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.
- dunstable — John, 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.