9-letter words containing i, s, o, t, n
- atonalist — a composer who composes without knowingly or being aware of alluding to a particular tone or scale
- attornies — Plural form of attorny.
- auditions — Plural form of audition.
- autolysin — any agent that produces autolysis
- baritones — Plural form of baritone.
- bastinado — punishment or torture in which the soles of the feet are beaten with a stick
- bastioned — Furnished with a bastion; having bastions.
- bilestone — gallstone.
- bisection — to cut or divide into two equal or nearly equal parts.
- bisontine — relating to bison
- bissonata — a coarse woolen cloth constructed in plain weave and dyed black or brown, used in the manufacture of clerical vestments.
- boatswain — a petty officer on a merchant ship or a warrant officer on a warship who is responsible for the maintenance of the ship and its equipment
- bostonian — a person from Boston
- botulinus — an anaerobic bacterium, Clostridium botulinum, whose toxins (botulins) cause botulism: family Bacillaceae
- bowstring — the string of an archer's bow, usually consisting of three strands of hemp
- brimstone — Brimstone is the same as sulphur.
- brimstony — of, relating to or resembling brimstone; sulphurous
- bronxites — the, a borough of New York City, N of Manhattan. 43.4 sq. mi. (112 sq. km).
- c rations — tinned food formerly issued in packs to US soldiers
- c-section — A C-section is the same as a Caesarean.
- canoeists — Plural form of canoeist.
- cantonise — divide into cantons
- carnosity — an abnormal fleshy protrusion growing on any part of the body
- caseation — the formation of cheese from casein during the coagulation of milk
- cashpoint — A cashpoint is the same as a cash dispenser.
- cassation — (esp in France) annulment, as of a judicial decision by a higher court
- cast iron — Cast iron is iron which contains a small amount of carbon. It is hard and cannot be bent so it has to be made into objects by casting.
- cast-iron — made of cast iron.
- causation — The causation of something, usually something bad, is the factors that have caused it.
- cenobites — Plural form of cenobite.
- centesimo — a former monetary unit of Italy, San Marino, and the Vatican City worth one hundredth of a lira
- centroids — Plural form of centroid.
- certosina — a technique of inlaying light-colored material, as bone, ivory, metal, or pale wood, in elaborate designs on a dark ground.
- cessation — The cessation of something is the stopping of it.
- chitinous — a nitrogen-containing polysaccharide, related chemically to cellulose, that forms a semitransparent horny substance and is a principal constituent of the exoskeleton, or outer covering, of insects, crustaceans, and arachnids.
- cistronic — cistron-related
- citations — Plural form of citation.
- clinostat — an apparatus for studying tropisms in plants, usually a rotating disc to which the plant is attached so that it receives an equal stimulus on all sides
- closeting — Present participle of closet.
- clothings — Plural form of clothing.
- cnidocyst — a nematocyst.
- coastline — A country's coastline is the outline of its coast.
- cocainist — a cocaine addict
- cognetics — The engineering of objects to make them accommodate critical human thought process.
- cognisant — a frequent misspelling of cognizant.
- cognovits — Law. an acknowledgment or confession by a defendant that the plaintiff's cause, or part of it, is just, wherefore the defendant, to save expense, permits judgment to be entered without trial.
- colonists — Plural form of colonist.
- colonitis — (obsolete) Colitis.
- columnist — A columnist is a journalist who regularly writes a particular kind of article in a newspaper or magazine.
- communist — A communist is someone who believes in communism.