9-letter words containing o, n, s, t
- moonstone — Also called precious moonstone. a semitransparent or translucent, opalescent, pearly-blue variety of adularia, used as a gem.
- mortising — Present participle of mortise.
- moskonfyt — a South African thick grape syrup used as a jam or sweetener
- mossplant — another term for moss
- motionist — a person who proposes arguments and counter-arguments in a controversy
- mottelson — Ben R(oy) born 1926, Danish physicist, born in the U.S.: Nobel prize 1975.
- mount isa — a city in NE Australia in NW Queensland: mining of copper and other minerals. Pop: 20 525 (2001)
- mountains — Plural form of mountain.
- mountings — Plural form of mounting.
- mouthings — Plural form of mouthing.
- movements — Plural form of movement.
- munitions — Usually, munitions. materials used in war, especially weapons and ammunition.
- musketoon — (now historical) A firearm, similar to a musket but with a shorter barrel and a large bore. (from 17th c.).
- mutations — Biology. a sudden departure from the parent type in one or more heritable characteristics, caused by a change in a gene or a chromosome. an individual, species, or the like, resulting from such a departure.
- myostatin — (protein) A protein that acts as an inhibitor to the growth of muscle tissue.
- nanotesla — one billionth of a tesla.
- nanotubes — Plural form of nanotube.
- naphthols — Plural form of naphthol.
- naphthous — of, relating to or derived from naphtha
- narcotics — Plural form of narcotic.
- narcotise — Alternative spelling of narcotize.
- narcotism — habitual use of narcotics.
- narcotist — One who is addicted to a narcotic drug.
- narrators — Plural form of narrator.
- narrowest — of little breadth or width; not broad or wide; not as wide as usual or expected: a narrow path.
- nationals — Plural form of national.
- nationism — (sociolinguistics) The practical concerns of running a nation, especially seen as divorced from emotional beliefs about national identity.
- nationist — (sociolinguistics) A language used for the day-to-day functioning of government \u2013 official forms, intra-government communication.
- navpaktos — Greek name of Lepanto.
- necrotise — to undergo necrosis.
- nectarous — of the nature of or resembling nectar.
- negations — Plural form of negation.
- negotious — Engaged in negotiation; Occupied with a conversation.
- nematodes — Plural form of nematode.
- neogamist — A person recently married; newlywed.
- neologist — a new word, meaning, usage, or phrase.
- neophytes — Plural form of neophyte.
- neoplasty — the surgical formation of new tissue structures or repair of damaged structures
- neotenous — Also called pedogenesis. the production of offspring by an organism in its larval or juvenile form; the elimination of the adult phase of the life cycle.
- neoterism — an innovation in language, as a new word, term, or expression.
- neoterist — a person who is keen on innovation and novelty
- nervosity — the quality of being nervous; nervousness.
- nestorian — one of a sect of followers of Nestorius who denied the hypostatic union and were represented as maintaining the existence of two distinct persons in Christ.
- nestorius — died a.d. 451? Syrian ecclesiastic: patriarch of Constantinople 428–431.
- netphones — Plural form of netphone.
- neuristor — a microelectronic fiberlike device used in information processing.
- neuromast — a group of innervated sensory cells occurring along the lateral line of fishes and aquatic amphibians.
- neurotics — Plural form of neurotic.
- neutrinos — Plural form of neutrino.
- nightsoil — Alternative spelling of night soil.