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9-letter words containing st

  • distraint — the act of distraining; a distress.
  • distraite — (of a woman) inattentive because of distracting worries, fears, etc.; absent-minded.
  • districts — Plural form of district.
  • distrusts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of distrust.
  • disturbed — marked by symptoms of mental illness: a disturbed personality.
  • disturber — Someone or something that disturbs; a disrupter.
  • disturned — Simple past tense and past participle of disturn.
  • divesting — Present participle of divest.
  • divesture — the act of divesting.
  • dogmatist — a person who asserts his or her opinions in an unduly positive or arrogant manner; a dogmatic person.
  • dolostone — Rock consisting of dolomite.
  • domainist — (jargon)   /doh-mayn'ist/ 1. Said of a domain address (as opposed to a bang path) because the part to the right of the "@" specifies a nested series of "domains"; for example, [email protected] specifies the machine called snark in the subdomain called thyrsus within the top-level domain called com. See also big-endian. 2. Said of a site, mailer or routing program which knows how to handle domainist addresses. 3. Said of a person (especially a site admin) who prefers domain addressing, supports a domainist mailer, or proselytises for domainist addressing and disdains bang paths. This term is now (1993) semi-obsolete, as most sites have converted.
  • domestics — Plural form of domestic.
  • doncaster — a city in South Yorkshire, in N England.
  • doomsters — Plural form of doomster.
  • doorposts — Plural form of doorpost.
  • doorstead — the structure of a doorway.
  • doorsteps — Plural form of doorstep.
  • doorstone — a stone serving as the sill of a doorway.
  • doorstops — Plural form of doorstop.
  • dope test — test for drugs in body
  • dopesters — Plural form of dopester.
  • down east — New England.
  • downburst — a strong downward current of air from a cumulonimbus cloud, often associated with intense thunderstorms.
  • downstage — at or toward the front of the stage.
  • downstair — down the stairs.
  • downstate — the southern part of a U.S. state.
  • dragsters — Plural form of dragster.
  • dragstrip — a race course for drag racing
  • dramatist — a writer of dramas or dramatic poetry; playwright.
  • dreamiest — of the nature of or characteristic of dreams; visionary.
  • dreariest — Superlative form of dreary.
  • dripstone — Architecture. a stone molding used as a drip.
  • dropstone — an old name for stalactites
  • drug test — screening for traces of a substance
  • druggists — Plural form of druggist.
  • drugstore — the place of business of a druggist, usually also selling cosmetics, stationery, toothpaste, mouthwash, cigarettes, etc., and sometimes soft drinks and light meals.
  • drumstick — a stick for beating a drum.
  • dry steam — steam that does not contain droplets of water
  • dry stock — cattle that are raised for meat
  • dry-stone — (of a wall) made without mortar
  • dryasdust — a dull, pedantic person
  • dualistic — of, relating to, or of the nature of dualism.
  • dumpsters — Plural form of dumpster.
  • dunstableJohn, c1390–1453, English composer.
  • duotheist — A person who adheres to duotheism.
  • duricrust — a hard crust that forms on or in soil in semiarid climates owing to cementation of soil particles. Compare caliche, hardpan (defs 1, 2).
  • dust ball — Chiefly Northern and North Midland U.S. a ball or roll of dust and lint that accumulates indoors, as in corners or under furniture.
  • dust bath — the action of a bird of driving dust into its feathers, which may dislodge parasites
  • dust bowl — the region in the S central U.S. that suffered from dust storms in the 1930s.
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