Words that rhyme with exists

  • abyss
    n 1: a bottomless gulf or pit; any unfathomable (or apparently unfathomable) cavity or chasm or void extending below (often used figuratively) [syn: abyss, abysm]
  • amiss
    adv 1: away from the correct or expected course; "something has gone awry in our plans"; "something went badly amiss in the preparations" [syn: awry, amiss] 2: in an improper or mistaken or unfortunate manner; "if you think him guilty you judge amiss"; "he spoke amiss"; "no one took it amiss when she spoke frankly" 3: in an imperfect or faulty way; "The lobe was imperfectly developed"; "Miss Bennet would not play at all amiss if she practiced more"- Jane Austen [syn: imperfectly, amiss] [ant: perfectly] adj 1: not functioning properly; "something is amiss"; "has gone completely haywire"; "something is wrong with the engine" [syn: amiss(p), awry(p), haywire, wrong(p)]
  • bliss
    n 1: a state of extreme happiness [syn: bliss, blissfulness, cloud nine, seventh heaven, walking on air]
  • ectasis
    n 1: dilatation or distension of a hollow organ [syn: ectasia, ectasis]
  • myiasis
    n 1: infestation of the body by the larvae of flies (usually through a wound or other opening) or any disease resulting from such infestation
  • pertussis
    n 1: a disease of the respiratory mucous membrane [syn: whooping cough, pertussis]
  • salmacis
    n 1: nymph who merged with Hermaphroditus to form one body
  • atelectasis
    n 1: collapse of an expanded lung (especially in infants); also failure of pulmonary alveoli to expand at birth
  • diastasis
    n 1: separation of an epiphysis from the long bone to which it is normally attached without fracture of the bone
  • epistasis
    n 1: the suppression of a gene by the effect of an unrelated gene [syn: hypostasis, epistasis]
  • assists
  • coexists
  • consists
  • cysts
  • enlists
  • fists
  • insists
  • lists
  • persists
  • resists
  • twists
  • wrists
  • brys
  • chris
  • chriss
  • cris
  • criss
  • wyss
  • fariss
  • furniss
  • buice
  • bis
  • biss
  • preexists
  • catabasis
  • katabasis
  • parabasis
  • telesis
  • anastasis
  • cytoclasis
  • diaplasis