Definitions for spice

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spice spice

Spelling: [spahys]

IPA: /spaɪs/

Spice is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 70 anagrams from letters in spice (ceips).

Definitions for spice

noun

1. any of a class of pungent or aromatic substances of vegetable origin, as pepper, cinnamon, or cloves, used as seasoning, preservatives, etc.
2. such substances collectively or as material:
3. a spicy or aromatic odor or fragrance.
4. something that gives zest:
5. a piquant, interesting element or quality; zest; piquancy:
6. Archaic. a small quantity of something; trace; bit.

verb (used with object)

1. to prepare or season with a spice or spices.
2. to give zest, piquancy, or interest to by something added.

Origin of spice

1175-1225; (noun) Middle English, aphetic form of Old French espice (French épice) from Latin speciēs “appearance, sort, kind” (see species), in Late Latin (plural

Examples for spice

Spanish oak, which has an open grain and high levels of tannin, gives you dried fruit, spice, and even chocolate flavors.

Vinegar and spice for pickles should be boiled but a few minutes.

If you do not like onions, substitute for them a larger quantity of spice.

The very mention of his part in spice World causes the Brit to erupt in a violent fit of laughter.

Put them into stone jars, and prepare the spice and vinegar.

You spice it with blues and skiffle music, and pickle it in alcohol and tobacco smoke.

By the time they hung up their Union Jack dresses in 2000, the spice Girls had sold over 55 million records worldwide.

spice may be ground in a mill kept, exclusively for that purpose.

A recent study by German scientists focused on a compound in the spice that may play a role in brain repair.

Take the liquor from the fire, and strain out the spice from it.