spheroid

spheroid is a 8-letter English word with 2 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A body or figure approaching to a sphere, but not perfectly spherical; esp., a solid generated by the revolution of an ellipse about one of its axes. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 14 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 14 · Words With Friends 14 · 2 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A body or figure approaching to a sphere, but not perfectly spherical; esp., a solid generated by the revolution of an ellipse about one of its axes.
2. noun. a shape that is generated by rotating an ellipse around one of its axes

   "it looked like a sphere but on closer examination I saw it was really a spheroid"

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in spheroid:

serphoid

Common word forms

spheroids, spheroidal, spheroidity, spheroidize

Words from these letters

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