8-letter words containing st
- bastions — Plural form of bastion.
- bastogne — a town in SE Belgium: of strategic importance to Allied defences during the Battle of the Bulge; besieged by the Germans during the winter of 1944–45. Pop: 14 070 (2004 est)
- bathurst — a town in SE Australia, in E New South Wales: scene of a gold rush in 1851. Pop: 27 036 (2001)
- be toast — If someone is toast, you mean that they are certain to be defeated or destroyed.
- beastial — Misspelling of bestial.
- beasties — Plural form of beastie.
- beastily — in the manner of a beast
- bed rest — a period of resting in bed
- bed-rest — a prolonged rest in bed, as in the treatment of an illness.
- bedposts — one of the upright supports of a bedstead.
- bedstand — a bedside table
- bedstead — A bedstead is the metal or wooden frame of an old-fashioned bed.
- bedstone — A large, heavy, flat stone used to support a column or similar member, or as the lower stone of an oil mill.
- bedstraw — any of numerous rubiaceous plants of the genus Galium, which have small white or yellow flowers and prickly or hairy fruits: some species formerly used as straw for beds as they are aromatic when dry
- beerfest — a beer festival
- behistun — a village in W Iran by the ancient road from Ecbatana to Babylon. On a nearby cliff is an inscription by Darius in Old Persian, Elamite, and Babylonian describing his enthronement
- belostok — a city in E Poland.
- bepester — to pester persistently
- best boy — the assistant to the senior electrician or to the key grip in a film crew
- best end — the end of the neck of lamb, pork, etc, nearest to the ribs
- best fit — (algorithm) A resource allocation scheme (usually for memory). Best Fit allocates resources in a way that optimises some parameter. Alternative schemes such as first fit or random allocation are likely to be quicker but sub-optimal in use of resources. For example, when allocating a new block of memory from a pool of free blocks (a heap), one might choose the smallest space which is big enough. This would leave larger spaces free to satisfy larger requests and reduce fragmentation of the remaining free space.
- best man — The best man at a wedding is the man who assists the bridegroom.
- bestiary — a moralizing medieval collection of descriptions (and often illustrations) of real and mythical animals
- bestowal — to present as a gift; give; confer (usually followed by on or upon): The trophy was bestowed upon the winner.
- bestowed — to present as a gift; give; confer (usually followed by on or upon): The trophy was bestowed upon the winner.
- bestreak — to streak
- bestride — To bestride something means to be the most powerful and important person or thing in it.
- bestrode — to get or be astride of; have or place the legs on both sides of.
- bigamist — A bigamist is a person who commits the crime of marrying someone when they are already legally married to someone else.
- bigstick — of, or relating to, irresistible military strength
- bimester — a period of two months
- bioplast — a very small unit of bioplasm
- bistable — having two stable states
- bistoury — a long surgical knife with a narrow blade
- bitstock — the handle or stock of a tool into which a drilling bit is fixed
- blackest — lacking hue and brightness; absorbing light without reflecting any of the rays composing it.
- blandest — pleasantly gentle or agreeable: a bland, affable manner.
- blastema — a mass of undifferentiated animal cells that will develop into an organ or tissue: present at the site of regeneration of a lost part
- blasting — a distortion of sound caused by overloading certain components of a radio system
- blastoff — Blastoff is the moment when a rocket leaves the ground and rises into the air to begin a journey into space.
- blastoid — a type of extinct echinoderm, which can be found in fossil form in regions of North America
- blastoma — a tumour composed of embryonic tissue that has not yet developed a specialized function
- blastula — an early form of an animal embryo that develops from a morula, consisting of a sphere of cells with a central cavity
- bleakest — bare, desolate, and often windswept: a bleak plain.
- blistery — having blisters, as paint or glass.
- blogpost — A blogpost is a piece of writing that forms part of a regular blog.
- blondest — (of a woman or girl) having fair hair and usually fair skin and light eyes.
- bluestem — a name applied to a number of North American prairie grasses
- blurbist — a person who writes blurbs
- blustery — Blustery weather is rough, windy, and often rainy, with the wind often changing in strength or direction.