9-letter words containing ose
- josephine — Empress (Marie Joséphine Rose Tascher de la Pagerie) Beauharnais, Joséphine de.
- josephson — Brian David, born 1940, British physicist: Nobel Prize 1973.
- juxtapose — to place close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast.
- keratoses — having a skeleton formed of horny fibers, as certain sponges.
- l-glucose — a sugar, C 6 H 12 O 6 , having several optically different forms, the common dextrorotatory form (dextroglucose, or -glucose) occurring in many fruits, animal tissues and fluids, etc., and having a sweetness about one half that of ordinary sugar, and the rare levorotatory form (levoglucose, or -glucose) not naturally occurring.
- lactulose — (organic compound) A disaccharide of galactose and fructose formed when milk is heated.
- laevulose — (carbohydrate) alternative spelling of levulose (fructose).
- lamellose — lamellate
- leprosery — a hospital for leprosy sufferers
- let loose — to set free
- lithosere — a sere originating on rock.
- loose end — a part or piece left hanging, unattached, or unused: Remind me to tack down that loose end on the stairway carpet.
- loosehead — (rugby) prop who plays on the left hand side of the front row of the scrum.
- looseleaf — Consisting of loose leaves (pages), often collected in a binder, rather than being bound like a book or stapled.
- loosen up — to unfasten or undo, as a bond or fetter.
- looseness — free or released from fastening or attachment: a loose end.
- loosening — Present participle of loosen.
- lose face — the front part of the head, from the forehead to the chin.
- lose time — delay, fail to act
- mantyhose — a one-piece clinging garment covering the body from the waist to the feet, worn by men
- marmosets — Plural form of marmoset.
- megadoses — Plural form of megadose.
- microdose — (medicine) A very low dose (especially of radiation therapy).
- microserf — (jargon) Wired magazine's term for a Microsoft employee.
- milosevic — Slobodan [sloh-buh-dain] /ˈsloʊ bəˌdɛən/ (Show IPA), 1941–2006, Yugoslav and Serbian politician: president of Serbia 1989–97, president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia 1997–2000, accused of war crimes 2001.
- minutiose — attentive to very small details
- mischoose — to make a wrong or improper choice.
- mischosen — to make a wrong or improper choice.
- mongooses — Plural form of mongoose.
- monosemic — Of or pertaining to monosemy.
- moose jaw — a city in S Saskatchewan, in SW Canada.
- moosebird — gray jay.
- moosehide — The hide of a moose.
- moosemilk — homemade or bootleg whiskey.
- moosewood — striped maple.
- mooseyard — an area of trodden snow where moose spend the winter
- morphoses — Plural form of morphosis.
- moss rose — a variety of rose, Rosa centrifolia muscosa, having a mosslike growth on the calyx and stem.
- mulierose — (obsolete) Fond of women.
- multidose — (pharmacy) Containing multiple doses.
- musk rose — a rose, Rosa moschata, of the Mediterranean region, having white, musk-scented flowers.
- nose cone — the cone-shaped forward section of a rocket or guided missile, including a heat shield and containing the payload.
- nose dive — a plunge of an aircraft with the forward part pointing downward.
- nose into — the part of the face or facial region in humans and certain animals that contains the nostrils and the organs of smell and functions as the usual passageway for air in respiration: in humans it is a prominence in the center of the face formed of bone and cartilage, serving also to modify or modulate the voice.
- nose leaf — a leaflike outgrowth of skin on the nose of various bats, thought to be sensitive to vibrations of the air.
- nose over — to turn over on its nose
- nose ring — a ring inserted in the nose of an animal, to facilitate leading it.
- nose stud — a stud worn in or on the nose as an ornament
- nose-dive — a plunge of an aircraft with the forward part pointing downward.
- nose-ring — a ring inserted in the nose of an animal, to facilitate leading it.