9-Letter Words That End With: ESIS

• the process of producing a chemical compound (usually by the union of simpler chemical compounds)

• the combination of ideas into a complex whole

• reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect)

• The prepending of phonemes at the beginning of a word without changing its morphological structure, as in Spanish esfera from Latin sphaera (expected form would be *sfera).

• A type of preparatory ceremony, part of the Divine Liturgy of the Eastern Orthodox Church

• (linguistics) omission at the beginning of a word as in `coon' for `raccoon' or `till' for `until'

• a procedure in which blood is drawn and separated into its components by dialysis; some are retained and the rest are returned to the donor by transfusion

• constitutional predisposition to a particular disease or abnormality

• the contraction of two vowels into a diphthong

• the separation of liquid from a gel that is caused by contraction (as in cheese making)

• the case history of a medical patient as recalled by the patient

• the ability to recall past occurrences

• alternation of sexual and asexual generations

• a diacritical mark (two dots) placed over a vowel to indicate that it does not form a diphthong with an adjacent vowel