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— English words —

• period n. A length of time.
• period n. A period of time in history seen as a single coherent entity; an epoch, era.
• period n. (Now chiefly North America, Philippines) The punctuation mark “.” (indicating the ending of a sentence…
• period n. (Figurative) A decisive end to something; a stop.
• period n. The length of time during which the same characteristics of a periodic phenomenon recur, such as the…
• period n. (Euphemistic) Female menstruation; an episode of this.
• period n. A section of an artist’s, writer’s (Etc.) career distinguished by a given quality, preoccupation etc.
• period n. Each of the divisions into which a school day is split, allocated to a given subject or activity.
• period n. (Sports, chiefly ice hockey) Each of the intervals, typically three, of which a game is divided.
• period n. (Sports, chiefly ice hockey) One or more additional intervals to decide a tied game, an overtime period.
• period n. (Obsolete, medicine) The length of time for a disease to run its course.
• period n. An end or conclusion; the final point of a process etc.
• period n. (Rhetoric) A complete sentence, especially one expressing a single thought or making a balanced, rhythmic whole.
• period n. (Obsolete) A specific moment during a given process; a point, a stage.
• period n. (Chemistry) A row in the periodic table of the elements.
• period n. (Geology) A geochronologic unit of millions to tens of millions of years; a subdivision of an era, and…
• period n. (Genetics) A Drosophila gene, the gene product of which is involved in regulation of the circadian rhythm.
• period n. (Music) Two phrases (an antecedent and a consequent phrase).
• period n. (Mathematics) The length of an interval over which a periodic function, periodic sequence or repeating…
• period n. (Archaic) End point, conclusion.
• period adj. Designating anything from a given historical era. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
• period adj. Evoking, or appropriate for, a particular historical period, especially through the use of elaborate…
• period interj. (Chiefly North America) That’s final; that’s the end of the matter (analogous to a period ending a sentence);…
• period v. (Obsolete, intransitive) To come to a period; to conclude.
• period v. (Obsolete, transitive, rare) To put an end to.

— Foreign words, define in English —

• Polish
  • period n. (Literary) period (a length of time).
  • period n. (Literary) period (a period of time in history seen as a single coherent entity).
  • period n. (Literary) period (the length of time during which the same characteristics of a periodic phenomenon recur).
  • period n. (Physiology) period (female menstruation).
  • period n. (Rhetoric) period (full sentence).
• Romanian
  • period n. Alternative form of perioadă.
• Serbo-croatian
  • period n. Period (of time).
• Swedish
  • period n. A period, a limited amount of time.
  • period n. (Ice hockey, floorball) period.

— English word, defined in German —

• period S. Periode, Zeitraum.

— English words, defined in Dutch —

• period n. Periode, tijdvak, tijdsinterval.
• period n. Punt (leesteken).
• period n. Menstruatie, maandstond.

— English words, defined in French —

• period n. Période.
• period n. Durée, temps.
• period n. Époque.
• period n. (Typographie) (États-Unis) (Canada) Point (ponctuation de fin de phrase).
• period n. Règles, menstruation.
• period interj. (États-Unis) Point, ni plus ni moins, point final.

— English words, defined in Spanish —

• period s. Período, periodo.
• period s. Punto final.
• period s. Regla, menstruación.
• period s. Punto (de puntuación).
• period adj. Propio o relacionado con un período en partícular.

— English words, defined in Portuguese —

• period s. Período.
• period s. Ponto (caractere de pontuação).
• period s. Menstruação.

— English words, defined in Italian —

• period s. (Fisica) (astronomia) periodo.
• period s. Epoca.
• period s. Lezione.
• period s. Punto.
• period s. (Medicina) mestruazioni.
• period agg. D’ epoca.

179 English words from 34 English definitions

activity add additional allocated Alternative America amount analogous and antecedent anything appropriate Archaic artist balanced Can career characteristics Chemistry chiefly circadian circadian␣rhythm coherent come come␣to complete conclude conclusion consequent consequent␣phrase course day decide decisive Designating disease distinguished divided divisions Drosophila during Each elaborate elements end ending end␣of End␣point entity episode epoch era especially etc Euphemistic Evoking example expressing female Figurative final floorball for form from full function game gene gene␣product Genetics geochronologic Geology given historical history hockey ice ice␣hockey indicating interval intervals into intransitive involved its length limited Literary making mark Mathematics matter medicine menstruation millions moment more Music North North␣America Now Obsolete of␣a of␣an one over overtime particular period periodic periodic␣function periodic␣table period␣of␣time phenomenon Philippines phrase phrases Physiology point preoccupation process product punctuation punctuation␣mark put put␣an␣end␣to quality rare recur regulation repeating Rhetoric rhythm rhythmic row run run␣its␣course same school school␣day section seen sense sentence sequence single something specific split Sports stage stop subdivision subject such such␣as table tens that the the␣same this thought three through tied time time␣in To␣come transitive Two typically unit use which whole writer years

14 English words from 24 foreign definitions

Canada con fin final menstruation periodo phrase plus point Ponto Punt Punto temps Unis

31 foreign words from 24 foreign definitions

astronomia caractere Durée epoca Époque États États-Unis Fisica leesteken Lezione Medicina Menstruação menstruación Menstruatie mestruazioni moins ni␣plus␣ni␣moins Période período point␣final ponctuation pontuação Propio puntuación Regla Règles relacionado tijdsinterval tijdvak Typographie Zeitraum

107 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

periodo periods periodt perioded periodic periodid periodate periodick periodide periodids perioding periodise periodize periodates periodical periodides periodised periodized periodizes periodlike period␣pain period␣play periodynia period␣drama periodicals periodicity periodicize periodic␣law periodinane periodising periodizing periodogram periodontal periodontic period␣pants period␣piece period␣dramas periodic␣acid periodically periodicized periodicizes periodinanes period␣of␣time periodograms periodontics periodontist periodontium periodoscope period␣pieces periodentosis +57 words

112 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

aperiodic biperiodic diperiodic subperiods unperiodic aperiodical e-periodical foreperiods free␣periods gyroperiods isoperiodic nonperiodic non-periodic preperiodic reperiodize semiperiods semi-periods subperiodic time␣periods uniperiodic zero␣periods antiperiodic aperiodicity eigenperiods e-periodicals equiperiodic grace␣periods hydroperiods monoperiodic photoperiods reperiodized reperiodizes scotoperiods semiperiodic skotoperiods unperiodical unperiodized antiperiodics aperiodically closed␣periods extraperiodic metaperiodate multiperiodic nonperiodical notice␣periods orthoperiodic photoperiodic quasiperiodic quasi-periodic reperiodizing +62 words

59 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

midperiod nonperiod subperiod foreperiod free␣period gyroperiod Late␣Period long-period Nara␣period semiperiod semi-period time␣period Uruk␣period zero␣period eigenperiod grace␣period hydroperiod intraperiod Meiji␣period multiperiod photoperiod scotoperiod short-period skotoperiod Third␣Period closed␣period modern␣period notice␣period on␣one's␣period Sothic␣period thermoperiod wash-up␣period Baroque␣period sunrise␣period synodic␣period critical␣period Hamilton␣period question␣period Question␣Period Romantic␣period rotation␣period sidereal␣period Classical␣period gestation␣period honeymoon␣period menstrual␣period Migration␣Period ovulatory␣period accounting␣period cooling-off␣period +9 words

15 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

Eri. IOD iod- -iod- per PER per- per. Per. peri Peri peri- rio Rio RIO

10 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

DOI ire IrE IRE Ire. OIr rep Rep REP Rep.

3 anagrams (New words found by changing the order of the letters.)

dopier dorpie -poride

37 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

diopter dioptre dorpies droppie eryopid Europid ice␣drop leporid leproid meropid percoid -peridol peridot periodo periods periodt peroxid Persoid poddier podgier poebird poë-bird poë␣bird poinder prevoid prodine proetid proined proteid protide prouide provide proxied pterido- pteroid reptoid roped␣in

17 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

Deori doper ordie orped Pedir Pedro Pider pored pride Pride -pride pried redip re-dip repod riped roped

2 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

periot Pernod

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