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Updated June 2026
Lengths or portions of time, or intervals between events. Can also refer to punctuation marks (full stops) or menstrual cycles.
“The museum exhibition covers several historical periods from ancient to modern times.”
Contains three vowels E, I, O with common consonants P, R, D, S
Worth 10 points; valuable P with useful S plural for extensions
Shorter words formed from the letters in “periods”.
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