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8-letter words (2 found)

CONCETTI,TECTONIC,

7-letter words (3 found)

CONCEIT,ENTOTIC,TONETIC,

6-letter words (4 found)

NOETIC,NOTICE,TICTOC,TONITE,

5-letter words (10 found)

CENTO,CINCT,CONIC,CONTE,ETTIN,OCTET,ONCET,ONTIC,TINCT,TONIC,

4-letter words (33 found)

CENT,CINE,CION,CITE,CITO,COIN,COIT,CONE,CONI,COTE,COTT,ECCO,ETIC,ICON,INTO,NETT,NICE,NITE,NOTE,NOTT,OINT,ONCE,ONIE,OTIC,TEIN,TENT,TICE,TINE,TINT,TITE,TOIT,TONE,TOTE,

3-letter words (23 found)

CIT,CON,COT,ECO,EON,ICE,ION,NET,NIE,NIT,NOT,ONE,TEC,TEN,TET,TIC,TIE,TIN,TIT,TOC,TOE,TON,TOT,

2-letter words (13 found)

EN,ET,IN,IO,IT,NE,NO,OE,OI,ON,TE,TI,TO,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 89 words from tectonic according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of tectonic

tectonic

Etymology

1650s, in sense of building, from Late Latin tectonicus, from Ancient Greek τεκτονικός (tektonikós, pertaining to building), from Ancient Greek τέκτων (téktōn, carpenter, joiner, maker), from Proto-Indo-European *tek- (to make) (from which also texture). In sense of geology, attested 1894. By surface analysis, Ancient Greek τέκτων (téktōn) +‎ -ic (pertaining to).

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tectonic (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to construction or to architecture.
  2. (biology) Structural.
  3. (geology) Of, relating to, or caused by large-scale movements of the Earth's (or a similar planet's) lithosphere.
  4. (figurative) Momentous, utter, vast.

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  • concetti

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French tectonique.

Adjective

tectonic m or n (feminine singular tectonică, masculine plural tectonici, feminine and neuter plural tectonice)

  1. tectonic

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