5-letter words containing ST
Embark on an exploration of 5-letter words that contain the letter ST. This segment uncovers the diverse range of words that incorporate ST within this specific length, revealing the versatility and richness of language. Ideal for vocabulary enthusiasts and word-game aficionados.
| Word | Points | Definition | Sentence example |
|---|---|---|---|
| first | 8 | the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed at first of the bases in the infield (counting counterclockwise from home plate) | - |
| still | 5 | to a greater degree or extent; used with comparisons | an even (or still) more interesting problem |
| start | 5 | get off the ground | Who started this company? |
| stuff | 11 | informal terms for personal possessions | - |
| story | 8 | a record or narrative description of past events | a history of France |
| least | 5 | used to form the superlative | The garter snake is the least dangerous snake |
| stand | 6 | put up with something or somebody unpleasant | - |
| trust | 5 | complete confidence in a person or plan etc | the doctor-patient relationship is based on trust |
| state | 5 | indicate through a symbol, formula, etc. | - |
| stick | 11 | marijuana leaves rolled into a cigarette for smoking | - |
| store | 5 | an electronic memory device | - |
| study | 9 | a branch of knowledge | anthropology is the study of human beings |
| stuck | 11 | baffled | this problem has me completely stuck |
| taste | 5 | a strong liking | - |
| stage | 6 | plan, organize, and carry out (an event) | the neighboring tribe staged an invasion |
| waste | 8 | cause to grow thin or weak | - |
| steal | 5 | move stealthily | - |
| worst | 8 | defeat thoroughly | - |
| ghost | 9 | haunt like a ghost; pursue | - |
| stole | 5 | a wide scarf worn about their shoulders by women | - |
| stone | 5 | United States architect (1902-1978) | - |
| exist | 12 | support oneself | he could barely exist on such a low wage |
| style | 8 | designate by an identifying term | They styled their nation `The Confederate States' |
| guest | 6 | a visitor to whom hospitality is extended | - |
| stops | 7 | a gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in his hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card | - |
| storm | 7 | behave violently, as if in state of a great anger | - |
| chest | 10 | the front of the trunk from the neck to the abdomen | - |
| staff | 11 | (music) the system of five horizontal lines on which the musical notes are written | - |
| beast | 7 | a cruelly rapacious person | - |
| stood | 6 | - | - |
| toast | 5 | a drink in honor of or to the health of a person or event | - |
| nasty | 8 | offensive or even (of persons) malicious | in a nasty mood |
| steps | 7 | a flight of stairs or a flight of steps | - |
| coast | 7 | the act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it | the children lined up for a coast down the snowy slope |
| costs | 7 | pecuniary reimbursement to the winning party for the expenses of litigation | - |
| stock | 11 | the handle of a handgun or the butt end of a rifle or shotgun or part of the support of a machine gun or artillery gun | the rifle had been fitted with a special stock |
| stays | 8 | a woman's close-fitting foundation garment | - |
| steel | 5 | get ready for something difficult or unpleasant | - |
| strip | 7 | lay bare | - |
| blast | 7 | hit hard | - |
| stink | 9 | smell badly and offensively | - |
| stake | 9 | mark with a stake | stake out the path |
| stare | 5 | look at with fixed eyes | The students stared at the teacher with amazement |
| tasty | 8 | pleasing to the sense of taste | a tasty morsel |
| feast | 8 | an elaborate party (often outdoors) | - |
| burst | 7 | force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up | - |
| steak | 9 | a slice of meat cut from the fleshy part of an animal or large fish | - |
| twist | 8 | twist suddenly so as to sprain | The wrestler twisted his shoulder |
| stiff | 11 | very drunk | - |
| rusty | 8 | impaired in skill by neglect | - |
| roast | 5 | subject to laughter or ridicule | His former students roasted the professor at his 60th birthday |
| steam | 7 | clean by means of steaming | steam-clean the upholstered sofa |
| wrist | 8 | a joint between the distal end of the radius and the proximal row of carpal bones | - |
| stunt | 5 | a creature (especially a whale) that has been prevented from attaining full growth | - |
| stamp | 9 | walk heavily | - |
| pasta | 7 | shaped and dried dough made from flour and water and sometimes egg | - |
| waist | 8 | the narrowing of the body between the ribs and hips | - |
| quest | 14 | the act of searching for something | a quest for diamonds |
| sting | 6 | a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin | - |
| stove | 8 | a kitchen appliance used for cooking food | dinner was already on the stove |
| straw | 8 | spread by scattering ( | - |
| stain | 5 | an act that brings discredit to the person who does it | - |
| stall | 5 | postpone doing what one should be doing | - |
| stray | 8 | move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment | - |
| costa | 7 | any of the 12 pairs of curved arches of bone extending from the spine to or toward the sternum in humans (and similar bones in most vertebrates) | - |
| stack | 11 | a large tall chimney through which combustion gases and smoke can be evacuated | - |
| dusty | 9 | covered with a layer of dust | a dusty pile of books |
| strap | 7 | a band that goes over the shoulder and supports a garment or bag | - |
| stark | 9 | without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers | stark staring mad |
| stash | 8 | save up as for future use | - |
| crust | 7 | the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties | - |
| boost | 7 | an increase in cost | - |
| lists | 5 | - | - |
| steer | 5 | castrated bull | - |
| stern | 5 | of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect | a stern face |
| frost | 8 | ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside) | - |
| stool | 5 | have a bowel movement | - |
| haste | 8 | the act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner | in his haste to leave he forgot his book |
| midst | 8 | the location of something surrounded by other things | in the midst of the crowd |
| steep | 7 | greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation | - |
| paste | 7 | a tasty mixture to be spread on bread or crackers or used in preparing other dishes | - |
| hasty | 11 | done with very great haste and without due deliberation | hasty marriage seldom proveth well |
| heist | 8 | commit a burglary; enter and rob a dwelling | - |
| stale | 5 | lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new | stale news |
| stein | 5 | a mug intended for serving beer | - |
| caste | 7 | a social class separated from others by distinctions of hereditary rank or profession or wealth | - |
| moist | 7 | slightly wet | a moist breeze |
| stung | 6 | aroused to impatience or anger | - |
| vista | 8 | the visual percept of a region | - |
| misty | 10 | filled or abounding with fog or mist | - |
| stomp | 9 | walk heavily | The men stomped through the snow in their heavy boots |
| stalk | 9 | material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds | - |
| starr | 5 | rock star and drummer for the Beatles (born in 1940) | - |
| horst | 8 | a ridge of the earth's crust that has been forced upward between two faults and so is higher than the surrounding land | - |
| steed | 6 | (literary) a spirited horse for state of war | - |
| stump | 9 | the base part of a tree that remains standing after the tree has been felled | - |
| stank | 9 | - | - |
| stoop | 7 | basin for holy water | - |
| hoist | 8 | raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help | hoist the bicycle onto the roof of the car |
| boast | 7 | speaking of yourself in superlatives | - |
| crest | 7 | lie at the top of | - |
| strut | 5 | a proud stiff pompous gait | - |
| stair | 5 | support consisting of a place to rest the foot while ascending or descending a stairway | - |
| joust | 12 | a combat between two mounted knights tilting against each other with blunted lances | - |
| stork | 9 | large mostly Old World wading birds typically having white-and-black plumage | - |
| yeast | 8 | a commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells; used to raise the dough in making bread and for fermenting beer or whiskey | - |
| stoke | 9 | stir up or tend; of a fire | - |
| rasta | 5 | follower of Rastafarianism | - |
| baste | 7 | strike violently and repeatedly | - |
| stead | 6 | the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another | can you go in my stead? |
| angst | 6 | an acute but unspecific feeling of anxiety; usually reserved for philosophical anxiety about the world or about personal freedom | - |
| stout | 5 | having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships | stout seamen |
| roost | 5 | sit, as on a branch | - |
| stunk | 9 | - | - |
| pasty | 10 | resembling paste in color; pallid | he looked pasty and red-eyed |
| pesto | 7 | a sauce typically served with pasta; contains crushed basil leaves and garlic and pine nuts and Parmesan cheese in olive oil | - |
| stint | 5 | supply sparingly and with restricted quantities | stint with the allowance |
| gusto | 6 | vigorous and enthusiastic enjoyment | - |
| hurst | 8 | - | - |
| stony | 8 | hard as granite | - |
| testy | 8 | easily irritated or annoyed | - |
| musty | 10 | stale and unclean smelling | - |
| strum | 7 | sound the strings of (a stringed instrument) | strum a guitar |
| ester | 5 | organic compound formed by reaction between an acid and an alcohol with elimination of water | - |
| stoic | 7 | seeming unaffected by pleasure or pain; impassive | stoic courage |
| lusty | 8 | endowed with or exhibiting great bodily or mental health | - |
| stave | 8 | (music) the system of five horizontal lines on which the musical notes are written | - |
| didst | 7 | - | - |
| canst | 7 | - | - |
| wurst | 8 | - | - |
| durst | 6 | - | - |
| busty | 10 | (of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves | - |
| tryst | 8 | a date; usually with a member of the opposite sex | - |
| whist | 11 | a card game for four players who form two partnerships; a pack of 52 cards is dealt and each side scores one point for each trick it takes in excess of six | - |
| doest | 6 | - | - |
| steen | 5 | Dutch genre painter (1626-1679) | - |
| avast | 8 | - | - |
| strep | 7 | spherical Gram-positive bacteria occurring in pairs or chains; cause e.g. scarlet fever and tonsillitis | - |
| hadst | 9 | - | - |
| aster | 5 | any of various chiefly fall-blooming herbs of the genus Aster with showy daisylike flowers | - |
| piste | 7 | a flat rectangular area for fencing bouts | - |
| vesta | 8 | (Roman mythology) goddess of the hearth and its fire whose flame was tended by vestal virgins; counterpart of Greek Hestia | - |
| wrest | 8 | obtain by seizing forcibly or violently, also metaphorically | wrest the knife from his hands |
| gusty | 9 | blowing in puffs or short intermittent blasts | gusty winds |
| basti | 7 | - | - |
| zesty | 17 | marked by spirited enjoyment | - |
| roust | 5 | - | - |
| strew | 8 | spread by scattering ( | strew toys all over the carpet |
| strop | 7 | a leather strap used to sharpen razors | - |
| foist | 8 | insert surreptitiously or without warrant | - |
| stipe | 7 | supporting stalk or stem-like structure especially of a pistil or fern frond or supporting a mushroom cap | - |
| staid | 6 | characterized by dignity and propriety | - |
| goest | 6 | - | - |
| grist | 6 | grain intended to be or that has been ground | - |
| astir | 5 | on the move | the whole town was astir over the incident |
| stele | 5 | an ancient upright stone slab bearing markings | - |
| steno | 5 | - | - |
| geist | 6 | - | - |
| blest | 7 | highly favored or fortunate (as e.g. by divine grace) | - |
| stoat | 5 | the ermine in its brown summer coat with black-tipped tail | - |
| stria | 5 | a stripe or stripes of contrasting color | - |
| stang | 6 | - | - |
| staph | 10 | spherical Gram-positive parasitic bacteria that tend to form irregular colonies; some cause boils or septicemia or infections | - |
| testa | 5 | protective outer layer of seeds of flowering plants | - |
| joist | 12 | beam used to support floors or roofs | - |
| mayst | 10 | - | - |
| ostia | 5 | - | - |
| festa | 8 | - | - |
| fusty | 11 | stale and unclean smelling | - |
| stonk | 9 | - | - |
| stile | 5 | an upright that is a member in a door or window frame | - |
| stade | 6 | - | - |
| curst | 7 | deserving a curse; sometimes used as an intensifier | - |
| stela | 5 | an ancient upright stone slab bearing markings | - |
| stoup | 7 | basin for holy water | - |
| estro | 5 | - | - |
| estop | 7 | - | - |
| estoc | 7 | - | - |
| ewest | 8 | - | - |
| egest | 6 | eliminate from the body | - |
| earst | 5 | - | - |
| easts | 5 | - | - |
| fists | 8 | - | - |
| fisty | 11 | - | - |
| feist | 8 | a nervous belligerent little mongrel dog | - |
| fasti | 8 | - | - |
| fasts | 8 | - | - |
| fiest | 8 | - | - |
| festy | 11 | - | - |
| fests | 8 | - | - |
| fusts | 8 | - | - |
| geest | 6 | - | - |
| gasts | 6 | - | - |
| frust | 8 | - | - |
| frist | 8 | - | - |
| ghest | 9 | - | - |
| ghast | 9 | - | - |
| geste | 6 | - | - |
| gests | 6 | - | - |
| glost | 6 | - | - |
| gists | 6 | - | - |
| giust | 6 | - | - |
| hasta | 8 | - | - |
| heast | 8 | - | - |
| gusts | 6 | - | - |
| hosta | 8 | robust east Asian clump-forming perennial herbs having racemose flowers: plantain lilies; sometimes placed in family Hostaceae | - |
| hosts | 8 | - | - |
| hists | 8 | - | - |
| hests | 8 | - | - |
| hoast | 8 | - | - |
| jests | 12 | - | - |
| justs | 12 | - | - |
| inust | 5 | - | - |
| istle | 5 | - | - |
| kists | 9 | - | - |
| kydst | 13 | - | - |
| karst | 9 | - | - |
| kests | 9 | - | - |
| lests | 5 | - | - |
| loast | 5 | - | - |
| lasts | 5 | - | - |
| lusts | 5 | - | - |
| maist | 7 | - | - |
| mists | 7 | - | - |
| masts | 7 | - | - |
| masty | 10 | - | - |
| mesto | 7 | - | - |
| musts | 7 | - | - |
| musth | 10 | an annual phase of heightened sexual excitement in the males of certain large mammals (especially elephants); is associated with discharge from a gland between the eye and ear | the frenzied elephant was in musth |
| neist | 5 | - | - |
| nests | 5 | - | - |
| moste | 7 | - | - |
| mosts | 7 | - | - |
| moust | 7 | - | - |
| muist | 7 | - | - |
| deist | 6 | of or relating to deism | - |
| cysts | 10 | - | - |
| drest | 6 | - | - |
| dusts | 6 | - | - |
| brast | 7 | - | - |
| blist | 7 | - | - |
| cesta | 7 | - | - |
| cesti | 7 | - | - |
| casts | 7 | - | - |
| brust | 7 | - | - |
| buist | 7 | - | - |
| busti | 7 | - | - |
| busts | 7 | - | - |
| clast | 7 | (geology) a constituent fragment of a clastic rock | - |
| cists | 7 | - | - |
| crost | 7 | - | - |
| coost | 7 | - | - |
| coste | 7 | - | - |
| astun | 5 | - | - |
| besti | 7 | - | - |
| bests | 7 | - | - |
| basto | 7 | - | - |
| basts | 7 | - | - |
| basta | 7 | - | - |
| agist | 6 | - | - |
| adust | 6 | dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight | a vast desert all adust |
| agast | 6 | - | - |
| alist | 5 | - | - |
| plast | 7 | - | - |
| pests | 7 | - | - |
| pesty | 10 | - | - |
| perst | 7 | - | - |
| quist | 14 | - | - |
| prest | 7 | - | - |
| posts | 7 | - | - |
| prost | 7 | - | - |
| reest | 5 | - | - |
| reast | 5 | - | - |
| resto | 5 | - | - |
| rests | 5 | - | - |
| resty | 8 | - | - |
| reist | 5 | - | - |
| royst | 8 | - | - |
| rosti | 5 | - | - |
| rosts | 5 | - | - |
| saist | 5 | - | - |
| rusts | 5 | - | - |
| roist | 5 | - | - |
| sayst | 8 | - | - |
| sists | 5 | - | - |
| shist | 8 | - | - |
| stims | 7 | - | - |
| stive | 8 | - | - |
| stivy | 11 | - | - |
| stoae | 5 | - | - |
| stoai | 5 | - | - |
| stoas | 5 | - | - |
| stobs | 7 | - | - |
| stirs | 5 | - | - |
| stirp | 7 | - | - |
| stimy | 10 | - | - |
| stipa | 7 | - | - |
| stire | 5 | - | - |
| stirk | 9 | yearling heifer or bullock | - |
| stoep | 7 | small porch or set of steps at the front entrance of a house | - |
| stogy | 9 | a cheap cigar | - |
| stonn | 5 | - | - |
| stook | 9 | - | - |
| stoor | 5 | - | - |
| stope | 7 | - | - |
| stong | 6 | - | - |
| stoit | 5 | - | - |
| stoln | 5 | - | - |
| stoma | 7 | a minute epidermal pore in a leaf or stem through which gases and water vapor can pass | - |
| stond | 6 | - | - |
| stime | 7 | - | - |
| steil | 5 | - | - |
| stell | 5 | - | - |
| steem | 7 | - | - |
| stean | 5 | - | - |
| stear | 5 | - | - |
| stedd | 7 | - | - |
| stede | 6 | - | - |
| steds | 6 | - | - |
| steek | 9 | - | - |
| steme | 7 | - | - |
| stems | 7 | - | - |
| stend | 6 | - | - |
| stich | 10 | - | - |
| stied | 6 | - | - |
| sties | 5 | - | - |
| stilb | 7 | - | - |
| stewy | 11 | - | - |
| stews | 8 | - | - |
| stens | 5 | - | - |
| stent | 5 | a slender tube inserted inside a tubular body part (as a blood vessel) to provide support during and after surgical anastomosis | - |
| stept | 7 | - | - |
| stere | 5 | - | - |
| stets | 5 | - | - |
| stilt | 5 | long-legged three-toed black-and-white wading bird of inland ponds and marshes or brackish lagoons | - |
| styli | 8 | - | - |
| stylo | 8 | - | - |
| styme | 10 | - | - |
| stymy | 13 | a thwarting and distressing situation | - |
| styre | 8 | - | - |
| styte | 8 | - | - |
| styes | 8 | - | - |
| stuns | 5 | - | - |
| stupa | 7 | a dome-shaped shrine erected by Buddhists | - |
| stupe | 7 | a person who is not very bright | - |
| sture | 5 | - | - |
| sturt | 5 | - | - |
| styed | 9 | - | - |
| stums | 7 | - | - |
| stopt | 7 | - | - |
| stown | 8 | - | - |
| stowp | 10 | - | - |
| stows | 8 | - | - |
| strad | 6 | a violin made by Antonio Stradivari or a member of his family | - |
| strae | 5 | - | - |
| strag | 6 | - | - |
| stour | 5 | - | - |
| stoss | 5 | - | - |
| stots | 5 | - | - |
| stott | 5 | - | - |
| stoun | 5 | - | - |
| stubs | 7 | - | - |
| studs | 6 | - | - |
| stull | 5 | - | - |
| stulm | 7 | - | - |
| stumm | 9 | - | - |
| strig | 6 | - | - |
| strow | 8 | - | - |
| stroy | 8 | - | - |
| stagy | 9 | having characteristics of the stage especially an artificial and mannered quality | stagy heroics |
| staig | 6 | - | - |
| stags | 6 | - | - |
| stabs | 7 | - | - |
| stats | 5 | - | - |
| staun | 5 | - | - |
| staws | 8 | - | - |
| stars | 5 | - | - |
| stane | 5 | - | - |
| staps | 7 | - | - |
| starn | 5 | - | - |
| teste | 5 | - | - |
| tests | 5 | - | - |
| trest | 5 | - | - |
| trist | 5 | - | - |
| verst | 8 | a Russian unit of length (1.067 km) | - |
| vests | 8 | - | - |
| visto | 8 | - | - |
| vasts | 8 | - | - |
| vasty | 11 | - | - |
| odist | 6 | a poet who writes odes | - |
| oasts | 5 | - | - |
| pasts | 7 | - | - |
| ousts | 5 | - | - |
| ovist | 8 | - | - |
| wests | 8 | - | - |
| wists | 8 | - | - |
| weest | 8 | - | - |
| wasts | 8 | - | - |
| warst | 8 | - | - |
| ytost | 8 | - | - |
| yests | 8 | - | - |
| yesty | 11 | - | - |
| zests | 14 | - | - |
| wrast | 8 | - | - |
| xysts | 15 | - | - |
| xysti | 15 | - | - |
| zoist | 14 | - | - |
| sista | 5 | - | - |
| stude | 6 | - | - |
| strim | 7 | - | - |
| steys | 8 | - | - |
| strak | 9 | - | - |
