Clepsydra is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.
You can make 692 anagrams from letters in clepsydra (acdelprsy).
1640-50; Latin Greek klepsýdra, equivalent to kleps- (klep-, stem of kléptein to steal, conceal + -s- formative in derivation) + hydra, derivative of hýdōr water
clepsydra, klep′si-dra, n. an instrument used by the Greeks and Romans for measuring time by the trickling of water.
The water-clock, or clepsydra, has been known to the Chinese for centuries.
This water clock was called a clepsydra, the name being taken from two Greek words meaning 'thief of water.'
In the clepsydra (Fig. 1) the descent of the weight was controlled by the size of the stream of flowing water.
Like the sun-dial and the clepsydra, the hour-glass is older than we know.
The principle is the same as that of the simplest form of clepsydra.
The Djyotisha also teaches the art of constructing a clepsydra, or water-clock.
The Greeks called the water-clock a clepsydra, which means "the water steals away."
They had but two measures of time—the clepsydra, or water-clock, and the sun-dial.
Each of the sides had a sort of dial, and the building formerly contained a clepsydra or water-clock.
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