9-letter words containing e, y, s, o
- keystroke — one stroke of any key on a machine operated by a keyboard, as a typewriter, computer terminal, or Linotype: I can do 3000 keystrokes an hour.
- kilobytes — Plural form of kilobyte.
- ladyloves — Plural form of ladylove.
- layperson — a person who is not a member of the clergy; one of the laity.
- lazybones — a lazy person.
- leprosery — a hospital for leprosy sufferers
- leprosity — the state of being leprous
- leprously — In a leprous way.
- lissomely — In a lissome manner; with supple grace.
- logotypes — Plural form of logotype.
- loyalness — faithful to one's sovereign, government, or state: a loyal subject.
- loyalties — Plural form of loyalty.
- lyomerous — of or relating to Lyomeri fish
- lyonnaise — (of food, especially fried potatoes) cooked with pieces of onion.
- lyonnesse — the mythical region where Sir Tristram was born, located near Cornwall in SW England and supposed to have been submerged by the sea.
- lysocline — the depth of the ocean at which the solubility of calcium carbonate increases substantially.
- lysogenic — harboring a temperate virus as a prophage or plasmid.
- lysosomes — a cell organelle containing enzymes that digest particles and that disintegrate the cell after its death.
- lysozymes — Plural form of lysozyme.
- mantyhose — a one-piece clinging garment covering the body from the waist to the feet, worn by men
- massymore — the underground dungeon of a castle
- mastocyte — Mast cell.
- mastopexy — fixation of a pendulous breast.
- mccloskey — John, 1810–85, U.S. Roman Catholic clergyman: first U.S. cardinal 1875.
- mesocrany — the state of having a medium breadth of skull
- mesophyll — the parenchyma, usually containing chlorophyll, that forms the interior parts of a leaf.
- mesophyte — a plant growing under conditions of well-balanced moisture supply.
- misemploy — to use for the wrong purpose; use wrongly or improperly; misuse.
- mnemosyne — the ancient Greek goddess of memory, a daughter of Uranus and Gaea and the mother by Zeus of the Muses.
- monastery — a house or place of residence occupied by a community of persons, especially monks, living in seclusion under religious vows.
- moneybags — a bag for money.
- moneyless — any circulating medium of exchange, including coins, paper money, and demand deposits.
- moneywise — In terms of money; financially speaking.
- monkeyish — Like a monkey.
- monkeyism — the practice of copying or behaving like a monkey
- monocytes — (immunology) Plural form of monocyte.
- monostely — the state of being monostelic
- monotypes — Plural form of monotype.
- mooseyard — an area of trodden snow where moose spend the winter
- moygashel — an Irish linen
- museology — the systematic study of the organization, management, and function of a museum.
- mykerinos — Mycerinus.
- mysophobe — A person with an abnormal fear of filth or dirt.
- myxospore — a spore produced within any of various fruiting bodies of myxomycetes.
- neophytes — Plural form of neophyte.
- neoplasty — the surgical formation of new tissue structures or repair of damaged structures
- nervosity — the quality of being nervous; nervousness.
- nervously — highly excitable; unnaturally or acutely uneasy or apprehensive: to become nervous under stress.
- nonsteady — not steady or stable; unsteady
- nonsystem — a system that does not function properly