9-letter words containing ST
Embark on an exploration of 9-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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| yesterday | 16 | the day immediately before today | it was in yesterday's newspapers |
| listening | 10 | the act of hearing attentively | you can learn a lot by just listening |
| fantastic | 14 | ludicrously odd | fantastic Halloween costumes |
| breakfast | 18 | eat an early morning meal | We breakfast at seven |
| destroyed | 14 | destroyed physically or morally | - |
| assistant | 9 | a person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose | my invaluable assistant |
| christian | 14 | a religious person who believes Jesus is the Christ and who is a member of a Christian denomination | - |
| statement | 11 | (computer science) a line of code written as part of a computer program | - |
| terrorist | 9 | a radical who employs terror as a political weapon; usually organizes with other terrorists in small cells; often uses religion as a cover for terrorist activities | - |
| existence | 18 | the state or fact of existing | laws in existence for centuries |
| exhausted | 20 | drained of energy or effectiveness; extremely tired; completely exhausted | the day's shopping left her exhausted |
| scientist | 11 | a person with advanced knowledge of one or more sciences | - |
| communist | 15 | a socialist who advocates communism | - |
| structure | 11 | the people in a society considered as a system organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships | sociologists have studied the changing structure of the family |
| requested | 19 | asked for | the requested aid is forthcoming |
| institute | 9 | set up or lay the groundwork for | - |
| testimony | 14 | something that serves as evidence | his effort was testimony to his devotion |
| broadcast | 14 | cause to become widely known | broadcast the news |
| whistling | 16 | the sound made by something moving rapidly or by steam coming out of a small aperture | - |
| disturbed | 13 | afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief | lapsed into disturbed sleep |
| orchestra | 14 | a musical organization consisting of a group of instrumentalists including string players | - |
| chemistry | 19 | the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions | - |
| wrestling | 13 | the sport of hand-to-hand struggle between unarmed contestants who try to throw each other down | - |
| therapist | 14 | a person skilled in a particular type of therapy | - |
| establish | 14 | institute, enact, or establish | - |
| strongest | 10 | - | - |
| lifestyle | 15 | a manner of living that reflects the person's values and attitudes | - |
| moustache | 16 | an unshaved growth of hair on the upper lip | - |
| instantly | 12 | without any delay | - |
| substance | 13 | the property of holding together and retaining its shape | - |
| testament | 11 | a legal document declaring a person's wishes regarding the disposal of their property when they die | - |
| realistic | 11 | representing what is real; not abstract or ideal | realistic portraiture |
| superstar | 11 | someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field | - |
| injustice | 18 | the practice of being unjust or unfair | - |
| strangely | 13 | in a strange manner | - |
| mysteries | 14 | - | - |
| stupidity | 15 | a stupid mistake | - |
| sustained | 10 | (of an electric arc) continuous | - |
| monastery | 14 | the residence of a religious community | - |
| prettiest | 11 | - | - |
| arresting | 10 | commanding attention | an arresting drawing of people turning into animals |
| installed | 10 | - | - |
| strangled | 11 | held in check with difficulty | a strangled scream |
| astronaut | 9 | a person trained to travel in a spacecraft | the Russians called their astronauts cosmonauts |
| socialist | 11 | advocating or following the socialist principles | socialistic government |
| constable | 13 | a police officer of the lowest rank | - |
| backstage | 18 | concealed from public view or attention | - |
| stretched | 15 | extended or spread over a wide area or distance | broad fields lay stretched on both sides of us |
| distorted | 11 | having an intended meaning altered or misrepresented | - |
| estimated | 12 | - | - |
| southeast | 12 | the southeastern region of the United States | - |
| justified | 20 | having words so spaced that lines have straight even margins | - |
| bookstore | 15 | a shop where books are sold | - |
| staircase | 11 | a way of access (upward and downward) consisting of a set of steps | - |
| holocaust | 14 | the mass murder of Jews under the German Nazi regime from 1941 until 1945 | - |
| starboard | 12 | located on the right side of a ship or aircraft | - |
| destroyer | 13 | a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to | a destroyer of the environment |
| northeast | 12 | the compass point midway between north and east; at 45 degrees | - |
| strategic | 12 | relating to or concerned with strategy | strategic weapon |
| northwest | 15 | coming from the northwest | northwesterly winds |
| stressful | 12 | extremely irritating to the nerves | the stressful days before a war |
| sarcastic | 13 | expressing or expressive of ridicule that wounds | - |
| straining | 10 | an intense or violent exertion | - |
| stretcher | 14 | a stone that forms the top of wall or building | - |
| construct | 13 | make by combining materials and parts | Some eccentric constructed an electric brassiere warmer |
| disgusted | 12 | having a strong distaste from surfeit | grew more and more disgusted |
| southwest | 15 | the southwestern region of the United States generally including New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, California, and sometimes Utah and Colorado | - |
| strangest | 10 | - | - |
| celestial | 11 | relating to or inhabiting a divine heaven | celestial beings |
| monstrous | 11 | shockingly brutal or cruel | no excess was too monstrous for them to commit |
| stability | 14 | the quality of being enduring and free from change or variation | - |
| withstand | 16 | stand up or offer resistance to somebody or something | - |
| dishonest | 13 | capable of being corrupted | dishonest politicians |
| postponed | 14 | - | - |
| testified | 13 | - | - |
| drugstore | 11 | a retail shop where medicine and other articles are sold | - |
| hairstyle | 15 | the arrangement of the hair (especially a woman's hair) | - |
| insisting | 10 | continual and persistent demands | - |
| physicist | 19 | a scientist trained in physics | - |
| resistant | 9 | disposed to or engaged in defiance of established authority | - |
| stimulate | 11 | provide the needed stimulus for | - |
| restraint | 9 | the state of being physically constrained | dogs should be kept under restraint |
| historian | 12 | a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it | - |
| ancestral | 11 | inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent | ancestral home |
| anarchist | 14 | an advocate of anarchism | - |
| stripping | 14 | the removal of covering | - |
| storeroom | 11 | a room in which things are stored | - |
| livestock | 18 | any animals kept for use or profit | - |
| youngster | 13 | a young person of either sex | `tiddler' is a British term for youngster |
| streaming | 12 | the circulation of cytoplasm within a cell | - |
| hostility | 15 | the feeling of a hostile person | he could no longer contain his hostility |
| nostalgia | 10 | longing for something past | - |
| nostalgic | 12 | unhappy about being away and longing for familiar things or persons | - |
| guitarist | 10 | a musician who plays the guitar | - |
| investing | 13 | the act of investing; laying out money or capital in an enterprise with the expectation of profit | - |
| aesthetic | 14 | (philosophy) a philosophical theory as to what is beautiful | - |
| wasteland | 13 | an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation | - |
| stairwell | 12 | a vertical well around which there is a stairway | - |
| pestering | 12 | causing irritation or annoyance | swarms of pestering gnats |
| starlight | 13 | the light of the stars | - |
| priestess | 11 | a woman priest | - |
| stabilize | 20 | make stable and keep from fluctuating or put into an equilibrium | The drug stabilized her blood pressure |
| startling | 10 | so remarkably different or sudden as to cause momentary shock or alarm | Sydney's startling new Opera House |
| tombstone | 13 | a stone that is used to mark a grave | - |
| astronomy | 14 | the branch of physics that studies celestial bodies and the universe as a whole | - |
| biologist | 12 | (biology) a scientist who studies living organisms | - |
| ecosystem | 16 | a system formed by the interaction of a community of organisms with their physical environment | - |
| astrology | 13 | a pseudoscience claiming divination by the positions of the planets and sun and moon | - |
| plastered | 12 | very drunk | - |
| ballistic | 13 | relating to or characteristic of the motion of objects moving under their own momentum and the force of gravity | ballistic missile |
| restoring | 10 | - | - |
| digestion | 11 | learning and coming to understand ideas and information | his appetite for facts was better than his digestion |
| customary | 16 | commonly used or practiced; usual | took his customary morning walk |
| freestyle | 15 | a race (as in swimming) in which each contestant has a free choice of the style to use | - |
| pesticide | 14 | a chemical used to kill pests (as rodents or insects) | - |
| manifesto | 14 | a public declaration of intentions (as issued by a political party or government) | - |
| geologist | 11 | a specialist in geology | - |
| castrated | 12 | deprived of sexual capacity or sexual attributes | - |
| brimstone | 13 | an old name for sulfur | - |
| obstinate | 11 | stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing | - |
| tasteless | 9 | lacking aesthetic or social taste | - |
| registrar | 10 | someone responsible for keeping records | - |
| digestive | 14 | any substance that promotes digestion | - |
| firsthand | 16 | from the original source; directly | I heard this story firsthand |
| mistaking | 16 | putting the wrong interpretation on | there was no mistaking her meaning |
| stitching | 15 | joining or attaching by stitches | - |
| strangler | 10 | someone who kills by strangling | - |
| intestine | 9 | the part of the alimentary canal between the stomach and the anus | - |
| pistachio | 16 | nut of Mediterranean trees having an edible green kernel | - |
| publicist | 15 | someone who publicizes | - |
| limestone | 11 | a sedimentary rock consisting mainly of calcium that was deposited by the remains of marine animals | - |
| destitute | 10 | poor enough to need help from others | - |
| stainless | 9 | steel containing chromium that makes it resistant to corrosion | - |
| aristotle | 9 | one of the greatest of the ancient Athenian philosophers; pupil of Plato; teacher of Alexander the Great (384-322 BC) | - |
| alchemist | 16 | one who was versed in the practice of alchemy and who sought an elixir of life and a panacea and an alkahest and the philosopher's stone | - |
| violinist | 12 | a musician who plays the violin | - |
| insistent | 9 | repetitive and persistent | the bluejay's insistent cry |
| economist | 13 | an expert in the science of economics | - |
| logistics | 12 | handling an operation that involves providing labor and materials be supplied as needed | - |
| coastline | 11 | the outline of a coast | - |
| posterity | 14 | all of the offspring of a given progenitor | we must secure the benefits of freedom for ourselves and our posterity |
| custodian | 12 | one having charge of buildings or grounds or animals | - |
| mistletoe | 11 | Old World parasitic shrub having branching greenish stems with leathery leaves and waxy white glutinous berries; the traditional mistletoe of Christmas | - |
| firstborn | 14 | the offspring who came first in the order of birth | - |
| milestone | 11 | stone post at side of a road to show distances | - |
| stopwatch | 19 | a timepiece that can be started or stopped for exact timing (as of a race) | - |
| extremist | 18 | (used of opinions and actions) far beyond the norm | extremist political views |
| trickster | 15 | someone who plays practical jokes on others | - |
| snowstorm | 14 | a storm with widespread snowfall accompanied by strong winds | - |
| loveliest | 12 | - | - |
| deadliest | 11 | - | - |
| frostbite | 14 | destruction of tissue by freezing and characterized by tingling, blistering and possibly gangrene | - |
| thrusting | 13 | a sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow) | he made a thrusting motion with his fist |
| newsstand | 13 | a stall where newspapers and other periodicals are sold | - |
| distilled | 11 | - | - |
| masochist | 16 | someone who obtains pleasure from receiving punishment | - |
| barrister | 11 | a British or Canadian lawyer who speaks in the higher courts of law on behalf of either the defense or prosecution | - |
| bystander | 15 | a nonparticipant spectator | - |
| checklist | 20 | a list of items (names or tasks etc.) to be checked or consulted | - |
| mightiest | 15 | - | - |
| strapping | 14 | muscular and heavily built | a strapping boy of eighteen |
| flustered | 13 | thrown into a state of agitated confusion; (`rattled' is an informal term) | - |
| menstrual | 11 | of or relating to menstruation or the menses | menstrual period |
| estranged | 11 | caused to be unloved | - |
| strutting | 10 | - | - |
| innermost | 11 | situated or occurring farthest within | the innermost chamber |
| drumstick | 18 | a stick used for playing a drum | - |
| styrofoam | 17 | a light resilient foam of polystyrene | - |
| strumming | 14 | - | - |
| bannister | 11 | a railing at the side of a staircase or balcony to prevent people from falling | - |
| acoustics | 13 | the study of the physical properties of sound | - |
| hypnotist | 17 | a person who induces hypnosis | - |
| steadfast | 13 | firm and dependable especially in loyalty | a steadfast ally |
| polyester | 14 | a complex ester used for making fibers or resins or plastics or as a plasticizer | - |
| pessimist | 13 | a person who expects the worst | - |
| hysterics | 17 | an attack of hysteria | - |
| mastering | 12 | becoming proficient in the use of something; having mastery of | his mastering the art of cooking took a long time |
| headstone | 13 | a stone that is used to mark a grave | - |
| columnist | 13 | a journalist who writes editorials | - |
| armistice | 13 | a state of peace agreed to between opponents so they can discuss peace terms | - |
| shortstop | 14 | the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third base | - |
| statistic | 11 | a datum that can be represented numerically | - |
| sterilize | 18 | make infertile | in some countries, people with genetically transmissible disabilites are sterilized |
| mysticism | 18 | a religion based on mystical communion with an ultimate reality | - |
| trimester | 11 | a period of three months; especially one of the three three-month periods into which human pregnancy is divided | - |
| reinstate | 9 | bring back into original existence, use, function, or position | - |
| loneliest | 9 | - | - |
| festering | 13 | (medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus | - |
| bootstrap | 13 | a strap that is looped and sewn to the top of a boot for pulling it on | - |
| stimulant | 11 | a drug that temporarily quickens some vital process | - |
| statutory | 12 | prescribed or authorized by or punishable under a statute | statutory restrictions |
| homestead | 15 | dwelling that is usually a farmhouse and adjoining land | - |
| astounded | 11 | filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock | astounded viewers wept at the pictures from the Oklahoma City bombing |
| asthmatic | 16 | relating to breathing with a whistling sound | - |
| stalemate | 11 | a situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible | - |
| prostrate | 11 | get into a prostrate position, as in submission | - |
| statesman | 11 | a man who is a respected leader in national or international affairs | - |
| prankster | 15 | someone who plays practical jokes on others | - |
| rainstorm | 11 | a storm with rain | - |
| congested | 13 | overfull as with blood | - |
| stateside | 10 | - | - |
| streetcar | 11 | a wheeled vehicle that runs on rails and is propelled by electricity | - |
| devastate | 13 | cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly | - |
| harvester | 15 | someone who helps to gather the harvest | - |
| stillness | 9 | calmness without winds | - |
| distantly | 13 | from or at a distance | dimly, distantly, voices sounded in the stillness |
| enlisting | 10 | the act of getting recruits; enlisting people for the army (or for a job or a cause etc.) | - |
| blacklist | 17 | a list of people who are out of favor | - |
| sandstone | 10 | a sedimentary rock consisting of sand consolidated with some cement (clay or quartz etc.) | - |
| earnestly | 12 | in a serious manner | talking earnestly with his son |
| frustrate | 12 | treat cruelly | - |
| chopstick | 22 | one of a pair of slender sticks used as oriental tableware to eat food with | - |
| waistline | 12 | the narrowing of the body between the ribs and hips | - |
| stockroom | 17 | storeroom for storing goods and supplies used in a business | - |
| strenuous | 9 | taxing to the utmost; testing powers of endurance | a strenuous task |
| distanced | 13 | - | - |
| millstone | 11 | (figurative) something that hinders or handicaps | - |
| sandstorm | 12 | a windstorm that lifts up clouds of dust or sand | - |
| strangles | 10 | an acute bacterial disease of horses characterized by inflammation of the mucous membranes | - |
| construed | 12 | - | - |
| dastardly | 14 | despicably cowardly | the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on...December 7th |
| methodist | 15 | of or pertaining to or characteristic of the branch of Protestantism adhering to the views of Wesley | - |
| withstood | 16 | - | - |
| instigate | 10 | provoke or stir up | - |
| defeatist | 13 | someone who is resigned to defeat without offering positive suggestions | - |
| eastbound | 12 | moving toward the east | eastbound trains |
| firestorm | 14 | an outburst of controversy | the incident triggered a political firestorm |
| wristband | 15 | a band of cloth or leather or metal links attached to a wristwatch and wrapped around the wrist | - |
| stillborn | 11 | failing to accomplish an intended result | a stillborn plot to assassinate the President |
| storybook | 18 | a book containing a collection of stories (usually for children) | - |
| jockstrap | 24 | a support for the genitals worn by men engaging in strenuous exercise | - |
| masterful | 14 | having or revealing supreme mastery or skill | a masterful speaker |
| alabaster | 11 | of or resembling alabaster | alabaster statue |
| nastiness | 9 | malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty | - |
| obstinacy | 16 | resolute adherence to your own ideas or desires | - |
| stoplight | 15 | a red light on the rear of a motor vehicle that signals when the brakes are applied to slow or stop | - |
| statewide | 13 | occurring or extending throughout a state | the statewide recycling program |
| sunstroke | 13 | sudden prostration due to exposure to the sun or excessive heat | - |
| westbound | 15 | moving toward the west | westbound pioneers |
| damnedest | 13 | - | - |
| ecologist | 12 | a biologist who studies the relation between organisms and their environment | - |
| handstand | 14 | the act of supporting yourself by your hands alone in an upside down position | - |
| encrusted | 12 | having a hardened crust as a covering | - |
| moonstone | 11 | a transparent or translucent gemstone with a pearly luster; some specimens are orthoclase feldspar and others are plagioclase feldspar | - |
| modernist | 12 | an artist who makes a deliberate break with previous styles | - |
| waistcoat | 14 | a man's sleeveless garment worn underneath a coat | - |
| stonewall | 12 | engage in delaying tactics or refuse to cooperate | The President stonewalled when he realized the plot was being uncovered by a journalist |
| sterility | 12 | the state of being unable to produce offspring; in a woman it is an inability to conceive; in a man it is an inability to impregnate | - |
| strapless | 11 | a woman's garment that exposes the shoulders and has no shoulder straps | - |
| stringent | 10 | demanding strict attention to rules and procedures | stringent safety measures |
| posterior | 11 | coming at a subsequent time or stage | the mood posterior to |
| hygienist | 16 | a medical specialist in hygiene | - |
| instilled | 10 | - | - |
| herbalist | 14 | a therapist who heals by the use of herbs | - |
| dentistry | 13 | the branch of medicine dealing with the anatomy and development and diseases of the teeth | - |
| bandstand | 13 | a platform where a (brass) band can play in the open air | - |
| beanstalk | 15 | stem of a bean plant | - |
| stringing | 11 | - | - |
| rastafari | 12 | (Jamaica) a Black youth subculture and religious movement that arose in the ghettos of Kingston, Jamaica, in the 1950s; males grow hair in long dreadlocks and wear woolen caps; use marijuana and listen to reggae music | - |
| colostomy | 16 | a surgical operation that creates an opening from the colon to the surface of the body to function as an anus | - |
| gladstone | 11 | a large travelling bag made of stiff leather | - |
| beefsteak | 18 | a beef steak usually cooked by broiling | - |
| celestine | 11 | - | - |
| mystified | 18 | totally perplexed and mixed up | - |
| westerner | 12 | an inhabitant of a western area; especially of the U.S. | - |
| steelhead | 13 | - | - |
| posturing | 12 | adopting a vain conceited posture | - |
| maelstrom | 13 | a powerful circular current of water (usually the result of conflicting tides) | - |
| flagstone | 13 | stratified stone that splits into pieces suitable as paving stones | - |
| goldstone | 11 | aventurine spangled densely with fine gold-colored particles | - |
| hailstorm | 14 | a storm during which hail falls | - |
| bloodlust | 12 | a desire for bloodshed | - |
| stipulate | 11 | specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an agreement | The will stipulates that she can live in the house for the rest of her life |
| steamboat | 13 | a boat propelled by a steam engine | - |
| storyline | 12 | the plot of a book or play or film | - |
| strikeout | 13 | an out resulting from the batter getting three strikes | - |
| headfirst | 16 | with the head foremost | a headfirst plunge down the stairs |
| contested | 12 | disputed or made the object of contention or competition | a contested election |
| flagstaff | 19 | a tall staff or pole on which a flag is raised | - |
| austerity | 12 | the trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from worldly pleasures) | - |
| stockpile | 17 | something kept back or saved for future use or a special purpose | - |
| gastritis | 10 | inflammation of the lining of the stomach; nausea and loss of appetite and discomfort after eating | - |
| bloodiest | 12 | - | - |
| zoologist | 19 | a specialist in the branch of biology dealing with animals | - |
| waistband | 15 | a band of material around the waist that strengthens a skirt or trousers | - |
| urologist | 10 | a specialist in urology | - |
| fostering | 13 | encouragement; aiding the development of something | - |
| apostolic | 13 | proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles | - |
| recordist | 12 | - | - |
| custodial | 12 | providing protective supervision; watching over or safeguarding | daycare that is educational and not just custodial |
| firestone | 12 | a piece of flint that is struck to light a fire | - |
| festivity | 18 | any joyous diversion | - |
| shittiest | 12 | - | - |
| stagehand | 14 | an employee of a theater who performs work involved in putting on a theatrical production | - |
| stickball | 17 | a form of baseball played in the streets with a rubber ball and broomstick handle | - |
| stoppable | 15 | capable of being stopped | if we pick up our pace he may be stoppable |
| streamlet | 11 | a small stream | - |
| vestibule | 14 | a large entrance or reception room or area | - |
| plastique | 20 | an explosive material that is easily molded around the object it is intended to destroy | - |
| reservist | 12 | a member of a military reserve | - |
| dystrophy | 21 | any of several hereditary diseases of the muscular system characterized by weakness and wasting of skeletal muscles | - |
| forestall | 12 | act in advance of; deal with ahead of time | - |
| awestruck | 18 | having or showing a feeling of mixed reverence and respect and wonder and dread | in grim despair and awestruck wonder |
| zeitgeist | 19 | the spirit of the time; the spirit characteristic of an age or generation | - |
| internist | 9 | a specialist in internal medicine | - |
| gymnastic | 17 | vigorously active | gymnastic exercises |
| castanets | 11 | (used in the plural) a percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance | - |
| overstate | 12 | to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth | - |
| worcester | 14 | United States lexicographer who was accused of plagiarism by Noah Webster (1784-1865) | - |
| stabilise | 11 | make stable and keep from fluctuating or put into an equilibrium | - |
| stonework | 16 | masonry done with stone | - |
| statuette | 9 | a small carved or molded figure | - |
| rusticate | 11 | suspend temporarily from college or university, in England | - |
| turnstile | 9 | a gate consisting of a post that acts as a pivot for rotating arms; set in a passageway for controlling the persons entering | - |
| protester | 11 | a person who dissents from some established policy | - |
| ingestion | 10 | the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating) | - |
| constancy | 16 | the quality of being enduring and free from change or variation | early mariners relied on the constancy of the trade winds |
| crosstown | 14 | going or extending across a town or city | the crosstown bus |
| customize | 22 | make according to requirements | customize a car |
| clustered | 12 | clustered together but not coherent | - |
| fantasist | 12 | a creator of fantasies | - |
| fistfight | 19 | a fight with bare fists | - |
| hamstring | 15 | one of the tendons at the back of the knee | - |
| bratwurst | 14 | a small pork sausage | - |
| guestroom | 12 | a bedroom that is kept for the use of guests | - |
| yardstick | 19 | a ruler or tape that is three feet long | - |
| stargazer | 19 | someone indifferent to the busy world | - |
| stateless | 9 | without nationality or citizenship | stateless persons |
| toadstool | 10 | common name for an inedible or poisonous agaric (contrasting with the edible mushroom) | - |
| subsystem | 16 | a system that is part of some larger system | - |
| reformist | 14 | favoring or promoting reform (often by government action) | - |
| pestilent | 11 | likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease | a pestilential malignancy in the air |
| histamine | 14 | amine formed from histidine that stimulates gastric secretions and dilates blood vessels; released by the human immune system during allergic reactions | - |
| anatomist | 11 | an expert in anatomy | - |
| sodbuster | 12 | a person who operates a farm | - |
| stovepipe | 16 | a man's hat with a tall crown; usually covered with silk or with beaver fur | - |
| sacristan | 11 | an officer of the church who is in charge of sacred objects | - |
| creepiest | 13 | - | - |
| distended | 12 | - | - |
| filthiest | 15 | - | - |
| gestation | 10 | the state of being pregnant; the period from conception to birth when a woman carries a developing fetus in her uterus | - |
| bombastic | 17 | ostentatiously lofty in style | - |
| chapstick | 22 | - | - |
| homestyle | 17 | - | - |
| osteopath | 14 | a therapist who manipulates the skeleton and muscles | - |
| mentalist | 11 | - | - |
| webmaster | 16 | a technician who designs or maintains a website | - |
| steamship | 16 | a ship powered by one or more steam engines | - |
| stepchild | 17 | a child of your spouse by a former marriage | - |
| stutterer | 9 | someone who speaks with involuntary pauses and repetitions | - |
| stylishly | 18 | in a stylish manner | she was dressed very stylishly |
| trustable | 11 | - | - |
| redbreast | 12 | small Old World songbird with a reddish breast | - |
| distemper | 14 | an angry and disagreeable mood | - |
| fastening | 13 | restraint that attaches to something or holds something in place | - |
| fetishist | 15 | one who engages in fetishism (especially of a sexual nature) | - |
| astrakhan | 16 | a city in southwestern Russia on the delta of the Volga River | - |
| antitrust | 9 | of laws and regulations; designed to protect trade and commerce from unfair business practices | - |
| oestrogen | 10 | a general term for female steroid sex hormones that are secreted by the ovary and responsible for typical female sexual characteristics | - |
| whetstone | 15 | a flat stone for sharpening edged tools or knives | - |
| smelliest | 11 | - | - |
| sophistry | 17 | a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone | - |
| stateroom | 11 | a guest cabin | - |
| stratagem | 12 | an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade | - |
| vestigial | 13 | not fully developed in mature animals | - |
| machinist | 16 | a craftsman skilled in operating machine tools | - |
| eastwards | 13 | toward the east | - |
| freakiest | 16 | - | - |
| gesturing | 11 | - | - |
| airstream | 11 | the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller | - |
| paymaster | 16 | a person in charge of paying wages | - |
| speedster | 12 | - | - |
| stagnated | 11 | - | - |
| strongman | 12 | a man who performs feats of strength at a fair or circus | - |
| plasterer | 11 | a worker skilled in applying plaster | - |
| pinstripe | 13 | a fabric with very thin stripes | - |
| quickstep | 26 | a ballroom dance with both quick and slow steps | - |
| heartiest | 12 | - | - |
| constrain | 11 | to close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement | - |
| constrict | 13 | become tight or as if tight | Her throat constricted |
| downstage | 14 | at or toward the front of the stage | the actors moved further and further downstage |
| easterner | 9 | an inhabitant of an eastern area; especially of the U.S. | - |
| foretaste | 12 | an early limited awareness of something yet to occur | - |
| footstool | 12 | a low seat or a stool to rest the feet of a seated person | - |
| bristling | 12 | - | - |
| chastised | 15 | - | - |
| atavistic | 14 | characteristic of an atavist | - |
| abstinent | 11 | self-restraining; not indulging an appetite especially for food or drink | not totally abstinent but abstemious |
| occultist | 13 | a believer in occultism; someone versed in the occult arts | - |
| outermost | 11 | situated at the farthest possible point from a center | - |
| orgiastic | 12 | used of riotously drunken merrymaking | orgiastic festivity |
| palmistry | 16 | telling fortunes by lines on the palm of the hand | - |
| medallist | 12 | someone who has won a medal | - |
| slapstick | 17 | a boisterous comedy with chases and collisions and practical jokes | - |
| straggler | 11 | someone who strays or falls behind | - |
| tattooist | 9 | - | - |
| lambasted | 14 | - | - |
| leastways | 15 | if nothing else (`leastwise' is informal and `leastways' is colloquial) | - |
| demystify | 21 | make less mysterious or remove the mystery from | let's demystify the event by explaining what it is all about |
| diastolic | 12 | of or relating to a diastole or happening during a diastole | - |
| downstate | 13 | - | - |
| gallstone | 10 | a calculus formed in the gall bladder or its ducts | - |
| bluestone | 11 | bluish-grey sandstone used for paving and building | - |
| antipasto | 11 | a course of appetizers in an Italian meal | - |
| archivist | 17 | a person in charge of collecting and cataloguing archives | - |
| windstorm | 15 | a storm consisting of violent winds | - |
| westwards | 16 | toward the west | - |
| shortlist | 12 | a list of applicants winnowed from a longer list who have been deemed suitable and from which the successful person will be chosen | - |
| skinniest | 13 | - | - |
| stiffness | 15 | the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment) | - |
| stockyard | 19 | enclosed yard where cattle, pigs, horses, or sheep are kept temporarily | - |
| steadying | 14 | causing to become steady | had a steadying effect on her nerves |
| staunchly | 17 | in a staunch manner | he staunchly defended his principles |
| stylistic | 14 | of or relating to style (especially in the use of language) | stylistic devices |
| untwisted | 13 | not twisted; formerly twisted but now straight | - |
| keystroke | 20 | the stroke of a key; one depression of a key on a keyboard | the number of keystrokes was used as a measure of work |
| likeliest | 13 | - | - |
| costliest | 11 | - | - |
| disturber | 12 | a troubler who interrupts or interferes with peace and quiet; someone who causes disorder and commotion | - |
| downstair | 13 | on or of lower floors of a building | the downstairs (or downstair) phone |
| clumsiest | 13 | - | - |
| brainstem | 13 | the part of the brain continuous with the spinal cord and comprising the medulla oblongata and pons and midbrain and parts of the hypothalamus | - |
| classiest | 11 | - | - |
| atheistic | 14 | rejecting any belief in gods | - |
| amnestied | 12 | - | - |
| midstream | 14 | the middle of a stream | - |
| spiritist | 11 | - | - |
| stoically | 14 | without emotion; in a stoic manner | he stoically accepted all suffering |
| statehood | 13 | - | - |
| sterilise | 9 | make infertile | - |
| stupefied | 15 | in a state of mental numbness especially as resulting from shock | lay semiconscious, stunned (or stupefied) by the blow |
| strongbox | 19 | a strongly made box for holding money or valuables; can be locked | - |
| strontium | 11 | a soft silver-white or yellowish metallic element of the alkali metal group; turns yellow in air; occurs in celestite and strontianite | - |
| touristic | 11 | - | - |
| trickiest | 15 | - | - |
| unstudied | 11 | not by design or artifice; unforced and impromptu | an air of unstudied spontaneous utterance is apt to be painstakingly achieved |
| uttermost | 11 | of the greatest possible degree or extent or intensity | in the uttermost distress |
| upstaging | 13 | - | - |
| uppermost | 15 | at or nearest to the top | the uppermost book in the pile |
| postulate | 11 | maintain or assert | - |
| posthaste | 14 | - | - |
| racialist | 11 | a person with a prejudiced belief that one racial group is superior to others | - |
| recasting | 12 | changing a particular word or phrase | - |
| imposture | 13 | pretending to be another person | - |
| liveliest | 12 | - | - |
| cookstove | 18 | a stove for cooking (especially a wood- or coal-burning kitchen stove) | - |
| egotistic | 12 | characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance | an egotistical disregard of others |
| estimable | 13 | may be computed or estimated | estimable assets |
| fascistic | 16 | relating to or characteristic of fascism | - |
| formalist | 14 | - | - |
| bicyclist | 18 | a person who rides a bicycle | - |
| chorister | 14 | a singer in a choir | - |
| moistness | 11 | a slight wetness | - |
| pederasty | 15 | sexual relations between a man and a boy (usually anal intercourse with the boy as a passive partner) | - |
| sequester | 18 | take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority | - |
| speediest | 12 | - | - |
| stippling | 14 | - | - |
| steamroll | 11 | bring to a specified state by overwhelming force or pressure | The Senator steamrollered the bill to defeat |
| struggler | 11 | a person who struggles with difficulties or with great effort | - |
| stripling | 12 | a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity | - |
| rhymester | 17 | a writer who composes rhymes; a maker of poor verses (usually used as terms of contempt for minor or inferior poets) | - |
| rustproof | 14 | treated against rusting | - |
| symbolist | 16 | someone skilled in the interpretation or representation of symbols | - |
| thirstier | 12 | - | - |
| pikestaff | 21 | the staff of a pike | - |
| postnatal | 11 | occurring immediately after birth | postnatal development |
| prostatic | 13 | relating to the prostate gland | - |
| installer | 9 | - | - |
| lodestone | 10 | a permanent magnet consisting of magnetite that possess polarity and has the power to attract as well as to be attracted magnetically | - |
| hastiness | 12 | overly eager speed (and possible carelessness) | - |
| cornstalk | 15 | the stalk of a corn plant | - |
| distraint | 10 | the seizure and holding of property as security for payment of a debt or satisfaction of a claim | - |
| dystopian | 15 | as bad as can be; characterized by human misery | AIDS is one of the dystopian harbingers of the global villages |
| esthetics | 14 | (art) the branch of philosophy dealing with beauty and taste (emphasizing the evaluative criteria that are applied to art) | traditional aesthetics assumed the existence of universal and timeless criteria of artistic value |
| estuaries | 9 | - | - |
| exhauster | 19 | - | - |
| feedstock | 19 | the raw material that is required for some industrial process | - |
| extremest | 18 | - | - |
| falangist | 13 | a Spanish member of General Franco's political party | - |
| foodstuff | 19 | a substance that can be used or prepared for use as food | - |
| ghostlike | 17 | resembling or characteristic of a phantom | - |
| castellan | 11 | - | - |
| castigate | 12 | censure severely | - |
| careerist | 11 | a professional who is intent on furthering his or her career by any possible means and often at the expense of their own integrity | - |
| astrodome | 12 | a transparent dome on top of an airplane where the navigator can make celestial observations | - |
| autopsist | 11 | - | - |
| apologist | 12 | a person who argues to defend or justify some policy or institution | an apologist for capital punishment |
| antipasti | 11 | - | - |
| mustachio | 16 | a large bushy moustache (with hair growing sometimes down the sides of the mouth) | - |
| ostracize | 20 | avoid speaking to or dealing with | Ever since I spoke up, my colleagues ostracize me |
| ostracism | 13 | the state of being banished or ostracized (excluded from society by general consent) | - |
| osteology | 13 | the branch of anatomy that studies the bones of the vertebrate skeleton | - |
| overstock | 18 | stock excessively | - |
| mesmerist | 13 | a person who induces hypnosis | - |
| wristlock | 18 | - | - |
| zestfully | 24 | with zest | she scrubbed the floors of the new apartment zestfully |
| sneakiest | 13 | - | - |
| sloppiest | 13 | - | - |
| sostenuto | 9 | - | - |
| stampeded | 15 | - | - |
