8-letter words containing os
- argosies — Plural form of argosy.
- arguidos — Plural form of arguido.
- asbestos — Asbestos is a grey material which does not burn and which has been used as a protection against fire or heat.
- atosiban — (medicine) A medication, that inhibits oxytocin and vasopressin, used to halt premature labour.
- autosave — a function on a computer that automatically saves data at regular intervals
- autosome — any chromosome that is not a sex chromosome
- autostat — (language) A language for statistical programming.
- autostop — Hitchhiking.
- avocados — Plural form of avocado.
- baalebos — the master of the house
- backmost — furthest back
- bambinos — Plural form of bambino.
- barbados — an island in the Caribbean, in the E Lesser Antilles: a British colony from 1628 to 1966, now an independent state within the Commonwealth. Language: English. Currency: Barbados dollar. Capital: Bridgetown. Pop: 288 725 (2013 est). Area: 430 sq km (166 sq miles)
- barosaur — a large herbivorous dinosaur with a long neck and tail, similar to the diplodocus
- barostat — a device for maintaining constant pressure, such as one used in an aircraft cabin
- bedposts — one of the upright supports of a bedstead.
- belostok — a city in E Poland.
- bernanos — Georges (ʒɔrʒ). 1888–1948, French novelist and Roman Catholic pamphleteer, best known for The Diary of a Country Priest (1936)
- bioscope — a kind of early film projector
- bioscopy — examination of a body to determine whether it is alive
- biosolid — relating to residue from treated sewage
- blogpost — A blogpost is a piece of writing that forms part of a regular blog.
- bluenose — a puritanical or prudish person
- bog moss — peat moss.
- bogosity — /boh-go's*-tee/ The degree to which something is "bogus" in the hackish sense of "bad". At CMU, bogosity is measured with a bogometer; in a seminar, when a speaker says something bogus, a listener might raise his hand and say "My bogometer just triggered". More extremely, "You just pinned my bogometer" means you just said or did something so outrageously bogus that it is off the scale, pinning the bogometer needle at the highest possible reading (one might also say "You just redlined my bogometer"). The agreed-upon unit of bogosity is the microLenat. Also, the potential field generated by a bogon flux; see quantum bogodynamics. See also bogon flux, bogon filter.
- boothose — a protective stocking or boot liner fashionable in the 17th century
- bosporus — strait between the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara: c. 20 mi (32 km) long
- bosseyed — cross-eyed.
- bostangi — a Turkish imperial guard
- bosthoon — a boor
- botryose — Mineralogy. botryoidal.
- brossard — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada: suburb of Montreal.
- bullnose — a rounded exterior angle, as where two walls meet
- bunuelos — a thin, round, fried pastry, often dusted with cinnamon sugar.
- burnoose — a long cloak with a hood, worn by Arabs and Moors
- cabooses — Plural form of caboose.
- caboshed — (of an animal, as a deer) shown facing forward without a neck: a stag's head caboshed.
- callosal — of or relating to the corpus callosum.
- callosum — (anatomy) corpus callosum.
- calvados — a department of N France in the Basse-Normandie region. Capital: Caen. Pop: 659 893 (2003 est). Area: 5693 sq km (2198 sq miles)
- calypsos — Plural form of calypso.
- camboose — a cabin built as living quarters for a gang of lumbermen
- castizos — Plural form of castizo.
- cattalos — Plural form of cattalo.
- centavos — Plural form of centavo.
- centimos — Plural form of centimo.
- cerritos — city in SW Calif.: suburb of Los Angeles: pop. 51,000
- chamisos — Plural form of chamiso.
- charoset — a dish of chopped fruit, nuts, and wine eaten at Passover, representing the mortar that Jewish slaves used to build parts of Egypt
- cheerios — Plural form of cheerio.