9-letter words containing st
- barrister — In England and Wales, a barrister is a lawyer who represents clients in the higher courts of law. Compare solicitor.
- basestock — Refined petroleum oil with no additives.
- bastardly — of no value; worthless.
- bastardry — malicious or cruel behaviour
- bastilles — Plural form of bastille.
- bastinade — bastinado.
- bastinado — punishment or torture in which the soles of the feet are beaten with a stick
- bastioned — Furnished with a bastion; having bastions.
- bay state — Massachusetts
- bead test — a laboratory test used in the identification of certain metals or metal constituents, in which a bead covered with the material is heated in a flame and cooled to observe its properties.
- beadblast — a jet of small glass beads blown from a nozzle under air or steam pressure
- beanfeast — A beanfeast is a party or other social event.
- beanstalk — the stem of a bean plant
- beasthood — the state of beasts, the condition of being a beast
- beastings — beestings
- beastlier — Comparative form of beastly.
- beastlike — resembling a beast
- beatenest — most remarkable or unusual: This is the beatinest town I ever did see.
- beatinest — most remarkable or unusual: This is the beatinest town I ever did see.
- bechstein — Karl. 1826–1900, German piano maker; founder (1853) of the Bechstein company of piano manufacturers in Berlin
- bed stone — the fixed lower member of a pair of millstones. Compare runner (def 12).
- bed-stand — night table.
- bedsteads — Plural form of bedstead.
- bedstraws — Plural form of bedstraw.
- bee-sting — a sting from a bee
- bee-stung — (of the lips) pouting and sensuous
- beechmast — collective term for beech nuts, esp when lying on the ground
- beefsteak — Beefsteak is steak.
- beer bust — an occasion on which a lot of beer is drunk
- beestings — the first milk secreted by the mammary glands of a cow or similar animal immediately after giving birth; colostrum
- behmenist — Boehmenist.
- bemonster — to treat as a monster
- benchrest — a tablelike support for a target rifle used in target practice.
- beplaster — to cover in thick plaster
- bergstrom — Sune (ˈsʊnə). 1916–2004, Swedish biochemist; shared the Nobel prize for medicine and physiology (1982) for work on prostaglandin
- bernstein — Leonard. 1918–90, US conductor and composer, whose works include The Age of Anxiety (1949), the score of the musical West Side Story (1957), and Mass (1971)
- best girl — one's sweetheart
- best-ball — of, relating to, or denoting a match in which one player competes against the best individual totals of two or more other players at each hole
- best-case — being the best that can possibly be expected; optimal
- bestially — of, relating to, or having the form of a beast: the belief that a person could assume bestial form after death; the bestial signs of the zodiac.
- bestirred — to stir up; rouse to action (often used reflexively): She bestirred herself at the first light of morning.
- beta test — beta testing
- beta-test — a test of a new or modified piece of computer software by customers who volunteer to do so
- bialystok — a city in E Poland.
- białystok — a city in E Poland: belonged to Prussia (1795–1807) and to Russia (1807–1919). Pop: 315 000 (2005 est)
- biblicist — a biblical scholar
- bicoastal — Someone or something that is bicoastal lives or occurs on both the east coast and the west coast of the U.S.
- bicyclist — A bicyclist is someone who enjoys cycling.
- bierstadt — Albert1830-1902; U.S. painter, born in Germany
- bierstube — a tavern or café offering German or German-style atmosphere, décor, food, beer, etc.