9-Letter Words That End With: IS

• marrow squash plant whose fruit are eaten when small

• small cucumber-shaped vegetable marrow; typically dark green

• A Greek long-necked plucked fretted lute having a sharp, metallic sound

• (grammar) Syntactic subordination of one clause or construction to another.

• A radical or militant feminist who is intolerant of opposing views or a feminist who wants a superiority of women over men.

• an abnormal adhesion of two or more structures

• a growing together of parts or structures

• The epenthesis (insertion) of a vowel; svarabhakti: for example, the middle ‘-a-’ in thataway, or use of infixes -i- and -o- in coining English words on classical roots.

• the contraction of chromatin towards one side of the nucleus during the prophase of meiosis