9-letter words containing o, n, s, t
- prosthion — the most forward projecting point of the anterior surface of the upper jaw, in the midsagittal plane.
- protistan — any of various one-celled organisms, classified in the kingdom Protista, that are either free-living or aggregated into simple colonies and that have diverse reproductive and nutritional modes, including the protozoans, eukaryotic algae, and slime molds: some classification schemes also include the fungi and the more primitive bacteria and blue-green algae or may distribute the organisms between the kingdoms Plantae and Animalia according to dominant characteristics.
- proustian — of, relating to, or resembling Marcel Proust, his writings, or the middle-class and aristocratic worlds he described.
- pulpstone — a calcified mass in a dental cavity
- pulsation — the act of pulsating; beating or throbbing.
- pythoness — a woman believed to be possessed by a soothsaying spirit, as the priestess of Apollo at Delphi.
- questions — Plural form of question.
- quotients — Plural form of quotient.
- rainspout — waterspout (def 1).
- rainstorm — a storm with heavy rain.
- reconsult — to consult (someone or something) again
- recosting — the price paid to acquire, produce, accomplish, or maintain anything: the high cost of a good meal.
- relations — an existing connection; a significant association between or among things: the relation between cause and effect.
- remoisten — to moisten again, to add new moisture to
- resection — Surveying. a technique of ascertaining the location of a point by taking bearings from the point on two other points of known location.
- resnatron — a tetrode with the grid connected to form a drift space for the electrons, formerly used to generate high power at very high frequency.
- resolvent — resolving; causing solution; solvent.
- resonator — anything that resonates.
- resorting — to sort or arrange (cards, papers, etc.) again.
- restation — a place or position in which a person or thing is normally located.
- rethondes — a village in N France near Compiègne: armistice ending World War I signed here 1918.
- retorsion — retaliation or reprisal by one state identical or similar to an act by an offending state, such as high tariffs or discriminating duties.
- retrusion — the act of moving a tooth backward.
- ring spot — any of various plant diseases caused by a virus or fungus and characterized by concentric rings of discoloration or necrosis on the leaves.
- robertson — Oscar Palmer ("The Big O") born 1938, U.S. basketball player.
- rogations — solemn supplications, esp in a form of ceremony prescribed by the Church
- root sign — the symbol √ placed before a number or quantity to indicate the extraction of a root, esp a square root. The value of a higher root is indicated by a raised digit in front of the symbol, as in 3√
- rosenthal — Jean, 1912–69, U.S. theatrical lighting designer.
- rosetting — abnormal leaf formation in a plant due to disease
- rosinante — the old, worn horse of Don Quixote.
- rousement — a stirring up of religious excitement
- routinism — adherence to routine.
- routinist — someone who lives by routine
- run short — having little length; not long.
- sail into — an area of canvas or other fabric extended to the wind in such a way as to transmit the force of the wind to an assemblage of spars and rigging mounted firmly on a hull, raft, iceboat, etc., so as to drive it along.
- saint leo — Saint (Bruno) 1002–54, German ecclesiastic: pope 1049–54.
- saintfoin — sainfoin.
- sainthood — the character or status of a saint.
- saltation — a dancing, hopping, or leaping movement.
- salvation — the act of saving or protecting from harm, risk, loss, destruction, etc.
- san mateo — a city in W California.
- sanatoria — a hospital for the treatment of chronic diseases, as tuberculosis or various nervous or mental disorders.
- sanbenito — an ornamented garment worn by a condemned heretic at an auto-da-fé.
- sanctions — authoritative permission or approval, as for an action.
- sandspout — the sand sucked into the air by a whirlwind
- sandstone — a common sedimentary rock consisting of sand, usually quartz, cemented together by various substances, as silica, calcium carbonate, iron oxide, or clay.
- sandstorm — a windstorm, especially in a desert, that blows along great clouds of sand (distinguished from dust storm).
- santolina — any plant of the evergreen Mediterranean genus Santolina, esp S. chamaecyparissus, grown for its silvery-grey felted foliage: family Asteraceae (composites)
- santonica — the dried flower heads of any of several species of wormwood, belonging to the genus Artemisia, used as a vermifuge.
- santorini — a Greek island in the S Aegean, in the Cyclades group. 30 sq. mi. (78 sq. km).