a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations | sleeping for a short period of time (usually not in bed) |
the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause | a card game similar to whist; usually played for stakes |
an amount of time | the yarn (as in a rug or velvet or corduroy) that stands up from the weave |
the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon | a soft or fuzzy surface texture |
a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed | a period of time spent sleeping |
the end or completion of something | |
(ice hockey) one of three divisions into which play is divided in hockey games | |