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n. - A portion of time as limited and determined by some recurring phenomenon, as by the completion of a revolution of one of the heavenly bodies; a division of time, as a series of years, months, or days, in which something is completed, and ready to recommence and go on in the same order; as, the period of the sun, or the earth, or a comet. ²
n. - A stated and recurring interval of time; more generally, an interval of time specified or left indefinite; a certain series of years, months, days, or the like; a time; a cycle; an age; an epoch; as, the period of the Roman republic. ²
n. - One of the great divisions of geological time; as, the Tertiary period; the Glacial period. See the Chart of Geology. ²
n. - The termination or completion of a revolution, cycle, series of events, single event, or act; hence, a limit; a bound; an end; a conclusion. ²
n. - A complete sentence, from one full stop to another; esp., a well-proportioned, harmonious sentence. ²
n. - The punctuation point [.] that marks the end of a complete sentence, or of an abbreviated word. ²
n. - One of several similar sets of figures or terms usually marked by points or commas placed at regular intervals, as in numeration, in the extraction of roots, and in circulating decimals. ²
n. - The time of the exacerbation and remission of a disease, or of the paroxysm and intermission. ²
n. - A complete musical sentence. ²
v. t. - To put an end to. ²
v. i. - To come to a period; to conclude. [Obs.] "You may period upon this, that," etc. ²

The word "period" uses 6 letters: D E I O P R.

Direct anagrams of period:
  dopier

Words formed by adding one letter before or after period (in bold), or to deiopr in any order:
c -   percoid   g -   podgier   l -   leporid   s -   periods   t -   diopter   dioptre   peridot   proteid   v -   provide   x -   peroxid  

Shorter words found within period:
de   die   dip   dire   do   doe   doer   dope   doper   dor   dore   dorp   drip   drop   ed   er   id   ire   ired   od   ode   oe   op   ope   oped   or   ore   pe   ped   pedro   per   peri   pi   pie   pied   pier   pod   poi   pore   pored   pride   pried   pro   prod   re   red   redip   redo   rei   rep   repo   rid   ride   rip   ripe   riped   rod   rode   roe   rope   roped  

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