centripetal

centripetal has 7 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 11.

Definitions

• a.. Tending, or causing, to approach the center.
• a.. Expanding first at the base of the inflorescence, and proceeding in order towards the summit.
• a.. Having the radicle turned toward the axis of the fruit, as some embryos.
• a.. Progressing by changes from the exterior of a thing toward its center; as, the centripetal calcification of a bone.
• a.. tending to move toward a center; "centripetal force"
• a.. of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the central nervous system; "sensory neurons"
• a.. tending to unify