LexiTopic: Astronomy
The LexiConnexxions analysis has identified 37 words related to astronomy in the A-L portion of Spelling Bee lexicon, which comprises 63% of the entire lexicon. This list will continue to grow as the analysis continues.
The entire list is shown below, followed by the topical analysis with definitions. The definition of each word has been confirmed in Merriam-Webster online (abridged), the online dictionary well-known to Spelling Bee players.
Words marked with an asterisk have been used in at least one Bee puzzle, then subsequently disallowed; they are retained here for historical interest.
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The entire list is shown below, followed by the topical analysis with definitions. The definition of each word has been confirmed in Merriam-Webster online (abridged), the online dictionary well-known to Spelling Bee players.
Words marked with an asterisk have been used in at least one Bee puzzle, then subsequently disallowed; they are retained here for historical interest.
Please review "Important Information about this Resource" at the LexiTopics master page, in particular as to why words may appear more than once in the list.
Words Related to ASTRONOMY in the Spelling Bee lexicon
ALTITUDINALANOMALYAPOGEEAPOLLO*AURORAAURORALBELTBINARY
CHANGECHANGEDCHANGINGCOMACOMETCONTACTCORONADAWNECLIPTICEPOCH
FLATFULLGALACTICGEOLOGYGIANTGLOBALGLOBEHALOHALO
HEAVENHEAVENLYHELIACALHOURLAMPLANDLATITUDINALLIGHTLIMBLUNAR
THE COMPLETE TOPICAL ANALYSIS, WITH DEFINITIONS
BEE WORD: Definition from Merriam-Webster
ALTITUDINAL: related to the angular elevation of a celestial object above the horizon
ANOMALY: the angular distance of a planet from its perihelion as seen from the sun
APOGEE: the point in the orbit of an object (such as a satellite) orbiting the earth that is at the greatest distance from the center of the earth; also: the point farthest from a planet or a satellite (such as the moon) reached by an object orbiting it
APOLLO*: M-W capitalizes Apollo: any of a class of asteroids having an orbit that extends from inside to beyond the earth's orbit.
AURORA: a luminous phenomenon that consists of streamers or arches of light appearing in the upper atmosphere of a planet's magnetic polar regions
AURORAL: having to do with a luminous phenomenon that consists of streamers or arches of light appearing in the upper atmosphere of a planet's magnetic polar regions
BELT: the asteroid belt; the region of interplanetary space between the orbits of a beltway: a highway skirting an urban area Mars and Jupiter in which most asteroids are found
BINARY: a binary star, a system of two stars that revolve around each other under their mutual gravitation
CHANGE: the passage of the moon from one monthly revolution to another; also: the passage of the moon from one phase to another; also, of the moon: to pass from one phase to another
CHANGED: the passage of the moon from one monthly revolution to another; also: the passage of the moon from one phase to another; also, of the moon: to pass from one phase to another
CHANGING: the passage of the moon from one monthly revolution to another; also: the passage of the moon from one phase to another; also, of the moon: to pass from one phase to another
COMA: the head of a comet consisting of a cloud of gas and dust and usually containing a nucleus
COMET: a celestial body that appears as a fuzzy head usually surrounding a bright nucleus, that has a usually highly eccentric orbit, that consists primarily of ice and dust, and that often develops one or more long tails when near the sun
CONTACT: the apparent touching or mutual tangency of the limbs of two celestial bodies or of the disk of one body with the shadow of another during an eclipse, transit, or occultation
CORONA: a usually colored circle often seen around and close to a luminous body (such as the sun or moon) caused by diffraction produced by suspended droplets or occasionally particles of dust; or the tenuous outermost part of the atmosphere of a star (such as the sun); or a circle of light made by the apparent convergence of the streamers of the aurora borealis
DAWN:
ECLIPTIC: of or relating to an eclipse, or to the ecliptic: the great circle of the celestial sphere that is the apparent path of the sun among the stars or of the earth as seen from the sun: the plane of the earth's orbit extended to meet the celestial sphere
EPOCH: an instant of time or a date selected as a point of reference (as in astronomy)
FLAT: of a universe: having a mass such that expansion halts only after infinite time and collapse never occurs
FULL: being a full moon: completely illuminated
GALACTIC: of or relating to a galaxy and especially the Milky Way galaxy
GEOLOGY: a study of the solid matter of a celestial body (such as the moon)
GIANT: astronomy: a star of high luminosity and relatively great mass and size (a red giant)
GLOBAL: of or relating to a spherical celestial body (such as the moon)
GLOBE: a spherical representation of the earth, a celestial body, or the heavens; or the Earth, often capitalized: the planet on which we live that is third in order from the sun
HALO: a circle of light appearing to surround the sun or moon and resulting from refraction or reflection of light by ice particles in the atmosphere
HALO: a region of space surrounding a galaxy that is sparsely populated with luminous objects (such as globular clusters) but is believed to contain a great deal of dark matter
HEAVEN: the expanse of space that seems to be over the earth like a dome: the firmament; used in plural (the brightest star in the heavens)
HEAVENLY: of or relating to heaven or the heavens: celestial (e.g., celestial bodies)
HELIACAL: relating to or near the sun —used especially of the last setting of a star before and its first rising after invisibility due to conjunction with the sun
HOUR: an angular unit of right ascension equal to 15 degrees measured along the celestial equator
LAMP: a celestial body
LAND: the solid part of the surface of a celestial body (such as the moon)
LATITUDINAL: of or relating to latitude: angular distance of a celestial body from the ecliptic
LIGHT: a celestial body
LIMB: the outer edge of the apparent disk of a celestial body
LUNAR: of, relating to, or resembling the moon
ALTITUDINAL: related to the angular elevation of a celestial object above the horizon
ANOMALY: the angular distance of a planet from its perihelion as seen from the sun
APOGEE: the point in the orbit of an object (such as a satellite) orbiting the earth that is at the greatest distance from the center of the earth; also: the point farthest from a planet or a satellite (such as the moon) reached by an object orbiting it
APOLLO*: M-W capitalizes Apollo: any of a class of asteroids having an orbit that extends from inside to beyond the earth's orbit.
AURORA: a luminous phenomenon that consists of streamers or arches of light appearing in the upper atmosphere of a planet's magnetic polar regions
AURORAL: having to do with a luminous phenomenon that consists of streamers or arches of light appearing in the upper atmosphere of a planet's magnetic polar regions
BELT: the asteroid belt; the region of interplanetary space between the orbits of a beltway: a highway skirting an urban area Mars and Jupiter in which most asteroids are found
BINARY: a binary star, a system of two stars that revolve around each other under their mutual gravitation
CHANGE: the passage of the moon from one monthly revolution to another; also: the passage of the moon from one phase to another; also, of the moon: to pass from one phase to another
CHANGED: the passage of the moon from one monthly revolution to another; also: the passage of the moon from one phase to another; also, of the moon: to pass from one phase to another
CHANGING: the passage of the moon from one monthly revolution to another; also: the passage of the moon from one phase to another; also, of the moon: to pass from one phase to another
COMA: the head of a comet consisting of a cloud of gas and dust and usually containing a nucleus
COMET: a celestial body that appears as a fuzzy head usually surrounding a bright nucleus, that has a usually highly eccentric orbit, that consists primarily of ice and dust, and that often develops one or more long tails when near the sun
CONTACT: the apparent touching or mutual tangency of the limbs of two celestial bodies or of the disk of one body with the shadow of another during an eclipse, transit, or occultation
CORONA: a usually colored circle often seen around and close to a luminous body (such as the sun or moon) caused by diffraction produced by suspended droplets or occasionally particles of dust; or the tenuous outermost part of the atmosphere of a star (such as the sun); or a circle of light made by the apparent convergence of the streamers of the aurora borealis
DAWN:
ECLIPTIC: of or relating to an eclipse, or to the ecliptic: the great circle of the celestial sphere that is the apparent path of the sun among the stars or of the earth as seen from the sun: the plane of the earth's orbit extended to meet the celestial sphere
EPOCH: an instant of time or a date selected as a point of reference (as in astronomy)
FLAT: of a universe: having a mass such that expansion halts only after infinite time and collapse never occurs
FULL: being a full moon: completely illuminated
GALACTIC: of or relating to a galaxy and especially the Milky Way galaxy
GEOLOGY: a study of the solid matter of a celestial body (such as the moon)
GIANT: astronomy: a star of high luminosity and relatively great mass and size (a red giant)
GLOBAL: of or relating to a spherical celestial body (such as the moon)
GLOBE: a spherical representation of the earth, a celestial body, or the heavens; or the Earth, often capitalized: the planet on which we live that is third in order from the sun
HALO: a circle of light appearing to surround the sun or moon and resulting from refraction or reflection of light by ice particles in the atmosphere
HALO: a region of space surrounding a galaxy that is sparsely populated with luminous objects (such as globular clusters) but is believed to contain a great deal of dark matter
HEAVEN: the expanse of space that seems to be over the earth like a dome: the firmament; used in plural (the brightest star in the heavens)
HEAVENLY: of or relating to heaven or the heavens: celestial (e.g., celestial bodies)
HELIACAL: relating to or near the sun —used especially of the last setting of a star before and its first rising after invisibility due to conjunction with the sun
HOUR: an angular unit of right ascension equal to 15 degrees measured along the celestial equator
LAMP: a celestial body
LAND: the solid part of the surface of a celestial body (such as the moon)
LATITUDINAL: of or relating to latitude: angular distance of a celestial body from the ecliptic
LIGHT: a celestial body
LIMB: the outer edge of the apparent disk of a celestial body
LUNAR: of, relating to, or resembling the moon