Elliptical is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ELLIPTICAL in dictionary:

NOUN:
• an ellipse
ADJECTIVE:
• having the shape of an ellipse, also ELLIPTIC
• (of speech or writing) using or involving ellipsis, especially so as to be difficult to understand
• Of or pertaining to an ellipse; having the form of an ellipse; oblong, with rounded ends.
• Having a part omitted; as, an elliptical phrase.
• rounded like an egg
• characterized by extreme economy of expression or omission of superfluous elements
• having the shape of an ellipse
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• of, relating to, or shaped like an ellipse

Words related to ELLIPTICAL

elliptically19 ellipticalness18 ellipticals15

Words that contain ELLIPTICAL

ellipticals15 elliptically19 ellipticalness18 semielliptical20

How to use ELLIPTICAL in a sentence

• The fortress, as I have already stated, occupies the crest of an elliptical mound, about one thousand feet by six hundred, and two hundred feet in height.
• The elliptical plan has been found to be most successful, and has been applied with equal success in schools for older children, and also children of another grade.
• If the difference be not obvious, it can hardly be a momentous error, to mistake a phrase for an elliptical clause, or to call such a clause a phrase.
• Whether this phraseology is thus elliptical or not, is questionable.
• We looked on the great valley of the Arno, perhaps twenty-five miles long, and five or six broad, lying like a long elliptical basin sunk among the hills.
• At first he inclined to believe that the orbit of Mars is oval, nor was it until after a wearisome study that he detected the grand truth, its elliptical form.
• A further search revealed a couple of elliptical balls, quite good in places.
• This apartment or hall is elliptical in shape and eighty feet long by fifty wide.
• Elliptical questions may be asked, the pupil supplying the missing word.
• The action of our globe rendered elliptical an equator which otherwise would have been circular.
• The same plan has been tried before, especially in the great elliptical building at Vienna.
• They are larger than those of Guayaquil, or about four inches long, of an elliptical shape, with a rough, calcareous shell.
• The planets all move in elliptical orbits, nearly circular.
• Guns are mounted on the platform, which thus becomes a circular or elliptical turret, just above the water when the vessel is in fighting trim.
• The canopy consists of an arch of a curious elliptical shape, over which are three clusters of tabernacle work, with pinnacles between them.
• Of these attendant bodies which the sun maintains in their elliptical orbit by the great law of gravitation, some possess satellites of their own.
• These elliptical orbits are common to all the planets as well as to all the satellites, and rational mechanism rigorously proves that it could not be otherwise.
• Mount Philolaus rose about the 70th degree to a height of 3,700 metres, opening an elliptical crater sixteen leagues long and four wide.
• The elliptical curve was, therefore, being rigorously described.
• It affects a slightly elliptical form, and is inclosed by circular ramparts, which on the east and west overlook the exterior plain from a height of 5,000 metres.
• In fact, it being admitted that the bullet would describe an orbit round the moon, that orbit must necessarily be elliptical.
• Gesture is the elliptical language given to man to express what speech is powerless to say.
• It produces elliptical pods which burst open when ripe, exposing a silky white cotton.
• It is an elliptical tunnel of brick, placed under ground, and marked by turrets of brick and stone placed along its course.
• These quallies are small elliptical pans, and resemble in form the sugar coppers of the West Indies, and would each hold about five gallons of fluid.
• Four elliptical chambers, one of which is at a much higher level than the rest of the building, have been added.
• In other cases the enclosure was elliptical or circular in form.

Similar words containing ELLIPTIC without suffix al

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