noctidial
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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
- Scrabble points
- 12
- Words With Friends
- 15
- Letters
- 9
Definition of noctidial
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
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(not-comparable, obsolete, possibly, rare)Comprising a night and a day.
“A noctidial period on Earth is 24 hours long.”
“The Noctidial Day, the Lunar Periodic Month, and the Solar Year are Natural and Universal; but Incommensurate each to other, and difficult to be reconciled: Yet we are constrained to make use of them, as Measures […]”
“[…] I extended my peragration of the occident in an austrine direction. After the profection of a noctidial period, I espied an ample concourse […]”
“Farewell to noctidial sittings, / Snatched naps, and occasional "nips"! / Good-bye to swift-bolted bun-lunches, / To tasks which I did not expect, […]”
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Etymology
From Latin nox, noctis (“night”) + dies (“day”).
Words you can make from noctidial
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48 words- ACOLD 8 pts
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80 words- ACID 7 pts
- CADI 7 pts
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38 words- CAD 6 pts
- COD 6 pts
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- LOT 3 pts
- NIL 3 pts
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