9-letter words containing o, t, s
- doughnuts — Plural form of doughnut.
- dovecotes — Plural form of dovecote.
- dovetails — Plural form of dovetail.
- down east — New England.
- downbeats — Plural form of downbeat.
- downburst — a strong downward current of air from a cumulonimbus cloud, often associated with intense thunderstorms.
- downshift — to shift an automotive transmission or vehicle into a lower gear.
- downspout — a pipe for conveying rain water from a roof or gutter to the ground or to a drain.
- downstage — at or toward the front of the stage.
- downstair — down the stairs.
- downstate — the southern part of a U.S. state.
- downswept — curved downwards
- downticks — Plural form of downtick.
- downtowns — Plural form of downtown.
- downturns — Plural form of downturn.
- dragonets — Plural form of dragonet.
- draw lots — to decide an issue by using lots
- draw shot — a stroke that imparts a backward spin to the cue ball, causing it to roll back after striking the object ball. Compare follow shot (def 2).
- dripstone — Architecture. a stone molding used as a drip.
- drop seat — a hinged seat, as in a taxicab or bus, that may be pulled down for use when an additional seat is needed.
- drop shot — (in tennis, badminton, etc.) a ball or shuttlecock so softly hit that it falls to the playing surface just after clearing the net.
- drop-outs — 1. A variety of "power glitch" (see glitch); momentary zero voltage on the electrical mains. 2. Missing characters in typed input due to software malfunction or system overload (one cause of such behaviour under Unix when a bad connection to a modem swamps the processor with spurious character interrupts; see screaming tty). 3. Mental glitches; used as a way of describing those occasions when the mind just seems to shut down for a couple of beats. See glitch, fried.
- dropstone — an old name for stalactites
- dropworts — Plural form of dropwort.
- drugstore — the place of business of a druggist, usually also selling cosmetics, stationery, toothpaste, mouthwash, cigarettes, etc., and sometimes soft drinks and light meals.
- dry stock — cattle that are raised for meat
- dry-stone — (of a wall) made without mortar
- duathlons — Plural form of duathlon.
- dubiosity — dubiety.
- dunk shot — a shot in which a player near the basket jumps with the ball and thrusts it through the basket with one hand or both hands held above the rim. See also slam dunk (def 1).
- duotheism — Belief in and worship in two deities, usually framed as a god and goddess of roughly equal power.
- duotheist — A person who adheres to duotheism.
- durations — Plural form of duration.
- dust bowl — the region in the S central U.S. that suffered from dust storms in the 1930s.
- dust down — wipe clean
- dust shot — the smallest size of shot for use in a shotgun.
- dustcloth — a soft, absorbent cloth used for dusting.
- dustproof — impervious to or free of dust.
- duststorm — Phenomenon in which gale- to hurricane-force winds blow particles up in a planet's atmosphere.
- duteously — In a duteous manner.
- dystopian — a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding.
- dystopias — Plural form of dystopia.
- dystrophy — Medicine/Medical. faulty or inadequate nutrition or development.
- ear stone — an otolith.
- ear-stone — a calcium carbonate crystal in the ear of vertebrates
- east goth — an Ostrogoth.
- east york — city in SE Ontario, Canada: part of metropolitan Toronto: pop. 108,000
- eastabout — in, to, or towards the east
- eastbound — traveling, proceeding, or headed east: an eastbound train.
- ebriosity — the state of being regularly drunk