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spires, plural;
  1. The upper tapering part of the spiral shell of a gastropod mollusk, comprising all but the whorl containing the body

  1. steeple: a tall tower that forms the superstructure of a building (usually a church or temple) and that tapers to a point at the top
  2. A spire is a tapering conical or pyramidal structure on the top of a building, particularly a church tower. Etymologically, the word is derived from the Anglo-Saxon "spear".
  3. Spire is a 453ft (138m) tall skyscraper in Atlanta, Georgia. It was built from 2004 to 2005 and has 27 floors. It is tied with the Equitable Building as the 21st tallest building in the city, and has 392 units.
  4. Metroid Prime Hunters is a first-person shooter and adventure game for the Nintendo DS handheld video game console. ...
  5. A spire is a descriptive term for part of the shell of a snail, a gastropod mollusc shell or gastropod shell. The spire consists of all of the whorls of a coiled gastropod shell except for the body whorl.
  6. A Spire for Mansfield, sometimes shortened by the artists to 'A-Spire' is a 13 metre (42.7 foot) sculpture, which lies within the centre of Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England. It was officially endorsed by the former local mayor Tony Egginton and Mansfield District Council. ...
  7. The Spire is a 1964 novel by the English author William Golding. "A dark and powerful portrait of one man's will", it deals with the construction of the 404-foot high spire of Salisbury Cathedral; the vision of the fictional Dean Jocelin. ...
  8. (SPIRES) The Stanford Physics Information Retrieval System (SPIRES) was originally developed at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) in 1969, from a design based on a 1967 information study of physicists at SLAC. ...
  9. (The Spires) Church House in Belfast, Northern Ireland is the headquarters of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland. Although there was a decision taken to move to a new location the General Assembly, in 2005, voted to overturn the decision. ...
  10. A slender stalk or blade in vegetation; as, a spire grass or of wheat; A tapering body that shoots up or out to a point in a conical or pyramidal form. ...
  11. Rock spires form as a result of weathering and erosion along joint and fault lines. Unlike needles or pillars, spires are typically solitary forms Source: Katie KellerLynn
  12. A tall spike of glass, round in section or flat sided. To which arms and decorative elements may be attached, made form wood, metal or glass.
  13. A sharply pointed pyramidal structure surmounting a tower.
  14. a tall, pyramidal, polygonal, or conical structure rising from a tower, turret, or roof (usually of a church) and terminating in a point
  15. A slender elongated hip roof to (usually, a church) tower tapering to an acute point, either timber framed and clad, or stone. Types include: broach (octagonal. rising from a square base) needle (very thin) or crown (with legs or flying buttresses at corners).
  16. a tapering roof topping a tower; steeple
  17. A tall slender architectural structure tapering to a point.
  18. any slender pointed construction surmounting a building; generally a narrow octagonal pyramid set above a square tower
  19. A vertically oriented tower, often seen in pairs, in a church design.
  20. An elongated, pointed structure which rises from a tower, turret, or roof.
  21. The centermost structure of Nefol, was once the heart of the School. It’s now being used as Zerom’s main base.
  22. a tower formed like cone that was developed in Europe and is typically the leading of a spot of worship. One of the famous is the spires of the Salisbury Cathedral in Salisbury England.
  23. Tall pyramidal or conical feature crowning a tower or turret. Broach: starting from a square base, then carried into an octagonal section by means of triangular faces. ...
  24. Robert in Toronto on Flickr