9-letter words containing s, o, n, t
- cosmotron — a large synchrotron which was used for accelerating protons to high energies (of the order of 1 GeV)
- cosseting — to treat as a pet; pamper; coddle.
- cost rent — (in Britain) the rent of a dwelling calculated on the cost of providing and maintaining the property without allowing for a profit
- cost unit — a quantity or unit of a product or service whose cost is computed, used as a standard for comparison with other costs.
- costanoan — a family of eight languages, now extinct, spoken by American Indian peoples of coastal California: part of the Penutian stock.
- costings' — cost accounting.
- costuming — a style of dress, including accessories and hairdos, especially that peculiar to a nation, region, group, or historical period.
- cothurnus — the buskin worn in ancient Greek tragedy
- countless — Countless means very many.
- countries — a state or nation: What European countries have you visited?
- countship — the rank or position of a count.
- courantes — Plural form of courante.
- courtesan — In former times, a courtesan was a woman who had sexual relationships with rich and powerful men for money.
- covenants — Plural form of covenant.
- crayonist — (dated) An artist who uses crayons.
- creations — The action or process of bringing something into existence.
- creodonts — Plural form of creodont.
- cretinous — If you describe someone as cretinous, you think they are very stupid.
- crinosity — Hairiness.
- croissant — Croissants are small, sweet bread rolls in the shape of a crescent that are eaten for breakfast.
- crosstown — A crosstown bus or route is one that crosses the main roads or transportation lines of a town or city.
- crotonism — poisoning by ingestion of croton oil, characterized by burning of the mouth, severe diarrhea, and colic, with possible death from respiratory or circulatory failure.
- ctesiphon — an ancient city on the River Tigris about 100 km (60 miles) above Babylon. First mentioned in 221 bc, it was destroyed in the 7th and 8th centuries ad
- curbstone — A curbstone is one of the stones that form a curb.
- cushionet — a small cushion
- custodian — The custodian of an official building, a companies' assets, or something else valuable is the person who is officially in charge of it.
- cut stone — a stone or stonework dressed to a relatively fine finish with tools other than hammers.
- cutaneous — of, relating to, or affecting the skin
- cytokines — Plural form of cytokine.
- cytolysin — a substance that can partially or completely destroy animal cells
- daltonism — colour blindness, esp the confusion of red and green
- dawsonite — a mineral that is made up of sodium and aluminium hydrous carbonate and occurs in crystalline form
- decongest — to ease crowding or clogging in (an area)
- deletions — Plural form of deletion.
- demotions — Plural form of demotion.
- denotates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of denotate.
- dentulous — having teeth
- deponents — Plural form of deponent.
- desertion — the act of deserting or abandoning or the state of being deserted or abandoned
- desitions — Plural form of desition.
- detersion — the act of cleansing or deterging, esp of sores
- dethrones — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dethrone.
- detonates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of detonate.
- detorsion — the act of, or the state of having undergone, detorting; a twisting, perversion, or distortion
- detrusion — the act of detruding.
- deuterons — Plural form of deuteron.
- devotions — Someone's devotions are the prayers that they say.
- dhrystone — (benchmark) A short synthetic benchmark program by Reinhold Weicker <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, intended to be representative of system (integer) programming. It is available in ADA, Pascal and C. The current version is Dhrystone 2.1. The author says, "Relying on MIPS V1.1 (the result of V1.1) numbers can be hazardous to your professional health." Due to its small size, the memory system outside the cache is not tested. Compilers can too easily optimise for Dhrystone. String operations are somewhat over-represented.
- digestion — the process in the alimentary canal by which food is broken up physically, as by the action of the teeth, and chemically, as by the action of enzymes, and converted into a substance suitable for absorption and assimilation into the body.
- dilations — Plural form of dilation.