Atavistic is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.
You can make 188 anagrams from letters in atavistic (aaciisttv).
First recorded in 1870-75; atav(ism) + -istic
The criminal is an atavistic being, a relic of a vanished race.
It is only an atavistic phenomenon, the return to a former state.
This is of great importance in view of the atavistic origin of crime.
Because she was terrified, the same sort of atavistic process was at work in her.
These atavistic triggers, however, aren't very satisfying explanations taken alone.
These councils have been seeking amendments in the Hindu Marriage Act to support their atavistic views.
Thus there was no progeny to inherit their atavistic tendencies.
Citizen Howard Temple-Tracy is a dangerous, atavistic, evil genius.
Sitting face to face with a Satmar man schooling her in atavistic Satmar rules was the last place she wanted to be.
Perhaps it is atavistic—this desire to rest and swing in a hamaca.