Words that rhyme with lists
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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
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twists
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wrists
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brys
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chris
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chriss
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cris
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criss
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wyss
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fariss
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furniss
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buice
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bis
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biss
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preexists
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catabasis
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katabasis
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parabasis
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telesis
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anastasis
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cytoclasis
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diaplasis
