9-letter words containing o, s, t, e
- attotesla — one-quintillionth (10 -18) of a tesla. Abbreviation: aT.
- autecious — autoecious
- authoress — An authoress is a female author. Many female writers object to this word, and prefer to be called authors.
- authorise — to give authority or official power to; empower: to authorize an employee to sign purchase orders.
- autoecism — the development of the entire life cycle of a parasitic fungus on a single host or group of hosts.
- autolysed — Simple past tense and past participle of autolyse.
- autolyses — the breakdown of plant or animal tissue by the action of enzymes contained in the tissue affected; self-digestion.
- automates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of automate.
- autopsied — inspection and dissection of a body after death, as for determination of the cause of death; postmortem examination.
- autopsies — Plural form of autopsy.
- autoscope — An optical instrument for examining one's own eye.
- autosomes — Plural form of autosome.
- autospore — a nonmotile algal spore that develops adult characteristics before being released
- awesomest — Superlative form of awesome.
- ayr stone — a fine-grained stone used for polishing marble and as a whetstone.
- bakestone — a flat stone placed in or near an oven or fire, for baking cakes on
- baleboste — a capable, efficient housewife, especially a traditional Jewish one, devoted to maintaining a well-run home.
- ballonets — Plural form of ballonet.
- balloters — Plural form of balloter.
- banknotes — Plural form of banknote.
- baritones — Plural form of baritone.
- base coat — the first coat of paint applied to a prepared surface
- basestock — Refined petroleum oil with no additives.
- bastioned — Furnished with a bastion; having bastions.
- bathhouse — A bathhouse is a public or private building containing baths and often other facilities such as a sauna.
- bathrobes — Plural form of bathrobe.
- batswomen — Plural form of batswoman.
- bean shot — refined copper having a shotlike form from being thrown into water in a molten state.
- beasthood — the state of beasts, the condition of being a beast
- beatboxes — Plural form of beatbox.
- beauteous — Beauteous means the same as beautiful.
- bed stone — the fixed lower member of a pair of millstones. Compare runner (def 12).
- beetroots — Plural form of beetroot.
- bemonster — to treat as a monster
- bergstrom — Sune (ˈsʊnə). 1916–2004, Swedish biochemist; shared the Nobel prize for medicine and physiology (1982) for work on prostaglandin
- betsiboka — a river in central Madagascar, flowing NW to the Mozambique Channel. About 200 miles (320 km) long.
- bilestone — gallstone.
- bioethics — the study of ethical problems arising from biological research and its applications in such fields as organ transplantation, genetic engineering, or artificial insemination
- biosafety — the precautions taken to control the cultivation and distribution of genetically modified crops and products
- biostable — resistant to the effects of microorganisms
- biostrome — a rock layer consisting of a deposit of organic material, such as fossils
- bisection — to cut or divide into two equal or nearly equal parts.
- bisontine — relating to bison
- bloquiste — (in Canada) a member or supporter of the Bloc Québécois
- bluestone — a blue-grey sandstone containing much clay, used for building and paving
- boastless — without boasting
- boat shoe — a shoe, usually in a style somewhat like a moccasin, with a rubber sole suitable for walking on the deck of a boat
- boathouse — A boathouse is a building at the edge of a lake, in which boats are kept.
- bob skate — an ice skate with two parallel blades
- bodements — a foreboding or omen; presentiment.