9-letter words containing st
- crowsteps — Plural form of crowstep.
- cruellest — Superlative form of cruel.
- crumbiest — Superlative form of crumby.
- crummiest — Superlative form of crummy.
- crustacea — a collective term for members of the Crustacea class of (mainly aquatic) mandibulate arthropods, characterized by their usually chitinous exoskeletons
- crustiest — having a crisp or thick crust: a loaf of crusty French bread.
- crustless — without a crust or crusts
- cryostats — Plural form of cryostat.
- crystall- — crystallo-
- culturist — a person engaged in the culture of plants or animals
- curbstone — A curbstone is one of the stones that form a curb.
- curialist — a member or supporter of the papal curia
- custodial — Custodial means relating to keeping people in prison.
- custodian — The custodian of an official building, a companies' assets, or something else valuable is the person who is officially in charge of it.
- custodier — a custodian
- custodies — Plural form of custody.
- customary — Customary is used to describe things that people usually do in a particular society or in particular circumstances.
- customers — A person or organization that buys goods or services from a store or business.
- customise — to modify or build according to individual or personal specifications or preference: to customize an automobile.
- customize — If you customize something, you change its appearance or features to suit your tastes or needs.
- custumary — Obsolete form of customary.
- cut stone — a stone or stonework dressed to a relatively fine finish with tools other than hammers.
- cybercast — (Internet) A broadcast of audiovisual material over the Internet.
- cymbalist — A musician who plays the cymbals.
- cystidean — any one of the order of fossil echinoderms Cystidea
- cystidium — (in certain basidiomycetous fungi) one of the large, inflated, sterile cells growing between the basidia and usually projecting beyond them.
- cystiform — resembling a cyst
- cystocarp — a reproductive body in red algae, developed after fertilization and consisting of filaments bearing carpospores
- cystocele — a hernia of the urinary bladder, esp one protruding into the vagina
- cystogram — A diagnostic image produced by cystography.
- cystolith — a knoblike deposit of calcium carbonate in the epidermal cells of such plants as the stinging nettle
- cystotomy — surgical incision into the gall bladder or urinary bladder
- cytoplast — the intact cytoplasm of a single cell
- cytostome — the mouth of a protozoan.
- dactylist — someone who writes poetry in dactyls
- dadaistic — the style and techniques of a group of artists, writers, etc., of the early 20th century who exploited accidental and incongruous effects in their work and who programmatically challenged established canons of art, thought, morality, etc.
- daghestan — a constituent republic of S Russia, on the Caspian Sea: annexed from Persia in 1813; rich mineral resources. Capital: Makhachkala. Pop: 2 584 200 (2002). Area: 50 278 sq km (19 416 sq miles)
- daintiest — Superlative form of dainty.
- damnedest — If you say that something is the damnedest thing, you are emphasizing that it is surprising or odd.
- dark star — an invisible star known to exist only from observation of its radio, infrared, or other spectrum or of its gravitational effect, such as an invisible component of a binary or multiple star
- darmstadt — an industrial city in central Germany, in Hesse: former capital of the grand duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt (1567–1945). Pop: 139 698 (2003 est)
- darnedest — (euphemistic) See damnedest.
- darwinist — the Darwinian theory that species originate by descent, with variation, from parent forms, through the natural selection of those individuals best adapted for the reproductive success of their kind.
- dastardly — If you describe an action as dastardly, you mean it is wicked and intended to hurt someone.
- datastage — (database, tool) A tool set for designing, developing, and running applications that populate one or more tables in a data warehouse or data mart.
- de forest — Lee. 1873–1961, US inventor of telegraphic, telephonic, and radio equipment: patented the first triode valve (1907)
- de-stress — If you de-stress or if something de-stresses you, you do something that helps you to relax.
- deadliest — causing or tending to cause death; fatal; lethal: a deadly poison.
- deadstick — To land an aircraft without power.
- deadstock — the merchandise or commodities of a shop, etc, that is unsold and generating no income