9-letter words containing tis
- parotitis — inflammation of a parotid.
- patissier — a person who makes pastries; a pastry chef
- pedantism — pedantry.
- phlebitis — inflammation of a vein, often occurring in the legs and involving the formation of a thrombus, characterized by swelling, pain, and change of skin color.
- phonetism — the science of speech sounds and of writing phonetically
- phonetist — a person who uses or advocates phonetic spelling.
- phrenitis — inflammation of the brain; encephalitis.
- pietistic — a movement, originating in the Lutheran Church in Germany in the 17th century, that stressed personal piety over religious formality and orthodoxy.
- plastisol — a dispersion of resin in a plasticizer, forming a liquid or paste that gels when heated.
- pleuritis — an instance of pleurisy
- practised — skilled or expert; proficient through practice or experience: a practiced hand at politics.
- practiser — someone who practises something, esp a trade or skill; practitioner
- practises — habitual or customary performance; operation: office practice.
- predatism — the state of living as a predator or by predation.
- prelatism — prelacy; episcopacy.
- priapitis — inflammation of the penis.
- privatise — to transfer from public or government control or ownership to private enterprise: a campaign promise to privatize some of the public lands.
- privatism — concern with or pursuit of one's personal or family interests, welfare, or ideals to the exclusion of broader social issues or relationships.
- privatist — a person who exhibits a lack of concern for public life
- proctitis — inflammation of the rectum and anus.
- propontis — Marmara
- protistan — any of various one-celled organisms, classified in the kingdom Protista, that are either free-living or aggregated into simple colonies and that have diverse reproductive and nutritional modes, including the protozoans, eukaryotic algae, and slime molds: some classification schemes also include the fungi and the more primitive bacteria and blue-green algae or may distribute the organisms between the kingdoms Plantae and Animalia according to dominant characteristics.
- protistic — of or relating to the kingdom Protista
- quantised — Mathematics, Physics. to restrict (a variable quantity) to discrete values rather than to a continuous set of values.
- quixotism — (sometimes initial capital letter) quixotic character or practice.
- retinitis — inflammation of the retina.
- runtishly — in a runtish manner
- sabbatism — sabbath observance
- saltishly — in a saltish manner
- satisfice — to choose or adopt the first satisfactory option that one comes across: the tendency of decision-makers to satisfice rather than look for the optimal solution.
- satisfied — content: a satisfied look.
- satisfies — to fulfill the desires, expectations, needs, or demands of (a person, the mind, etc.); give full contentment to: The hearty meal satisfied him.
- scientism — the style, assumptions, techniques, practices, etc., typifying or regarded as typifying scientists.
- scientist — an expert in science, especially one of the physical or natural sciences.
- scleritis — inflammation of the sclera.
- serositis — inflammation of a serous membrane.
- serpentis — genitive of Serpens.
- sigmatism — defective pronunciation of sibilant sounds.
- sinusitis — inflammation of a sinus or the sinuses.
- slightish — rather slight
- sottishly — in a sottish manner
- sottisier — a collection of jokes
- sovietism — (sometimes lowercase) a soviet system of government.
- spiritism — the doctrine or practices of spiritualism.
- splenitis — inflammation of the spleen
- splittism — the advocating of separation from a larger body
- splittist — a person who advocates separation from a larger body
- statistic — a numerical fact or datum, especially one computed from a sample.
- strictish — fairly strict
- strumitis — an inflammation of thyroid gland