10-Letter Words That End With: TISM

• A schematic representation; a schema.

• The combination of the heavenly bodies.

• an inclination to favor some person or group

• unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of prejudice

• any painful disorder of the joints or muscles or connective tissues

• a chronic autoimmune disease with inflammation of the joints and marked deformities; something (possibly a virus) triggers an attack on the synovium by the immune system, which releases cytokines that stimulate an inflammatory reaction that can lead to the destruction of all components of the joint

• (philosophy) the doctrine that practical consequences are the criteria of knowledge and meaning and value

• the attribute of accepting the facts of life and favoring practicality and literal truth

• the union (or attempted fusion) of different systems of thought or belief (especially in religion or philosophy)

• the fusion of originally different inflected forms (resulting in a reduction in the use of inflections)

• a Protestant movement in the 16th century that believed in the primacy of the Bible, baptised only believers, not infants, and believed in complete separation of church and state

• a representation of an abstract idea in concrete terms

• love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it