9-letter words containing r, o, t, s, i, n
- on strike — to deal a blow or stroke to (a person or thing), as with the fist, a weapon, or a hammer; hit.
- onerosity — burdensome, oppressive, or troublesome; causing hardship: onerous duties.
- optronics — Optoelectronics.
- ordinates — Plural form of ordinate.
- organists — Plural form of organist.
- orientals — Plural form of oriental.
- orleanist — a supporter of the Orléans branch of the former French royal family and of its claim to the throne of France through descent from the younger brother of Louis XIV.
- orneriest — ugly and unpleasant in disposition or temper: No one can get along with my ornery cousin.
- ostringer — astringer.
- outdrinks — Plural form of outdrink.
- outliners — Plural form of outliner.
- outspring — to spring out
- outsprint — to race or move at full speed, especially for a short distance, as in running, rowing, etc.
- outstrain — to strain or stretch too much
- overstain — to stain too much
- overstink — to stink more than (something else)
- oystering — any of several edible, marine, bivalve mollusks of the family Ostreidae, having an irregularly shaped shell, occurring on the bottom or adhering to rocks or other objects in shallow water.
- pastoring — a minister or priest in charge of a church.
- patronise — to give (a store, restaurant, hotel, etc.) one's regular patronage; trade with.
- peronista — Peronist.
- perotinus — ("Magnus Magister") fl. late 12th to early 13th century, French composer.
- pertusion — the process or act of making a hole with a stabbing or penetrating implement
- petronius — Gaius (ˈɡaɪəs), known as Petronius Arbiter. died 66 ad, Roman satirist, supposed author of the Satyricon, a picaresque account of the licentiousness of contemporary society
- petrosian — Tigran (tiɡˈran). 1929–84, Soviet chess player; world champion (1963–69)
- posturing — the relative disposition of the parts of something.
- progestin — any substance having progesteronelike activity.
- propontis — Marmara
- prosthion — the most forward projecting point of the anterior surface of the upper jaw, in the midsagittal plane.
- protistan — any of various one-celled organisms, classified in the kingdom Protista, that are either free-living or aggregated into simple colonies and that have diverse reproductive and nutritional modes, including the protozoans, eukaryotic algae, and slime molds: some classification schemes also include the fungi and the more primitive bacteria and blue-green algae or may distribute the organisms between the kingdoms Plantae and Animalia according to dominant characteristics.
- proustian — of, relating to, or resembling Marcel Proust, his writings, or the middle-class and aristocratic worlds he described.
- rainspout — waterspout (def 1).
- rainstorm — a storm with heavy rain.
- recosting — the price paid to acquire, produce, accomplish, or maintain anything: the high cost of a good meal.
- relations — an existing connection; a significant association between or among things: the relation between cause and effect.
- remoisten — to moisten again, to add new moisture to
- resection — Surveying. a technique of ascertaining the location of a point by taking bearings from the point on two other points of known location.
- resorting — to sort or arrange (cards, papers, etc.) again.
- restation — a place or position in which a person or thing is normally located.
- retorsion — retaliation or reprisal by one state identical or similar to an act by an offending state, such as high tariffs or discriminating duties.
- retrusion — the act of moving a tooth backward.
- ring spot — any of various plant diseases caused by a virus or fungus and characterized by concentric rings of discoloration or necrosis on the leaves.
- rogations — solemn supplications, esp in a form of ceremony prescribed by the Church
- root sign — the symbol √ placed before a number or quantity to indicate the extraction of a root, esp a square root. The value of a higher root is indicated by a raised digit in front of the symbol, as in 3√
- rosetting — abnormal leaf formation in a plant due to disease
- rosinante — the old, worn horse of Don Quixote.
- routinism — adherence to routine.
- routinist — someone who lives by routine
- sanatoria — a hospital for the treatment of chronic diseases, as tuberculosis or various nervous or mental disorders.
- santorini — a Greek island in the S Aegean, in the Cyclades group. 30 sq. mi. (78 sq. km).
- sarmiento — a city in E Argentina, a suburb of Buenos Aires.