spire¹ /spīr/

1. A tapering or conical body, esp a tree-top
2. A flower spike
3. A tall slender architectural structure tapering to a point
4. A shoot, sprout
5. A stalk, esp a long slender one
6. A reed or reedlike plant (also collectively)
7. A deer's tine
8. A spike
9. A cone
10. A summit, peak

1. To sprout
2. To shoot up

1. To furnish with, or form into, a spire
2. To put forth as a shoot or fruit (Spenser)

spīrˈal adjective (rare)

Towering and tapering

spirˈalism noun

Advancement through, or the concept of, a spirally structured career (or social, etc) system

spirˈalist noun

1. Someone engaged in spiralism
2. Loosely, an ambitious person

spirˈally adverb

spired adjective

1. Having a spire
2. Tapering, conical
3. Peaked
4. Spiked
5. Sprouted

• preconsuming
• precontract
• precontracted
• precontracting
• precontracts
• precook
• precooked
• precooking
• precooks
• precool
• precooled
• precooling
• precools
• precopulatory
• precordial
• precritical
• precurrer
• precurrers
• precurse
• precurses
• precursive
• precursor
• precursors
• precursory
• precut