Definitions for peptics

peptics pep·tic

Spelling: [pep-tik]
IPA: /ˈpɛp tɪk/

Peptics is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 159 anagrams from letters in peptics (ceippst).

Definitions for peptics

noun

  1. a substance promoting digestion.

adjective

  1. pertaining to or associated with digestion; digestive.
  2. promoting digestion.
  3. of or relating to pepsin.

Origin of peptics

1645-55; Greek peptikós conducive to digestion, equivalent to pept(ós) digested (verbid of péptein) + -ikos -ic

Examples for peptics

It also furnishes the acid medium necessary for the best action of both the coagulating and peptic enzymes.

It was then and there that I first saw the subject of this sketch,—the peptic Martyr.

With him, the peptic bond was the only real one; all others were shams.

All sin was peptic in origin: Eve ate an apple which disagreed with her.

Such secondary forms may be bronchitic, cardiac, renal, peptic or thymic.

We recommend our friends, before encountering such a temptation, to read our peptic precepts.

The most characteristic symptom of the peptic ulcer is, as has been stated, hemorrhage.

Into this duct the ranks of cells around it pour out the peptic juice.

Word Value for peptics
Scrable

12

Words with friends

15

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