9-letter words containing st
- jonestown — a former settlement in N Guyana, NW of Georgetown: site of agricultural commune of an American religious cult called the People's Temple; mass suicide and murder 1978.
- joy-stick — Informal. the control stick of an airplane, tank, or other vehicle.
- joysticks — Plural form of joystick.
- judaistic — an adherent or supporter of Judaism.
- jumpstart — Also, jump. Automotive. the starting of an internal-combustion engine that has a discharged or weak battery by means of booster cables.
- junglists — Plural form of junglist.
- juristics — The theory of law, or its study.
- justiciar — a high judicial officer in medieval England.
- justicoat — justaucorps.
- justified — to show (an act, claim, statement, etc.) to be just or right: The end does not always justify the means.
- justifier — (chiefly, philosophy) One who, or that which, justifies (some belief or action).
- justifies — to show (an act, claim, statement, etc.) to be just or right: The end does not always justify the means.
- justinian — (Flavius Anicius Justinianus"Justinian the Great") a.d. 483–565, Byzantine emperor 527–565.
- k&r style — (programming) An ugly, obsolete, deprecated source code indent style that looks like this: if (cond) { } The basic indent is eight spaces (or one tab) per level; less commonly four. It is named after Kernighan & Ritchie because the examples in K&R are formatted this way. It is also called "kernel style" (because the Unix kernel was written in it) or Egyptian brackets. This style was popular when programmers worked on small displays, or when printing code on paper, becuase it saves vertical space. It should be avoided because the opening brace is easy to miss at the end of a long condition in an "if" or "while" statement and it makes it hard to pair up braces.
- kahn test — a test for syphilis based on the formation of a precipitate in a mixture of serum and antigen.
- karateist — A person who does karate.
- keep step — to remain walking, marching, dancing, etc, in unison or in a specified rhythm
- kerbstone — one of the stones, or a range of stones, forming a curb, as along a street.
- key stage — any one of four broad age-group divisions (5–7; 7–11; 11–14; 14–16) to which each level of the National Curriculum applies
- keystoner — a native or inhabitant of Pennsylvania (used as a nickname).
- keystones — Plural form of keystone.
- keystream — (cryptography) A stream of random or pseudorandom characters that are combined with the plaintext to produce a ciphertext.
- keystroke — one stroke of any key on a machine operated by a keyboard, as a typewriter, computer terminal, or Linotype: I can do 3000 keystrokes an hour.
- khuzistan — a province in SW Iran, on the Persian Gulf. About 35,000 sq. mi. (90,650 sq. km). Capital: Ahwaz.
- kickstand — a device for supporting a bicycle or motorcycle when not in use, pivoted to the rear axle in such a way that it can be kicked down below the rear wheel.
- kickstart — a starter, as of a motorcycle, that operates by a downward kick on a pedal.
- kid stuff — something appropriate only for children.
- kidstakes — pretense or nonsense.
- kindliest — Superlative form of kindly.
- king post — a structural member running vertically between the apex and base of a triangular roof truss.
- kingstown — an island state in the S Windward Islands, in the SE West Indies comprising St. Vincent island and the N Grenadines: gained independence 1979. 150 sq. mi. (389 sq. km). Capital: Kingstown.
- klinostat — a rotating and tilting plant-holder used for studying and experimenting with plant growth
- klopstock — Friedrich Gottlieb [free-drikh gawt-leep] /ˈfri drɪx ˈgɔt lip/ (Show IPA), 1724–1803, German poet.
- klystrons — Plural form of klystron.
- kniferest — something upon which to rest a knife when it is not being used.
- knobstick — A stick with a rounded knob at the end.
- knottiest — Superlative form of knotty.
- know best — to be the best guide, authority, etc.
- kostunica — Vojislav (ˈvɒjɪslæf). born 1944, Serbian politician; president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (2000–03); prime minister of Serbia and Montenegro (2004–06); prime minister of Serbia (2006–08)
- kronstadt — a naval base in the NW Russian Federation in Europe, on an island in the Gulf of Finland: fortress founded 1710.
- kunstlied — an art song, especially as distinguished from a folk song.
- kurdistan — a mountain and plateau region in SE Turkey, NW Iran, and N Iraq: inhabited largely by Kurds. 74,000 sq. mi. (191,660 sq. km).
- labellist — a person who wears only clothes with fashionable brand names
- laborists — Plural form of laborist.
- labourist — a member or supporter of the Labour party.
- lace stay — that part of an Oxford shoe into which eyelets and laces are inserted.
- lactivist — a person, esp a woman, who advocates strongly the breast-feeding of children, and is opposed to bottle-feeding
- lakehurst — a borough in E New Jersey: naval air station; dirigible hangar.
- lambasted — to beat or whip severely.
- lambastes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lambaste.