Words That End With: OSSES

• A thread used to clean the gaps between the teeth.

• Raw silk fibres.

• The fibres covering a corncob etc.; the loose downy or silky material inside the husks of certain plants, such as beans.

• Any thread-like material having parallel strands that are not spun or wound around each other.

• Spun sugar or cotton candy, especially in the phrase "candy floss".

• A body feather of an ostrich.

• A dance move in which the dancer repeatedly swings their arms, with clenched fists, from the back of their body to the front, on each side.

• A small stream of water.

• Fluid glass floating on iron in the puddling furnace, produced by the vitrification of oxides and earths which are present.

• To clean the area between the teeth using floss.

• To show off, especially by exhibiting one's wealth or talent.

• To perform the floss dance move.

• Waterfall (permanent flow of water over the edge of a cliff).

• A pit, groove, cavity, or depression.

• A long, narrow, shallow depression on the body of an extraterrestrial body, such as a planet or moon.

• A carnivorous mammal endemic to Madagascar, Cryptoprocta ferox.

• A ditch or moat.

• a long racket with a triangular frame; used in playing lacrosse

• before any deductions

• twelve dozen

• the entire amount of income before any deductions are made

• lacking fine distinctions or detail

• repellently fat

• visible to the naked eye (especially of rocks and anatomical features)

• without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers

• conspicuously and tastelessly indecent

• conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible

• earn before taxes, expenses, etc.

• a person who exercises control over workers

• a person responsible for hiring workers

• a person who exercises control and makes decisions

• a leader in a political party who controls votes and dictates appointments

• a circular rounded projection or protuberance

• exceptionally good

• raise in a relief

• a temporary police force

• an explanation or definition of an obscure word in a text

• an alphabetical list of technical terms in some specialized field of knowledge; usually published as an appendix to a text on that field

• the property of being smooth and shiny

• an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading

• give a shine or gloss to, usually by rubbing

• provide interlinear explanations for words or phrases

• provide an interlinear translation of a word or phrase

• give a deceptive explanation or excuse for

• worthless or dangerous material that should be removed

• the scum formed by oxidation at the surface of molten metals