, like a snake that has coiled its lower body so it can strike.

coiling

• v. present participle of coil.
• n. The pattern or motion of something that coils.

helical

• adj. In the shape of a helix.

os

• n. (rare, medicine) Bone.
• n. (rare) A mouth; an opening.
• n. In particular, either end of the cervix, internal (to the uterus) or external (to the vagina).
• n. An osar or esker.
• n. (rare) plural of o. More commonly oes or o's.

spiral

• n. (geometry) A curve that is the locus of a point that rotates about a fixed point while continuously increasing…
• n. (informal) A helix.
• n. A self-sustaining process with a lot of momentum involved, so it is difficult to accelerate or stop it…
• adj. Helical, like a spiral.
• v. (intransitive) To move along the path of a spiral or helix.
• v. (transitive) To cause something to spiral.
• v. (figuratively, intransitive) To increase continually.

spiraling

• v. present participle of spiral.
• n. Alternative form of spiralling.

turbinal

• adj. Having the shape of a cone resting on its apex.
• adj. (anatomy) Rolled in a spiral; scroll-like; turbinate; applied to the thin, plicated, bony or cartilaginous…
• n. (anatomy) A turbinate bone.

volute

• n. (architecture) The spiral curve on an Ionic capital.
• n. (zoology) The spirals or whorls on a gastropod's shell.
• n. (zoology) Any marine gastropod of the family Volutidae.
• n. (engineering) The casing in a centrifugal pump, whose shape is somewhat similar to architectural volutes.
• n. (art) A spiral or scroll form.
• n. (music) A scroll-shaped carving at the tuning head of a stringed musical instrument, similar to architectural…
• adj. (engineering) Of a spring: having a spiral curve on its tail.

voluted

• adj. Having a volute, or spiral scroll.

whorled

• adj. formed from whorls; having whorls.