9-letter words containing os
- costanoan — a family of eight languages, now extinct, spoken by American Indian peoples of coastal California: part of the Penutian stock.
- costarred — Simple past tense and past participle of costar.
- costings' — cost accounting.
- costively — In a costive manner.
- costliest — costing much; expensive; high in price: a costly emerald bracelet; costly medical care.
- costotome — an instrument, as shears or a knife, for incising or dividing a rib, as in costotomy.
- costotomy — surgical incision into a rib
- costumers — a person who makes, sells, or rents costumes, as for theatrical productions.
- costumery — multiple costumes considered collectively
- costumier — A costumier is a person or company that makes or supplies costumes.
- costuming — a style of dress, including accessories and hairdos, especially that peculiar to a nation, region, group, or historical period.
- creosoted — Simple past tense and past participle of creosote.
- creosotes — Plural form of creosote.
- crinosity — Hairiness.
- crocosmia — any plant of the cormous S. African genus Crocosmia, including the plant known to gardeners as montbretia: family Iridaceae
- cross fox — a red fox in the color phase in which the fur is reddish brown with a dark stripe down the back and another over the shoulders.
- cross off — If you cross off words on a list, you decide that they no longer belong on the list, and often you draw a line through them to indicate this.
- cross out — If you cross out words on a page, you draw a line through them, because they are wrong or because you want to change them.
- cross sea — a sea with a choppy surface produced by the intersection of waves from different storms.
- cross-cut — made or used for cutting crosswise.
- cross-eye — a turning inwards towards the nose of one or both eyes, caused by abnormal alignment
- cross-out — a structure consisting essentially of an upright and a transverse piece, used to execute persons in ancient times.
- cross-ply — (of a motor tyre) having the fabric cords in the outer casing running diagonally to stiffen the sidewalls
- crossable — able to be crossed
- crossband — (in furniture) a layer of wood beneath, and with its grain at right angles to, the veneer
- crossbars — Plural form of crossbar.
- crossbeam — A crossbeam is a long, thick bar of wood, metal, or concrete that is placed between two walls or other structures, especially in order to support the roof of a building.
- crossbill — any of various widely distributed finches of the genus Loxia, such as L. curvirostra, that occur in coniferous woods and have a bill with crossed mandible tips for feeding on conifer seeds
- crossbite — a dental condition in which the lower teeth are in front of the upper teeth
- crossbows — Plural form of crossbow.
- crossbred — (of plants or animals) produced as a result of crossbreeding
- crossbuck — (in the US) a white cross-shaped road sign used at railway crossings
- crosscuts — Plural form of crosscut.
- crossed-h — a constant used in quantum mechanics, equal to the Planck constant divided by 2π. It has a value of 1.054571596±0.000000078 × 10 −34 joule seconds
- crossette — a lateral extension in a corner of the architrave of a window or door
- crossfall — the camber of a road
- crossfire — Crossfire is gunfire, for example in a battle, that comes from two or more different directions and passes through the same area.
- crossfish — a starfish
- crossfoot — Accounting. to total figures horizontally across columns instead of vertically.
- crosshair — either of the two fine mutually perpendicular lines or wires that cross in the focal plane of a theodolite, gunsight, or other optical instrument and are used to define the line of sight
- crosshead — a subsection or paragraph heading printed within the body of the text
- crossings — Plural form of crossing.
- crossjack — a square sail on a ship's mizzenmast
- crosslets — Plural form of crosslet.
- crossline — a line crossing another line or connecting two separated points: The main lines are linked at intervals by crosslines.
- crossness — the quality or state of being cross or angry; irritability; snappishness.
- crossover — A crossover of one style and another, especially in music or fashion, is a combination of the two different styles.
- crosspost — (computing) An electronic message posted to multiple newsgroups simultaneously.
- crossrail — a horizontal slat forming part of the back of a chair.
- crossroad — a road that crosses another road