The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word HINGES , but the solution may also be DICTATES which is one of the most recent solution (1999 in Newsday).
Governing principles crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| HINGES | 50 % | 6 |
| DICTATES | 50 % | 8 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Governing principles
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- law
- analytics
- art
- chivalry
- ethical code
- law of thermodynamics
- phyllotaxy
- autonomy
- federalism
- principle
Crossword Answer definitions
HINGES noun- A jointed or flexible device that allows the pivoting of a door etc.
- A naturally occurring joint resembling such hardware in form or action, as in the shell of a bivalve.
- A stamp hinge, a folded and gummed paper rectangle for affixing postage stamps in an album.
- A principle, or a point in time, on which subsequent reasonings or events depend.
- The median of the upper or lower half of a batch, sample, or probability distribution.
- One of the four cardinal points, east, west, north, or south.
- To attach by, or equip with a hinge.
- (with on or upon) To depend on something.
- The breaking off of the distal end of a knapped stone flake whose presumed course across the face of the stone core was truncated prematurely, leaving not a feathered distal end but instead the scar of a nearly perpendicular break.
- To bend.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result HINGES
- Stamp-album stickers
- Gate holders
- Depends (on)
- Door attachments
- Depends
- Swinging joints
- Door parts
- Gate pivots
- Governing principles.
- Depends (on).