10-Letter Words Starting A & Ending IS

• reproduction involving the union or fusion of a male and a female gamete

• union of sperm and egg in sexual reproduction

• model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal

• the elevation of a person (as to the status of a god)

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

• infection by a disease-causing ameba

• exact opposite

• the juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas to give a feeling of balance

• (of non-living objects) the state of being free of pathogenic organisms

• the process of inhibiting the growth and multiplication of microorganisms

• someone skilled in the transcription of speech (especially dictation)

• infestation of the human intestine with Ascaris roundworms

• an association between organisms that is harmful to one of them or between organisms and a metabolic product of another