9-letter words containing o, s, t, i
- atrophies — Also, atrophia [uh-troh-fee-uh] /əˈtroʊ fi ə/ (Show IPA). Pathology. a wasting away of the body or of an organ or part, as from defective nutrition or nerve damage.
- attornies — Plural form of attorny.
- auditions — Plural form of audition.
- autecious — autoecious
- authorise — to give authority or official power to; empower: to authorize an employee to sign purchase orders.
- authorish — like or similar to an author
- authorism — the state or condition of being author
- autoecism — the development of the entire life cycle of a parasitic fungus on a single host or group of hosts.
- autogiros — Plural form of autogiro.
- autoicous — (of plants, esp mosses) having male and female reproductive organs on the same plant
- autolysin — any agent that produces autolysis
- autolysis — the destruction of cells and tissues of an organism by enzymes produced by the cells themselves
- autopista — a Spanish motorway
- autopsied — inspection and dissection of a body after death, as for determination of the cause of death; postmortem examination.
- autopsies — Plural form of autopsy.
- autopsist — a surgeon who specializes in conducting autopsies
- bar joist — a welded steel joist having an open web consisting of a single bent bar running in a zigzag pattern between horizontal upper and lower chords.
- baritones — Plural form of baritone.
- barotitis — inflammation of the ear caused by a change in air pressure
- bastinado — punishment or torture in which the soles of the feet are beaten with a stick
- bastioned — Furnished with a bastion; having bastions.
- betsiboka — a river in central Madagascar, flowing NW to the Mozambique Channel. About 200 miles (320 km) long.
- bialystok — a city in E Poland.
- białystok — a city in E Poland: belonged to Prussia (1795–1807) and to Russia (1807–1919). Pop: 315 000 (2005 est)
- bicoastal — Someone or something that is bicoastal lives or occurs on both the east coast and the west coast of the U.S.
- 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
- biologist — a specialist in biology.
- biosafety — the precautions taken to control the cultivation and distribution of genetically modified crops and products
- biostable — resistant to the effects of microorganisms
- biostatic — the branch of biology dealing with the structure of organisms in relation to their functions (opposed to biodynamics).
- biostrome — a rock layer consisting of a deposit of organic material, such as fossils
- bird shot — small-sized shot used for shooting birds.
- bisection — to cut or divide into two equal or nearly equal parts.
- bisontine — relating to bison
- bissonata — a coarse woolen cloth constructed in plain weave and dyed black or brown, used in the manufacture of clerical vestments.
- bliss out — supreme happiness; utter joy or contentment: wedded bliss.
- bloquiste — (in Canada) a member or supporter of the Bloc Québécois
- boa vista — a town in N Brazil, capital of the state of Roraima, on the Rio Branco. Pop: 275 000 (2005 est)
- 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
- bomb site — A bomb site is an empty area where a bomb has destroyed all the buildings.
- bombastic — If you describe someone as bombastic, you are criticizing them for trying to impress other people by saying things that sound impressive but have little meaning.
- bombsight — a mechanical or electronic device in an aircraft for aiming bombs
- book list — a list of books, especially a list of recommended or required readings.
- boot disk — (operating system) The magnetic disk (usually a hard disk) from which an operating system kernel is loaded (or "bootstrapped"). This second phase in system start-up is performed by a simple bootstrap loader program held in ROM, possibly configured by data stored in some form of writable non-volatile storage. Some operating systems, notably SunOS and Solaris, can be configured to boot from a network rather than from disk. Such a system can thus run as a diskless workstation.
- boresight — to verify the alignment of the sights and bore of (a firearm).
- bostonian — a person from Boston
- botulinus — an anaerobic bacterium, Clostridium botulinum, whose toxins (botulins) cause botulism: family Bacillaceae
- bowstring — the string of an archer's bow, usually consisting of three strands of hemp
- brimstone — Brimstone is the same as sulphur.