9-letter words containing t, o, e, s
- ointments — Plural form of ointment.
- old style — Also, oldstyle. Printing. a type style differentiated from modern by the more or less uniform thickness of all strokes and by slanted serifs.
- old sweat — an old soldier; veteran
- old test. — Old Testament
- old-style — You use old-style to describe something or someone of a type that was common or popular in the past but is not common or popular now.
- oldcastle — Sir John (Lord Cobham) 1377–1417, English martyr: leader of a Lollard conspiracy; executed for treason and heresy; model for Shakespeare's Falstaff.
- oleasters — Plural form of oleaster.
- omelettes — Plural form of omelette.
- omniscent — Misspelling of omniscient All-knowing.
- on stream — If something such as a new factory or a new system comes on stream or is brought on stream, it begins to operate or becomes available.
- on strike — to deal a blow or stroke to (a person or thing), as with the fist, a weapon, or a hammer; hit.
- on-stream — in or into regular operation, especially as part of a system, assembly line, or the like: When the new printing press goes on-stream, we'll be able to print twice as many newspapers a day.
- onerosity — burdensome, oppressive, or troublesome; causing hardship: onerous duties.
- onsetting — the action of attacking or assaulting
- oomycetes — Plural form of oomycete.
- opacities — the state or quality of being opaque.
- open-cast — open-cut.
- operatics — Exaggerated or overly emotional behaviour; histrionics.
- operators — Plural form of operator.
- operettas — Plural form of operetta.
- operosity — the quality or characteristic of being operose
- opponents — Plural form of opponent.
- opposites — situated, placed, or lying face to face with something else or each other, or in corresponding positions with relation to an intervening line, space, or thing: opposite ends of a room.
- optatives — Plural form of optative.
- optimised — to make as effective, perfect, or useful as possible.
- optimiser — Alternative spelling of optimizer.
- optimises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of optimise.
- optimizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of optimize.
- oratories — Plural form of oratory.
- orchestic — relating to dance
- orchestra — a group of performers on various musical instruments, including especially stringed instruments of the viol class, clarinets and flutes, cornets and trombones, drums, and cymbals, for playing music, as symphonies, operas, popular music, or other compositions.
- orchestre — Obsolete form of orchestra.
- ordinates — Plural form of ordinate.
- 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.
- ornaments — Plural form of ornament.
- orneriest — ugly and unpleasant in disposition or temper: No one can get along with my ornery cousin.
- oscillate — to swing or move to and fro, as a pendulum does.
- osculated — Simple past tense and past participle of osculate.
- osculates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of osculate.
- osmeteria — glands in some caterpillars that secrete foul-smelling substances to deter predators
- osmometer — an instrument used in osmometry.
- osmometry — measurement of osmotic pressure.
- ossietzky — Carl von [kahrl fuh n] /kɑrl fən/ (Show IPA), 1889–1938, German pacifist: Nobel Peace Prize 1935.
- ostealgia — (pathology) bone pain.
- ostectomy — excision of part or all of a bone.
- ostensive — clearly or manifestly demonstrative.
- ostensory — monstrance.
- ostentate — (transitive, obsolete) To make an ambitious display of; to show or exhibit boastingly.
- osteocope — severe pain in the bones, especially that occurring in syphilitic persons.