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9-letter words that end in is

  • bourgeois — If you describe people, their way of life, or their attitudes as bourgeois, you disapprove of them because you consider them typical of conventional middle-class people.
  • broccolis — a form of a cultivated cruciferous plant, Brassica oleracea botrytis, whose leafy stalks and clusters of usually green buds are eaten as a vegetable.
  • cantharis — Spanish fly (sense 1)
  • canthitis — an inflammation of the canthus
  • caryopsis — a dry seedlike fruit having the pericarp fused to the seed coat of the single seed: produced by the grasses
  • catabasis — a descent or downward movement
  • catalexis — the state of lacking a syllable in the last foot of a line of poetry
  • catalysis — Catalysis is the speeding up of a chemical reaction by adding a catalyst to it.
  • catharsis — Catharsis is getting rid of unhappy memories or strong emotions such as anger or sadness by expressing them in some way.
  • ceratitis — Alternative spelling of keratitis.
  • chapattis — Plural form of chapatti.
  • charolais — a breed of large white beef cattle that originated in France
  • charteris — Leslie, original name Leslie Charles Bowyer Yin. 1907–93, British novelist, born in Singapore: created the character Simon Templar, known as The Saint, the central character in many adventure novels
  • charybdis — a ship-devouring monster in classical mythology, identified with a whirlpool off the north coast of Sicily, lying opposite Scylla on the Italian coast
  • cheilitis — an inflammation of the lip or lips
  • cheilosis — Inflammation of one or both of the corners of the mouth.
  • chlorosis — a disorder, formerly common in adolescent girls, characterized by pale greenish-yellow skin, weakness, and palpitation and caused by insufficient iron in the body
  • chrysalis — A chrysalis is a butterfly or moth in the stage between being a larva and an adult.
  • cirrhosis — Cirrhosis or cirrhosis of the liver is a disease which destroys a person's liver and which can kill them. It is often caused by drinking too much alcohol.
  • clafoutis — a French baked pudding
  • clinoaxis — in a monoclinic crystal, the lateral axis which forms an oblique angle with the vertical axis
  • cloacitis — inflammation of the cloaca in birds, including domestic fowl, and other animals with a common opening of the urinary and gastrointestinal tracts
  • cogenesis — The genesis of two entities at the same time.
  • cokuloris — a palette with irregular holes, placed between lighting and camera to prevent glare
  • colonitis — (obsolete) Colitis.
  • compromis — a formal document, executed in common by nations submitting a dispute to arbitration, that defines the matter at issue, the rules of procedure and the powers of the arbitral tribunal, and the principles for determining the award.
  • conchitis — inflammation of the outer ear
  • coreopsis — any plant of the genus Coreopsis, of America and tropical Africa, cultivated for their yellow, brown, or yellow-and-red daisy-like flowers: family Asteraceae (composites)
  • corneitis — an inflammation of the cornea
  • coronitis — inflammation of the coronary cushion of hoofed animals.
  • corvallis — a city in W Oregon.
  • corydalis — any erect or climbing plant of the N temperate genus Corydalis, having finely-lobed leaves and spurred yellow or pinkish flowers: family Fumariaceae
  • cunjevois — Plural form of cunjevoi.
  • cytolysis — the dissolution of cells, esp by the destruction of their membranes
  • cytotaxis — movement of cells due to external stimulation
  • daiquiris — Plural form of daiquiri.
  • dassiepis — (South African English) hyraceum: The solidified urine of a dassie, used medicinally, inter-alia, for epilepsy.
  • day-lewis — C(ecil). 1904–72, British poet, critic, and (under the pen name Nicholas Blake) author of detective stories; poet laureate (1968–72)
  • de valois — Dame Ninette (niːˈnɛt). original name Edris Stannus. 1898–2001, British ballet dancer and choreographer, born in Ireland: a founder of the Vic-Wells Ballet Company (1931), which under her direction became the Royal Ballet (1956)
  • decapolis — a league of ten cities, including Damascus, in the northeast of ancient Palestine: established in 63 bc by Pompey and governed by Rome
  • decubitis — (medical) Inflammations cause by a reclined position of the body; it often refers to the complications of bed-ridden patients such as bed sores.
  • devadasis — Plural form of devadasi.
  • diaclasis — (medicine) Osteoclasis.
  • diaeresis — the mark ¨, in writing placed over the second of two adjacent vowels to indicate that it is to be pronounced separately rather than forming a diphthong with the first, as in some spellings of coöperate, naïve, etc
  • diagnosis — Diagnosis is the discovery and naming of what is wrong with someone who is ill or with something that is not working properly.
  • diaphysis — the shaft of a long bone
  • diapyesis — the discharge of pus
  • diastasis — the separation of an epiphysis from the long bone to which it is normally attached without fracture of the bone
  • diathesis — a hereditary or acquired susceptibility of the body to one or more diseases
  • diazeuxis — the separation of two tetrachords by the interval of a tone
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