9-letter words containing a, t, s, e, o
- homestand — (baseball) A series of games played at a team's home field.
- homestays — Plural form of homestay.
- homestead — a town in S Florida.
- hoofbeats — Plural form of hoofbeat.
- horsecart — A cart drawn by a horse.
- horsemeat — The flesh of a horse as food.
- horsetail — Also called scouring rush. any nonflowering plant of the genus Equisetum, having hollow, jointed stems.
- hortensia — Hydrangea.
- hospitage — the position of being a guest
- hospitale — a place of lodging
- hospitate — (obsolete, transitive) To receive with hospitality; to lodge as a guest.
- hot sauce — any of several highly spiced, pungent condiments, especially one containing some type of pepper or chili.
- hotplates — Plural form of hotplate.
- houseboat — a flat-bottomed, bargelike boat fitted for use as a floating dwelling but not for rough water.
- housecats — Plural form of housecat.
- housecoat — a woman's robe or dresslike garment in various lengths, for casual wear about the house.
- housemate — a person with whom one shares a house or other residence.
- hylobates — Plural form of hylobate.
- ideations — Plural form of ideation.
- idolaters — Plural form of idolater.
- immolates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of immolate.
- impastoed — (painting) Painted with an impasto.
- innovates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of innovate.
- inosinate — Any salt or ester of inosinic acid; the salts are used as flavour enhancers.
- insolated — to expose to the sun's rays; treat by exposure to the sun's rays.
- insolates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of insolate.
- isobutane — a colorless, flammable gas, C 4 H 10 , used as a fuel, as a refrigerant, and in the manufacture of gasoline by alkylation.
- isocrates — 436–338 b.c, Athenian orator.
- isogamete — one of a pair of conjugating gametes, exhibiting no differences in form, size, structure, or sex.
- isohyetal — a line drawn on a map connecting points having equal rainfall at a certain time or for a stated period.
- isolative — noting a change in part of the sound of a word made independently of the phonetic environment of that part.
- isooctane — the octane C 8 H 18 , used as one of the standards in establishing the octane number of a fuel.
- isopteran — a member of the order Isoptera which includes social, colonizing insects such as termites
- jackstone — jack1 (def 5a, b).
- jacobsite — a rare magnetic mineral, manganese iron oxide, MnFe 2 O 4 , similar to magnetite.
- jambstone — a stone, or one of the stones, forming one jamb of an opening.
- jamestown — a British island in the S Atlantic: Napoleon's place of exile 1815–21. 47 sq. mi. (122 sq. km).
- jasmonate — a hormone that regulates plant growth
- jobstears — (used with a plural verb) the hard, nearly spherical bracts that surround the female flowers of an Asian grass, Coix lacryma-jobi, and which when ripe are used as beads.
- juxtapose — to place close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast.
- keelboats — Plural form of keelboat.
- keratoses — having a skeleton formed of horny fibers, as certain sponges.
- keratosis — any skin disease characterized by a horny growth, as a wart.
- laborites — Plural form of laborite.
- lactulose — (organic compound) A disaccharide of galactose and fructose formed when milk is heated.
- langouste — spiny lobster.
- laserwort — the name given to several umbelliferous woodland plants of the genus Laserpitium, such as Laserpitium latifolium, whose roots are used as a flavouring
- lead shot — small round pellets of lead, used in cartridges
- leadworts — Plural form of leadwort.
- leaf spot — a limited, often circular, discolored, diseased area on a leaf, usually including a central region of necrosis.