Atavisms is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.
You can make 194 anagrams from letters in atavisms (aaimsstv).
1825-35; Latin atav(us) remote ancestor (at-, akin to atta familiar name for a grandfather + avus grandfather, forefather) + -ism
For a short moment he hesitated but atavism and necessity were against him.
This is not atavism, though it may be the outcome of atavism, or arrest of development.
Altogether a good deal of nonsense has been written about atavism.
The word reversion, also, not to say atavism, may well be dropped.
Some of them were mere lads, but one and all had features which suggested the atavism of crime.
I would not omit to mention also the law of atavism, in this discussion of heredity.
It must explain all the facts which constitute what is known as atavism.
This is that atavism which has been so frequently observed in criminals and so much discussed.
I used the word 'atavism' to mean a reversion to the primitive.
Can I explain, can anyone explain, the mysterious vagaries of atavism?