Meanings
adjectiveperimetrical (not comparable)
- not comparableof, relating to or having a perimeter
nounperimetrical (plural perimetricals)
plural perimetricals
- abbreviationellipsiscrosswordingEllipsis of perimetrical jigsaw.
Country priest, reflective chap, getting stuck into Araucaria’s “Perimetricals”
2021, Enigmatist, “Feb 2021 extra”, in 3D Calendar Puzzles1 more example
He also invented incredibly complicated puzzles. […] The perimetricals, in which all the outside letters spell out a phrase and the answers have to be fitted into the frame.
2013 November 26, Simon Hoggart, “Araucaria's last puzzle: crossword master dies”, in The Guardian
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perimetrical. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/perimetrical
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“perimetrical.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/perimetrical. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “perimetrical,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/perimetrical.
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