9-letter words containing o, s, t, e
- cessation — The cessation of something is the stopping of it.
- cetaceous — Relating to whales or more generally to any marine mammal of the order Cetacea.
- cetshwayo — ?1826–84, king of the Zulus (1873–79): defeated the British at Isandhlwana (1879) but was overwhelmed by them at Ulundi (1879); captured, he stated his case in London, and was reinstated as ruler of part of Zululand (1883)
- chamosite — a mineral of the chlorite group, hydrous aluminum silicate of iron, occurring in gray or black crystals in oolitic iron ore.
- charoseth — haroseth.
- chaseport — a porthole through which a gun was fired
- chassepot — a breech-loading bolt-action rifle formerly used by the French Army
- checkouts — Plural form of checkout.
- chelators — Plural form of chelator.
- chemostat — an apparatus for growing bacterial cultures at a constant rate by controlling the supply of nutrient medium
- chipotles — Plural form of chipotle.
- chlorates — Plural form of chlorate.
- chlorites — Plural form of chlorite.
- cholecyst — the gallbladder
- chopsteak — chopped steak.
- chordates — belonging or pertaining to the phylum Chordata, comprising the true vertebrates and those animals having a notochord, as the lancelets and tunicates.
- chorister — A chorister is a singer in a church choir.
- chromates — Plural form of chromate.
- claystone — a compact very fine-grained rock consisting of consolidated clay particles
- cloisters — Plural form of cloister.
- close out — to terminate (a client's or other account) on which the margin is inadequate or exhausted, usually by sale of securities to realize cash
- close-set — (esp of the eyes) positioned close together
- closeouts — Plural form of closeout.
- closetful — a quantity that may be contained in a closet
- closeting — Present participle of closet.
- clothiers — Plural form of clothier.
- cloudiest — Superlative form of cloudy.
- coastline — A country's coastline is the outline of its coast.
- coastwise — along the coast
- coatdress — a coatlike dress having a buttoned front and, usually, lapels and long sleeves
- coelostat — an astronomical instrument consisting of a plane mirror mounted parallel to the earth's axis and rotated about this axis once every two days so that light from a celestial body, esp the sun, is reflected onto a second mirror, which reflects the beam into a telescope
- coexisted — Simple past tense and past participle of coexist.
- cogitates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cogitate.
- cognetics — The engineering of objects to make them accommodate critical human thought process.
- cohobates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cohobate.
- cohostess — a woman who cohosts an event
- colletids — Plural form of colletid.
- combaters — Plural form of combater.
- combusted — Simple past tense and past participle of combust.
- comeliest — Superlative form of comely.
- commonest — belonging equally to, or shared alike by, two or more or all in question: common property; common interests.
- commuters — Plural form of commuter.
- compleats — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of compleat.
- completes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of complete.
- composest — (archaic) Archaic second-person singular form of compose.
- composite — A composite object or item is made up of several different things, parts, or substances.
- composted — Simple past tense and past participle of compost.
- composter — a bin or other container used to turn garden and kitchen waste into compost
- computers — Plural form of computer.
- concentus — a concent