7-letter words containing o, s, t, e
- litotes — understatement, especially that in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary, as in “not bad at all.”.
- loathes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of loathe.
- lobster — any of various large, edible, marine, usually dull-green, stalk-eyed decapod crustaceans of the family Homaridae, especially of the genus Homarus, having large, asymmetrical pincers on the first pair of legs, one used for crushing and the other for cutting and tearing: the shell turns bright red when cooked.
- locates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of locate.
- lockets — Plural form of locket.
- lockset — an assembly of parts making up a complete locking system, especially one used on a door, including knobs, plates, and a lock mechanism.
- loggets — a game, formerly played in England, in which players throw pieces of wood at a stake.
- loiters — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of loiter.
- loments — Plural form of loment.
- longest — having considerable linear extent in space: a long distance; a long handle.
- loosest — Superlative form of loose.
- looters — spoils or plunder taken by pillaging, as in war.
- lose it — to come to be without (something in one's possession or care), through accident, theft, etc., so that there is little or no prospect of recovery: I'm sure I've merely misplaced my hat, not lost it.
- lotuses — Plural form of lotus.
- loudest — Superlative form of loud.
- luteous — (of yellow) having a light to medium greenish tinge.
- maestro — an eminent composer, teacher, or conductor of music: Toscanini and other great maestros.
- maltose — a white, crystalline, water-soluble sugar, C 1 2 H 2 2 O 1 1 ⋅H 2 O, formed by the action of diastase, especially from malt, on starch: used chiefly as a nutrient, as a sweetener, and in culture media.
- mentors — Plural form of mentor.
- mesteso — a Spanish music genre characterized by the blending of traditional sounds with elements from contemporary popular music
- mestizo — a person of mixed racial or ethnic ancestry, especially, in Latin America, of mixed American Indian and European descent or, in the Philippines, of mixed native and foreign descent.
- mestome — conducting tissue associated with parenchyma
- meteors — Plural form of meteor.
- methods — a procedure, technique, or way of doing something, especially in accordance with a definite plan: There are three possible methods of repairing this motor.
- metopes — Plural form of metope.
- mitoses — the usual method of cell division, characterized typically by the resolving of the chromatin of the nucleus into a threadlike form, which condenses into chromosomes, each of which separates longitudinally into two parts, one part of each chromosome being retained in each of two new cells resulting from the original cell.
- mobster — a member of a criminal mob.
- modesto — a city in central California.
- modesty — the quality of being modest; freedom from vanity, boastfulness, etc.
- modiste — Older Use. a female maker of or dealer in women's fashionable attire.
- moisten — Wet slightly.
- moister — moderately or slightly wet; damp.
- molests — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of molest.
- mollest — (in music) written in a minor key; minor.
- moments — Plural form of moment.
- monster — a legendary animal combining features of animal and human form or having the forms of various animals in combination, as a centaur, griffin, or sphinx.
- monstre — Obsolete form of monster.
- moonset — the setting of the moon below the horizon.
- moppets — Plural form of moppet.
- mortise — a notch, hole, groove, or slot made in a piece of wood or the like to receive a tenon of the same dimensions.
- mostest — (nonstandard) most.
- mothers — Plural form of mother.
- motives — Plural form of motive.
- mottles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mottle.
- mottoes — Plural form of motto.
- mouthes — (archaic, dialectal) Plural form of mouth.
- nestbox — Alternative spelling of nest box.
- netbios — An applications programming interface (API) which activates network operations on IBM PC compatibles running under Microsoft's DOS. It is a set of network commands that the application program issues in order to transmit and receive data to another host on the network. The commands are interpreted by a network control program or network operating system that is NetBIOS compatible. See NetBOLLIX.
- neuston — the aggregate of minute aquatic organisms that float or swim in the surface film of a body of water.
- newtons — Plural form of newton.