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10 letters · 16 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun any of a group of very small rod-shaped bacteria that live in biting arthropods (as ticks and mites) and cause disease in vertebrate hosts; they cause typhus and other febrile diseases in human beings
originBorrowed from translingual Rickettsia (genus name), from Howard Taylor Ricketts, equivalent to Ricketts + -ia.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- trickiest 15
- stickier 14
- tackiest 14
- keratitis 13
- airsick 13
- cakiest 13
- ekistic 13
- ickiest 13
- karstic 13
- rackets 13
- restack 13
- retacks 13