9-letter words containing c, y, s, t, o
- exocytose — (of a cell) to secrete a substance from within
- eyesocket — Alternative spelling of eye socket.
- fetoscopy — examination by means of a fetoscope.
- hemocytes — Plural form of hemocyte.
- hircosity — the quality of being like a goat
- hydrocast — a process in which water is collected at various depths in a device with bottles clamped together, providing data on differing water characteristics.
- hypnotics — Plural form of hypnotic.
- 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.
- joy-stick — Informal. the control stick of an airplane, tank, or other vehicle.
- joysticks — Plural form of joystick.
- lithocyst — a sac, containing otoliths, found in many invertebrates, supposedly connected to hearing and orientation
- macrocyst — a large cyst or spore case, especially the encysted, resting plasmodium of a slime mold.
- mastocyte — Mast cell.
- monocytes — (immunology) Plural form of monocyte.
- nonsticky — not sticky
- nyctalops — a person affected by nyctalopia
- obscenity — the character or quality of being obscene; indecency; lewdness.
- obscurity — the state or quality of being obscure.
- obstinacy — the quality or state of being obstinate; stubbornness.
- octastyle — having eight columns in the front, as a temple or portico.
- oomycetes — Plural form of oomycete.
- oscitancy — yawning, as with drowsiness; gaping.
- ostectomy — excision of part or all of a bone.
- osteocyte — a cell of osseous tissue within the bone matrix; a bone cell.
- piscatory — of or relating to fishermen or fishing: a piscatory treaty.
- psych out — to intimidate or frighten psychologically, or make nervous (often followed by out): to psych out the competition.
- psych-out — an act or instance of psyching out.
- psychotic — Psychiatry. characterized by or afflicted with psychosis. Synonyms: (in nontechnical usage) insane, psychopathic, lunatic, mentally ill; mad, disturbed, deranged, demented, non compos mentis. Antonyms: sane; compos mentis, clearheaded, lucid.
- pyroclast — a piece of lava ejected from a volcano
- satyricon — a satirical novel, interspersed with verse, written in the 1st century a.d. by Petronius, extant in fragments.
- scatology — the study of or preoccupation with excrement or obscenity.
- sciophyte — any plant that grows best in the shade
- scouthery — scorching
- scriptory — of or relating to writing
- secretory — pertaining to secretion.
- serotypic — of or relating to a serotype
- skyrocket — a rocket firework that ascends into the air and explodes at a height, usually in a brilliant array of sparks of one or more colors.
- sociality — social nature or tendencies as shown in the assembling of individuals in communities.
- soft copy — computer output displayed on the screen of a VDT (opposed to hard copy).
- sporocyst — a walled body resulting from the multiple division of a sporozoan, which produces one or more sporozoites.
- sporocyte — a diploid cell in certain spore-bearing plants, as liverworts, that produces four haploid spores through meiosis; a spore mother cell.
- statocyst — (in certain invertebrates) a sense organ consisting of a sac enclosing sensory hairs and particles of sand, lime, etc., that functions in maintaining equilibrium, serving to indicate position in space.
- stock boy — a boy or man responsible for replenishing stock, as on the shelves of a grocery store.
- stockyard — an enclosure with pens, sheds, etc., connected with a slaughterhouse, railroad, market, etc., for the temporary housing of cattle, sheep, swine, or horses.
- stoically — impassive; characterized by a calm, austere fortitude befitting the Stoics: a stoical sufferer.
- story arc — a continuing storyline in a television series that gradually unfolds over several episodes
- subcounty — a division of a county
- sycophant — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
- symbiotic — living in symbiosis, or having an interdependent relationship: Many people feel the relationship between humans and dogs is symbiotic.
- sympatico — simpatico