9-letter words containing st
- obstetric — of or relating to the care and treatment of women in childbirth and during the period before and after delivery.
- obstinacy — the quality or state of being obstinate; stubbornness.
- obstinant — (proscribed) Obstinate.
- obstinate — firmly or stubbornly adhering to one's purpose, opinion, etc.; not yielding to argument, persuasion, or entreaty.
- obstructs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of obstruct.
- obstruent — Medicine/Medical. (of a substance) producing an obstruction.
- obtesting — Present participle of obtest.
- occultist — belief in the existence of secret, mysterious, or supernatural agencies.
- octastich — a stanza or piece of poetic writing that contains eight lines
- octastyle — having eight columns in the front, as a temple or portico.
- octobrist — a member of a Russian political party that advocated constitutional monarchism: so called because it was organized after the Czar's manifesto in October, 1905.
- ocularist — a person who makes artificial eyes
- odelsting — the parliament of Norway, elected by popular vote, which is divided into the upper house (Lagting) comprising one quarter of the members, and the lower house (Odelsting) comprising the rest.
- odonatist — a person who studies or is expert in insects that belong to the zoological group Odonata
- oestrogen — (British spelling) alternative spelling of estrogen.
- off stump — the outside stump opposite the one at which the batsman stands.
- off-piste — of or relating to skiing on virgin snow off the regular runs
- oil stove — a heating device that burns oil (typically either paraffin or fuel oil)
- old style — Also, oldstyle. Printing. a type style differentiated from modern by the more or less uniform thickness of all strokes and by slanted serifs.
- old test. — Old Testament
- old-style — You use old-style to describe something or someone of a type that was common or popular in the past but is not common or popular now.
- oldcastle — Sir John (Lord Cobham) 1377–1417, English martyr: leader of a Lollard conspiracy; executed for treason and heresy; model for Shakespeare's Falstaff.
- oleasters — Plural form of oleaster.
- on stream — If something such as a new factory or a new system comes on stream or is brought on stream, it begins to operate or becomes available.
- on strike — to deal a blow or stroke to (a person or thing), as with the fist, a weapon, or a hammer; hit.
- on-stream — in or into regular operation, especially as part of a system, assembly line, or the like: When the new printing press goes on-stream, we'll be able to print twice as many newspapers a day.
- onanistic — withdrawal of the penis in sexual intercourse so that ejaculation takes place outside the vagina; coitus interruptus.
- oncostman — a miner who is paid daily
- only just — by slight margin
- onomastic — of or relating to proper names.
- open-cast — open-cut.
- opisthion — (anatomy) The middle of the posterior, or dorsal, margin of the great foramen of the skull.
- optimists — an optimistic person.
- orchestic — relating to dance
- orchestra — a group of performers on various musical instruments, including especially stringed instruments of the viol class, clarinets and flutes, cornets and trombones, drums, and cymbals, for playing music, as symphonies, operas, popular music, or other compositions.
- orchestre — Obsolete form of orchestra.
- orchidist — an orchid grower
- organists — Plural form of organist.
- orgiastic — of, relating to, or having the nature of an orgy.
- origamist — A person who does origami.
- orleanist — a supporter of the Orléans branch of the former French royal family and of its claim to the throne of France through descent from the younger brother of Louis XIV.
- orneriest — ugly and unpleasant in disposition or temper: No one can get along with my ornery cousin.
- orthostat — (in a classical temple) any of a number of large stone slabs revetting the lower part of the cella.
- orthotist — (used with a singular verb) a branch of medicine dealing with the making and fitting of orthotic devices.
- ostealgia — (pathology) bone pain.
- ostectomy — excision of part or all of a bone.
- ostensive — clearly or manifestly demonstrative.
- ostensory — monstrance.
- ostentate — (transitive, obsolete) To make an ambitious display of; to show or exhibit boastingly.
- osteocope — severe pain in the bones, especially that occurring in syphilitic persons.