period: Information About The Word 'period'

period is an acceptable dictionary word for games like scrabble, words with friends, crossword, etc.

The word 'period' is made up of 6 letters.

Meanings:
  • (n) an amount of time; "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period"
  • (n) one of three periods of play in hockey games
  • (n) a stage in the history of a culture having a definable place in space and time; "a novel from the Victorian period"
  • (n) the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon
  • (n) the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause; "the women were sickly and subject to excessive menstruation"; "a woman does not take the gout unless her menses be stopped"--Hippocrates; "the semen begins to
  • (n) a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations; "in England they call a period a stop"
  • (n) a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed; "ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods"
  • (n) the end or completion of something; "death put a period to his endeavors"; "a change soon put a period to my tranquility"
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Using the word 'period' in Scrabble will fetch you 9 points while using it in Words with Friends will fetch you 10 points (without taking into consideration the effect of any multipliers).

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Words Ending With 'period'

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Words Starting With 'period'

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Words Containing 'period'

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Points in Scrabble for period9
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Number of Letters in period6
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