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6-letter words starting with os

  • osasco — a city in SE Brazil, NW of São Paulo.
  • osbert — a male given name: from Old English words meaning “god” and “bright.”.
  • osborn — Henry Fairfield [fair-feeld] /ˈfɛərˌfild/ (Show IPA), 1857–1935, U.S. paleontologist and author.
  • oscine — of, belonging to, or pertaining to the suborder Oscines, of the order Passeriformes, comprising the songbirds that have highly developed vocal organs.
  • oscula — a small mouthlike aperture, as of a sponge.
  • oscule — Obsolete form of osculum.
  • osetra — a type of caviar deriving from the osetra sturgeon
  • osgood — a male given name.
  • oshawa — a city in SE Ontario, in S Canada, NE of Toronto, on Lake Ontario.
  • osiers — Plural form of osier.
  • osiery — An osier bed.
  • osijek — a city in Slavonia, E Croatia, on the Drava River.
  • osiris — the king and judge of the dead, the husband and brother of Isis, and father (or brother) of Horus, killed by Set but later resurrected (after Horus killed Set): usually depicted as a man, partly wrapped as a mummy, having a beard and wearing the atef-crown.
  • osmate — a salt of osmic acid
  • osmics — the science dealing with the sense of smell.
  • osmium — a hard, heavy, metallic element having the greatest density of the known elements and forming octavalent compounds, as OsO 4 and OsF 8 : used chiefly as a catalyst, in alloys, and in the manufacture of electric-light filaments. Symbol: Os; atomic weight: 190.2; atomic number: 76; specific gravity: 22.57.
  • osmole — a unit of solute containing one mole of osmotically active particles when in solution
  • osmose — to undergo osmosis.
  • osmous — of or containing osmium in its lower valences.
  • osmund — a superior quality of iron, formerly used for fishhooks, arrowheads, etc.
  • osorno — a city in S Chile.
  • osprey — Also called fish hawk. a large hawk, Pandion haliaetus, that feeds on fish.
  • ossean — (zoology) A fish with a bony skeleton.
  • ossein — the collagen of bone, remaining after the mineral matter has been removed by treatment with dilute acid.
  • ossian — a legendary hero and poet and son of Finn, who is supposed to have lived during the 3rd century a.d., represented in Gaelic poems and in imitations of them written by James Macpherson in the 18th century.
  • ossify — to convert into or cause to harden like bone.
  • osteal — osseous.
  • ostend — a seaport in NW Belgium.
  • ostent — Appearance; air; mien.
  • osteo- — indicating bone or bones
  • osteon — (anatomy) Any of the central canals, and surrounding bony layers, found in compact bone.
  • ostiak — Ostyak.
  • ostial — relating to an ostium
  • ostium — Anatomy, Zoology. a small opening or orifice, as at the end of the oviduct.
  • ostler — hostler.
  • ostomy — any of various surgical procedures, as a colostomy, in which an artificial opening is made so as to permit the drainage of waste products either into an appropriate organ or to the outside of the body.
  • ostyak — Khanty.
  • oswaldLee Harvey, 1939–63, designated by a presidential commission to be the lone assassin of John F. Kennedy.
  • oswego — a town in NW Oregon.

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