11-letter words containing st
- bastinadoes — Plural form of bastinado.
- bastnaesite — a rare yellow to reddish-brown mineral consisting of a carbonate of fluorine and several lanthanide metals. It occurs in association with zinc and is a source of the lanthanides. Formula: LaFCO3
- battle star — a small star worn on a campaign ribbon, awarded to a member of the armed forces for participation in a particular battle or campaign
- battologist — wearisome repetition of words in speaking or writing.
- be my guest — If you say be my guest to someone, you are giving them permission to do something.
- beach aster — a seaside plant, Erigeron glaucus, of the temperate western coast of North America, having solitary, violet- or lilac-colored flowers.
- beachmaster — a bull fur seal having its own territory in the breeding grounds.
- beastiality — Misspelling of bestiality.
- beastliness — of or like a beast; bestial.
- behaviorist — the theory or doctrine that human or animal psychology can be accurately studied only through the examination and analysis of objectively observable and quantifiable behavioral events, in contrast with subjective mental states.
- behind post — one of the smaller outer posts inside which the ball must be kicked to score a behind
- belowstairs — (formerly) at or in the basement of a large house, considered as the place where the servants live and work
- bendy straw — a drinking straw which is bent towards the top end
- best effort — (networking) A classification of low priority network traffic, used especially the Internet. Different kinds of traffic have different priorities. Videoconferencing and other types of real-time communication, for example, require a certain minimum guaranteed bandwidth and latency and so must be given a high priority. Electronic mail, on the other hand, can tolerate an arbitrarily long delay and is classified as a "best-effort" service.
- best friend — a dearest friend
- best of all — You use best of all to indicate that what you are about to mention is the thing that you prefer or that has most advantages out of all the things you have mentioned.
- best seller — A best seller is a book of which a lot of copies have been sold.
- bestridable — capable of being bestridden
- bible story — a story from the Bible
- biblioclast — One who destroys books, especially the Bible.
- bimetallist — the use of two metals, ordinarily gold and silver, at a fixed relative value, as the monetary standard.
- binary star — a double star system comprising two stars orbiting around their common centre of mass. A visual binary can be seen through a telescope. A spectroscopic binary can only be observed by the spectroscopic Doppler shift as each star moves towards or away from the earth
- bindlestiff — a migratory worker; hobo
- biocatalyst — a chemical, esp an enzyme, that initiates or increases the rate of a biochemical reaction
- bioethicist — a field of study concerned with the ethics and philosophical implications of certain biological and medical procedures, technologies, and treatments, as organ transplants, genetic engineering, and care of the terminally ill.
- bioindustry — an industry that makes use of biotechnology and other advanced life science methodologies in the creation or alteration of life forms or processes
- biologistic — relating to biologism
- bird strike — a collision of an aircraft with a bird
- bird's nest — the nest of a bird
- bird's-nest — nest (def 1).
- birtwhistle — Harrison, born 1934, English composer.
- black frost — a frost without snow or rime that is severe enough to blacken vegetation
- black stump — a long way off
- blacklister — someone who blacklists
- blastematic — blastemal
- blastochyle — the fluid in a blastocoel
- blastocoele — the segmentation cavity of a developing ovum or of the blastula
- blastospore — a spore formed by budding, as in certain fungi
- blastostyle — the central rodlike portion of a gonangium, upon which buds that develop into medusae are formed.
- blind trust — A blind trust is a financial arrangement in which someone's investments are managed without the person knowing where the money is invested. Blind trusts are used especially by people such as members of parliament, so that they cannot be accused of using their position to make money unfairly.
- blind-stamp — to emboss or impress (the cover or spine of a book) without using ink or foil.
- blindstorey — a storey without windows, such as a gallery in a Gothic church
- blister gas — a poison gas that burns or blisters the tissues of the body; vesicant.
- blockbuster — A blockbuster is a film or book that is very popular and successful, usually because it is very exciting.
- bloodstream — Your bloodstream is the blood that flows around your body.
- blue schist — a metamorphic rock formed under conditions of high pressure and relatively low temperature
- blue streak — anything regarded as like a streak of lightning in speed, vividness, etc.
- bonapartist — an adherent of the Bonapartes or their policies.
- bonus stock — shares of stock, usually common, given by a corporation as a bonus with the purchase of another class of security
- boost phase — the portion of the flight of a ballistic missile or spacecraft during which the booster and sustainer engines operate to bring it near or to peak velocity.