Dictionary Entry
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
- 1adjective
Occurring every third day; as, a tertian fever.
- 2noun
A disease, especially an intermittent fever, which returns every third day, reckoning inclusively, or in which the intermission lasts one day.
- 3noun
A liquid measure formerly used for wine, equal to seventy imperial, or eighty-four wine, gallons, being one third of a tun.
- 4adjective
of or relating to a tonal system based on major thirds
"a tertian tonal system"
- 5adjective
relating to symptoms (especially malarial fever) that appear every other day
"tertian fever"
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