9-letter words containing c, e, t, o
- oomycetes — Plural form of oomycete.
- opacities — the state or quality of being opaque.
- open city — a city that, during a war, is officially declared demilitarized and open to occupation, and that will consequently not be defended, in order to spare it, under international law, from bombardment or other military attack.
- open-cast — open-cut.
- operatics — Exaggerated or overly emotional behaviour; histrionics.
- orchestic — relating to dance
- orchestra — a group of performers on various musical instruments, including especially stringed instruments of the viol class, clarinets and flutes, cornets and trombones, drums, and cymbals, for playing music, as symphonies, operas, popular music, or other compositions.
- orchestre — Obsolete form of orchestra.
- orthoepic — Of or pertaining to orthoepy.
- oscillate — to swing or move to and fro, as a pendulum does.
- osculated — Simple past tense and past participle of osculate.
- osculates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of osculate.
- ostectomy — excision of part or all of a bone.
- osteocope — severe pain in the bones, especially that occurring in syphilitic persons.
- osteocyte — a cell of osseous tissue within the bone matrix; a bone cell.
- ostracean — a member of the family formerly called Ostracea
- ostracise — to exclude, by general consent, from society, friendship, conversation, privileges, etc.: His friends ostracized him after his father's arrest.
- ostracize — to exclude, by general consent, from society, friendship, conversation, privileges, etc.: His friends ostracized him after his father's arrest.
- ostriches — Plural form of ostrich.
- ostricize — Misspelling of ostracize.
- otoscopes — Plural form of otoscope.
- out-voice — the sound or sounds uttered through the mouth of living creatures, especially of human beings in speaking, shouting, singing, etc.
- outbacker — a person who lives in the Australian outback
- outcasted — Simple past tense and past participle of outcaste.
- outcastes — Plural form of outcaste.
- outcharge — to charge more than
- outercoat — coat (def 1).
- outjockey — to outmaneuver: We outjockeyed the competition and got our bid in first.
- outmuscle — to get the better of or dominate by virtue of superior strength or force.
- outoffice — an outbuilding
- outplacer — a person who outplaces ex-employees
- outpreach — to outdo in preaching or overcome by preaching
- outpriced — Simple past tense and past participle of outprice.
- outreckon — to surpass in reckoning
- outscheme — to outdo in scheming
- outscored — Simple past tense and past participle of outscore.
- outscores — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outscore.
- outscream — to scream louder than
- outsearch — to go or look through (a place, area, etc.) carefully in order to find something missing or lost: They searched the woods for the missing child. I searched the desk for the letter.
- outsource — (of a company or organization) to purchase (goods) or subcontract (services) from an outside supplier or source.
- overacted — Simple past tense and past participle of overact.
- overactor — Someone who overacts.
- overacute — excessively acute
- overcasts — Plural form of overcast.
- overcatch — to overtake
- overcoats — Plural form of overcoat.
- overcount — To count more of something than are actually present, or to count one thing disproportionately more than another.
- overexact — Too exact; overscrupulous; pedantic.
- overmatch — to be more than a match for; surpass; defeat: an assignment that clearly overmatched his abilities; an able task force that overmatched the enemy fleet.
- overpitch — to bowl (a ball) so that it pitches too close to the stumps