Period Crossword Clue Answers

3 letter answer(s) to period

AGE

a late time of life; "old age is not for sissies"; "he's showing his years"; "age hasn't slowed him down at all"; "a beard white with eld"; "on the brink of geezerhood"
a prolonged period of time; "we've known each other for ages"; "I haven't been there for years and years"
an era of history having some distinctive feature; "we live in a litigious age"
epoch/era
grow old or older; "She aged gracefully"; "we age every day--what a depressing thought!"; "Young men senesce"
begin to seem older; get older; "The death of his wife caused him to age fast"
make older; "The death of his child aged him tremendously"
how long something has existed; "it was replaced because of its age"
a time of life (usually defined in years) at which some particular qualification or power arises; "she was now of school age"; "tall for his eld"

DOT

make a dot or dots
distribute loosely; "He scattered gun powder under the wagon"
scatter or intersperse like dots or studs; "Hills constellated with lights"
street name for lysergic acid diethylamide
the shorter of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code
the United States federal department that institutes and coordinates national transportation programs; created in 1966
a very small circular shape; "a row of points"; "draw lines between the dots"
mark with a dot; "dot your `i's"

END

the concluding parts of an event or occurrence; "the end was exciting"; "I had to miss the last of the movie"
a boundary marking the extremities of something; "the end of town"
either extremity of something that has length; "the end of the pier"; "she knotted the end of the thread"; "they rode to the end of the line"; "the terminals of the anterior arches of the fornix"
the surface at either extremity of a three-dimensional object; "one end of the box was marked `This side up'"
one of two places from which people are communicating to each other; "the phone rang at the other end"; "both ends wrote at the same time"
(football) the person who plays at one end of the line of scrimmage; "the end managed to hold onto the pass"
a final state; "he came to a bad end"; "the so-called glorious experiment came to an inglorious end"
the point in time at which something ends; "the end of the year"; "the ending of warranty

ERA

(baseball) a measure of a pitcher's effectiveness; calculated as the average number of earned runs allowed by the pitcher for every nine innings pitched
a major division of geological time; an era is usually divided into two or more periods
a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event
Abbreviation for Engine Room Artificer - rank in Royal Navy

5 letter answer(s) to period

EPOCH

a unit of geological time that is a subdivision of a period and is itself divided into ages
a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event
(astronomy) an arbitrarily fixed date that is the point in time relative to which information (as coordinates of a celestial body) is recorded
era

PHASE

(astronomy) the particular appearance of a body's state of illumination (especially one of the recurring shapes of the part of Earth's moon that is illuminated by the sun); "the full phase of the moon"
(physical chemistry) a distinct state of matter in a system; matter that is identical in chemical composition and physical state and separated from other material by the phase boundary; "the reaction occurs in the liquid phase of the system"
a particular point in the time of a cycle; measured from some arbitrary zero and expressed as an angle
adjust so as to be in a synchronized condition; "he phased the intake with the output of the machine"
any distinct time period in a sequence of events; "we are in a transitional stage in which many former ideas must be revised or rejected"
arrange in phases or stages; "phase a withdrawal"

STAGE

a section or portion of a journey or course; "then we embarked on the second stage of our Caribbean cruise"
a large platform on which people can stand and can be seen by an audience; "he clambered up onto the stage and got the actors to help him into the box"
a small platform on a microscope where the specimen is mounted for examination
a large coach-and-four formerly used to carry passengers and mail on regular routes between towns; "we went out of town together by stage about ten or twelve miles"
the theater as a profession (usually `the stage'); "an early movie simply showed a long kiss by two actors of the contemporary stage"
plan, organize, and carry out (an event); "the neighboring tribe staged an invasion"
any scene regarded as a setting for exhibiting or doing something; "All the world's a stage"--Shakespeare; "it set the stage for peaceful negotiations"
perform (a play), especially on a stage; "we are going

7 letter answer(s) to period

REGENCY

the period of time during which a regent governs
the office of a regent
the period from 1811-1820 when the Prince of Wales was regent during George III's periods of insanity

4 letter answer(s) to period

TERM

name formally or designate with a term
(architecture) a statue or a human bust or an animal carved out of the top of a square pillar; originally used as a boundary marker in ancient Rome
any distinct quantity contained in a polynomial; "the general term of an algebraic equation of the n-th degree"
a word or expression used for some particular thing; "he learned many medical terms"
one of the substantive phrases in a logical proposition; "the major term of a syllogism must occur twice"
(usually plural) a statement of what is required as part of an agreement; "the contract set out the conditions of the lease"; "the terms of the treaty were generous"
a limited period of time; "a prison term"; "he left school before the end of term"
the end of gestation or point at which birth is imminent; "a healthy baby born at full term"

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