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8 letters · 17 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a circle that rolls around (inside or outside) another circle; generates an epicycloid or hypocycloid
originFrom Latin epicyclus, from Ancient Greek ἐπίκυκλος (epíkuklos), from ἐπί (epí, “upon”) + κύκλος (kúklos, “circle”). The ad hoc complication sense is a generalization from the archetype supplied by the Ptolemaic astronomy sense.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- piccy 14
- cicely 13
- clypei 13
- cycle 12
- leccy 12
- pyic 11
- lycee 10
- clepe 9
- piece 9
- pily 9
- yelp 9
- yipe 9