diminution
reduction division
understatement
meioses
rhetorical device
litotes
Musharraf
infavor
acidosis
apotheosis
arteriosclerosis
asbestosis
cirrhosis
diagnosis
fibrosis
heterosis
hypnosis
misdiagnosis
necrosis
nephrosis
neurosis
prognosis
psychosis
sclerosis
symbiosis
thrombosis
tuberculosis
auxesis
hyperbole
mitosis
paradiastole