6-letter words containing ast
- dicast — (in ancient Athens) a juror in the popular courts chosen by lot from a list of citizens
- dynast — A member of a powerful family, especially a hereditary ruler.
- easter — an annual Christian festival in commemoration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, observed on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox, as calculated according to tables based in Western churches on the Gregorian calendar and in Orthodox churches on the Julian calendar.
- easton — a city in E Pennsylvania, on the Delaware River.
- fasted — Simple past tense and past participle of fast.
- fasten — to attach firmly or securely in place; fix securely to something else.
- faster — moving or able to move, operate, function, or take effect quickly; quick; swift; rapid: a fast horse; a fast pain reliever; a fast thinker.
- fastie — a deceitful act
- fastly — Securely.
- feasts — Plural form of feast.
- gasted — to terrify or frighten.
- gaster — (in ants, bees, wasps, and other hymenopterous insects) the part of the abdomen behind the petiole.
- gaston — a male given name.
- gastr- — gastro-
- gastro — (colloquial, UK, Australia) Gastroenteritis.
- hasted — swiftness of motion; speed; celerity: He performed his task with great haste. They felt the need for haste.
- hasten — to move or act with haste; proceed with haste; hurry: to hasten to a place.
- hastes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of haste.
- hastie — William Henry, 1904–76, U.S. jurist: first black judge of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
- kasten — Plural form of kast.
- kastro — Mytilene (def 2).
- lasted — to go on or continue in time: The festival lasted three weeks.
- laster — occurring or coming after all others, as in time, order, or place: the last line on a page.
- lastex — a type of yarn which is wound around with rayon, nylon, silk or cotton threads
- lastly — in conclusion; in the last place; finally.
- lastol — A form of polyolefin where the olefin units are cross-linked synthetic polymers with low but significant crystallinity, composed of at least 95% by mass of ethylene and at least one other olefin unit, and where the fibre is substantially elastic and heat-resistant.
- mastax — the muscular pharynx of a rotifer, containing a chewing apparatus.
- masted — Having masts.
- master — botmaster
- mastic — Also called mastic tree, lentisk. a small Mediterranean tree, Pistacia lentiscus, of the cashew family, that is the source of an aromatic resin used in making varnish and adhesives.
- mastix — mastic, being an aromatic resin obtained from the mastic tree
- masto- — indicating the breast, mammary glands, or something resembling a breast or nipple
- nastic — of or showing sufficiently greater cellular force or growth on one side of an axis to change the form or position of the axis.
- nefast — nefarious, wicked
- oblast — (in Russia and the Soviet Union) an administrative division corresponding to an autonomous province.
- pasted — a mixture of flour and water, often with starch or the like, used for causing paper or other material to adhere to something.
- pastel — the woad plant.
- paster — the time gone by: He could remember events far back in the past.
- pastie — /pay'stee/ An adhesive label designed to be attached to a key on a keyboard to indicate some non-standard character which can be accessed through that key. Pasties are likely to be used in APL environments, where almost every key is associated with a special character. A pastie on the R key, for example, might remind the user that it is used to generate the rho character. The term properly refers to nipple-concealing devices formerly worn by strippers in concession to indecent-exposure laws; compare tits on a keyboard.
- pastil — a flavored or medicated lozenge; troche.
- pastis — a yellowish, anise-based liqueur originally made in Marseilles and similar to absinthe but containing no wormwood.
- pastor — a minister or priest in charge of a church.
- pastry — a sweet baked food made of dough, especially the shortened paste used for pie crust and the like.
- raster — Television. a pattern of scanning lines covering the area upon which the image is projected in the cathode-ray tube or liquid-crystal display of a television set or other screen.
- reasty — rancid
- recast — to cast again or anew.
- repast — a quantity of food taken or provided for one occasion of eating: to eat a light repast.
- shasta — Mount, a volcanic peak in N California, in the Cascade Range. 14,161 feet (4315 meters).
- snaste — a wick or snuff of a candle
- tasted — to try or test the flavor or quality of (something) by taking some into the mouth: to taste food.