plural of period drama

(UK, television) A period of time on a Saturday during which football matches may not be broadcast (so as to avoid reduced attendance in person at other football matches that are not being televised).

(accounting) A system of assessing a business' inventory in which updates are made on a periodic basis, so that a completely accurate account is only available immediately after the update.

The state of a woman too poor to be able to afford sanitary products (tampons, sanitary towels and the like) connected to her period.

(astronomy) The roughly 1460-year period of time between successive alignments of the first days of the Egyptian civil calendar and the observational Sothic year.

a work of the screen that evokes a particular historical period

(communism, history) According to an obsolete theory, a period shortly after the Great Depression in which capitalism would be marked by further crises and then soon collapse.

Pain felt in the abdomen during menstruation.

A subdivision of the Devonian system of America

plural of period doubling