9 Letter Words for Sclerosis
sclerosis
8 Letter Words for Sclerosis
ossicles, rissoles
7 Letter Words for Sclerosis
closers, coilers, cosiers, cossies, cresols, croises, crosses, escrols, eslisor, lessors, loessic, lorises, lossier, ossicle, recoils, resoils, rissole, scissel, scissor, scorses, seisors, slicers
6 Letter Words for Sclerosis
ceorls, cessio, cessor, clises, closer, closes, coiler, colies, cories, corses, corsie, cosses, cossie, cresol, crises, crisle, croise, crosse, elisor, escrol, iscose, lessor, lisses, lorics, lories, losers, losser, losses, oilers, oriels, osiers, recoil, relics, reoils, resoil, rissel, rissle, rosies, scores, scorse, scries, seisor, silers, siress, sirocs, slicer, slices, socies, socles, solers, sorels, sossle
5 Letter Words for Sclerosis
ceils, ceorl, ceros, ciels, cires, cirls, clies, cloes, close, coils, coirs, coles, cores, corse, coses, cosie, cosse, cress, cries, crile, crise, criss, crois, crose, cross, eolic, eorls, erics, icers, ireos, isles, leirs, leiss, liers, loess, loire, loirs, lores, loric, loris, loser, loses, oiler, oleic, oriel, orles, orsel, osier, relic, reoil, rices, riels, riles, rises, roils, roles, rosel, roses, scler, score, secos, seils, seirs, seric, serio, sicer, sices, sicle, siler, siles, silos, sires, siroc, siros, sises, slice, slier, sloes, socle, soils, solei, soler, soles, sorel, sores, sosie
4 Letter Words for Sclerosis
ceil, cels, cero, cess, ciel, cire, cirl, clio, clos, coes, coil, coir, cole, coli, cols, core, cors, cose, coss, cres, cris, ecol, eorl, eric, eris, eros, icer, ices, iocs, ires, isle, isls, isos, leir, leis, leos, less, lice, lier, lies, lire, liss, loci, loir, lore, lori, lors, lose, loss, oeci, oils, oles, orcs, ores, orle, oses, osse, recs, rice, riel, ries, rile, risc, rise, rocs, roes, roil, role, rose, ross, scil, scsi, seco, secs, seil, seir, seis, sels, seor, sero, sers, sess, sice, sics, sier, sile, silo, siol, sire, sirs, sise, siss, sloe, soce, socs, soil, soir, sole, sols, sore, sori, soss, sris
3 Letter Words for Sclerosis
cel, ceo, cer, cie, cir, cis, cli, clo, clr, col, cor, cos, crl, cro, crs, csi, eco, eir, eli, els, eos, ers, esc, esr, ess, ice, ile, ilo, ios, ire, irs, ise, isl, iso, lei, leo, ler, les, lie, lir, lis, loc, loe, lor, los, lsc, oer, oes, oie, oil, ois, ole, orc, ore, orl, ors, ose, osi, rec, rei, rel, res, rie, rio, rle, roc, roe, roi, ros, sci, scr, sec, sei, sel, ser, sic, sie, sil, sir, sis, sle, soc, sol, sri, sse
Definitions for Sclerosis
[1] Pathology . a hardening or induration of a tissue or part, or an increase of connective tissue or the like at the expense of more active tissue.
[2] Botany . a hardening of a tissue or cell wall by thickening or lignification.
[3] pathol a hardening or thickening of organs, tissues, or vessels from chronic inflammation, abnormal growth of fibrous tissue, or degeneration of the myelin sheath of nerve fibres, or (esp on the inner walls of arteries) deposition of fatty plaques Compare arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis, multiple sclerosis
[4] the hardening of a plant cell wall or tissue by the deposition of lignin
[5] a debilitating lack of progress or innovation within an institution or organization
Words nearby Sclerosis
sclerosed, sclerosing adenosis, sclerosing hemangioma, sclerosing keratitis, sclerosing osteitis, sclerosis, sclerostenosis, sclerostomy, sclerotherapy, sclerotic, sclerotic body
Origin of Sclerosis
1350–1400; Middle English < Medieval Latin < Greek sklḗrōsis hardening. See scler-, -osis
Other words from Sclerosis
scle·ro·sal , adjective
Word origin for Sclerosis
C14: via Medieval Latin from Greek sklērōsis a hardening
