8-letter words containing st
- deskfast — breakfast eaten at one's desk at work
- desterro — former name of Florianópolis.
- destined — If something is destined to happen or if someone is destined to behave in a particular way, that thing seems certain to happen or be done.
- destines — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of destine.
- destress — importance attached to a thing: to lay stress upon good manners. Synonyms: significance, meaning, emphasis, consequence; weight, value, worth.
- destrier — a war horse; charger
- destroys — Put an end to the existence of (something) by damaging or attacking it.
- destruct — to destroy (one's own missile or rocket) for safety
- detested — to feel abhorrence of; hate; dislike intensely.
- detester — Someone who detests, a hater.
- devasted — Simple past tense and past participle of devast.
- diarists — Plural form of diarist.
- diastase — any of a group of enzymes that hydrolyse starch to maltose. They are present in germinated barley and in the pancreas
- diastema — an abnormal space, fissure, or cleft in a bodily organ or part
- diastole — the dilatation of the chambers of the heart that follows each contraction, during which they refill with blood
- diastyle — having columns about three diameters apart
- die stem — the South African national anthem until 1991, when part of it was incorporated into the current anthem, Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika
- die-cast — formed by die casting.
- diestock — a frame for holding a number of standard threaded dies for cutting screw threads.
- diestrus — (in female mammals) an interval of sexual inactivity between periods of estrus.
- digested — Simple past tense and past participle of digest.
- digester — a person or thing that digests.
- digestif — a drink of brandy, liqueur, etc., taken after a meal to aid the digestion.
- digestor — digester (def 2).
- dingiest — Superlative form of dingy.
- dinkiest — Superlative form of dinky.
- dipstick — a rod for measuring the depth of a liquid; especially, a thin metal rod used to measure the oil level in the crankcase of an automotive engine.
- dirigist — Of or pertaining to dirigisme.
- dirtiest — Superlative form of dirty.
- disaster — a calamitous event, especially one occurring suddenly and causing great loss of life, damage, or hardship, as a flood, airplane crash, or business failure.
- disgests — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disgest.
- disgusts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disgust.
- distally — situated away from the point of origin or attachment, as of a limb or bone; terminal. Compare proximal.
- distance — the extent or amount of space between two things, points, lines, etc.
- distaste — dislike; disinclination.
- distends — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of distend.
- disthene — (mineral) Kyanite.
- distills — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of distill.
- distinct — distinguished as not being the same; not identical; separate (sometimes followed by from): His private and public lives are distinct.
- distopia — Misspelling of dystopia.
- distorts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of distort.
- distract — to draw away or divert, as the mind or attention: The music distracted him from his work.
- distrail — dissipation trail.
- distrain — to constrain by seizing and holding goods, etc., in pledge for rent, damages, etc., or in order to obtain satisfaction of a claim.
- distrait — inattentive because of distracting worries, fears, etc.; absent-minded.
- distress — great pain, anxiety, or sorrow; acute physical or mental suffering; affliction; trouble.
- distrest — Obsolete form of distressed.
- district — a division of territory, as of a country, state, or county, marked off for administrative, electoral, or other purposes.
- distrust — to regard with doubt or suspicion; have no trust in.
- disturbs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disturb.