8-letter words that end in tic
- eupeptic — Of or having good digestion or a consequent air of healthy good spirits.
- euphotic — Describing that part of the near-surface ocean in which photosynthesis is possible.
- eustatic — Of or pertaining to eustasy.
- eutectic — Relating to or denoting a mixture of substances (in fixed proportions) that melts and solidifies at a single temperature that is lower than the melting points of the separate constituents or of any other mixture of them.
- exegetic — Of or pertaining to exegesis; explanatory.
- exocytic — Of or pertaining to exocytosis.
- ferritic — Relating to a ferrite.
- fibrotic — the development in an organ of excess fibrous connective tissue.
- frenetic — frantic; frenzied.
- galactic — Astronomy. of or relating to a galaxy. of or relating to the Milky Way.
- gangetic — a river flowing SE from the Himalayas in N India into the Bay of Bengal: sacred to Hindus. 1550 miles (2495 km) long.
- gelastic — Pertaining to laughter, used in laughing, or to be the subject of laughter.
- geodetic — pertaining to geodesy.
- gerontic — geriatric.
- gigantic — very large; huge: a gigantic statue.
- granitic — a coarse-grained igneous rock composed chiefly of orthoclase and albite feldspars and of quartz, usually with lesser amounts of one or more other minerals, as mica, hornblende, or augite.
- gravitic — Of or pertaining to gravity. (Archaic/rare, gravitational is more common, still seen though in compounds like magnetogravitic.).
- haematic — relating to, acting on, having the colour of, or containing blood
- helvetic — a Swiss Protestant; Zwinglian.
- hermetic — made airtight by fusion or sealing.
- hermitic — a person who has withdrawn to a solitary place for a life of religious seclusion.
- herpetic — of, relating to, or caused by herpes.
- hidrotic — Relating to hidrosis.
- hieratic — Also, hieratical. of or relating to priests or the priesthood; sacerdotal; priestly.
- holistic — incorporating the concept of holism, or the idea that the whole is more than merely the sum of its parts, in theory or practice: holistic psychology.
- holoptic — of, relating to, or having eyes that meet at the top of the head
- homeotic — Of or pertaining to homeosis.
- hormetic — of or relating to hormesis
- hypnotic — of or relating to hypnosis or hypnotism.
- ignostic — One who holds to ignosticism.
- japhetic — of or relating to Japheth.
- jesuitic — of or relating to Jesuits or Jesuitism.
- juristic — of or relating to a jurist or to jurisprudence; juridical.
- klephtic — (historical) Relating to the klephts.
- kushitic — a subfamily of the Afroasiatic family of languages, including Somali, Oromo, and other languages of Somalia and Ethiopia.
- kyphotic — Relating to, or exhibiting, kyphosis.
- lapactic — purgative; cathartic.
- leprotic — Of, or pertaining to leprosy.
- leukotic — any of several diseases occurring chiefly in chickens, involving proliferation of the leukocytes and characterized by paralysis, blindness, formation of tumors in the internal organs, and bone calcification.
- lignitic — Containing or resembling lignite.
- limnetic — pertaining to or living in the open water of a freshwater pond or lake.
- logistic — of or relating to logistic.
- lordotic — Pathology. an abnormal forward curvature of the spine in the lumbar region, resulting in a swaybacked posture. Compare kyphosis, scoliosis.
- magmatic — Geology. molten material beneath or within the earth's crust, from which igneous rock is formed.
- magnetic — of or relating to a magnet or magnetism.
- maieutic — of or relating to the method used by Socrates of eliciting knowledge in the mind of a person by interrogation and insistence on close and logical reasoning.
- majestic — characterized by or possessing majesty; of lofty dignity or imposing aspect; stately; grand: the majestic Alps.
- malistic — Of, or pertaining to, malism.
- marantic — (medicine) Pertaining to marasmus.
- marlitic — having the nature of marlite