9-letter words containing ost
- 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.
- crosspost — (computing) An electronic message posted to multiple newsgroups simultaneously.
- cryostats — Plural form of cryostat.
- cytostome — the mouth of a protozoan.
- defrosted — Simple past tense and past participle of defrost.
- defroster — a device by which the de-icing process of a refrigerator is accelerated, usually by circulating the refrigerant without the expansion process
- dolostone — Rock consisting of dolomite.
- doorposts — Plural form of doorpost.
- ectosteal — the ossification of cartilage that begins under the perichondrium and proceeds inward.
- ego boost — something such as praise, success, etc, that makes one feel better about oneself or raises one's morale
- endosteum — (biology) A membranous vascular layer of cells which line the medullary cavity of a bone.
- endostyle — (zoology) A longitudinal ciliated groove on the ventral wall of the pharynx which produces mucus to gather food particles, found in urochordates and cephalochordates and in the larvae of lampreys.
- erostrate — without a beak
- exostoses — Plural form of exostosis.
- exostosis — A benign outgrowth of cartilaginous tissue on a bone.
- fencepost — A post which helps hold up a fence.
- flyposter — a poster, esp unauthorized, put up to publicize something
- fosterage — the act of fostering or rearing another's child as one's own.
- fostering — Encourage or promote the development of (something, typically something regarded as good).
- frontmost — Located at the front; foremost.
- frostbelt — Snowbelt.
- frostbite — injury to any part of the body after excessive exposure to extreme cold, sometimes progressing from initial redness and tingling to gangrene.
- frostfish — either of two North American fishes, the tomcod of the Atlantic Ocean or the round whitefish, that appear when frost sets in.
- frostless — with no frost
- frostline — the maximum depth at which soil is frozen.
- frostweed — a plant, Helianthemum canadense, of the rockrose family, native to eastern North America, having narrow leaves and a solitary yellow flower.
- frostwork — the delicate tracery formed by frost, especially on glass.
- gateposts — Plural form of gatepost.
- geostatic — of or relating to pressure exerted by the weight of overlying rock.
- ghost car — an unmarked police car
- ghost gum — a eucalyptus tree with white trunk and branches
- ghost net — a commercial fishing net that has been abandoned and then accidentally entangles and kills marine life.
- ghostball — (baseball) A type of pitch; the knuckleball.
- ghostfish — wrymouth.
- ghostlier — Comparative form of ghostly.
- ghostlike — the soul of a dead person, a disembodied spirit imagined, usually as a vague, shadowy or evanescent form, as wandering among or haunting living persons.
- ghostlily — In a ghostly way.
- ghostview — An X Window System interface to the ghostscript PostScript interpreter.
- gnostical — pertaining to knowledge.
- go postal — of or relating to the post office or mail service: postal delivery; postal employees.
- goal post — either of the two vertical posts that support a crossbar and form the opening of a goal in soccer, hockey, etc.
- goalposts — Plural form of goalpost.
- guardpost — Alternative spelling of guard post.
- guidepost — a post, usually mounted on the roadside or at the intersection of two or more roads, bearing a sign for the guidance of travelers.
- haemostat — A clamp used in surgery to close the severed end of a blood vessel to stop bleeding.
- heelposts — Plural form of heelpost.
- heliostat — an instrument consisting of a mirror moved by clockwork, for reflecting the sun's rays in a fixed direction.