9-letter words containing o, c, t, s
- gnostical — pertaining to knowledge.
- gobstruck — (slang, chiefly, UK) gobsmacked; astonished; astounded.
- goldcrest — a Eurasian kinglet, Regulus regulus, having a bright yellow patch on the top of the head.
- goldstick — a gilt rod carried by the colonel of the Life Guards or the captain of the gentlemen-at-arms
- gothicism — conformity or devotion to the gothic style in the arts.
- gottsched — Johann Christoph. 1700–66, German critic, dramatist, and translator
- gunstocks — Plural form of gunstock.
- headstock — the part of a machine containing or directly supporting the moving or working parts, as the assembly supporting and driving the live spindle in a lathe.
- hecatombs — Plural form of hecatomb.
- hectorism — the character or actions of a hector
- hemocytes — Plural form of hemocyte.
- hircosity — the quality of being like a goat
- holocaust — a great or complete devastation or destruction, especially by fire.
- hopscotch — a children's game in which a player tosses or kicks a small flat stone, beanbag, or other object into one of several numbered sections of a diagram marked on the pavement or ground and then hops on one foot over the lines from section to section and picks up the stone or object, usually while standing on one foot in an adjacent section.
- horsecart — A cart drawn by a horse.
- hot sauce — any of several highly spiced, pungent condiments, especially one containing some type of pepper or chili.
- hotchkiss — Hazel, Wightman, Hazel Hotchkiss.
- housecats — Plural form of housecat.
- housecoat — a woman's robe or dresslike garment in various lengths, for casual wear about the house.
- hutcheson — Francis. 1694–1746, Scottish philosopher: he published books on ethics and aesthetics, including System of Moral Philosophy (1755)
- 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.
- ice storm — a storm of freezing rain and widespread glaze formation.
- ice tongs — a small pair of tongs for serving ice cubes.
- idiolects — Plural form of idiolect.
- ignostics — Plural form of ignostic.
- impeticos — to put in a pocket
- inactions — Plural form of inaction.
- incestous — Misspelling of incestuous.
- incoterms — Plural form of incoterm.
- inductors — Plural form of inductor.
- infectors — Plural form of infector.
- injectors — Plural form of injector.
- innocents — free from moral wrong; without sin; pure: innocent children.
- insection — A cutting in; incision.
- insectoid — Insect-like.
- inspector — a person who inspects.
- intercoms — Plural form of intercom.
- isobathic — having the same depth.
- isocrates — 436–338 b.c, Athenian orator.
- isocratic — a government in which all individuals have equal political power.
- isolectin — Any of a number of closely related lectins that are difficult to separate, and act together.
- isometric — of, relating to, or having equality of measure.
- isooctane — the octane C 8 H 18 , used as one of the standards in establishing the octane number of a fuel.
- isopectic — a line drawn on a map connecting all points where ice starts to form at approximately the same period at the onset of winter.
- isosmotic — isotonic (def 1).
- isostatic — of, relating to, or characterized by isostasy.
- isosteric — Chemistry. having the same number of valence electrons in the same configuration but differing in the kinds and numbers of atoms.
- isotactic — (of a polymer) having the same configuration at successive, regularly spaced positions along the chain. See also configuration (def 4).