a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations | living things collectively |
the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause | animation and energy in action or expression |
an amount of time | the experience of being alive; the course of human events and activities |
the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon | an account of the series of events making up a person's life |
a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed | a motive for living |
the end or completion of something | a living person |
(ice hockey) one of three divisions into which play is divided in hockey games | the organic phenomenon that distinguishes living organisms from nonliving ones |
| the condition of living or the state of being alive |
| a characteristic state or mode of living |
| the course of existence of an individual; the actions and events that occur in living |
| the period during which something is functional (as between birth and death) |
| the period between birth and the present time |
| the period from the present until death |
| a prison term lasting as long as the prisoner lives |