solstice

solstice is a 8-letter English word with 4 senses as intransitive verb and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A stopping or standing still of the sun. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 12 · 4 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. A stopping or standing still of the sun.
2. intransitive verb. The point in the ecliptic at which the sun is farthest from the equator, north or south, namely, the first point of the sign Cancer and the first point of the sign Capricorn, the former being the summer solstice, latter the winter solstice, in northern latitudes; -- so called because the sun then apparently stands still in its northward or southward motion.
3. intransitive verb. The time of the sun's passing the solstices, or solstitial points, namely, about June 21 and December 21. See Illust. in Appendix.
4. noun. either of the two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in solstice:

solecist

Common word forms

solstices

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