10-letter words that end in tic
- kerygmatic — the preaching of the gospel of Christ, especially in the manner of the early church.
- laryngitic — Pertaining to or suffering from laryngitis.
- lathyritic — Of or pertaining to lathyrism.
- legalistic — strict adherence, or the principle of strict adherence, to law or prescription, especially to the letter rather than the spirit.
- leukocytic — Of or pertaining to leukocytes.
- linguistic — of or relating to linguistics.
- macrocytic — an abnormally large red blood cell.
- magnetitic — Of or relating to the mineral magnetite.
- malolactic — Of or denoting bacterial fermentation that converts malic acid to lactic acid, especially as a secondary process used to reduce the acidity of some wines.
- maraboutic — Of, or pertaining to, a marabout.
- mathematic — of, relating to, or of the nature of mathematics: mathematical truth.
- melanistic — Ethnology. the condition in human beings of having a high amount of melanin granules in the skin, hair, and eyes.
- melismatic — an ornamental phrase of several notes sung to one syllable of text, as in plainsong or blues singing.
- meningitic — Of or pertaining to the meninges or to meningitis.
- mesocratic — (of an igneous rock) composed of light and dark minerals in nearly equal amounts.
- mesokurtic — (of a frequency distribution or its graphical representation) having the same kurtosis as the normal distribution.
- mesophytic — Relating to a mesophyte.
- metabiotic — a mode of living in which one organism is dependent on another for preparation of an environment in which it can live.
- metaleptic — the use of metonymy to replace a word already used figuratively.
- metastatic — Pathology. the transference of disease-producing organisms or of malignant or cancerous cells to other parts of the body by way of the blood or lymphatic vessels or membranous surfaces. the condition produced by this.
- metathetic — the transposition of letters, syllables, or sounds in a word, as in the pronunciation [kuhmf-ter-buh l] /ˈkʌmf tər bəl/ (Show IPA) for comfortable or [aks] /æks/ (Show IPA) for ask.
- meteoritic — (astronomy) Of or pertaining to meteorites.
- miarolitic — (of an igneous rock) having irregular cavities into which crystals protrude
- microcytic — Pathology. an abnormally small red blood cell.
- microlitic — of or relating to the texture of a porphyry whose groundmass consists of microlites in a glassy matrix.
- mobocratic — Of or pertaining to mobocracy.
- monocratic — government by only one person; autocracy.
- monoprotic — (of an acid) having one transferable proton.
- moralistic — a person who teaches or inculcates morality.
- more-attic — of, relating to, or characteristic of Greece or of Athens.
- morganatic — of or relating to a form of marriage in which a person of high rank, as a member of the nobility, marries someone of lower station with the stipulation that neither the low-ranking spouse nor their children, if any, will have any claim to the titles or entailed property of the high-ranking partner.
- myelocytic — Of or pertaining to myelocytes.
- myoblastic — of or relating to a myoblast or myoblasts
- nativistic — the policy of protecting the interests of native inhabitants against those of immigrants.
- naturistic — Pertaining to naturism (doctrine attributing everything to nature).
- neogenetic — of or relating to neogenesis
- neoplastic — the theory and practice of the de Stijl school, chiefly characterized by an emphasis on the formal structure of a work of art, and restriction of spatial or linear relations to vertical and horizontal movements as well as restriction of the artist's palette to black, white, and the primary colors.
- nepotistic — patronage bestowed or favoritism shown on the basis of family relationship, as in business and politics: She was accused of nepotism when she made her nephew an officer of the firm.
- neurolytic — Pathology. disintegration of nerve tissue. exhaustion of a nerve by excess stimulation.
- nihilistic — of or believing in nihilism, or the total rejection of established laws and institutions: An exhibition of nihilistic art—now there's an oxymoron!
- nomothetic — giving or establishing laws; legislative.
- non-static — pertaining to or characterized by a fixed or stationary condition.
- nonaquatic — Not aquatic.
- nonascetic — a person who is not an ascetic
- nonclastic — Biology. breaking up into fragments or separate portions; dividing into parts.
- nonelastic — capable of returning to its original length, shape, etc., after being stretched, deformed, compressed, or expanded: an elastic waistband; elastic fiber.
- nongenetic — Biology. pertaining or according to genetics.
- nonkinetic — pertaining to motion.
- nonmimetic — not mimetic, not involving or characterized by mimesis or imitation
- nonplastic — Often, plastics. any of a group of synthetic or natural organic materials that may be shaped when soft and then hardened, including many types of resins, resinoids, polymers, cellulose derivatives, casein materials, and proteins: used in place of other materials, as glass, wood, and metals, in construction and decoration, for making many articles, as coatings, and, drawn into filaments, for weaving. They are often known by trademark names, as Bakelite, Vinylite, or Lucite.