9-letter words containing o, y, s, t
- fatuously — With smug stupidity or vacuous silliness; idiotically.
- festilogy — a treatise on the subject of church festivals
- fetoscopy — examination by means of a fetoscope.
- floristry — The art of creating flower arrangements.
- flyposter — a poster, esp unauthorized, put up to publicize something
- forestays — Plural form of forestay.
- forsythia — a shrub belonging to the genus Forsythia, of the olive family, native to China and southeastern Europe, species of which are cultivated for their showy yellow flowers, which blossom on the bare branches in early spring.
- forty-six — a cardinal number, 40 plus 6.
- fungosity — the condition of being fungous.
- furiosity — Lb obsolete furiousness; fury.
- gasometry — the measurement of gases.
- genotypes — the genetic makeup of an organism or group of organisms with reference to a single trait, set of traits, or an entire complex of traits.
- geophytes — Plural form of geophyte.
- ghostlily — In a ghostly way.
- gibbosity — the state of being gibbous.
- gipsywort — a hairy Eurasian plant, Lycopus europaeus, having two-lipped white flowers with purple dots on the lower lip: family Lamiaceae (labiates)
- globesity — obesity as affecting a very large percentage of the global population: the public-health crisis of globesity.
- go astray — person: deviate from correct or good way
- go steady — firmly placed or fixed; stable in position or equilibrium: a steady ladder.
- goatishly — In a goatish way.
- graystone — (uncountable) A type of gray, volcanic rock, typically containing feldspar and iron.
- greystone — a grey igneous rock of volcanic origin
- gummosity — the quality of being gummous
- gustatory — of or relating to taste or tasting.
- gypsywort — a plant, Lycopus europaeus, that is indigenous to Europe and Asia and has white flowers
- gyrations — Plural form of gyration.
- hemocytes — Plural form of hemocyte.
- hideosity — horrible or frightful to the senses; repulsive; very ugly: a hideous monster.
- hircosity — the quality of being like a goat
- histology — the branch of biology dealing with the study of tissues.
- historify — to make something part of history or to tell the history of something
- hobbyists — Plural form of hobbyist.
- holotypes — Plural form of holotype.
- holystone — a block of soft sandstone used in scrubbing the decks of a ship.
- homestays — Plural form of homestay.
- homestyle — simple and unpretentious, evoking the comforts of home: homestyle cooking; home-style hospitality.
- homostyly — (in plants) the condition of having all the flowers with styles of only one length, rather than of different lengths
- honeypots — Plural form of honeypot.
- hostilely — of, relating to, or characteristic of an enemy: a hostile nation.
- hostility — a hostile state, condition, or attitude; enmity; antagonism; unfriendliness.
- hydrocast — a process in which water is collected at various depths in a device with bottles clamped together, providing data on differing water characteristics.
- hydrostat — an electrical device for detecting the presence of water, as from overflow or leakage.
- hygristor — an electronic component the resistance of which varies with humidity
- hygrostat — an instrument for measuring and controlling humidity.
- hylobates — Plural form of hylobate.
- hymnodist — the singing or the composition of hymns or sacred songs.
- hypnotics — Plural form of hypnotic.
- hypnotise — to put in the hypnotic state.
- hypnotism — the science dealing with the induction of hypnosis.
- hypnotist — the science dealing with the induction of hypnosis.