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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
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