8-letter words containing st
- boastful — If someone is boastful, they talk too proudly about something that they have done or that they own.
- boasting — to speak with exaggeration and excessive pride, especially about oneself.
- bonavist — hyacinth bean.
- bongoist — a player of the bongos
- bookrest — a cradle for holding an open book so that it may be read comfortably
- bootlast — a foot-shaped piece of wood or metal inserted into a boot or shoe to help it keep its shape
- bostangi — a Turkish imperial guard
- bosthoon — a boor
- botanist — A botanist is a scientist who studies plants.
- box step — a basic step in ballroom dancing, in which the feet move in the form of a rectangle
- breasted — having a breast.
- brewster — Sir David. 1781–1868, Scottish physicist, noted for his studies of the polarization of light
- briefest — lasting or taking a short time; of short duration: a brief walk; a brief stay in the country.
- bristled — one of the short, stiff, coarse hairs of certain animals, especially hogs, used extensively in making brushes.
- bristols — a woman's breasts
- broadest — of great breadth: The river was too broad to swim across.
- brownist — a person who supported the principles of church government advocated by Robert Browne and adopted in modified form by the Independents or Congregationalists
- buckfast — a fortified tonic wine
- buckstay — a beam held by stays to the exterior of a masonry wall, as that of a furnace or boiler, to keep the adjacent areas of the wall from being forced outward.
- budapest — the capital of Hungary, on the River Danube: formed in 1873 from the towns of Buda and Pest. Traditionally Buda, the old Magyar capital, was the administrative and Pest the trade centre: suffered severely in the Russian siege of 1945 and in the unsuccessful revolt against the Communist regime (1956). Pop: 1 719 342 (2003 est)
- buddhist — A Buddhist is a person whose religion is Buddhism.
- bulldust — fine dust
- bulliest — a blustering, quarrelsome, overbearing person who habitually badgers and intimidates smaller or weaker people.
- bumsters — trousers cut so that the top lies just above the cleft of the buttocks
- burinist — a person who works with a burin
- bursting — If a place is bursting with people or things, it is full of them.
- burstone — any of various siliceous rocks used for millstones.
- bus stop — A bus stop is a place on a road where buses stop to let passengers on and off.
- bust ass — Informal. to burst. to go bankrupt. to collapse from the strain of making a supreme effort: She was determined to make straight A's or bust.
- bust out — escape from somewhere
- bustline — the shape or size of a woman's bust
- bustling — to move or act with a great show of energy (often followed by about): He bustled about cooking breakfast.
- butchest — butch haircut.
- bystreet — an obscure or secondary street
- cabalist — a member of a cabal.
- cabestro — a halter made from horsehair
- cabstand — a taxi rank
- cadaster — an official register showing details of ownership, boundaries, and value of real property in a district, made for taxation purposes
- cadastre — public record of the extent, value, and ownership of land within a district for purposes of taxation
- cafestol — A diterpene molecule present in coffee.
- callisto — a nymph who attracted the love of Zeus and was changed into a bear by Hera. Zeus then set her in the sky as the constellation Ursa Major
- calorist — a believer in caloric theory
- cambists — Plural form of cambist.
- campiest — of, relating to, or characterized by camp: a campy send-up of romantic operetta.
- camstone — a limestone used for whitening stone doorsteps and hearths
- canastas — Plural form of canasta.
- canaster — coarsely broken dried tobacco leaves
- canistel — an evergreen tree, Pouteria campechiana, that is native to Central America and the West Indies
- canister — A canister is a strong metal container. It is used to hold gases or chemical substances.
- canoeist — A canoeist is someone who is skilled at racing and performing tests of skill in a canoe.