6-Letter Words Starting EP & Ending S

• an ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure equal to about a bushel

• a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event

• (astronomy) an arbitrarily fixed date that is the point in time relative to which information (as coordinates of a celestial body) is recorded

• a unit of geological time that is a subdivision of a period and is itself divided into ages

• A priestly apron, or breastplate, described in the Bible in Exodus 28: vi - xxx, which only the chief priest of ancient Israel was allowed to wear.

• One of the five annually-elected senior magistrates in various Dorian states, especially in ancient Sparta, where they oversaw the actions of Spartan kings.

• (in modern Greece) A superintendent or curator.

• The time (number of days) by which a solar year exceeds twelve lunar months; it is used in the calculation of the date of Easter

• The after song; the part of a lyric ode which follows the strophe and antistrophe.

• A kind of lyric poem, invented by Archilochus, in which a longer verse is followed by a shorter one.