Words starting with compassd
Maybe these words will be useful:
- compass — A compass is an instrument that you use for finding directions. It has a dial and a magnetic needle that always points to the north.
- compass card — a compass in the form of a card that rotates so that "0°" or "North" points to magnetic north
- compass course — the direction of a ship's course based on its compass
- compass deviation — deviation (def 4).
- compass deviation card — a card, sheet, or the like, with two compass roses printed on it concentrically, for recording, on a given voyage, the amount of deviation for which the navigator must compensate in using the ship's compass to steer a magnetic course.
- compass north — magnetic north, as indicated on a particular compass at a given moment.
- compass plane — a plane for smoothing curved surfaces.
- compass plant — a tall plant, Silphium laciniatum, of central North America, that has yellow flowers and lower leaves that tend to align themselves at right angles to the strongest light, esp in a north-south plane: family Asteraceae (composites)
- compass rafter — a rafter cut to a curve on one or both edges.
- compass rose — a circle or decorative device printed on a map or chart showing the points of the compass measured from true north and usually magnetic north