9-letter words containing a, c, t, o, s
- esoterica — Esoteric or highly specialized subjects or publications.
- exactions — Plural form of exaction.
- facetious — not meant to be taken seriously or literally: a facetious remark.
- factories — A building or group of buildings where goods are manufactured or assembled chiefly by machine.
- factorise — (mathematics): To create a list of factors.
- factotums — (obsolete) Plural form of factotum.
- falconets — Plural form of falconet.
- fat stock — livestock that has been fattened for market.
- footraces — Plural form of footrace.
- forecasts — Plural form of forecast.
- foscarnet — a drug used to treat herpes viruses
- fractions — Mathematics. a number usually expressed in the form a/b. a ratio of algebraic quantities similarly expressed.
- fractious — refractory or unruly: a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness.
- fructosan — any of the class of hexosans, as inulin and the like, that yield fructose upon hydrolysis.
- galactose — a white, crystalline, water-soluble hexose sugar, C 6 H 12 O 6 , obtained in its dextrorotatory form from milk sugar by hydrolysis and in its levorotatory form from mucilages.
- geomatics — The discipline of gathering, storing, processing, and delivering geographic information.
- geostatic — of or relating to pressure exerted by the weight of overlying rock.
- ghost car — an unmarked police car
- gnostical — pertaining to knowledge.
- headstock — the part of a machine containing or directly supporting the moving or working parts, as the assembly supporting and driving the live spindle in a lathe.
- hecatombs — Plural form of hecatomb.
- holocaust — a great or complete devastation or destruction, especially by fire.
- horsecart — A cart drawn by a horse.
- hot sauce — any of several highly spiced, pungent condiments, especially one containing some type of pepper or chili.
- housecats — Plural form of housecat.
- housecoat — a woman's robe or dresslike garment in various lengths, for casual wear about the house.
- hydrocast — a process in which water is collected at various depths in a device with bottles clamped together, providing data on differing water characteristics.
- hypocaust — a hollow space or system of channels in the floor or walls of some ancient Roman buildings that provided a central heating system by receiving and distributing the heat from a furnace.
- inactions — Plural form of inaction.
- isobathic — having the same depth.
- isocrates — 436–338 b.c, Athenian orator.
- isocratic — a government in which all individuals have equal political power.
- isooctane — the octane C 8 H 18 , used as one of the standards in establishing the octane number of a fuel.
- isostatic — of, relating to, or characterized by isostasy.
- isotactic — (of a polymer) having the same configuration at successive, regularly spaced positions along the chain. See also configuration (def 4).
- jack post — a post for supporting a floor beam, having two telescoping sections, adjustable to any height.
- jackboots — Plural form of jackboot.
- jackstone — jack1 (def 5a, b).
- jacobsite — a rare magnetic mineral, manganese iron oxide, MnFe 2 O 4 , similar to magnetite.
- jockstrap — an elasticized belt, a men's undergarment, with a pouch for supporting and protecting the genitals, worn especially while participating in athletics.
- justicoat — justaucorps.
- kostunica — Vojislav (ˈvɒjɪslæf). born 1944, Serbian politician; president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (2000–03); prime minister of Serbia and Montenegro (2004–06); prime minister of Serbia (2006–08)
- lactulose — (organic compound) A disaccharide of galactose and fructose formed when milk is heated.
- latosolic — belonging or relating to a latosol
- localhost — (computing) The computer being used locally, contrasted with remote computers elsewhere on a network.
- localists — Plural form of localist.
- locations — Plural form of location.
- locatives — Plural form of locative.
- macintosh — a raincoat made of rubberized cloth.
- macrocyst — a large cyst or spore case, especially the encysted, resting plasmodium of a slime mold.