Crossword-Solution: WHORLS
We have 14 clues for the answer “WHORLS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Auger-shell features | 1 answer |
| Coillike shapes | 1 answer |
| Fingerprint components | 1 answer |
| Fingerprint lines | 1 answer |
| Fingerprint markings | 1 answer |
| Fingerprint parts | 1 answer |
| Fingerprint ridges | 1 answer |
| Fingerprint spirals | 1 answer |
| Penmanship patterns | 1 answer |
| Ridges on a print | 1 answer |
| Fingerprint features | 2 answers |
| Fingerprint patterns | 2 answers |
| Coils | 7 answers |
| A PRINT MADE BY AN IMPRESSION OF THE RIDGES IN THE SKIN OF A FINGER | 10 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ZEACME
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with WHORLS (5)
Now the same with the left.” “Come, Tarzan,” cried D’Arnot, “let’s see what your whorls look like.” Tarzan complied readily, asking many questions of the officer during the operation.
Now the whorl is in form like the whorl used on earth; and the description of it implied that there is one large hollow whorl which is quite scooped out, and into this is fitted another lesser one, and another, and another, and four others, making eight in all, like vessels which fit into one another; the whorls show their edges on the upper side, and on their lower side all together form one continuous whorl.
The rich plushy, plumelike branches grow in regular whorls around the trunk, and on the topmost whorls, standing erect, are the large, beautiful cones.
The star-whorled, fan-spread branches droop under the soft wreaths--droop and press flatly to the trunk; presently the point of overloading is reached, there is a soft sough and muffled drooping, the boughs recover, and the weighting goes on until the drifts have reached the midmost whorls and covered up the branches.
Suddenly it began to rise in swift whorls, and the next I knew it was speeding eastward again till it became a speck in the blue morning.
Quotes with WHORLS (3)
Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise. We are alive against the stupendous odds of genetics, infinitely outnumbered by all the alternates who might, except for luck, be in our places. Even more astounding is our statistical improbability in physical terms. The normal, predictable state of matter throughout the universe is randomness, a relaxed so…
I am in good company, simply following those in front of me and knowing others are following behind. We are on our way up a narrow staircase. The bannister is a thick rope suggesting safety. The stairs go around and around inside a church tower; or perhaps it is a minaret? The whorls of the staircase grow narrower and narrower, but as there are so many people behind there is no longer any possibility of turning around or even stopping. The pressure from behind foeces me on. T…
Jack had wondered how geometers could be so inventive as to produce so many types and families of curves. Later he had come to perceive that of curves there was no end, and the true miracle was that poets, or writers, or whoever it was that was in charge of devising new words, could keep pace with those hectic geometers, and slap names on all the whorls and snarls in the pages of the Doctor's geometry-books.
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Appears in: Chronicle, CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 16 times in crossword archives (1972–2016).