Planet
Crossword Clue and Answers

Crossword Answers

3 letters

ORB
Move in an orbit; "The moon orbits around the Earth"; "The planets are orbiting the sun"; "electrons orbit the nucleus"

4 letters

MARS
A small reddish planet that is the 4th from the sun and is periodically visible to the naked eye; minerals rich in iron cover its surface and are responsible for its characteristic color; "Mars has two satellites"

5 letters

EARTH
A connection between an electrical device and a large conducting body, such as the earth (which is taken to be at zero voltage)

PLUTO
A small planet and the farthest known planet from the sun; it has the most elliptical orbit of all the planets; "Pluto was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930"

VENUS
Type genus of the family Veneridae: genus of edible clams with thick oval shells

GLOBE
A sphere on which a map (especially of the earth) is represented

WORLD
All of the living human inhabitants of the earth; "all the world loves a lover"; "she always used `humankind' because `mankind' seemed to slight the women"

DETER
Turn away from by persuasion; "Negative campaigning will only dissuade people"

DWARF
A plant or animal that is atypically small

6 letters

SATURN
(Roman mythology) god of agriculture and vegetation; counterpart of Greek Cronus; "Saturday is Saturn's Day"

URANUS
(Greek mythology) god of the heavens; son and husband of Gaea and father of the Titans in ancient mythology

7 letters

NEPTUNE
A giant planet with a ring of ice particles; the 8th planet from the sun is the most remote of the gas giants; "the existence of Neptune was predicted from perturbations in the orbit of Uranus and it was then identified in 1846"

JUPITER
(Roman mythology) supreme god of Romans; counterpart of Greek Zeus

MERCURY
Temperature measured by a mercury thermometer; "the mercury was falling rapidly"

8 letters

REVOLVER
A pistol with a revolving cylinder (usually having six chambers for bullets)

9 letters

SATELLITE
Any celestial body orbiting around a planet or star

11 letters

MAJORPLANET
(astronomy) any of the nine large celestial bodies in the solar system that revolve around the sun and shine by reflected light; Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto in order of their proximity to the sun; viewed from the constellation Hercules, all the planets rotate around the sun in a counterclockwise direction