9-letter words containing os
- bromeosin — eosin (def 1).
- bulbosity — the quality of being bulbous
- bull nose — a disease of pigs resulting in deformity of the nose, caused by infection with the bacterium Bordatella bronchiseptica
- by a nose — by the length of the animal's nose in horse racing, etc.
- bydgoszcz — an industrial city and port in N Poland: under Prussian rule from 1772 to 1919. Pop: 579 000 (2005 est)
- byelostok — a city in E Poland.
- calaboose — a prison; jail
- calculose — calculous
- callaloos — Plural form of callaloo.
- callosity — hardheartedness
- cariosity — (medicine) caries.
- carnosaur — any of various large carnivorous bipedal dinosaurs of the group Carnosauria, including the allosaurs
- carnosity — an abnormal fleshy protrusion growing on any part of the body
- caudillos — Plural form of caudillo.
- cecostomy — Alternative spelling of caecostomy.
- cellulose — Cellulose is a substance that exists in the cell walls of plants and is used to make paper, plastic, and various fabrics and fibres.
- celoscope — an instrument for examining a body cavity.
- certosina — a technique of inlaying light-colored material, as bone, ivory, metal, or pale wood, in elaborate designs on a dark ground.
- cespitose — growing in dense, matlike clumps without creeping stems, as moss, grass, etc.
- chamosite — a mineral of the chlorite group, hydrous aluminum silicate of iron, occurring in gray or black crystals in oolitic iron ore.
- charangos — Plural form of charango.
- charoseth — haroseth.
- cheilosis — Inflammation of one or both of the corners of the mouth.
- chemostat — an apparatus for growing bacterial cultures at a constant rate by controlling the supply of nutrient medium
- chlorosis — a disorder, formerly common in adolescent girls, characterized by pale greenish-yellow skin, weakness, and palpitation and caused by insufficient iron in the body
- choosable — to select from a number of possibilities; pick by preference: She chose Sunday for her departure.
- choose up — to decide on the opposing players, as for an impromptu ballgame
- cirrhosis — Cirrhosis or cirrhosis of the liver is a disease which destroys a person's liver and which can kill them. It is often caused by drinking too much alcohol.
- clinostat — an apparatus for studying tropisms in plants, usually a rotating disc to which the plant is attached so that it receives an equal stimulus on all sides
- close off — To close something off means to separate it from other things or people so that they cannot go there.
- close out — to terminate (a client's or other account) on which the margin is inadequate or exhausted, usually by sale of securities to realize cash
- close-run — If you describe something such as a race or contest as a close-run thing, you mean that it was only won by a very small amount.
- close-set — (esp of the eyes) positioned close together
- closeable — able to be closed
- closedown — a termination or suspension of operations; shutdown: a temporary closedown of a factory.
- closehead — the entrance to a tenement close
- closeness — to put (something) in a position to obstruct an entrance, opening, etc.; shut.
- closeouts — Plural form of closeout.
- closetful — a quantity that may be contained in a closet
- closeting — Present participle of closet.
- club moss — any mosslike tracheophyte plant of the phylum Lycopodophyta, having erect or creeping stems covered with tiny overlapping leaves
- cockapoos — Plural form of cockapoo.
- cockatoos — Plural form of cockatoo.
- coelostat — an astronomical instrument consisting of a plane mirror mounted parallel to the earth's axis and rotated about this axis once every two days so that light from a celestial body, esp the sun, is reflected onto a second mirror, which reflects the beam into a telescope
- coenosarc — a system of protoplasmic branches connecting the polyps of colonial organisms such as corals
- cohostess — a woman who cohosts an event
- coloscope — a flexible, lighted, tubular instrument using fiber optics to permit visualization of the colon.
- coloscopy — colonoscopy.
- colosseum — an amphitheatre in Rome built about 75–80 ad
- colossian — a native or inhabitant of Colossae