English words starting with os

Meanings of Os:

noun

A bone (used chiefly in latin names of individual bones, e.g. os trapezium ).

abbreviation

(in calculating dates) old style.

The chemical element osmium.

Meanings of Osages:

noun

A member of a north american people formerly inhabiting the osage river valley in missouri.

Usage examples:

Above all, it would be the increasingly powerful osages living to the west of the new city that det…

adjective

Relating to the osage or their language.

Usage examples:

The name comes from the osage indians of that region, who, like other native americans, valued the …

Meanings of Osaka:

proper noun

A port and commercial city in central japan, on the island of honshu, capital of kinki region; population 2,510,459 (2007).

Meanings of Osar:

noun

A long narrow ridge or mound of sand or gravel deposited by a stream flowing beneath a glacier; = "esker". usually in plural.

Meanings of Osazone:

noun

Any of a class of compounds (mostly yellow crystalline solids) whose molecules contain two adjacent hydrazone groups (\\\c=n—nh₂ or a substituted derivative).

Meanings of Oscan:

noun

An extinct italic language of southern italy, related to umbrian and surviving in inscriptions mainly of the 4th to 1st centuries bc.

Usage examples:

In pompeii, destroyed in 79 c.e., many of the street signs and graffiti are in oscan, a language re…

adjective

Relating to oscan.

Usage examples:

The oscan speakers adopted the etruscan alphabet to write their language.

Meanings of Oscar:

noun

A south american cichlid fish with velvety brown young and multicoloured adults, popular in aquaria.

Usage examples:

The barbasco oozed a milky-white colloid that, after about 20 minutes, brought several dozen catfis…

Meanings of Oscars:

noun

A south american cichlid fish with velvety brown young and multicoloured adults, popular in aquaria.

Usage examples:

The barbasco oozed a milky-white colloid that, after about 20 minutes, brought several dozen catfis…

Meanings of Oscheoplasty:

noun

Surgical repair or restoration of the scrotum.

Meanings of Oscillate:

verb

Move or swing back and forth in a regular rhythm.

Usage examples:

The grain pan near the front of the combine oscillates back and forth

Meanings of Oscillated:

verb

Move or swing back and forth in a regular rhythm.

Usage examples:

The grain pan near the front of the combine oscillates back and forth

Meanings of Oscillates:

verb

Move or swing back and forth in a regular rhythm.

Usage examples:

The grain pan near the front of the combine oscillates back and forth

Meanings of Oscillating:

verb

Move or swing back and forth in a regular rhythm.

Usage examples:

The grain pan near the front of the combine oscillates back and forth

Meanings of Oscillation:

noun

Movement back and forth in a regular rhythm.

Usage examples:

The natural oscillation of a spring

Meanings of Oscillative:

adjective

Oscillatory.

Meanings of Oscillatively:

adverb

In an oscillatory manner.

Meanings of Oscillator:

noun

A device for generating oscillatory electric currents or voltages by non-mechanical means.

Usage examples:

One big use of capacitors is to team them up with inductors to create oscillators.

Meanings of Oscillatoria:

noun

A genus of cyanobacteria (blue-green algae), the members of which form dark slimy unbranched filaments, capable of a gliding or undulating motion, in various fresh and salt water habitats; (also) an organism of this genus. in plural oscillatoriae also: a former natural order containing the genus oscillatoria (corresponding in part to the modern order oscillatoriales).

Meanings of Oscillators:

noun

A device for generating oscillatory electric currents or voltages by non-mechanical means.

Usage examples:

One big use of capacitors is to team them up with inductors to create oscillators.

Meanings of Oscillogram:

noun

A record produced by an oscillograph.

Usage examples:

Figure 1 shows power spectrum, sonogram, and two oscillograms (top to bottom) of a one-note adverti…

Meanings of Oscillograph:

noun

A device for recording oscillations, especially those of an electric current.

Usage examples:

Pressure and length gauge traces, electrocardiograms, and epicardial electrograms, at a frequency r…

Meanings of Oscillographically:

adverb

By means of or as an oscillograph.

Meanings of Oscillometer:

noun

Any of various instruments used to measure physiological oscillations, specifically in blood pressure.

Meanings of Oscillometric:

adjective

Of, relating to, or using an oscillometer.

Meanings of Oscillometries:

noun

The use of an oscillometer, especially to measure blood pressure or blood flow.