All spine synonyms

noun spine

• determination — Determination is the quality that you show when you have decided to do something and you will not let anything stop you.
• hogback — a long, sharply crested ridge, generally formed of steeply inclined strata that are especially resistant to erosion.
• chutzpah — If you say that someone has chutzpah, you mean that you admire the fact that they are not afraid or embarrassed to do or say things that shock, surprise, or annoy other people.
• antler — A male deer's antlers are the branched horns on its head.
• fortitude — mental and emotional strength in facing difficulty, adversity, danger, or temptation courageously: Never once did her fortitude waver during that long illness.
• backbone — Your backbone is the column of small linked bones down the middle of your back.
• indomitability — that cannot be subdued or overcome, as persons, will, or courage; unconquerable: an indomitable warrior.
• acicula — a needle-shaped part, such as a spine, prickle, or crystal
• esker — A long ridge of gravel and other sediment, typically having a winding course, deposited by meltwater from a retreating glacier or ice sheet.
• foreland — a cape, headland, or promontory.
• brier — any of various thorny shrubs or other plants, such as the sweetbrier and greenbrier
• dogmatism — dogmatic character; unfounded positiveness in matters of opinion; arrogant assertion of opinions as truths.
• barb — A barb is a sharp curved point near the end of an arrow or fish-hook which makes it difficult to pull out.
• horn — Cape. Cape Horn.
• rachis — Botany. the axis of an inflorescence when somewhat elongated, as in a raceme. (in a pinnately compound leaf or frond) the prolongation of the petiole along which the leaflets are disposed. any of various axial structures.
• nib — his/her nibs, Informal: Often Facetious. a person in authority, especially one who is demanding and tyrannical: His nibs wants fresh strawberries in December.
• awn — any of the bristles growing from the spikelets of certain grasses, including cereals
• mainstay — Nautical. the stay that secures the mainmast forward.
• guts — the alimentary canal, especially between the pylorus and the anus, or some portion of it. Compare foregut, midgut, hindgut.
• needle — a small, slender, rodlike instrument, usually of polished steel, with a sharp point at one end and an eye or hole for thread at the other, for passing thread through cloth to make stitches in sewing.
• decision — When you make a decision, you choose what should be done or which is the best of various possible actions.
• grit — abrasive particles or granules, as of sand or other small, coarse impurities found in the air, food, water, etc.
• mucro — a short point projecting abruptly, as at the end of a leaf.
• feather — one of the horny structures forming the principal covering of birds, consisting typically of a hard, tubular portion attached to the body and tapering into a thinner, stemlike portion bearing a series of slender, barbed processes that interlock to form a flat structure on each side.
• nibs — the point of a pen, or either of its divisions.
• obstinance — The characteristic of being obstinate.
• quill — one of the large feathers of the wing or tail of a bird.
• moraine — a ridge, mound, or irregular mass of unstratified glacial drift, chiefly boulders, gravel, sand, and clay.
• outthrust — thrust or extended outward: a friendly, outthrust hand.
• back — If you move back, you move in the opposite direction to the one in which you are facing or in which you were moving before.
• chine — the backbone