9-letter words containing o, n, s, a
- coruscant — giving off flashes of light
- cosecants — Plural form of cosecant.
- cosmonaut — A cosmonaut is an astronaut from the former Soviet Union.
- costanoan — a family of eight languages, now extinct, spoken by American Indian peoples of coastal California: part of the Penutian stock.
- courantes — Plural form of courante.
- courtesan — In former times, a courtesan was a woman who had sexual relationships with rich and powerful men for money.
- cousinage — a kinship or relationship
- covenants — Plural form of covenant.
- coxswains — Plural form of coxswain.
- cozenages — Plural form of cozenage.
- cramdowns — Plural form of cramdown.
- crayonist — (dated) An artist who uses crayons.
- creations — The action or process of bringing something into existence.
- croissant — Croissants are small, sweet bread rolls in the shape of a crescent that are eaten for breakfast.
- crossband — (in furniture) a layer of wood beneath, and with its grain at right angles to, the veneer
- crown saw — a hollow cylinder with cutting teeth forming a rotary saw for trepanning
- cryobanks — Plural form of cryobank.
- custodian — The custodian of an official building, a companies' assets, or something else valuable is the person who is officially in charge of it.
- cutaneous — of, relating to, or affecting the skin
- dal segno — (of a piece of music) to be repeated from the point marked with a sign to the word fine
- daltonism — colour blindness, esp the confusion of red and green
- dangerous — If something is dangerous, it is able or likely to hurt or harm you.
- dawsonite — a mineral that is made up of sodium and aluminium hydrous carbonate and occurs in crystalline form
- deaconess — (in the early church and in some modern Churches) a female member of the laity with duties similar to those of a deacon
- demeanors — Plural form of demeanor.
- demoniacs — Plural form of demoniac.
- denotates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of denotate.
- desdemona — (in Shakespeare's Othello) Othello's wife, murdered by her husband as a result of jealousy instilled by Iago.
- detonates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of detonate.
- diagnosed — to determine the identity of (a disease, illness, etc.) by a medical examination: The doctor diagnosed the illness as influenza.
- diagnoses — to determine the identity of (a disease, illness, etc.) by a medical examination: The doctor diagnosed the illness as influenza.
- diagnosis — Diagnosis is the discovery and naming of what is wrong with someone who is ill or with something that is not working properly.
- diagonals — Plural form of diagonal.
- diandrous — (of some flowers or flowering plants) having two stamens
- diapasons — Plural form of diapason.
- diaphones — Plural form of diaphone.
- dilations — Plural form of dilation.
- dinosaurs — any chiefly terrestrial, herbivorous or carnivorous reptile of the extinct orders Saurischia and Ornithischia, from the Mesozoic Era, certain species of which are the largest known land animals.
- dionysiac — of or relating to the Dionysia or to Dionysus; Bacchic.
- dionysian — of, relating to, or honoring Dionysus or Bacchus.
- disanchor — to raise the anchor of (a ship)
- disanoint — to invalidate the anointment of (a person)
- disenamor — to disillusion; disenchant (usually used in the passive and followed by of or with): He was disenamored of working in the city.
- dissonant — disagreeing or harsh in sound; discordant.
- dissonate — (music) To be dissonant.
- dockhands — Plural form of dockhand.
- docklands — An area of a town or city which contains, or used to contain, an industrial port.
- domainist — (jargon) /doh-mayn'ist/ 1. Said of a domain address (as opposed to a bang path) because the part to the right of the "@" specifies a nested series of "domains"; for example, [email protected] specifies the machine called snark in the subdomain called thyrsus within the top-level domain called com. See also big-endian. 2. Said of a site, mailer or routing program which knows how to handle domainist addresses. 3. Said of a person (especially a site admin) who prefers domain addressing, supports a domainist mailer, or proselytises for domainist addressing and disdains bang paths. This term is now (1993) semi-obsolete, as most sites have converted.
- dominants — Plural form of dominant.
- dominates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dominate.