9-letter words containing o, s, t, i, n, a
- auditions — Plural form of audition.
- autolysin — any agent that produces autolysis
- baritones — Plural form of baritone.
- bastinado — punishment or torture in which the soles of the feet are beaten with a stick
- bastioned — Furnished with a bastion; having bastions.
- bissonata — a coarse woolen cloth constructed in plain weave and dyed black or brown, used in the manufacture of clerical vestments.
- boatswain — a petty officer on a merchant ship or a warrant officer on a warship who is responsible for the maintenance of the ship and its equipment
- bostonian — a person from Boston
- c rations — tinned food formerly issued in packs to US soldiers
- canoeists — Plural form of canoeist.
- cantonise — divide into cantons
- carnosity — an abnormal fleshy protrusion growing on any part of the body
- caseation — the formation of cheese from casein during the coagulation of milk
- cashpoint — A cashpoint is the same as a cash dispenser.
- cassation — (esp in France) annulment, as of a judicial decision by a higher court
- cast iron — Cast iron is iron which contains a small amount of carbon. It is hard and cannot be bent so it has to be made into objects by casting.
- cast-iron — made of cast iron.
- causation — The causation of something, usually something bad, is the factors that have caused it.
- certosina — a technique of inlaying light-colored material, as bone, ivory, metal, or pale wood, in elaborate designs on a dark ground.
- cessation — The cessation of something is the stopping of it.
- citations — Plural form of citation.
- clinostat — an apparatus for studying tropisms in plants, usually a rotating disc to which the plant is attached so that it receives an equal stimulus on all sides
- coastline — A country's coastline is the outline of its coast.
- cocainist — a cocaine addict
- cognisant — a frequent misspelling of cognizant.
- conations — Plural form of conation.
- consortia — a combination of financial institutions, capitalists, etc., for carrying into effect some financial operation requiring large resources of capital.
- constrain — To constrain someone or something means to limit their development or force them to behave in a particular way.
- contrails — Plural form of contrail.
- crayonist — (dated) An artist who uses crayons.
- creations — The action or process of bringing something into existence.
- croissant — Croissants are small, sweet bread rolls in the shape of a crescent that are eaten for breakfast.
- custodian — The custodian of an official building, a companies' assets, or something else valuable is the person who is officially in charge of it.
- daltonism — colour blindness, esp the confusion of red and green
- dawsonite — a mineral that is made up of sodium and aluminium hydrous carbonate and occurs in crystalline form
- dilations — Plural form of dilation.
- disanoint — to invalidate the anointment of (a person)
- dissonant — disagreeing or harsh in sound; discordant.
- dissonate — (music) To be dissonant.
- domainist — (jargon) /doh-mayn'ist/ 1. Said of a domain address (as opposed to a bang path) because the part to the right of the "@" specifies a nested series of "domains"; for example, [email protected] specifies the machine called snark in the subdomain called thyrsus within the top-level domain called com. See also big-endian. 2. Said of a site, mailer or routing program which knows how to handle domainist addresses. 3. Said of a person (especially a site admin) who prefers domain addressing, supports a domainist mailer, or proselytises for domainist addressing and disdains bang paths. This term is now (1993) semi-obsolete, as most sites have converted.
- dominants — Plural form of dominant.
- dominates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dominate.
- donations — Plural form of donation.
- donatives — Plural form of donative.
- downstair — down the stairs.
- durations — Plural form of duration.
- dystopian — a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding.
- encomiast — A person who publicly praises or flatters someone else.
- equations — Plural form of equation.
- exactions — Plural form of exaction.