tertian

tertian is a 7-letter English word with 5 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Occurring every third day; as, a tertian fever. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 8 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 7 · Words With Friends 8 · 5 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Occurring every third day; as, a tertian fever.
2. noun. A disease, especially an intermittent fever, which returns every third day, reckoning inclusively, or in which the intermission lasts one day.
3. noun. A liquid measure formerly used for wine, equal to seventy imperial, or eighty-four wine, gallons, being one third of a tun.
4. adjective. of or relating to a tonal system based on major thirds

   "a tertian tonal system"

5. adjective. relating to symptoms (especially malarial fever) that appear every other day

   "tertian fever"

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in tertian:

intrate, intreat, iterant, nattier, nitrate, tartine

Common word forms

tertians

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