8-letter words that end in tic
- mastitic — Pathology. inflammation of the breast.
- mellitic — (of an acid) obtained from mellite
- mephitic — offensive to the smell.
- meristic — of, relating to, or divided into segments or somites.
- monastic — of or relating to monasteries: a monastic library.
- monistic — Philosophy. (in metaphysics) any of various theories holding that there is only one basic substance or principle as the ground of reality, or that reality consists of a single element. Compare dualism (def 2), pluralism (def 1a). (in epistemology) a theory that the object and datum of cognition are identical. Compare pluralism (def 1b).
- muriatic — (not in scientific use) of or derived from muriatic acid.
- myristic — (rare) Pertaining to nutmeg.
- narcotic — any of a class of substances that blunt the senses, as opium, morphine, belladonna, and alcohol, that in large quantities produce euphoria, stupor, or coma, that when used constantly can cause habituation or addiction, and that are used in medicine to relieve pain, cause sedation, and induce sleep.
- nearctic — belonging or pertaining to a geographical division comprising temperate Greenland and arctic North America, sometimes including high mountainous regions of the northern Temperate Zone.
- necrotic — death of a circumscribed portion of animal or plant tissue.
- negritic — of or relating to blacks or to the Negritos.
- neumatic — any of various symbols representing from one to four notes, used in the musical notation of the Middle Ages but now employed solely in the notation of Gregorian chant in the liturgical books of the Roman Catholic Church.
- neuritic — inflammation of a nerve.
- neurotic — pertaining to the nerves or to nerve disease; neural: no longer in technical use.
- operatic — of or relating to opera: operatic music.
- orgastic — the physical and emotional sensation experienced at the peak of sexual excitation, usually resulting from stimulation of the sexual organ and usually accompanied in the male by ejaculation.
- orthotic — Also, orthosis. a device or support, especially for the foot, used to relieve or correct an orthopedic problem.
- osteitic — inflammation of the substance of bone.
- otolitic — Alternative form of otolithic.
- p-celtic — the subbranch of Celtic in which the Proto-Indo-European kw -sound became a p -sound. Welsh, Breton, Cornish, and Gaulish belong to P-Celtic.
- palmitic — of or derived from palmitic acid.
- panoptic — permitting the viewing of all parts or elements: a panoptic stain used in microscopy; a panoptic aerial photograph of an enemy missile base.
- pathetic — causing or evoking pity, sympathetic sadness, sorrow, etc.; pitiful; pitiable: a pathetic letter; a pathetic sight.
- pedantic — ostentatious in one's learning.
- pelmatic — of or relating to the sole of the foot
- periotic — surrounding the ear.
- phenetic — pertaining to or based on the observable similarities and differences between organisms without regard to assumed genealogy.
- phimotic — constriction of the orifice of the prepuce so as to prevent the foreskin from being drawn back to uncover the glans penis.
- phonetic — Also, phonetical. of or relating to speech sounds, their production, or their transcription in written symbols.
- phreatic — noting or pertaining to ground water.
- phyletic — of, relating to, or based on the evolutionary history of a group of organisms; phylogenetic.
- picritic — containing picrate; of or relating to picrate
- planetic — of, relating to, or caused by a planet
- poematic — relating to or resembling poetry
- poristic — of or relating to a porism
- pruritic — itching.
- psilotic — of or relating to a disease of the small intestine
- punditic — of or relating to pundits
- puristic — strict observance of or insistence on purity in language, style, etc.
- pycnotic — relating to a theory which holds that matter formation occurred as a result of ether condensation
- quixotic — extravagantly chivalrous or romantic; visionary, impractical, or impracticable.
- rachitic — rickets.
- rectitic — of or relating to the rectum
- rhematic — pertaining to the formation of words.
- romantic — of, relating to, or of the nature of romance; characteristic or suggestive of the world of romance: a romantic adventure.
- sabbatic — of or pertaining or appropriate to the Sabbath.
- sadistic — pertaining to or characterized by sadism; deriving pleasure or sexual gratification from extreme cruelty: a sadistic psychopath.
- sarmatic — of or relating to Sarmatia or its inhabitants
- semantic — of, relating to, or arising from the different meanings of words or other symbols: semantic change; semantic confusion.