8-letter words containing o, t, s
- one-star — of or being a brigadier general, as indicated by one star on an insignia.
- one-step — a round dance performed by couples to ragtime.
- one-stop — that can be accomplished in one stop: a store offering one-stop shopping.
- oneriest — Superlative form of onery.
- onsetter — a person who attacks
- onstream — Being produced.
- oologist — A person who studies or specializes in oology.
- oostende — a seaport in NW Belgium.
- open set — a set which is not a closed set
- opencast — (chiefly, British) Of or pertaining to strip mining, in which material is removed from a surface that has been exposed.
- openstep — (operating system) An object-oriented application programming interface (API) derived from NEXTSTEP and proposed as an open standard by NeXT in 1994. OpenStep is the specification of the object kits of NEXTSTEP. OPENSTEP/Mach was an implementation of this specification. The original, OPENSTEP version 4.0, and really was NEXTSTEP 4. Rhapsody was the codename for Apple's Mac OS X Server, which is really NEXTSTEP 5 (it calls itself "kernel 5.3" at boot time). OpenStep was designed to be implemented independently of the computer's operating system, hardware, and user interface. The API for Rhapsody will be a superset of OpenStep's. When the OpenStep API is implemented for a specific platform and made into a product, it is written in uppercase, e.g. OPENSTEP Developer 4.2 for Mach, or OPENSTEP Enterprise for Windows NT and Windows 95. Versions of OPENSTEP exist for Windows 95/NT, Solaris, HP/UX, and Mach.
- operants — Plural form of operant.
- operates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of operate.
- opheltes — the son of King Lycurgus of Nemea who was killed in infancy by a serpent and in whose memory the Nemean games were held.
- opposite — situated, placed, or lying face to face with something else or each other, or in corresponding positions with relation to an intervening line, space, or thing: opposite ends of a room.
- opsimath — (rare) A person who learns late in life.Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd ed., 2004.
- opticals — (India) spectacles.
- opticist — a person engaged in the fields of theoretical or applied optics.
- optimise — to make as effective, perfect, or useful as possible.
- optimism — a disposition or tendency to look on the more favorable side of events or conditions and to expect the most favorable outcome.
- optimist — an optimistic person.
- opuntias — Plural form of opuntia.
- orations — Plural form of oration.
- oratress — a female orator or petitioner
- orbitals — Plural form of orbital.
- orbiters — Plural form of orbiter.
- orchitis — inflammation of the testis.
- oreshoot — a rich concentration in an orebody.
- oresteia — a trilogy of tragic dramas (458 b.c.) by Aeschylus, consisting of the Agamemnon, the Choëphori, and the Eumenides.
- organist — a person who plays the organ.
- orgastic — the physical and emotional sensation experienced at the peak of sexual excitation, usually resulting from stimulation of the sexual organ and usually accompanied in the male by ejaculation.
- orlistat — A drug designed to treat obesity.
- ornithes — birds considered collectively
- orthoses — Plural form of orthosis.
- orthosis — Medicine/Medical. the correction of orthopedic maladjustments.
- ortolans — Plural form of ortolan.
- oscitant — yawning, as with drowsiness; gaping.
- oscitate — To gape; to yawn.
- osculant — united by certain common characteristics.
- osculate — to come into close contact or union.
- osmotica — Plural form of osmoticum.
- ossature — the structure or framework supporting a building or sculpture.
- ossetian — Also, Ossetic. of, relating to, or characteristic of Ossetia, a region in Caucasia, or the Ossets, the people living there.
- osteitic — inflammation of the substance of bone.
- osteitis — inflammation of the substance of bone.
- osteogen — (physiology) The soft tissue, or substance, which, in developing bone, ultimately undergoes ossification.
- osteosis — the formation of bony tissue, usually infiltrating connective tissue.
- ostinato — a constantly recurring melodic fragment.
- ostioles — Plural form of ostiole.
- ostmarks — Plural form of ostmark.