English words starting with oss

Meanings of Ossein:

noun

The collagen of bones.

Usage examples:

Colla cornus cervi, which contains a large amount of ossein and ca. + +, plays an important role in…

Meanings of Osselet:

noun

Originally: any of the small bones of the carpus or tarsus of a horse. later also: any of various other types of small bone or ossicle.

Meanings of Osseofibrous:

adjective

Consisting of fibrous tissue and bone.

Meanings of Osseous:

adjective

Consisting of or turned into bone; ossified.

Usage examples:

The osteoblasts produce osseous tissue, become embedded in the matrix they manufacture, and are the…

Meanings of Osseously:

adverb

As regards bone; in a bony manner.

Meanings of Osset:

noun

A native or inhabitant of ossetia.

Usage examples:

Those who speak non-turkic languages include kurds, armenians, greeks, circassians, georgians, laz,…

adjective

Relating to ossetia or the ossetes.

Usage examples:

The ossete mountaineers and the villagers of mtiuleti were forced to toil without payment.

Meanings of Ossetian:

noun

A language of the iranian group spoken in the central caucasian region of ossetia.

Usage examples:

The principal minority languages are abkhazian, armenian, azeri, ossetian, and russian.

adjective

Relating to ossetia or its language.

Usage examples:

But, in spite of the intense piano playing, he had known since he was eight that he would be a cond…

Meanings of Ossetine:

adjective

Of, relating to, or designating ossetia, its people or language; = "ossetian".

noun

A member of the ossetin people; = "ossetian".

Meanings of Ossia:

conjunction

As a musical direction: or rather; alternatively. also as noun: an alternative version.

Meanings of Ossian:

proper noun

A legendary irish warrior and bard, whose name became well known in 1760–3 when the scottish poet james macpherson (1736–96) published his own verse as an alleged translation of 3rd-century gaelic tales.

Meanings of Ossianesque:

adjective

Imitating or suggesting the heroic or magniloquent style of the poems attributed to ossian; = "ossianic". occasionally as noun: this style or manner.

Meanings of Ossianism:

noun

The world represented by james macpherson's alleged translations of ossian's verse.

Meanings of Ossicles:

noun

A very small bone, especially one of those in the middle ear.

Usage examples:

Vibrations of the eardrum are then coupled by the middle ear ossicles, the three smallest bones in …

Meanings of Ossicular:

adjective

Of or relating to an ossicle or ossicles.

Meanings of Ossiculectomy:

noun

Partial or total surgical excision of the ossicles of the middle ear; an instance of this.

Meanings of Ossiculum:

noun

An ossicle. frequently in the names of particular bones with (usually postmodifying) classical, post-classical, or scientific latin adjectives and nouns.

Meanings of Ossiferous:

adjective

(of a cave or stratum) containing or yielding deposits of bone.

Meanings of Ossification:

noun

The process of habits or ideas becoming fixed and unable to change

Usage examples:

The ossification of his thought processes as he grew older

Meanings of Ossificatory:

adjective

Of, relating to, or involved in ossification.

Meanings of Ossified:

adjective

Having turned into bone or bony tissue.

Usage examples:

Ossified cartilage

verb

Turn into bone or bony tissue.

Usage examples:

These tracheal cartilages may ossify

Meanings of Ossifiers:

noun

A person who or thing which ossifies.

Meanings of Ossifies:

verb

Turn into bone or bony tissue.

Usage examples:

These tracheal cartilages may ossify

Meanings of Ossiform:

adjective

Of the form of bone; resembling bone or a bone.

Meanings of Ossifrage:

noun

A bird of prey reputed to break bones by dropping them from a great height (usually identified with the lammergeier or bearded vulture, gypaetus barbatus).

Meanings of Ossify:

verb

Turn into bone or bony tissue.

Usage examples:

These tracheal cartilages may ossify