Clues for the word "TERM"
We've had 267 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 716 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New Zealand Herald crossword on January 02, 2026.
Definition of term
- n. - That which limits the extent of anything; limit; extremity; bound; boundary.
- n. - The time for which anything lasts; any limited time; as, a term of five years; the term of life.
- n. - In universities, schools, etc., a definite continuous period during which instruction is regularly given to students; as, the school year is divided into three terms.
- n. - A point, line, or superficies, that limits; as, a line is the term of a superficies, and a superficies is the term of a solid.
- n. - A fixed period of time; a prescribed duration
- n. - The limitation of an estate; or rather, the whole time for which an estate is granted, as for the term of a life or lives, or for a term of years.
- n. - A space of time granted to a debtor for discharging his obligation.
- n. - The time in which a court is held or is open for the trial of causes.
- n. - The subject or the predicate of a proposition; one of the three component parts of a syllogism, each one of which is used twice.
- n. - A word or expression; specifically, one that has a precisely limited meaning in certain relations and uses, or is peculiar to a science, art, profession, or the like; as, a technical term.
- n. - A quadrangular pillar, adorned on the top with the figure of a head, as of a man, woman, or satyr; -- called also terminal figure. See Terminus, n., 2 and 3.
- n. - A member of a compound quantity; as, a or b in a + b; ab or cd in ab - cd.
- n. - The menses.
- n. - Propositions or promises, as in contracts, which, when assented to or accepted by another, settle the contract and bind the parties; conditions.
- n. - In Scotland, the time fixed for the payment of rents.
- n. - A piece of carved work placed under each end of the taffrail.
- n. - To apply a term to; to name; to call; to denominate.
Referring Clues
- Presidential run
- School session
- What-you-may-call-it?
- ___ limit
- Period
- Insurance policy specification
- Six years, for a senator
- Duration
- Four years, maybe
- Two years in the House
- Carter had one
- Six years, in the 46-Across
- Contract stipulation
- Five to ten, e.g.
- Glossary entry
- Time in office
- Glossary part
- Something to serve
- Kind of paper
- Prison sentence
- Semester, e.g.
- Presidential time
- Period in office
- Course
- Lexicographer's study
- Four years for a U.S. president
- Time spent in a seat
- Semester
- Five years, to a French president
- Time in a seat
- Stretch in a seat
- ___ limits (election issue)
- Six years, for a 23-Across
- Component of an algebraic equation
- Kind of life insurance
- Full gestation period
- School period
- Type of life insurance
- Academic session
- Limited time
- Six years, to a senator
- Six years for a senator
- Stretch
- Four years, for a president
- Four years, for the president
- Life insurance category
- Barack Obama won one
- Four years, for a U.S. president
- School year division
- ___ paper (major school assignment)
- Not whole, as life insurance
- Six years, for a U.S. senator
- Condition
- Insurance type
- School division
- Stretch in the Senate
- Senator's six years, say
- College period
- Six years, for senators
- Word for something
- Contract proviso
- Call
- What to call it
- Tenure
- Tenure of office
- Period of office
- Kind of insurance
- Academic calendar division
- Academic period
- Limit setter
- Contract condition
- Judge's determination
- Set length of time
- ___ insurance
- Quarter or semester
- School semester
- -
- Division of a school year
- Life insurance option
- ___ insurance
- Four years at 1600, e.g.
- Length of a sentence
- Jail sentence
- Fixed run
- Four years in the White House
- Contract clause
- Expression
- Service period
- Six years in the Senate
- Clause in a contract
- Office length
- Section of a school year
- Life, for a Supreme Court justice
- Stretch in the womb
- Contract period
- Time spent in an office?
- Four years, perhaps
- Full gestation
- Contract detail
- President's four years, e.g.
- In-office time
- Senate stretch
- ___ paper: school composition
- Presidential stint
- Time spent in office
- Period with limits
- College session
- Length of office
- Six years, perhaps
- Prisoner's sentence
- Set duration
- Sentence
- Item on a contract
- What-you-may-call-it
- Time between inaugurations
- Technical word
- Six years, for U.S. senators
- Stretch before giving birth
- Phrase
- Political period
- Elected period
- Two years, for a representative on Capitol Hill
- ___ limits
- Period of service
- School segment
- Nine-month pregnancy
- Part of an algebraic expression
- Two semesters
- Describe as
- Time spent in one's seat
- Part of the school year
- Word
- Hill stint
- Insurance policy datum
- College semester
- Senate stint
- ___ paper
- Part of a school year
- A limited period
- The four years of a U.S. president
- Five years, for the U.N. secretary general
- Presidential period
- Senator's six years
- Contractual detail
- Word with "paper"
- Jimmy Carter had one
- Time in a pen
- Stint
- President's run
- Type of paper
- Life is a bad one
- Educational period
- Contract part
- Life, for one
- Prisoner's stretch
- Long- ___-; lasting for quite a while
- Length
- Period of time
- School year
- Part of a semester
- Expression used for part of school year
- Some schoolmaster missing for part of school year
- Division of the school year
- Period of time before giving birth
- Duration of contract
- Period of contract
- Course of record contract
- Cure "A Short ___ Effect"
- Record contract course
- Limited period of time
- Word or expression for some particular thing
- See 6
- Call time
- See 23
- Limit
- Name for an extract of buttermilk
- Period during the winter months
- Spell name
- A little costermonger's call
- Expression - period of time
- An educational expression?
- At school, perhaps, an extract of buttermilk
- Regular features of the grim academic session
- Spell - word
- Hilary, perhaps, one of 3
- Limit - school time
- Computer device reduced by 50% for a limited period
- Subject of some limits
- Politician's time
- A word used among master mariners
- Name Hilary, for example
- End call
- Call for a spell
- Appointed date
- Sextet in the Senate
- In the long ___ (over a lengthy period)
- Senatorial stretch
- School half-semester
- Two years, for a US representative
- One year, for Miss America
- Six years in D.C., maybe
- Senate six years
- One's years in office
- Office period
- Semester or quarter
- Contract's effective period
- Timespan
- Spell a word
- Contract specification
- Two, four or six years, say
- Four years, in some cases
- Word for word?
- The spell of education
- Four years for U.S. presidents, for example
- A U.S. senator's is six years
- Bring to ___
- School unit
- Glossary unit
- House stretch
- Long-___ project
- What it's called
- At school, among one's bitter memories?
- Span of time
- Glossary item
- Part of a settlement agreement
- Political stretch
- Two years, for a U.S. House member
- Stretch in office
- Period of tenure
- ___ limits (political issue)
- Stint in office
- Bit of jargon
- One at school during the winter months?
- Senator's time in office
- Life is a long one
- Word with paper or limit
- Work duration
- Normal length of a pregnancy
- One of two for 52-Down
- Short-___ memory
- Senator's tenure
- Name for something
- Time spent in an office?
- Kind of limit
- Sentence ... or something found in a sentence
- Semester, for example
- Part of an academic year
- short - memory filler?
- Length for a pregnancy
- 39 weeks, for a pregnancy
- Lifetime, for the U.S. Supreme Court
- Trimester, e.g.
- An educational expression?
- Full-___ pregnancy
- Semester or trimester
- Word with paper or insurance
- Academic semester
- Report card period
- Word in a glossary
- Time period
- Bit of technical vocab
- Years of service
- One of four for F.D.R.
- Length for a pregnancy or presidency
- Bush Senior and Carter each had one
- Nine months, typically, for a human pregnancy
- Word after long or before paper
Last Seen In
- New Zealand Herald - January 02, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - December 30, 2025
- Mirror Daily - November 23, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - November 16, 2025
- New York Times - October 28, 2025
- Daily American - October 22, 2025
- Mirror Daily - October 09, 2025
- Mirror Daily - October 01, 2025
- New York Times - September 25, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - September 24, 2025
- Mirror Daily - September 07, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - September 02, 2025
- Mirror Daily - September 01, 2025
- Mirror Daily - August 24, 2025
- New York Times - August 04, 2025
- New York Times - July 15, 2025
- New York Times - July 08, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 02, 2025
- Penny Dell Sunday - June 29, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - May 24, 2025
- New York Times - May 12, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - May 06, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - May 03, 2025
- New York Times - April 27, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - April 24, 2025
- Mirror Daily - April 22, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - April 22, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - April 21, 2025
- Your Life Choices - April 16, 2025
- Mirror Mini - April 11, 2025
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