Crossword-Solution: ELLIPTIC 8 letters, 7 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

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Elliptic a. Alt. of Elliptical

We have 7 clues for the answer “ELLIPTIC”

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relating to or having the shape of an ellipse 1 answer
HAVING part omitted 2 answers
Like Earth's orbit 2 answers
Ovate 2 answers
egg shaped 5 answers
Oval 8 answers
Egg-shaped 9 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with ELLIPTIC (5)

This garment was girt up at the waist with a simple golden curb-like chain, from which hung long elliptic plates of the same metal, fashioned in shiny scales like those of a fish, that, as their wearers moved, jingled and reflected the light.
Allan Quatermain H. Rider Haggard 1996
Thus Radack group of atolls is an irregular square, 520 miles long and 240 broad; the Low Archipelago is elliptic-formed, 840 miles in its longer, and 420 in its shorter axis: there are other small groups and single low islands between these two archipelagoes, making a linear space of ocean actually more than 4000 miles in length, in which not one single island rises above the specified height.
The Voyage of the Beagle Charles Darwin 1997
This difference is found to reside in the fact that the equator, which in the planetary family has hitherto been circular in section, tends to become elliptic.
Darwin and Modern Science A.C. Seward and Others 1999
This stage in the process is a form of bifurcation, and the stability passes over to a new series consisting of cylinders which are elliptic in section.
Darwin and Modern Science A.C. Seward and Others 1999
The circular cylinders are exactly analogous with our planetary spheroids, and the elliptic ones with the Jacobian ellipsoids.
Darwin and Modern Science A.C. Seward and Others 1999

Quotes with ELLIPTIC (1)

She captured the spot of my world’s centre and sent me in elliptic rings about it, causing the ground beneath me to vanish and the breath of my lungs to disperse. I was a rock locked in helpless orbit.
Richard Ronald Allan Exit Eleonora
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Appears in: LAT, NYT, USA TODAY.

Used 4 times in crossword archives (1984–2019).