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9-letter words containing o, y, s, t

  • spinosity — the condition of being spinose
  • splayfoot — a broad, flat foot, especially one turned outward.
  • sporocyst — a walled body resulting from the multiple division of a sporozoan, which produces one or more sporozoites.
  • sporocyte — a diploid cell in certain spore-bearing plants, as liverworts, that produces four haploid spores through meiosis; a spore mother cell.
  • stableboy — a person who works in a stable.
  • staminody — the metamorphosis of any of various flower organs, as a sepal or a petal, into a stamen.
  • staphylo- — uvula
  • statocyst — (in certain invertebrates) a sense organ consisting of a sac enclosing sensory hairs and particles of sand, lime, etc., that functions in maintaining equilibrium, serving to indicate position in space.
  • statutory — of, relating to, or of the nature of a statute.
  • stay over — spend the night
  • stenotype — a keyboard machine resembling a typewriter, used in a system of phonetic shorthand.
  • stenotypy — shorthand in which alphabetic letters or types are used to produce shortened forms of words or groups of words.
  • stock boy — a boy or man responsible for replenishing stock, as on the shelves of a grocery store.
  • stockyard — an enclosure with pens, sheds, etc., connected with a slaughterhouse, railroad, market, etc., for the temporary housing of cattle, sheep, swine, or horses.
  • stoically — impassive; characterized by a calm, austere fortitude befitting the Stoics: a stoical sufferer.
  • stolidity — not easily stirred or moved mentally; unemotional; impassive.
  • stomatomy — stomatotomy.
  • stony pit — a disease of pears, caused by a virus and characterized by deformed, pitted fruit.
  • stornoway — a city in NW Scotland, in the Hebrides.
  • story arc — a continuing storyline in a television series that gradually unfolds over several episodes
  • storybook — a book that contains a story or stories, especially for children.
  • storyette — a short or shortened story
  • storyless — a narrative, either true or fictitious, in prose or verse, designed to interest, amuse, or instruct the hearer or reader; tale.
  • storyline — a secret plan or scheme to accomplish some purpose, especially a hostile, unlawful, or evil purpose: a plot to overthrow the government.
  • stow away — Nautical. to put (cargo, provisions, etc.) in the places intended for them. to put (sails, spars, gear, etc.) in the proper place or condition when not in use.
  • strayhorn — William ("Billy") 1915–67, U.S. jazz pianist and composer: collaborator with Duke Ellington.
  • streetboy — a boy living on the street
  • strongyle — any nematode of the family Strongylidae, parasitic as an adult in the intestine of mammals, especially horses.
  • stylebook — a book containing rules of usage in typography, punctuation, etc., employed by printers, editors, and writers.
  • styliform — having the shape of an ancient style; stylar.
  • stylobate — a course of masonry, part of the stereobate, forming the foundation for a colonnade, especially the outermost colonnade.
  • stylolite — an irregular columnar structure in certain limestones, the columns being approximately at right angles to the bedding planes.
  • stylopize — (of a stylops) to parasitize (a host)
  • styrofoam — Styrofoam is a very light, plastic substance, used especially to make containers.
  • subcounty — a division of a county
  • sycophant — a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
  • syllogist — a person who engages in syllogistic argument.
  • symbionts — an organism living in a state of symbiosis.
  • symbiotic — living in symbiosis, or having an interdependent relationship: Many people feel the relationship between humans and dogs is symbiotic.
  • symbolist — a person who uses symbols or symbolism.
  • symington — (William) Stuart, 1901–1988, U.S. politician: senator 1952–77.
  • sympatico — simpatico
  • symptosis — local or general atrophy.
  • symptotic — relating to symptosis
  • syncopate — Music. to place (the accents) on beats that are normally unaccented. to treat (a passage, piece, etc.) in this way.
  • synoekete — an insect that lives in the nests of social insects, esp ants, without receiving any attentions from the inmates
  • synoptist — one of the authors (Matthew, Mark, or Luke) of the synoptic Gospels.
  • synovitic — inflammation of a synovial membrane.
  • synovitis — inflammation of a synovial membrane.
  • synth-pop — a type of pop music in which synthesizers are used to create the dominant sound
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