Crossword-Solution: TECTONIC 8 letters, 14 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

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Word Word Type Definition
Tectonic a. Of or pertaining to building or construction;
architectural.

We have 14 clues for the answer “TECTONIC”

Clue Answers
Like a geological fault 1 answer
Like some big plates 1 answer
Like some really big plates 1 answer
Of architectural construction. 1 answer
Pertaining to construction 1 answer
Relating to building 1 answer
denoting or relating to construction or building 1 answer
pertaining to the structure or movement of the earth's crust 1 answer
CONSTRUCTION (pert. to) 2 answers
Type of plate 2 answers
Like some plates 2 answers
architectural 4 answers
Structural 32 answers
Earthling 61 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERTEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with TECTONIC (5)

Lastly from Central America to the Mediterranean stretches one of the Tertiary tectonic lines of the geologists.
Darwin and Modern Science A.C. Seward and Others 1999
The successes of the new elite, as a class, and of its members, individually, served to prove the "justice" behind the tectonic shift.
After the Rain Sam Vaknin 2002
But the most significant tectonic shift has been the implosion of the unholy alliance between Russian organized crime and its security forces.
Russian Roulette Sam Vaknin 2003
There is a discernible tectonic shift in production and proven reserves from the Persian Gulf, the US except Alaska, the North Sea, and Latin America to northern Europe, Russia, and the Caspian Basin.
Russian Roulette Sam Vaknin 2003
All scientific theories concerning the causes of seismic occurrences, both volcanic and tectonic, have been conceived as if the spatial motion of mineral matter were the only happening that had to be accounted for.
Man or Matter Ernst Lehrs 2004

Quotes with TECTONIC (3)

You might think that, by now, people would have become accustomed to the idea of natural catastrophes. We live on a planet that is still cooling and which has fissures and faults in its crust; this much is accepted even by those who think that the globe is only six thousand years old, as well as by those who believe that the earth was "designed" to be this way. Even in such a case, it is to be expected that earthquakes will occur and that, if they occur under the seabed, tida…
Christopher Hitchens
there are between life partners sliding layers of history, tectonic plates of it shifting over the decades together.
Helen Simpson Cockfosters
We can act to deal with the consequences of the earthquake and tsunami, but the disaster was only faintly political in the economics and indifference... the relief will be very political, in who gives how much (Bush offering 15 million, then 35 million under pressure, the cost of his inauguration and then 350 million under strong international pressure)... but the event itself transcends politics, the realm of things we cause and can work to prevent. We cannot wish that human…
Rebecca Solnit Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics
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Appears in: NY Sun, NYT, WP, WSJ.

Used 7 times in crossword archives (1956–2025).