9-Letter Words Containing: O,S,C,I,O,N

• hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitocin); stimulates contractions of the uterus and ejection of milk

• settle as a colony; of countries in the developing world

• settle as colonists or establish a colony (in)

• affectionate play (or foreplay without contact with the genital organs)

• To shift, move aside, or scoot over.

• To crouch.

• Any of a family of curves defined as the locus of points p, such that each p is on a line that passes through a given fixed point P and intersects a given curve, C, and the distance from p to the point of intersection with C is a specified constant (note that for nontrivial cases two such points p satisfy the criteria, and the resultant curve has two parts).

• the spatial property resulting from the arrangement of parts in relation to each other and to the whole

• musical creation

• The science and technology of generating and controlling photons, particularly in the visible and near infrared light spectrum