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MIOSES

“MIOSES” is a valid word.

8 Scrabble points
9 Words with Friends
6 letters

Definition

MIOSES is a form of MIOSIS

noun

  1. genetics cell division that produces reproductive cells in sexually reproducing organisms; the nucleus divides into four nuclei each containing half the chromosome number (leading to gametes in animals and spores in plants)
  2. reflex contraction of the sphincter muscle of the iris in response to a bright light (or certain drugs) causing the pupil to become smaller

< 6-letter words: MIOSES

38 words found

5-letter words 4

  • semisone of the two competitions in the next to the last round of an elimination tournament
  • mises
  • misosa thick paste made from fermented soybeans and barley or rice malt; used in Japanese cooking to make soups or sauces
  • seismshaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane of from volcanic activity

4-letter words 11

  • somequantifier; used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns to indicate an unspecified number or quantity
  • missa young woman
  • messa state of confusion and disorderliness
  • mosstiny leafy-stemmed flowerless plants
  • sims
  • semione of the two competitions in the next to the last round of an elimination tournament
  • misoa thick paste made from fermented soybeans and barley or rice malt; used in Japanese cooking to make soups or sauces
  • seis
  • mise
  • ismsa belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school
  • oses

3-letter words 12

  • sisa female person who has the same parents as another person
  • sim
  • sosan internationally recognized distress signal in radio code
  • ems
  • mis
  • sei
  • mos
  • ess
  • isma belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school
  • ose
  • oms
  • oes

2-letter words 11

  • ishave the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)
  • mea state in New England
  • sothe syllable naming the fifth (dominant) note of any musical scale in solmization
  • ema quad with a square body
  • moan indefinitely short time
  • midestruction of heart tissue resulting from obstruction of the blood supply to the heart muscle
  • sia tetravalent nonmetallic element; next to oxygen it is the most abundant element in the earth's crust; occurs in clay and feldspar and granite and quartz and sand; used as a semiconductor in transistors
  • esa radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons
  • om
  • osa mouth or mouthlike opening
  • oe