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13-letter words containing ose

  • joseph's-coat — a cultivated form of Amaranthus tricolor, having headlike clusters of small flowers and blotched and colored leaves.
  • kerosene lamp — light fuelled by paraffin
  • let loose sth — If someone lets loose a sound or remark, they make it, often suddenly.
  • loose forward — one of a number of forwards who play at the back or sides of the scrum and who are not bound wholly into it
  • loose-fitting — (of a garment) fitting loosely; not following the contours of the body closely.
  • loose-jointed — having or marked by easy, free movement; limber.
  • loose-tongued — unrestrained or irresponsible in speech; given to gossiping.
  • loosey-goosey — relaxed; calm; unperturbed: Despite the pressure, he was loosey-goosey throughout the game.
  • lose sight of — no longer see
  • lose the plot — go insane
  • lose track of — to fail to follow the passage, course, or progress of
  • margaret rose — 1930–2002, English princess (daughter of George VI; sister of Elizabeth II).
  • melrose abbey — a ruined Cistercian abbey in Melrose in Scottish Borders: founded in 1136 and sacked by the English in 1385 and 1547: repaired in 1822 by Sir Walter Scott
  • metamorphosed — to change the form or nature of; transform.
  • metamorphoses — a series of mythological tales or legends in verse (a.d. 7–8) by Ovid.
  • microcosmoses — Plural form of microcosmos.
  • moose pasture — land considered to be worthless, esp when lacking in extractable mineral deposits
  • moseley's law — the observed law that the square root of the frequencies of lines in atomic x-ray spectra depends linearly on the atomic number of the emitting atom.
  • noisette rose — a hybrid climbing rose, Rosa noisettiana, bearing clusters of fragrant yellow, white, or pink flowers.
  • nonhomosexual — a person who is not homosexual
  • otto of roses — rose oil.
  • overdiagnosed — Simple past tense and past participle of overdiagnose.
  • parson's nose — pope's nose.
  • passe compose — a grammatical construction of French consisting of the present tense of an auxiliary, either avoir or être, followed by a past participle and corresponding in function to both the English present perfect and the English simple past tenses.
  • photocomposer — a machine for setting type photographically.
  • pre-disclosed — to make known; reveal or uncover: to disclose a secret.
  • primrose path — a way of life devoted to irresponsible hedonism, often of a sensual nature: The evangelist exhorted us to avoid the primrose path and stick to the straight and narrow.
  • prosectorship — the position or responsibility of a prosector
  • prosecutorial — of or relating to a prosecutor or prosecution: prosecutorial zeal.
  • provence rose — an erect Eurasian shrub, Rosa gallica, of the rose family, having a creeping rootstock, densely prickly and bristly stems, and large, solitary, pink or crimson flowers.
  • purpose-built — A purpose-built building has been specially designed and built for a particular use.
  • pyrocellulose — cordite.
  • quelque chose — a trifle
  • quelque-chose — kickshaw.
  • rambling rose — any of various cultivated hybrid roses that straggle over other vegetation
  • roosevelt dam — a dam on the Salt River, in central Arizona. 284 feet (87 meters) high; 1080 feet (329 meters) long.
  • rose d'anvers — a gem having a rose cut of 12 or fewer facets.
  • rose geranium — a geranium, Pelargonium graveolens, cultivated for its fragrant, lobed or narrowly divided leaves.
  • rose mandarin — (in the Chinese Empire) a member of any of the nine ranks of public officials, each distinguished by a particular kind of button worn on the cap.
  • rose of china — China rose (def 2).
  • rose-coloured — of the colour rose; rosy
  • rosebud mouth — a mouth that resembles the unopened flower of a rose in shape
  • rosehip syrup — a syrup made from rosehips, used as a cough remedy
  • rosenkavalier — an opera (1911) by Richard Strauss.
  • rosetta stone — a stone slab, found in 1799 near Rosetta, bearing parallel inscriptions in Greek, Egyptian hieroglyphic, and demotic characters, making possible the decipherment of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics.
  • self-composed — being or appearing to be composed; calm.
  • semi-comatose — a light coma from which a person can be roused.
  • solan (goose) — gannet
  • somatosensory — of or relating to sensations that involve parts of the body not associated with the primary sense organs.
  • standard rose — a rose which has a long stem
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