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9-letter words containing st

  • lamp-post — A lamp-post is a tall metal or concrete pole that is fixed beside a road and has a light at the top.
  • lampadist — (in ancient Greece) a competitor in a race run by young men with torches
  • lampposts — Plural form of lamppost.
  • lampstand — a support for a light bulb
  • lancaster — the English royal family that reigned 1399–1461, descended from John of Gaunt (Duke of Lancaster), and that included Henry IV, Henry V, and Henry VI. Compare York (def 1).
  • landdrost — the chief magistrate of a district
  • landsting — (formerly) the upper house of the Danish parliament.
  • landsturm — a general draft of people in time of war.
  • langouste — spiny lobster.
  • lankester — Sir Edwin Ray, 1847–1929, English zoologist and writer.
  • lantastic — (networking, product)   A trademarked name for numerous products of Artisoft, Inc..
  • lapstrake — clinker-built (def 2).
  • lapstreak — Alternative form of lapstrake.
  • larcenist — a person who commits larceny.
  • last gasp — a sudden, short intake of breath, as in shock or surprise.
  • last mile — the distance walked by a condemned person from his or her cell to the place of execution.
  • last name — surname (def 1).
  • last post — a position of duty, employment, or trust to which one is assigned or appointed: a diplomatic post.
  • last word — the closing remark or comment, as in an argument: By the rules of debate she would have the last word.
  • last-born — last in order of birth; youngest.
  • last-gasp — a sudden, short intake of breath, as in shock or surprise.
  • lastingly — continuing or enduring a long time; permanent; durable: a lasting friendship.
  • lay waste — to consume, spend, or employ uselessly or without adequate return; use to no avail or profit; squander: to waste money; to waste words.
  • lazy list — A list which is built using a non-strict constructor. Any head or tail of the list may be an unevaluated closure. Also known as streams since they may be used to carry a sequence of values from the output of one function to an input of another. See also Lazy evaluation.
  • leaf rust — a disease, especially of cereals and other grasses, characterized by rust-colored pustules of spores on the affected leaf blades and sheaths and caused by any of several rust fungi.
  • leafstalk — petiole (def 1).
  • leastways — at least; at any rate; leastwise.
  • leastwise — at least; at any rate.
  • leg stump — either of the outside stumps at which the batsman takes his position.
  • legendist — a person who writes or compiles legends.
  • leicester — 1st Earl of, Robert Dudley.
  • leucistic — having reduced pigmentation in the skin but normally coloured eyes
  • lichenist — a person who studies lichenology
  • life list — a list of species sighted and identified by a bird watcher or naturalist over a lifetime.
  • life vest — life jacket.
  • lifestyle — the habits, attitudes, tastes, moral standards, economic level, etc., that together constitute the mode of living of an individual or group.
  • lightfast — not affected or faded by light, especially sunlight; colorfast when exposed to light.
  • ligustrum — any of various shrubs or trees belonging to the genus Ligustrum, of the olive family, comprising the privets.
  • likeliest — probably or apparently destined (usually followed by an infinitive): something not likely to happen.
  • limestone — a sedimentary rock consisting predominantly of calcium carbonate, varieties of which are formed from the skeletons of marine microorganisms and coral: used as a building stone and in the manufacture of lime.
  • lincrusta — a wallpaper having a hard embossed surface
  • linguists — Plural form of linguist.
  • linstocks — Plural form of linstock.
  • lipoplast — a small particle in plant cytoplasm, esp that of seeds, in which fat is stored
  • lipsticks — Plural form of lipstick.
  • listen in — to give attention with the ear; attend closely for the purpose of hearing; give ear.
  • listen up — pay attention, listen
  • listen-in — to give attention with the ear; attend closely for the purpose of hearing; give ear.
  • listeners — Plural form of listener.
  • listeneth — Archaic third-person singular form of listen.
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