9-letter words containing o, y, s, t
- syntonize — to render syntonic; tune to the same frequency.
- syntonous — syntonic.
- tallyshop — a store specializing in selling merchandise on the hire-purchase system.
- tarkovsky — Andrei (ˈɑndrej). 1932–86, Soviet film director, whose films include Andrei Rublev (1966), Solaris (1971), Nostalgia (1983), and The Sacrifice (1986)
- taylorism — a modified form of Calvinism that maintains that every person has a free will, and that makes a distinction between depravity, as the tendency to commit sins, and sin, as a voluntary choice of evil actions.
- tediosity — tediousness
- tediously — marked by monotony or tedium; long and tiresome: tedious tasks; a tedious journey.
- telescopy — the use of the telescope.
- tenuously — thin or slender in form, as a thread.
- testimony — Law. the statement or declaration of a witness under oath or affirmation, usually in court.
- theocrasy — a mixture of religious forms and deities by worshipers.
- theosophy — any of various forms of philosophical or religious thought based on a mystical insight into the divine nature.
- thyristor — a semiconductor device having two stable states, used as an electronic switch.
- tiny clos — A core part of Common Lisp Object System (CLOS) ported to Scheme and rebuilt using a MOP (Metaobject Protocol). This should be interesting to those who want to use MOPs without using a full Common Lisp or Dylan. The first release works with MIT Scheme 11.74.
- tolstoyan — Leo or Lev Nikolaevich [lev nik-uh-lahy-uh-vich;; Russian lyef nyi-kuh-lah-yi-vyich] /lɛv ˌnɪk əˈlaɪ əˌvɪtʃ;; Russian ˈlyɛf nyɪ kʌˈlɑ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), Count, 1828–1910, Russian novelist and social critic.
- tomboyish — an energetic, sometimes boisterous girl whose behavior and pursuits, especially in games and sports, are considered more typical of boys than of girls.
- top story — headline news item
- touristry — tourists collectively: the yearly invasion of American touristry.
- toyohashi — a seaport on S Honshu, in central Japan.
- trigynous — (of a plant) having three pistils
- typhlosis — blindness.
- tyrannous — tyrannical.
- unghostly — not resembling a ghost
- vasectomy — excision of the vas deferens, or of a portion of it: performed to effect sterility in men.
- ventosity — flatulence
- verbosity — the state or quality of being verbose; superfluity of words; wordiness: His speeches were always marred by verbosity.
- villosity — a villous surface or coating.
- viscosity — the state or quality of being viscous.
- viscounty — viscountcy.
- vitiosity — an imperfection
- war story — an account or anecdote concerning one's personal experiences, especially in military combat, during a war.
- waypoints — Plural form of waypoint.
- whiteboys — a secret agrarian peasant organization, active in Ireland during the early 1760s, whose members wore white shirts for recognition on their night raids to destroy crops, barns, and other property in redressing grievances against landlords and protesting the paying of tithes.
- worryguts — Worrywart, someone who worries excessively.
- xenocryst — a rock or crystal engulfed by magma and retained as an inclusion in the resulting igneous rock.
- yellowest — Superlative form of yellow.
- yestersol — On the sol before the present one.
- yoshihito — 1879–1926, emperor of Japan 1912–26 (son of Mutsuhito).
- youngests — superl. of young.
- youngster — a child.
- youthless — the condition of being young.
- youthsome — (archaic) youthful.
- ytterbous — of or containing ytterbium, esp. divalent ytterbium
- zakynthos — Greek name of Zante.
- zoophytes — Plural form of zoophyte.
- zooplasty — the transplantation of living tissue to the human body from an animal of another species.