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9-letter words containing ose

  • exposedly — In an exposed way.
  • extrapose — to move a word or words to the end of, or outside, a clause or sentence without altering its sense
  • filoselle — Floss silk, or silk thread resembling this, used in embroidery.
  • fire hose — a special heavy-duty hose for use in fighting destructive fires.
  • fistulose — Formed like a fistula; hollow; reed-like.
  • foliolose — with leaves composed of folioles
  • footloose — free to go or travel about; not confined by responsibilities.
  • forclosed — Simple past tense and past participle of forclose.
  • foreclose — Law. to deprive (a mortgagor or pledgor) of the right to redeem his or her property, especially on failure to make payment on a mortgage when due, ownership of property then passing to the mortgagee. to take away the right to redeem (a mortgage or pledge).
  • fruticose — having the form of a shrub; shrublike.
  • galactose — a white, crystalline, water-soluble hexose sugar, C 6 H 12 O 6 , obtained in its dextrorotatory form from milk sugar by hydrolysis and in its levorotatory form from mucilages.
  • globosely — In a globose manner.
  • gneissose — (geology) Having properties similar to gneiss.
  • gomphoses — an immovable articulation in which one bone or part is received in a cavity in another, as a tooth in its socket.
  • goose bay — an air base in S central Labrador, in Newfoundland, in E Canada, on the great circle route between New York and London: used as a fuel stop by some transatlantic airplanes.
  • goose egg — the numeral zero, often used to indicate the failure of a team to score in a game or unit of a game: a pitchers' duel, with nothing but goose eggs on the scoreboard.
  • goosebump — The bumps on a person's skin, at the base of body hair, which may involuntarily develop when a person is cold or experiences strong emotions.
  • goosedown — Down from a goose.
  • goosefish — angler (def 3).
  • goosefoot — any of numerous, often weedy plants of the genus Chenopodium, having inconspicuous greenish flowers.
  • goosegogs — gooseberry.
  • gooseherd — a person who tends geese.
  • gooselike — Resembling or characteristic of a goose.
  • gooseneck — a curved object resembling the neck of a goose, often of flexible construction, as in the shaft of a gooseneck lamp.
  • goosestep — Alternative form of goose-step.
  • goosewing — the weather clew of a square sail, held taut when the lee side of the sail is furled.
  • gossypose — raffinose.
  • grandiose — affectedly grand or important; pompous: grandiose words.
  • granulose — granular.
  • half hose — short hose; socks.
  • half-hose — socks
  • hard-nose — a person who is tough, practical, and unsentimental, especially in business: We need a hard-nose to run the department.
  • hardnosed — Describing a person who is tough and relentlessly practical and thus not given to sentiment.
  • heteroses — Plural form of heterosis.
  • heterosex — heterosexuality.
  • hooknoses — Plural form of hooknose.
  • hoosegows — Plural form of hoosegow.
  • hose down — spray sth clean
  • hose-cock — a threaded exterior faucet, as for attaching a garden hose.
  • hosepipes — Plural form of hosepipe.
  • hydroseed — to sow (a field, lawn, etc.) with seed by distribution in a stream of water propelled through a hose.
  • hydrosere — a sere originating in water.
  • i suppose — You can say 'I suppose' when you want to express slight uncertainty.
  • impose on — to lay on or set as something to be borne, endured, obeyed, fulfilled, paid, etc.: to impose taxes.
  • inclosers — Plural form of incloser.
  • indispose — to make ill, especially slightly.
  • interpose — to place between; cause to intervene: to interpose an opaque body between a light and the eye.
  • jack rose — a cocktail made with apple brandy, lime or lemon juice, and grenadine.
  • josef suk — Josef [yaw-zef] /ˈyɔ zɛf/ (Show IPA), 1874–1935, Czech composer and violinist.
  • joseph ii — 1741–90, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire 1765–90 (son of Francis I; brother of Leopold II and Marie Antoinette).
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