Word Finder - pyramids

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An ancient massive construction with a square or rectangular base and four triangular sides meeting in an apex, such as those built as tombs in Egypt or as bases for temples in Mesoamerica.

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A construction in the shape of a pyramid, usually with a square or rectangular base.

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A solid with triangular lateral faces and a polygonal (often square or rectangular) base.

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A medullary pyramid, the medial-most bumps on the ventral side of the medulla oblongata

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The game of pool in which the balls are placed in the form of a triangle at spot.

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A pyramid scheme.

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Alternative letter-case form of Pyramid. (a solitaire card game)

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The triangular layout of cards in the game of Pyramid.

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Build your pyramid with all cards face down, except the cards in the bottom row.

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An approximately triangular headline consisting of several centered lines of text of increasing length.

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To build up or be arranged in the form of a pyramid.

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To combine (a series of genes) into a single genotype.

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To employ, or take part in, a pyramid scheme.

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To engage in pyramid trading.

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The game of pyramid pool.

Thirty miles north are the pyramids of Meroe.

Pyramids of the Old and Middle kingdoms form a chain 20 m.

Great as it was, it created no empire outside the Nile valley, and its most imposing monument, which according to the testimony of the ancients rivalled the pyramids, is now represented by a vast stratum of chips.

The finding of worked iron in the Great Pyramids seems to corroborate this view.

Pyramids were erected for queens as well as for kings, and the position of the queens was little inferior to that of their consorts, though, so far as monumental representations go, they always yielded precedence to the latter.

Cheops, Chephren and Mycerinus are historical personages of the fourth Egyptian dynasty, in correct order, and they built the three pyramids attributed to them here.

They were pyramids on a square or oblong base, rising in successive terraces to a small summit-platform.

The pyramids of Egypt, the mausolea of the Lydian kings, the circular, chambered sepulchres of Mycenae, and the Etruscan tombs at Caere and Vold, are lineally descended from the chambered barrows of prehistoric times, modified in construction according to the advancement of architectural art at the period of their erection.

He accepted a division in the expedition to Egypt under Bonaparte, but was wounded in the head at Alexandria in the first engagement, which prevented his taking any further part in the campaign of the Pyramids, and caused him to be appointed governor of Alexandria.

In late times the priests of Denderah claimed Khufu as a benefactor; he was reputed to have built temples to the gods near the Great Pyramids and Sphinx (where also a pyramid of his daughter Hentsen is spoken of), and there are incidental notices of him in the medical and religious literature.

He was barely persuaded from ordering the barrage to be built with stone from the pyramids!

In it we have(a) the recently discovered inscriptions of the 1st Dynasty, too brief and concise to throw much light on the language of that time; and the great collections of spells and ritual texts found inscribed in the Pyramids of the Vth and VIth Dynasties, which must even then have been of high antiquity, though they contain later additions made in the same style.

The most impressive form of solitary cone is that wherein after vast denudation a thick overlying formation has been reduced to a single outlier, such as Morven in Caithness, the two Bens Griam in Sutherland, and still more strikingly, the pyramids of red sandstone on the western margin of the shires of Sutherland and Ross and Cromarty.

Of the phosphotungstic acids the most important is phosphoduodecitungstic acid, H 3 PW, 2040 nH 2 O, obtained in quadratic pyramids by crystallizing mixed solutions of orthophosphoric and metatungstic acids.

Silicotungstic acid is obtained as quadratic pyramids from its mercurous salt which is prepared from mercurous nitrate and the salt formed on boiling gelatinous silicic acid with a polytungstate of an alkali metal.

In 1881 he began a long series of important surveys and excavations in Egypt, beginning with the pyramids at Giza, and following up his work there by excavations at the great temple at Tanis (1884), and discovering and exploring the long-lost Greek city of Naucratis in the Delta (1885), and the towns of Am and Daphnae (1886), where he found important remains of the time when they were inhabited by the Pharaohs.

Laplace developed a theorem of Vandermonde for the expansion of a determinant, and in 1773 Joseph Louis Lagrange, in his memoir on Pyramids, used determinants of the third order, and proved that the square of a determinant was also a determinant.

The importance of their heliacal risings, or first visible appearances at dawn, for the purposes both of practical life and of ritual observance, caused them to be systematically noted; the length of the year was accurately fixed in connexion with the annually recurring Nile-flood; while the curiously precise orientation of the Pyramids affords a lasting demonstration of the high degree of technical skill in watching the heavens attained in the third millennium B.C. The constellational system in vogue among the Egyptians appears to have been essentially of native origin; but they contributed little or nothing to the genuine progress of astronomy.

This elevated region is broken in all directions by mountains, from which the crystalline rocks show most frequently as huge bosses, and in certain regions present very varied and picturesque outlines, resembling Titanic castles,cathedrals,domes, pyramids and spires.

Five equilateral triangles covertically placed would stand on a pentagonal base, and it was found that, by forming several sets of such pyramids, a solid could be obtained which had zo triangular faces, which met in pairs to form 30 edges, and in fives to form 12 vertices.

In the immediate neighbourhood of Jebel Barkal (the " holy mountain " of the ancient Egyptians), a flat-topped hill which rises abruptly from the desert on the right bank of the Nile a mile or two above the existing village of Merawi (Merowe), are many pyramids and six temples, the pyramids having a height of from 35 to 60 ft.

Pyramids are also found at Zuma and Kurru on the right bank, and at Tangassi on the left bank of the river, these places being about 20 m.

On the left bank of the Nile opposite Merawi are the pyramids of Nuri, and a few miles distant in the Wadi Ghazal are the ruins of a great Christian monastery, where were found gravestones with inscriptions in Greek and Coptic. Ruins of various ages extend from Merawi to the Fourth Cataract.

Thirty miles north of the town of Shendi are the pyramids of Meroe (or Assur) in three distinct groups.

From one of these pyramids was taken " the treasure of Queen Candace," now in the Berlin Museum.

Many of the pyramids have a small shrine on the eastern side inscribed with debased Egyptian or Meroite hieroglyphics.

These pyramids are on the right bank of the Nile, that is in the " Island of Meroe."

The buildings stand upon raised terraces, or upon truncated pyramids, approached by broad stairways, usually of cut stone.

The ruined temples and pyramids are noted for their exquisite carvings.

We cooked so many fabulous dishes, from duck confit and chicken salad to poussin, which we stuffed and twisted into perfect pyramids.

The following program was also about showing the cross-pollination of some of the pyramids built on just one continent, the African continent.

The form of David Mitchell's Six-way Brick is a rhombic dodecahedron from which twelve small rhombic pyramids have been removed.

The pyramids had the purpose of keeping the land fertile by charging it with yang energy.

F rotates the icosahedron in various ways apparently looking for pentagon based pyramids on the " left " and " right " hand sides.

Active volcanoes, ice fluted pyramids and immense rock monoliths are just a few examples of what this fantastic continent has to offer.

In the City I the tops of the pyramids form a perfect pentagon.

The site includes 7 plazas, 2 ball courts, 6 plain Stela and 1 alter, as well as temple pyramids.

In origami this term is often misused to mean any star-like form produced by adding pyramids to the faces of a convex polyhedron.

Built over 4000 years ago, the Step pyramid at Saqqara predates the great pyramids by over 1000 years.

The Predators gave humans knowledge and taught them how to construct pyramids.

Are they inverted pyramids, referring to the Egyptian book of the dead?

Originally there were probably 15 or 20 of these steep-sided, truncated pyramids around the bay.

From here visit the enticing colonial town of Taxco or the enormous Aztec pyramids at Teotihuacán.

The first was the obvious similarity in shape to the early Egyptian pyramids.

It actually predates the pyramids of Egypt and the current consensus is that it was an astronomical observatory.

The form of David Mitchell's Six-way Brick is a rhombic dodecahedron from which twelve small rhombic dodecahedron from which twelve small rhombic pyramids have been removed.

Can Danger Mouse and his bumbling sidekick Penfold keep us safe from deadly sound guns, giant chickens, pyramids and robot ghosts?

First to Giza, where youâll stand in wonder at the huge Pyramids and see the enigmatic sphinx.

Beside the great pyramids at Giza stands a giant sphinx (a lion's body with a man's head ).

I hired a taxi at 2 o'clock a.m. to take me out to the pyramids.