filament /filˈə-mənt/

1. A slender or threadlike object
2. A fibre
3. The stalk of a stamen (botany)
4. A chain of cells
5. A thread of high resistance in an incandescent lamp or thermionic valve (elec)

filamentary /-mentˈə-ri/ adjective

Like a filament

filamentˈous adjective

1. Threadlike
2. Of some bacteria, viruses, etc, having long strands of similar cells (biology)

• stiring
• stirk
• stirks
• stirless
• Stirling engine
• stir one's stumps
• stir out
• stirp
• stirpes
• stirpiculture
• swelts
• swept
• sweptback
• sweptwing
• swerf
• swerfed
• swerfing
• swerfs
• Swerga
• swerve
• swerved
• swerveless
• swerver
• swervers
• swerves