Factious is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.
You can make 297 anagrams from letters in factious (acfiostu).
1525-35; Latin factiōsus fond of doing, busy, of a company or party, equivalent to facti- (see faction1) + -ōsus Examples for factious
Lieber Gott, said I, these are thieves, these are factious; and so they were. For the rest, this is a ragged and factious town, now swarming with sectaries. Among his eulogists, of course, is not the factious Captain Ratcliffe. In all which time, you, and your husband Grey, were factious for the house of Lancaster. Reports came to his ears of a rebellious and factious spirit in the south. At the dead of night we were aroused from our sleep by a cry that the factious were not far off. But they are factious and desperate, and would invade us if they were not checked. Faction and its adjective, factious, have always an unfavorable sense. Orford appears to have been rough, turbulent, factious, and shallow. O when will God deliver his poor church from factious deceivers?