9-letter words containing os
- colostomy — A colostomy is a surgical operation in which a permanent opening from the colon is made.
- colostral — a yellowish liquid, especially rich in immune factors, secreted by the mammary gland of female mammals a few days before and after the birth of their young.
- colostric — of or relating to the colostrum
- colostrum — the thin milky secretion from the nipples that precedes and follows true lactation. It consists largely of serum and white blood cells
- commandos — Plural form of commando.
- composers — Plural form of composer.
- composest — (archaic) Archaic second-person singular form of compose.
- composing — Present participle of compose.
- composite — A composite object or item is made up of several different things, parts, or substances.
- composted — Simple past tense and past participle of compost.
- composter — a bin or other container used to turn garden and kitchen waste into compost
- composure — Composure is the appearance or feeling of calm and the ability to control your feelings.
- concertos — Plural form of concerto.
- conoscope — a polarizing microscope for giving interference figures and for determining the principal axis of a crystal.
- contangos — Plural form of contango.
- continuos — a keyboard accompanying part consisting originally of a figured bass, which in modern scores is usually realized, and serving to provide or fill out the harmonic texture.
- conversos — Plural form of converso.
- core loss — Core loss is the loss that occurs in a magnetic core due to alternating magnetization, which is the sum of the hysteresis loss and the eddy current loss.
- corn rose — any of several red-flowered weeds of cornfields, such as the corn poppy
- corposant — Saint Elmo's fire
- corrosion — Corrosion is the damage that is caused when something is corroded.
- corrosive — A corrosive substance is able to destroy solid materials by a chemical reaction.
- corticose — of, consisting of, or resembling bark
- corymbose — characterized by or growing in corymbs; corymblike.
- cosecants — Plural form of cosecant.
- coseismal — of or designating points at which earthquake waves are felt at the same time
- coseismic — of, relating to, or being in a line, curve, etc., connecting or comprising points on the earth's surface at which an earthquake wave arrives simultaneously.
- coshering — Present participle of cosher.
- coshocton — a city in E central Ohio.
- cosmetics — beauty preparations; make-up
- cosmetize — to cosmeticize.
- cosmocrat — a ruler of the world
- cosmogeny — (dated) cosmogony.
- cosmogony — the study of the origin and development of the universe or of a particular system in the universe, such as the solar system
- cosmoline — a substance obtained from petroleum that is similar to petrolatum and is applied to machinery, esp vehicles or weapons, in order to prevent rust
- cosmology — A cosmology is a theory about the origin and nature of the universe.
- cosmonaut — A cosmonaut is an astronaut from the former Soviet Union.
- cosmorama — a lifelike display, using mirrors and lenses, which shows reflections of various views of parts of the world
- cosmotron — a large synchrotron which was used for accelerating protons to high energies (of the order of 1 GeV)
- cosphered — sharing the same sphere
- cosplayer — One who takes part in cosplay.
- cosponsor — a person, company, or other organization that is one of the two sponsors of an event or initiative
- cosseting — to treat as a pet; pamper; coddle.
- cossetted — Simple past tense and past participle of cosset.
- cost card — a summary of costs involved in the production of a product.
- 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.
- cost-plus — A cost-plus basis for a contract about work to be done is one in which the buyer agrees to pay the seller or contractor all the cost plus a profit.
- cost-push — of or relating to cost-push inflation: a proponent of the cost-push theory.
- costalgia — Pain in the ribs, or the costal muscles.