The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word STASIS , but the solution may also be LATENCY which is one of the most recent solution (2021 in Wall Street Journal).
Period of inactivity crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| STASIS | 44 % | 6 |
| REST | 22 % | 4 |
| LATENCY | 22 % | 7 |
| QUIETUS | 11 % | 7 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Period of inactivity
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- lull
- downtime
- break
- drag out
- haul
- dragging
- lug
- put down
- trice
- drag
- set down
- sole
Crossword Answer definitions
STASIS noun- A slackening or arrest of the blood current, due not to a lessening of the heart’s beat, but to some abnormal resistance of the capillary walls.
- Inactivity; a freezing, or state of motionlessness.
- A technology allowing something to be artificially frozen in time, so that it does not age or change.
- One of the sections of a cathisma or portion of the psalter.
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 STASIS
- Balance
- Equilibrium
- Period of no change
- Most of a species' evolutionary history
- Lack of activity
- Motionlessness
- Inertia
- Condition of equalibrium
- Balanced state
- Stable state
More clues leading to the result REST
- Caesura
- Take five
- Break
- Kick back
- Moment of silence
- Observe the Sabbath?
- Pause
- Peace of mind
- Take a break
- Take a breather
More clues leading to the result LATENCY
- Networking snafu
- Developmental stage
- Dormant state
- Bulbs' pre-bloom condition
- Incubation period
- Dormant state.
- Quality of being dormant.
- Quiescence
- Inactive state
- Period of inactivity