9-letter words that end in is
- digenesis — alternation of generations.
- digitalis — any plant belonging to the genus Digitalis, of the figwort family, especially the common foxglove, D. purpurea.
- dry basis — The dry basis is a measure of how much water is in a solid, which is expressed as the weight of water as a percentage of the completely dry solid.
- eisegesis — An interpretation, especially of Scripture, that reflects the personal ideas or viewpoint of the interpreter; reading something into a text that isn't there. Compare exegesis.
- ekphrasis — (rhetoric) A clear, intense, self-contained argument or pictorial description of an object, especially of an artwork.
- emphlysis — the outbreak of blisters on the body
- encanthis — a tumour of the eye
- endomixis — the reorganization of certain nuclei with some protozoa
- enronitis — a situation in which large corporations fail to secure investment because they are suspected of fraud and mismanagement
- enteritis — Inflammation of the intestine, especially the small intestine, usually accompanied by diarrhea.
- ephemeris — A table or data file giving the calculated positions of a celestial object at regular intervals throughout a period.
- epibiosis — any relationship between two organisms in which one grows on the other but is not parasitic on it
- epiclesis — The part of the Eucharistic prayer in which the presence of the Holy Spirit is invoked to bless the elements or the communicants.
- epicrisis — a secondary crisis occurring in the course of a disease
- epidermis — The outer layer of cells covering an organism, in particular.
- epiphysis — The end part of a long bone, initially growing separately from the shaft.
- epiplexis — (rhetoric) A rhetorical figure seeking to convince and move by an elegant kind of upbraiding.
- epistasis — The interaction of genes that are not alleles, in particular the suppression of the effect of one such gene by another.
- epistaxis — nosebleed
- epithesis — (linguistics) The addition of a letter or sound at the end of a word, without changing its meaning, as in \"numb\" for \"num\" or \"whilst\" for \"whiles\".
- epizeuxis — (rhetoric) Repeating words in immediate succession.
- ex libris — from the collection or library of: frequently printed on bookplates
- exosmosis — Osmosis in which fluid flows through a membrane towards a region of lower concentration.
- exostosis — A benign outgrowth of cartilaginous tissue on a bone.
- fasciitis — inflammation of the fascia.
- fluorosis — an abnormal condition caused by excessive intake of fluorides, characterized in children by discoloration and pitting of the teeth and in adults by pathological bone changes.
- franglais — French spoken or written with a large admixture of English words, especially those of American origin.
- frontalis — A muscle of the head, sometimes considered to be part of the occipitofrontalis muscle.
- frontenis — a Latin American game, resembling squash, played with rackets and a hard rubber ball on a three-walled court similar to a jai alai court.
- gastritis — inflammation of the stomach, especially of its mucous membrane.
- glossitis — inflammation of the tongue.
- gomphosis — an immovable articulation in which one bone or part is received in a cavity in another, as a tooth in its socket.
- gris-gris — grigri.
- halitosis — a condition of having offensive-smelling breath; bad breath.
- hamamelis — (botany) Any of the flowering plant genus Hamamelis, the witch hazels.
- heliopsis — a genus of herbaceous flowering plant in the daisy family Asteraceae
- hematosis — hematopoiesis.
- hemolysis — the breaking down of red blood cells with liberation of hemoglobin.
- hepatitis — inflammation of the liver, caused by a virus or a toxin and characterized by jaundice, liver enlargement, and fever.
- heterosis — the increase in growth, size, fecundity, function, yield, or other characters in hybrids over those of the parents.
- homolysis — (chemistry) The decomposition of a substance without reacting with other substances.
- homotaxis — a similarity of arrangement, as of geologic strata or fossil assemblages that have the same relative position but are not necessarily contemporaneous.
- hydrastis — goldenseal (def 2).
- hypinosis — a protein deficiency or reduction in blood
- hypobasis — the lowermost distinctively treated part of a base.
- hypotaxis — dependent relation or construction, as of clauses; syntactic subordination.
- ideopolis — a city that is sustained primarily by intellectual enterprises such as education, the media, advertising, and design, with a highly educated workforce
- isauxesis — growth of a part at the same rate as that of the whole organism.
- issigonis — Sir Alec (Arnold Constantine). 1906–88, British car designer born in Smyrna. He is noted for his designs for the Morris Minor (1948) and the Mini (1959)
- ixodiasis — a disease that is transmitted by ticks, such as Rocky Mountain spotted fever