10-letter words containing st
- air castle — a fanciful or impractical notion or hope; daydream.
- air pistol — An air pistol is a small gun which is fired by means of air pressure.
- air strike — An air strike is an attack by military aircraft in which bombs are dropped. This expression is usually used by the country or group that is carrying out the attack.
- air system — a system of refrigeration utilizing air as a coolant.
- airstreams — Plural form of airstream.
- airstrikes — Plural form of airstrike.
- aisi steel — any steel made to conform to the standard chemical compositions generally accepted by the U.S. steel industry and its principal customers.
- alabastron — a jar characteristically having an elongated shape, narrow neck, flat-rimmed mouth, and rounded base requiring a stand or support, chiefly used for fragrant ointments.
- alabastrum — alabastron.
- albinistic — Of or pertaining to albinism.
- alchemists — Plural form of alchemist.
- alchymists — Plural form of alchymist.
- alcoranist — a person who believes in an absolutely literal interpretation of the Koran.
- algebraist — an expert in algebra.
- algologist — the branch of botany dealing with algae.
- alkahestic — of or relating to the alkahest
- allegorist — a person who writes allegories
- allenstein — German name of Olsztyn.
- allergists — Plural form of allergist.
- alloplasty — implantation of a synthetic material to replace a diseased or damaged body tissue or organ.
- allostasis — The process by which the body responds to stressors in order to regain homeostasis.
- allostatic — Relating to allostasis.
- allosteric — of, relating to, or designating a function of an enzyme in which the structure and activity of the enzyme are modified by the binding of a metabolic molecule
- alpenstock — an early form of ice axe, consisting of a stout stick with an iron tip and sometimes having a pick and adze at the head, formerly used by mountain climbers
- alpestrine — (of plants) growing at high altitudes; subalpine
- alpha-test — an in-house test of a new or modified piece of computer software
- alta vista — (web) A website provided by Digital which features a very fast Web and Usenet search engine. As of April 1996 its word index is 33GB in size. AltaVista is currently (June 1996) the largest Web index, with 30 million pages from 225,000 servers, and three million articles from 14,000 Usenet news groups. It is accessed over 12 million times per weekday.
- altostrati — Plural form of altostratus.
- altruistic — If your behaviour or motives are altruistic, you show concern for the happiness and welfare of other people rather than for yourself.
- ambystomid — Also called mole salamander. any of various small- to moderate-sized salamanders of the genus Ambystoma, terrestrial or semiaquatic, inhabiting North America from New England to Florida and westward to Texas.
- ameloblast — a type of cell involved in forming dental enamel
- aminoplast — amino resin.
- amnestying — Present participle of amnesty.
- amphiaster — the structure that occurs in a cell undergoing mitosis, consisting of a spindle with an aster at each end
- amstelveen — city in W Netherlands: suburb of Amsterdam: pop. 74,000
- amyloplast — a non-pigmented granule in a plant cell which stores amylopectin
- anabaptist — a member of any of various 16th-century Protestant movements that rejected infant baptism, insisted that adults be rebaptized, and sought to establish Christian communism
- anaclastic — relating to refraction
- anacoustic — unable to support the propagation of sound; soundless
- anacrustic — Prosody. an unstressed syllable or syllable group that begins a line of verse but is not counted as part of the first foot.
- anamnestic — of or relating to anamnesis
- anaplastic — of or relating to anaplasia
- anarchists — Plural form of anarchist.
- anastigmat — a lens or system of lenses designed to be free of astigmatism
- anastomose — to join (two parts of a blood vessel, etc) by anastomosis
- anastrophe — reversal of the usual order of the parts of a sentence; inversion (Ex.: “Came the dawn”)
- anatomists — Plural form of anatomist.
- ancestress — a female ancestor (sense 1) ancestor (sense 4)
- ancestries — Plural form of ancestry.
- anecdotist — a person who tells or collects anecdotes