PERTINACIOUS
A 12-letter word worth 16 points in Scrabble.
p 3 e 1 r 1 t 1 i 1 n 1 a 1 c 3 i 1 o 1 u 1 s 1
- Length
- 12
- Scrabble
- 16 pts
- Sorted letters
- aceiinoprstu
- Anagrams
- 0
Definition of PERTINACIOUS
- adjective
stubbornly unyielding; "a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it"- T.S.Eliot
“dogged persistence”
Synonyms: dogged, dour, persistent, tenacious, unyielding
Definitions from WordNet 3.1 (Princeton University).
Words within PERTINACIOUS
399 words can be made from any subset of the letters in PERTINACIOUS.
- precautions 15
- ascription 14
- isentropic 14
- pernicious 14
- precaution 14
- speciation 14
- supertonic 14
- caponiers 13
- coparents 13
- croupiest 13
- inceptors 13
- inspector 13
- opacities 13
- operatics 13
- opticians 13
- outcapers 13
- outprices 13
- paucities 13
- portances 13
- precisian 13
- precision 13
- procaines 13
- psoriatic 13
- anoretics 11
- atropines 11
- countries 11
- courantes 11
- courtesan 11
- creations 11
- cretinous 11
- eruptions 11
- nectarous 11
- neuritics 11
- neurotics 11
- outrances 11
- patronise 11
- rainspout 11
- raucities 11
- reactions 11
- suctorian 11
- supinator 11
- tenacious 11
- topiaries 11
- truancies 11
- apocrine 12
- apricots 12
- autopsic 12
- canopies 12
- cantrips 12
- caponier 12
- capstone 12
- captions 12
- captious 12
- captures 12
- conspire 12
- coparent 12
- crispate 12
- cuprites 12
- ectopias 12
- entropic 12
- inceptor 12
- incorpse 12
- opencast 12
- operatic 12
- optician 12
- outcaper 12
- outpaces 12
- outprice 12
- pactions 12
- paretics 12
- parsonic 12
- pecorini 12
- periotic 12
- picrates 12
- picrites 12
- pictures 12
- piecrust 12
- piracies 12
- piscator 12
- piscinae 12
- portance 12
- postrace 12
- pouncers 12
- practise 12
- precious 12
- priciest 12
- procaine 12
- puristic 12
- sinciput 12
- unpoetic 12
- aconites 10
- acuities 10
- ancestor 10
- anoretic 10
- anuretic 10
- aoristic 10
- apterous 10
- atropine 10
- atropins 10
- auctions 10
- canister 10
- canities 10
- canoeist 10
- carotins 10
- cautions 10
- centaurs 10
- ceratins 10
- cisterna 10
- citreous 10
- citrines 10
- coinsure 10
- cointers 10
- construe 10
- corniest 10
- counters 10
- counties 10
- courante 10
- courants 10
- creatins 10
- creation 10