Crossword-Solution: HELICAL 7 letters, 20 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

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Helical a. Of or pertaining to, or in the form of, a helix; spiral;
as, a helical staircase; a helical spring.

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HELICAL anagram ACHILLE

We have 20 clues for the answer “HELICAL”

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Shaped like DNA 1 answer
Resembling DNA 1 answer
Patterned like a conch shell 1 answer
Like a corkscrew 1 answer
In the shape of a helix 1 answer
HAVING form of helix 1 answer
Corkscrew-shaped 1 answer
Like rotini 2 answers
Like DNA 2 answers
Like DNA strands 3 answers
Spiral-shaped 3 answers
In a whirl 3 answers
GEAR, type of 7 answers
Conch cousin 10 answers
DNA ENDER 10 answers
DNA component 13 answers
Corkscrew 15 answers
conch 15 answers
Coiled 18 answers
Spiral 27 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with HELICAL (5)

Here things happen as in a first-class reed, for the helical curve in no way affects the method of structure employed for a rectilinear series of cells.
Bramble-bees and Others J. Henri Fabre 2002
While the operation of mangling is proceeding, the rollers move first in one direction and then in the other direction, and this change of direction is accomplished automatically by mechanism situated between the accumulator and the helical-toothed gearing seen at the far end of the mangle.
The Jute Industry: T. Woodhouse and P. Kilgour 2004
The stirrer, agitated by a water motor, or, better still, a hot-air engine, has a series of helical blades curved to give a thorough mixing to the oil.
Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise P. Gerald Sanford 2005
All the gear wheels are of steel and have double helical teeth; the shafts are also of steel, and the principal bearings are adjustable and bushed with hard gun metal.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 794, March 21, 1891 Various 2005
This again causes it to travel in a similar path, and every rotation of the cylinder produces a like effect, so that by the time it arrives at the lower and hotter end it has pursued a roughly helical path, during which it has been constantly lifted and shot through the flame, occupying about half an hour in its transit.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 620, November 19,1887 Various 2005

Quotes with HELICAL (1)

In my mind, I could sense their roots under the soil, creeping in helical tangles of ever-increasing complexity outward and in all directions — out beyond the perimeter of the Helsingør Wood, out below Yami’s Under City, out along the banks of the river, out to the nearest coast and thereupon out into the sea; the roots crept down further along the continental shelf, downward into the abysses, downward into the ocean floor, burrowing under the corals and under trenches, and t…
Ashim Shanker Only the Deplorable
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, USA TODAY, WP.

Used 24 times in crossword archives (1971–2023).