9-Letter Words Containing: I,O,T,I,S

• a colorless plum brandy popular in the Balkans

• a powerful neurotoxin produced by certain dinoflagellates found in red tides; it can accumulate in mollusks that feed on the dinoflagellates and cause food poisoning to humans

• make optimal; get the most out of; use best

• modify to achieve maximum efficiency in storage capacity or time or cost

• act as an optimist and take a sunny view of the world

• bring under Soviet control, of a country

• model a country's social, political, and economic structure on the Soviet Union

• the quality of being exotic

• an abnormal state in which development has stopped prematurely

• an unhealthy and compulsive preoccupation with something or someone

• the activity of fastening something firmly in position

• (histology) the preservation and hardening of a tissue sample to retain as nearly as possible the same relations they had in the living body