12-letter words containing st
- astrotourist — a person who pays to travel into space as a form of recreation
- astroturfing — a PR tactic used in politics and advertising in which actors are paid to display overt and apparently spontaneous grassroots support for a particular product, policy, or event
- at a stretch — with some difficulty; by making a special effort
- at all costs — If you say that something must be avoided at all costs, you are emphasizing that it must not be allowed to happen under any circumstances.
- at half-mast — If a flag is flying at half-mast, it is flying from the middle of the pole, not the top, to show respect and sorrow for someone who has just died.
- at long last — finally, after difficulty, delay, or irritation
- at the least — at the minimum
- at the worst — bad or ill in the highest, greatest, or most extreme degree: the worst person.
- atactostelic — Of or possessing an atactostele.
- atorvastatin — a statin, (C 33 H 34 FN 2 O 5) 2 ·Ca 3 H 2 O, used in the prevention and treatment of heart disease.
- audio system — integrated equipment for producing amplified sound, as in a hi-fi or a mobile disco, or as a public-address system on stage
- audiologists — Plural form of audiologist.
- austenitized — to form austenite in (a ferrous alloy) by heating.
- austin friar — one of the Hermits of St. Augustine.
- australasian — Australasian means belonging or relating to Australasia or to its people.
- australopith — (archaeology, anthropology, paleonotology) Of or pertaining to the extinct hominid primates, of the genus Australopithecus, from the Pleistocene period.
- austronesian — of or relating to Austronesia, its peoples, or their languages
- autistically — in an autistic manner or the manner of a person who has autism
- autodestruct — likely to or possessing the power to destroy or obliterate itself or its possessor
- automobilist — Driver; person who uses a motor vehicle such as car, van or truck.
- autotheistic — Self-worshiping; prideful in the extreme.
- aviculturist — A person who keeps and rears (breeds) birds.
- awe-stricken — filled with awe.
- babcock test — a test for determining the butterfat content of milk and milk products, conducted by adding sulfuric acid to a sample and then centrifuging it in a flask with a calibrated neck in which the liquefied fat collects.
- back stretch — the straight part of a race track opposite the part leading to the finish line.
- back-stabbed — to attempt to discredit (a person) by underhanded means, as innuendo, accusation, or the like.
- back-stopped — a wall, wire screen, or the like, serving to prevent a ball from going too far beyond the normal playing area.
- backstabbing — Backstabbing consists of unkind and disloyal actions or remarks that are likely to harm someone such as a friend or colleague.
- backstarting — a marketing technique in publishing, whereby new customers are sent back issues of magazines or journals as part of their subscription
- backstitches — Plural form of backstitch.
- backstopping — a wall, wire screen, or the like, serving to prevent a ball from going too far beyond the normal playing area.
- bacteriostat — any substance that arrests the growth or reproduction of bacteria but does not kill them
- badger state — any of various burrowing, carnivorous mammals of the family Mustelidae, as Taxidea taxus, of North America, and Meles meles, of Europe and Asia.
- bait casting — the act or technique of casting an artificial or natural lure attached to a silk or nylon line wound on a reel having a revolving spool, the rod used being shorter and less flexible than that used in fly casting.
- bait-casting — designating fishing equipment designed for use with live bait or artificial lures, in which the weight of the bait or lure pulls the line from a winch-type reel, as during casting or trolling
- ballast line — the level to which a vessel is immersed when in ballast.
- bandoneonist — One who plays the bandoneon.
- baptisteries — Plural form of baptistery.
- bar sinister — the condition, implication, or stigma of being of illegitimate birth
- baraesthesia — the ability to sense pressure
- barnstormers — Plural form of barnstormer.
- barnstorming — A barnstorming performance is full of energy and very exciting to watch.
- barristerial — pertaining to a barrister
- base station — a fixed transmitter that forms part of an otherwise mobile radio network
- bastard file — a file of the commercial grade of coarseness between coarse and second-cut.
- bastard wing — a tuft of feathers attached to the first digit of a bird, distinct from the wing feathers attached to the other digits and the ulna
- bastardizing — Present participle of bastardize.
- bastardsword — Alternative spelling of bastard sword.
- bastel house — (on the Anglo-Scottish border) a partly fortified house, usually with a vaulted ground floor.
- bastille day — (in France) an annual holiday on July 14, commemorating the fall of the Bastille