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Showing words for FISSURE using the English dictionary

7 Letter Words for Fissure

fissure, fussier, surfies

6 Letter Words for Fissure

frises, furies, fusser, issuer, serifs, sieurs, surfie, uresis

5 Letter Words for Fissure

fires, fress, fries, friss, fuses, issue, reifs, rises, risus, ruses, russe, seifs, seirs, serfs, serif, sieur, sires, suers, surfs, users

4 Letter Words for Fissure

eris, feis, fers, feru, fess, feus, fier, fies, fire, firs, fise, fris, furs, fuse, fuss, ires, iure, refs, reif, ries, rife, rifs, rise, rues, ruse, russ, seif, seir, seis, serf, sers, sier, sife, sire, sirs, sise, sris, suer, sues, sufi, sure, surf, susi, ufer, ures, user, uses, ussr

3 Letter Words for Fissure

efs, eir, erf, ers, esr, ess, esu, fei, fer, fes, feu, fie, fir, fri, frs, fur, ife, ifs, ire, irs, ise, ref, rei, res, rfs, rie, rif, rue, sei, ser, sie, sif, sir, sis, sri, sse, ssu, sue, suf, sui, sur, sus, ufs, ure, urf, urs, use

Definitions for Fissure

[1] a narrow opening produced by cleavage or separation of parts.
[2] cleavage(def 1) .
[3] Anatomy . a natural division or groove in an organ, as in the brain.
[4] to make fissures in; cleave; split.
[5] to open in fissures; become split.
[6] any long narrow cleft or crack, esp in a rock
[7] a weakness or flaw indicating impending disruption or discord fissures in a decaying empire
[8] anatomy a narrow split or groove that divides an organ such as the brain, lung, or liver into lobes See also sulcus
[9] a small unnatural crack in the skin or mucous membrane, as between the toes or at the anus
[10] a minute crack in the surface of a tooth, caused by imperfect joining of enamel during development
[11] to crack or split apart

Words related to Fissure

crevice, cleavage, cleft, hole, crack

Words nearby Fissure

fissiparity, fissiparous, fissiped, fissirostral, fissura, fissure, fissure eruption, fissure of rolando, fissure of round ligament, fissure of sylvius, fissure of venous ligament

Origin of Fissure

1375–1425; late Middle English < Latin fissūra cleaving, cleft, fissure, equivalent to fiss(us ) divided (see fissi-) + -ūra -ure

Other words from Fissure

fis·su·ral , adjective
fis·sure·less , adjective
sub·fis·sure , noun
su·per·fis·sure , noun

Word origin for Fissure

C14: from medical Latin fissūra , from Latin fissus split

Synonyms for Fissure

cleavage, crevice, cleft, crack, hole