Fractious is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.
You can make 631 anagrams from letters in fractious (acfiorstu).
First recorded in 1715-25; fracti(on) + -ous
I'll break you to pieces, James H., if you are fractious; and I've got the weapons to do it with.
You are old enough to know better, and yet you behave like a fractious child.
The story told on these walls is a fractured and fractious one that consciously resists an easy narrative.
Starting with the House, Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) was largely successful in keeping his fractious caucus largely in check.
Relationships in her "blood family," a distinction her brother pointedly made at her funeral, were often strained and fractious.
We are a troubled and fractious country, in a difficult neighbourhood.
His voice had a fractious tone, as if he combated an unseen tyrant.
Correy mooned around the Arpan sub-base like a fractious child.
There's a tray for each, of course; but a ball dress is such a fractious thing.
He was well aware of the fractious history between Congress and the White House on Gitmo and was determined to start anew.