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Words ending with xis

3 letter words ending with xis

  • xis — Plural form of xi.

4 letter words ending with xis

  • axis — An axis is an imaginary line through the middle of something.
  • conjugate axis — the axis of a hyperbola perpendicular to the transverse axis at a point equidistant from the foci.
  • crystallographic axis — one of the imaginary reference lines passing through the center of an ideal crystal, designated a, b, or c.
  • imaginary axis — the vertical axis in an Argand diagram.
  • magnetic axis — the straight line joining the two poles of a magnet, as the poles of the earth

5 letter words ending with xis

  • baxis — the horizontal crystallographic axis that is in a right-left position.
  • 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.
  • maxis — Plural form of maxi.
  • 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.
  • taxis — arrangement or order, as in one of the physical sciences.

6 letter words ending with xis

  • -taxis — indicating movement towards or away from a specified stimulus
  • a-axis — the horizontal crystallographic axis passing from front to back.
  • alexis — a masculine and feminine name
  • b-axis — the horizontal crystallographic axis that is in a right-left position.
  • c-axis — the vertical crystallographic axis.

7 letter words ending with xis

  • synaxis — an assembly for religious worship, especially for the celebration of the Eucharist.

8 letter words ending with xis

  • anatexis — the partial melting of rocks, esp in the formation of metamorphic rocks
  • apomixis — (esp in plants) any of several types of asexual reproduction, such as parthenogenesis and apogamy, in which fertilization does not take place
  • ataraxis — The absence of stress or anxiety; serenity.
  • cathexis — concentration of psychic energy on a single goal
  • endeixis — a sign or mark

9 letter words ending with xis

  • acathexis — (pathology) The loss of the ability to respond emotionally.
  • aerotaxis — the movement of organisms towards or away from oxygen caused by changes in oxygen concentration
  • anaptyxis — the insertion of a short vowel between consonants in order to make a word more easily pronounceable
  • asterixis — (pathology) An abnormal muscular tremor characterized by involuntary jerking of the hands.
  • catalexis — the state of lacking a syllable in the last foot of a line of poetry

10 letter words ending with xis

  • amphimixis — true sexual reproduction by the fusion of gametes from two organisms
  • anemotaxis — oriented movement in response to a current of air.
  • brachyaxis — the shorter lateral axis of a monoclinic, orthorhombic, or triclinic crystal
  • chemotaxis — the movement of a microorganism or cell in response to a chemical stimulus
  • decathexis — to withdraw one's feelings of attachment from (a person, idea, or object), as in anticipation of a future loss: He decathected from her in order to cope with her impending death.

11 letter words ending with xis

  • anaphylaxis — extreme sensitivity to an injected antigen, esp a protein, following a previous injection
  • chemiotaxis — Dated form of chemotaxis.
  • heterotaxis — abnormal or irregular arrangement, as of parts of the body, geological strata, etc.
  • paraphraxis — the inability to perform purposive movements properly
  • phyllotaxis — phyllotaxy.

12 letter words ending with xis

  • anticathexis — a change from one emotion to its opposite, as from hate to love.
  • galvanotaxis — movement of an organism or any of its parts in a particular direction in response to an electric current; electrotaxis.
  • magnetotaxis — movement or orientation of an organism in response to a magnetic field.
  • morphallaxis — Biology. the regeneration of a destroyed body part by the reorganization of its remaining cells.
  • trophallaxis — (among social insects) the exchange of nutriments or other secretions between members of a colony.

13 letter words ending with xis

  • onychorrhexis — (pathology) fingernail and toenail brittleness and breakage, such as may be due to excessive strong soap and water exposure, nail polish remover, hypothyroidism, anemia, anorexia nervosa or bulimia, or after oral retinoid therapy.
  • tachyphylaxis — Medicine/Medical. immediate, temporary immunization against the effects of injection of a toxic extract owing to previous small injections of the same extract.

14 letter words ending with xis

  • hypercatalexis — the addition of one or more syllables after the final foot in a line of verse.

15 letter words ending with xis

  • countercathexis — (psychology) The suppression or repression of mental energy.

16 letter words ending with xis

17 letter words ending with xis

On this page, we collect all words that ending in XIS. To make easier to find the right word we have divided all 108 words to groups according to their length. So you should go to appropriate page if can’t find the word that ends in XIS that you are searching. Also you can use this page in Scrabble.

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