styptic

styptic is a 7-letter English word with 4 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Producing contraction; stopping bleeding; having the quality of restraining hemorrhage when applied to the bleeding part; astringent. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 15 · 4 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Producing contraction; stopping bleeding; having the quality of restraining hemorrhage when applied to the bleeding part; astringent.
2. noun. A styptic medicine.
3. noun. a drug that causes contraction of body tissues and canals

   Synonyms: astringent

4. adjective. tending to check bleeding by contracting the tissues or blood vessels

   Synonyms: hemostatic

Synonyms

astringent, hemostatic

Common word forms

styptics, styptical, stypticity, stypticness

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