9-letter words that end in is
- stegnosis — a constriction of bodily pores, vessels, or ducts
- strumitis — an inflammation of thyroid gland
- sui juris — capable of managing one's affairs or assuming legal responsibility.
- syllepsis — the use of a word or expression to perform two syntactic functions, especially to modify two or more words of which at least one does not agree in number, case, or gender, as the use of are in Neither he nor we are willing.
- symbiosis — Biology. the living together of two dissimilar organisms, as in mutualism, commensalism, amensalism, or parasitism. (formerly) mutualism (def 1).
- symphysis — the growing together, or the fixed or nearly fixed union, of bones, as that of the two halves of the lower jaw in humans or of the pubic bones in the anterior part of the pelvic girdle.
- symptosis — local or general atrophy.
- synchysis — an arrangement of words with muddled meaning
- syncrisis — the comparison of opposites.
- syneresis — the contraction of two syllables or two vowels into one, especially the contraction of two vowels so as to form a diphthong.
- synizesis — the combination into one syllable of two vowels (or of a vowel and a diphthong) that do not form a diphthong.
- synovitis — inflammation of a synovial membrane.
- synthesis — the combining of the constituent elements of separate material or abstract entities into a single or unified entity (opposed to analysis, ) the separating of any material or abstract entity into its constituent elements.
- taeniasis — infestation with tapeworms.
- telotaxis — orientation or movement, by an organism with sensory receptors, toward or away from a particular source of stimulation.
- tenonitis — tendinitis.
- teratosis — teratism (def 2).
- the kiwis — the men's international Rugby League football team of New Zealand
- thutmosis — flourished c1475 b.c, Egyptian ruler: conqueror of the Middle East.
- torulosis — cryptococcosis.
- toxicosis — an abnormal condition produced by the action of a poison.
- tremissis — Also called triens. a gold coin of the Eastern Roman Empire, the third part of a solidus, first issued in the 3rd century a.d.
- trichosis — any disease of the hair.
- typhlitis — inflammation of the cecum.
- typhlosis — blindness.
- vaginitis — inflammation of the vagina.
- vaginosis — a vaginal infection caused by a bacterial imbalance
- varicosis — the formation of a varix or varices.
- verdigris — a green or bluish patina formed on copper, brass, or bronze surfaces exposed to the atmosphere for long periods of time, consisting principally of basic copper sulfate.
- vibriosis — a venereal disease of cattle and sheep, caused by the organism Vibrio fetus, characterized by delayed female fertility and by spontaneous abortion.
- vis-a-vis — face to face: They sat vis-à-vis at the table.
- wallensis — Sir William, Wallace, Sir William.
- walpurgis — Saint, a.d. c710–780, English missionary and abbess in Germany: feast day May 1.
- wet basis — A wet basis is a measure of the water in a solid, expressed as the weight of water as a percentage of the wet solid.
- with this — after this; thereupon
- wood ibis — any of several storks of the subfamily Mycteriinae, especially Mycteria americana, of the warm parts of America, and Ibis ibis, of Africa, having chiefly white plumage and a featherless head and resembling the true ibises in having curved bills: M. Americana is endangered.
- xanthosis — (pathology) A yellowish discolouration of tissues undergoing degeneration.
- zoochosis — Abnormal animal behaviour caused by time in captivity.
- zymolysis — the digestive and fermentative action of enzymes.