10-letter words containing ster
- coasterize — to ruin (a CD), esp while attempting to burn music, etc on to it, thus rendering it useful only as a drinks coaster
- colchester — a town in E England, in NE Essex; university (1964). Pop: 104 390 (2001)
- composters — Plural form of composter.
- contesters — Plural form of contester.
- cropduster — an aeroplane used to spray crops with fertilizer or insecticide
- cub master — a man who organizes a pack of cub scouts
- defrosters — Plural form of defroster.
- deregister — to remove (oneself, a car, etc) from a register
- divemaster — a professional qualified to oversee scuba diving operations, as in salvage work or at a resort, and responsible for procedures and safety, monitoring the whereabouts of divers underwater or at the surface, and making rescues when necessary.
- dockmaster — a person who supervises the dry-docking of ships.
- doorbuster — Informal. a retail item that is heavily discounted for a very limited time in order to draw customers to the store. the price of such an item.
- dorchester — a town in S Dorsetshire, in S England, on the Frome River: named Casterbridge in Thomas Hardy's novels.
- easter day — the Sunday on which the festival of Easter is celebrated
- easter egg — a chicken egg that is dyed and often given a figure or design, or an imitation of such an egg, as an egg-shaped candy or chocolate, used at Easter as a gift or decoration.
- easterlies — moving, directed, or situated toward the east: an easterly course.
- easterling — a native of a country lying to the east, especially a merchant from the Baltic.
- eastermost — (archaic) easternmost.
- easterners — Plural form of easterner.
- easternize — (usually initial capital letter) to influence with ideas, customs, etc., characteristic of eastern Asia.
- eastertide — Easter time.
- encloister — to imprison or cloister
- enfestered — festered
- enregister — to put on record
- episternal — Of or pertaining to the episternum.
- episternum — (anatomy) The upper segment of the sternum.
- ergosterol — (steroid hormone, mycology) The steroid precursor of vitamin D2. It is found in cell membranes of fungi, and is their functional equivalent of cholesterol. It is also found in the membranes of some protists.
- esterified — Simple past tense and past participle of esterify.
- faster lex — (language) (FLEX) A reimplementation of the Lex scanner generator, by Vern Paxson <[email protected]>. FTP flex-2.3.8.tar.Z from a GNU archive site or ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov/pub/flex-2.4.3.tar.Z.
- filibuster — U.S. Politics. the use of irregular or obstructive tactics by a member of a legislative assembly to prevent the adoption of a measure generally favored or to force a decision against the will of the majority. an exceptionally long speech, as one lasting for a day or days, or a series of such speeches to accomplish this purpose. a member of a legislature who makes such a speech.
- finisterre — Cape, a headland in NW Spain: the westernmost point of Spain.
- firemaster — (Scotland) The chief of a fire brigade.
- flustering — Agitated, confusing.
- forecaster — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
- forsterite — the magnesium end member, Mg 2 SiO 4 , of the olivine group.
- foster son — a boy raised like one's own son, though not such by birth or adoption.
- fosterling — foster child.
- fosterment — The act of fostering or encouraging something.
- fourposter — a bed with four corner posts, as for supporting a canopy, curtains, etc.
- fraudsters — Plural form of fraudster.
- gangbuster — a law-enforcement officer who specializes in breaking up organized crime, often by forceful or sensational means.
- gangmaster — a person who recruits and manages temporary or migratory labourers, esp for seasonal agricultural work
- gasteropod — Gastropod.
- glistering — to glisten; glitter.
- gloucester — Duke of, Humphrey.
- harvesters — Plural form of harvester.
- headmaster — the person in charge of a private school.
- hectostere — a unit of capacity equal to 100 steres, or 131 cubic yards.
- hektostere — a unit of capacity equal to 100 steres, or 131 cubic yards.
- hipsterdom — The state of being a hipster.
- hipsterish — Like a hipster; (often pretentiously) trendy.