5-letter words that end in is
- kepis — Plural form of kepi.
- keris — Alternative spelling of kris.
- kiwis — any of several flightless, ratite birds of the genus Apteryx, of New Zealand, allied to the extinct moas.
- kufis — Plural form of kufi.
- labis — a spoon used to give the Eucharist to communicants
- laois — a county of central Republic of Ireland, in Leinster province: formerly boggy but largely reclaimed for agriculture. County town: Portlaoise. Pop: 58 774 (2002). Area: 1719 sq km (664 sq miles)
- lapis — (italics) Latin. stone (used in Latin names for minerals, gems, etc.)
- laris — Plural form of lari.
- legis — legislation
- lenis — pronounced with relatively weak muscular tension and breath pressure, resulting in weak sound effect: in stressed or unstressed position, (b, d, g, j, v, th̸, z, and zh) are lenis in English, as compared with (p, t, k, ch, f, th, s, and sh), which are fortis. Compare fortis (def 1).
- levis — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada, across from Montreal, on the St. Lawrence.
- lewis — Carl (Frederick Carlton Lewis) born 1961, U.S. track and field athlete.
- lexis — the vocabulary of a language, as distinct from its grammar; the total stock of words and idiomatic combinations of them in a language; lexicon.
- loris — Also called slender loris. a small, slender, tailless, large-eyed, nocturnal lemur, Loris gracilis, of southern India and Sri Lanka.
- lotis — LOgic, TIming, Sequencing. A language which describes a computer via its data flow.
- louis — louis d'or.
- lweis — Plural form of lwei.
- lysis — Immunology, Biochemistry. the dissolution or destruction of cells by lysins.
- makis — Plural form of maki.
- malis — Plural form of mali.
- maris — Roger (Eugene) 1934–85, U.S. baseball player.
- mavis — a female given name.
- maxis — Plural form of maxi.
- metis — any person of mixed ancestry.
- midis — Plural form of midi.
- minis — Plural form of mini.
- mitis — a malleable iron, fluid enough for casting, made by adding a small amount of aluminium to wrought iron
- nabis — a prophet.
- naris — A nostril.
- nazis — a member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party, which controlled Germany from 1933 to 1945 under Adolf Hitler and advocated totalitarian government, territorial expansion, anti-Semitism, and Aryan supremacy, all these leading directly to World War II and the Holocaust.
- nelis — a variety of small, sweet winter pear with yellowish-green freckled skin which becomes golden as it ripens
- nevis — one of the Leeward Islands, in the E West Indies: part of St. Kitts-Nevis; formerly a British colony. 50 sq. mi. (130 sq. km). Compare St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla.
- oasis — something serving as a refuge, relief, or pleasant change from what is usual, annoying, difficult, etc.: The library was an oasis of calm in the hectic city.
- ofris — the Frisian language before c1500. Abbreviation: OFris.
- ornis — an avifauna.
- orris — a lace or braid made of gold or silver, much used in the 18th century.
- paris — Anatole [a-na-tawl] /a naˈtɔl/ (Show IPA), (Jacques Anatole Thibault) 1844–1924, French novelist and essayist: Nobel Prize 1921.
- patis — a fish sauce used in Filipino cookery.
- pavis — a large oblong shield of the late 14th through the early 16th centuries, often covering the entire body and used especially by archers and soldiers of the infantry.
- penis — the male organ of copulation and, in mammals, of urinary excretion.
- peris — one of a large group of beautiful, fairylike beings of Persian mythology, represented as descended from fallen angels and excluded from paradise until their penance is accomplished.
- polis — an ancient Greek city-state.
- pubis — that part of either innominate bone that, with the corresponding part of the other, forms the front of the pelvis.
- pyxis — Greek and Roman Antiquity. a box of a usually cylindrical shape having a lid with a knob in the center, used for toilet articles.
- qadis — a judge in a Muslim community, whose decisions are based on Islamic religious law.
- rabis — Alternative spelling of rabiz.
- reais — real3 (sense 2)
- regis — a male given name.
- sadis — (Muslih ud-Din) 1184?–1291? Persian poet.
- satis — the wife of Rudra, who immolated herself following a quarrel between her father and her husband.