os
Noun
- A bone or a bony structure.
- A long, narrow, winding ridge of sand and gravel; an esker.
- A mouth or mouth-like opening; an orifice.
- a mouth or mouthlike opening
- a hard brittle blue-grey or blue-black metallic element that is one of the platinum metals; the heaviest metal known
- (computer science) software that controls the execution of computer programs and may provide various services
- the left eye
- rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates
- a nonmetallic bivalent element that is normally a colorless odorless tasteless nonflammable diatomic gas; constitutes 21 percent of the atmosphere by volume; the most abundant element in the earth's crust
- the 15th letter of the Roman alphabet
- the blood group whose red cells carry neither the A nor B antigens
- Synonym of bone.
- An opening or entrance to a passage, particularly one at either end of the cervix, internal (to the uterus) or external (to the vagina).
- An osar or esker.
- Alternative form of o's.
Examples
- Even a tiny word like OS can open up a crucial new scoring lane on the board.
- Stripping his rack down to just OS felt like reducing his hand to its bare bones.
- The word OS, short but geological, snaked across the double letter score.
Origin / Etymology
Borrowed from Latin os (“a bone”).
Synonyms
atomic number 76, atomic number 8, bone, group O, o, O, oculus sinister, operating system, osmium, oxygen, type O, orifice
Scrabble Score: 2
os: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordos: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
os: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary