Scrabble & Words with friends points
- period is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 9
- period is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 9
- period is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 10
Definition of period
- an amount of time (noun)
Examples
- a time period of 30 years
- hastened the period of time of his recovery
- Picasso's blue period
Synonyms
- period of time
- time period
- the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause (noun)
Synonyms
- catamenia
- flow
- menses
- menstruation
- menstruum
- a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed (noun)
Examples
- ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods
Synonyms
- geological period
- a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations (noun)
Examples
- in England they call a period a stop
Synonyms
- full point
- full stop
- point
- stop
- (ice hockey) one of three divisions into which play is divided in hockey games (noun)
- the end or completion of something (noun)
Examples
- death put a period to his endeavors
- a change soon put a period to my tranquility
- the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon (noun)
See definition of period in Merriam Webster