Neaps is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.
You can make 77 anagrams from letters in neaps (aenps).
before 900; Middle English neep, Old English nēp-, in nēpflōd neap tide
At neap tides the rock shows only a few black teeth with sea-weed gums above the surface.
It was a time of neap or spring tide, besides which the wind was in the right direction to make the water rise very high.
The spring tide is lunar plus solar; the neap tide is lunar minus solar.
Height of neap and spring tides, at full and change of the moon.
So we have spring tides regularly once a fortnight, with neap tides in between.
When the two agree, we get a spring tide of four feet; when they oppose each other, we get a neap tide of only two feet.
From this it will be seen that there are two spring tides and two neap tides in each twenty-eight days.
A ship grounding in a very low tide (neap) is still said to be neaped.
The spring tides occur at the syzygies: the neap tides at the quadratures.
During the neap tides, the ship lay wholly aground, the sea not approaching nearer than within a hundred yards of her.
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