The crossword solutions for the term COMPASS POINT include NEEDLE (6 letters), EAST (4 letters), ENE (3 letters), ESE (3 letters), NBE (3 letters), NNE (3 letters), NNW (3 letters), SBE (3 letters), SSE (3 letters), SSW (3 letters), WSW (3 letters), WEST (4 letters), NORTH (5 letters), RHUMB (5 letters), SOUTH (5 letters), and TRUENORTH (9 letters). A compass point is a direction on a compass, which is an instrument used to determine direction relative to the Earth's magnetic poles. The cardinal directions are NORTH, South, EAST, and WEST, and the intermediate directions are Northeast (NE), Southeast (SE), Northwest (NW), and Southwest (SW). The points in between these are further divided into the half-winds, quarter-winds, and points of the rhumb line.