Words that rhyme with periphrasis

• ectasis 0
  n 1: dilatation or distension of a hollow organ [syn: ectasia, ectasis]
• myiasis 0
  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 0
  n 1: a disease of the respiratory mucous membrane [syn: whooping cough, pertussis]
• salmacis 0
  n 1: nymph who merged with Hermaphroditus to form one body
• atelectasis 0
  n 1: collapse of an expanded lung (especially in infants); also failure of pulmonary alveoli to expand at birth
• diastasis 0
  n 1: separation of an epiphysis from the long bone to which it is normally attached without fracture of the bone
• epistasis 0
  n 1: the suppression of a gene by the effect of an unrelated gene [syn: hypostasis, epistasis]
• assists 0
• consists 0
• cysts 0
• enlists 0
• exists 0
• fists 0
• insists 0
• lists 0
• persists 0
• resists 0
• twists 0
• wrists 0
• wyss 0
• fariss 0
• furniss 0
• biss 0
• preexists 0
• catabasis 0
• katabasis 0
• parabasis 0
• telesis 0
• anastasis 0
• cytoclasis 0
• diaplasis 0

See also periphrasis definition and periphrasis synonyms