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14-letter words containing ast

  • non-fastidious — excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please: a fastidious eater.
  • non-scholastic — of or relating to schools, scholars, or education: scholastic attainments.
  • noncontrastive — not contrastive.
  • norman dynasty — a succession of English kings founded by Duke William of the duchy of Normandy in northern France, who conquered England in 1066 and whose successors ruled the country to 1154.
  • north-easterly — A north-easterly point, area, or direction is to the north-east or towards the north-east.
  • northeasterner — a native or inhabitant of the northeast.
  • northeastwards — northeastward.
  • overfastidious — excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please: a fastidious eater.
  • paper fastener — split pin
  • pasteur effect — the inhibiting of fermentation by oxygen.
  • pasteurellosis — hemorrhagic septicemia.
  • pasteurization — to expose (a food, as milk, cheese, yogurt, beer, or wine) to an elevated temperature for a period of time sufficient to destroy certain microorganisms, as those that can produce disease or cause spoilage or undesirable fermentation of food, without radically altering taste or quality.
  • pastry blender — a kitchen utensil having several parallel wires bent in a semicircle and secured by a handle, used especially for mixing pastry dough.
  • philosophaster — a person who has only a superficial knowledge of philosophy or who feigns a knowledge he or she does not possess.
  • pilaster strip — a pilaster mass of relatively slight projection.
  • plastic bullet — A plastic bullet is a large bullet made of plastic, which is intended to make people stop rioting, rather than to kill people.
  • plastic memory — the tendency of certain plastics after being deformed to resume their original form when heated
  • plastic piping — Plastic piping is strong, durable, and lightweight pipes, often made from high-density polyethylene.
  • plastic police — a collective term for several classes of public officer (including community support officers) authorized to perform certain tasks and duties in support of the police force, but having lesser powers than the police
  • plasticization — Plasticization is the process of changing the structure of a polymer to make it easier to bend.
  • poikiloblastic — (of metamorphic rocks) having small grains of one mineral embedded in metacrysts of another mineral.
  • pop-up toaster — a toaster that has a mechanism that pushes slices of toast up when they are done
  • post-breakfast — the first meal of the day; morning meal: A hearty breakfast was served at 7 a.m.
  • postmastectomy — of or relating to the period after a mastectomy
  • postmastership — the office or position of a postmaster
  • press fastener — snap fastener.
  • procrastinated — to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.
  • procrastinator — to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.
  • quartermasters — Plural form of quartermaster.
  • questionmaster — quizmaster.
  • radiobroadcast — a broadcast by radio.
  • rastafarianism — a religious cult, originally of Jamaica, that regards Africa as the Promised Land, to which all true believers will someday return, and the late Haile Selassie I, former emperor of Ethiopia, as the messiah.
  • raster blaster — (hardware, jargon)   (Cambridge) Specialised hardware for bitblt operations (a blitter). Allegedly inspired by "Rasta Blasta", British slang for the sort of portable stereo Americans call a "boom box" or "ghetto blaster".
  • retinoblastoma — Pathology. an inheritable tumor of the eye.
  • roller-coaster — to go up and down like a roller coaster; rise and fall: a narrow road roller-coastering around the mountain; a light boat roller-coastering over the waves.
  • sales forecast — a prediction of future sales of a product, either judgmental or based on previous sales patterns
  • scholastically — of or relating to schools, scholars, or education: scholastic attainments.
  • slide fastener — zipper (def 2).
  • south-easterly — A south-easterly point, area, or direction is to the south-east or towards the south-east.
  • southeast asia — the countries and land area of Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.
  • southeasterner — a native or inhabitant of the southeast.
  • southeastwards — Also, southeastwards. toward the southeast.
  • staphyloplasty — plastic surgery or surgical repair involving the soft palate or the uvula
  • stomatogastric — relating to the mouth and stomach or the connections between the mouth and stomach
  • sub-postmaster — (in Britain) a man who runs a sub-post office
  • the last laugh — the final success in an argument, situation, etc, after previous defeat
  • the last straw — If an event is the last straw or the straw that broke the camel's back, it is the latest in a series of unpleasant or undesirable events, and makes you feel that you cannot tolerate a situation any longer.
  • the last trump — the final trumpet call that according to the belief of some will awaken and raise the dead on the Day of Judgment
  • the waste land — a poem (1922) by T. S. Eliot.
  • thick and fast — If things happen thick and fast, they happen very quickly and in large numbers.
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