English words starting with ossi

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 Ossicle:

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 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 Ossicule:

noun

Ossicle.

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 Ossifier:

noun

A person who or thing which ossifies.

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

Meanings of Ossifying:

verb

Turn into bone or bony tissue.

Usage examples:

These tracheal cartilages may ossify