10-letter words containing o, y, s, t
- endocytose — (cytology) Of a cell, to ingest material by folding the plasma membrane inwards around it.
- endophytes — Plural form of endophyte.
- enjoyments — Plural form of enjoyment.
- episiotomy — A surgical cut made at the opening of the vagina during childbirth, to aid a difficult delivery and prevent rupture of tissues.
- epistolary — Relating to or denoting the writing of letters or literary works in the form of letters.
- escalatory — tending to escalate
- escatology — Alternative spelling of eschatology.
- eukaryotes — Plural form of eukaryote.
- excusatory — Serving to make an excuse.
- exocytosis — A process by which the contents of a cell vacuole are released to the exterior through fusion of the vacuole membrane with the cell membrane.
- expository — Intended to explain or describe something.
- eye socket — Your eye sockets are the two hollow parts on either side of your face, where your eyeballs are.
- eyes front — a command to troops to look ahead
- fabulosity — (uncountable) Fabulousness; the quality of being fabulous; fictitiousness; mythical character.
- factiously — given to faction; dissentious: A factious group was trying to undermine the government.
- faldistory — a bishop's seat or throne
- fasciotomy — (surgery) The cutting of the fascia to relieve tension or pressure (and treat the resulting loss of circulation to an area of tissue or muscle).
- feateously — in a featous manner
- ferrotypes — Plural form of ferrotype.
- ferryboats — Plural form of ferryboat.
- festoonery — a decoration of festoons.
- fish story — an exaggerated or incredible story: It was just another one of his fish stories.
- flexuosity — the quality or condition of being flexuous.
- flyposting — the posting of advertising or political bills, posters, etc in unauthorized places
- foetoscopy — Alternative form of fetoscopy.
- footlessly — in a footless manner; ineptly
- foremostly — In the foremost place or order; among the foremost.
- forsythias — Plural form of forsythia.
- galactosyl — the glycosyl radical of galactose
- galsworthy — John, 1867–1933, English novelist and dramatist: Nobel Prize 1932.
- gastrology — the study of the structure, functions, and diseases of the stomach.
- gastronomy — the art or science of good eating.
- gastrotomy — the operation of cutting into the stomach.
- generosity — readiness or liberality in giving.
- geosystems — Physical geography.
- gipsy moth — a European moth, Lymantria dispar, introduced into North America, where it is a serious pest of shade trees: family Lymantriidae (or Liparidae)
- glyphosate — a compound, C 3 H 8 NO 5 P, used to kill a wide range of weeds.
- graciosity — graciousness
- gymnoplast — a mass of protoplasm without an enclosing wall.
- gynostemia — the united stamens and pistil of an orchid.
- gypsy moth — a moth, Porthetria dispar, introduced into the U.S. from Europe, the larvae of which feed on the foliage of shade and other trees.
- gyrostatic — the science that deals with the laws of rotating bodies.
- half story — a usable living space within a sloping roof, usually having dormer windows for lighting.
- halloysite — a refractory clay mineral similar in composition to kaolinite.
- halophytes — Plural form of halophyte.
- haplotypes — Plural form of haplotype.
- hematocyst — a cyst containing blood.
- hemoptysis — the expectoration of blood or bloody mucus.
- hesitatory — Hesitating.
- heterocyst — one of the enlarged nitrogen-fixing cells occurring along the filaments in some blue-green algae.