epicycle

1. In Ptolemaic cosmology, a small circle, the center of which moves on the circumference of a larger circle at whose center is the earth and the circumference of which describes the orbit of one of the planets around the earth.

2. Mathematics A circle whose circumference rolls along the circumference of a fixed circle, thereby generating an epicycloid or a hypocycloid.

3. A process going on within a larger one.

4. A circle in which a planet moves and which has a center that is itself carried around at the same time on the circumference of a larger circle.

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Top Words by points	Points	Word Game
epicycle	17	Scrabble

2 Letters	Scrabble® Points
li	2
ye	5
pe	4
pi	4
el	2

3 Letters	Scrabble® Points
pec	7
lei	3
ley	6
lie	3
lip	5
lye	6
cel	5
pee	5
pic	7
pie	5
ply	8
pye	8
yep	8
yip	8
icy	8
ice	5
lee	3
cee	5
cep	7
eye	6
eel	3

4 Letters	Scrabble® Points
peel	6
yipe	9
pele	6
pice	8
pile	6
pily	9
plie	6
pyic	11
ceil	6
yelp	9
cepe	8
clip	8
lipe	6
lice	6
eely	7
epic	8

5 Letters	Scrabble® Points
clepe	9
cycle	12
lycee	10
piece	9

6 Letters	Scrabble® Points
cicely	13
clypei	13

8 Letters	Scrabble® Points
epicycle	17