7-letter words containing ast
- mideast — Middle East.
- miscast — to assign an unsuitable role to (an actor): Tom was miscast as Romeo.
- mobcast — a podcast created and uploaded using a mobile phone
- namaste — a conventional Hindu expression on meeting or parting, used by the speaker usually while holding the palms together vertically in front of the bosom.
- nastase — Ilie (ˈiːliː). born 1946, Romanian tennis player: winner of the US Open (1972) and the French Open (1973)
- nastier — physically filthy; disgustingly unclean: a nasty pigsty of a room.
- nasties — Plural form of nasty.
- nastily — physically filthy; disgustingly unclean: a nasty pigsty of a room.
- nastran — NAsa STRess ANalysis program. A program for solving large stress analysis problems.
- newcast — (transitive) To recast; form or mould anew.
- nonpast — a tense that is not the past tense, a non-past tense
- nowcast — (meteorology) A weather forecast predicting the weather for a very short upcoming period, usually of a few hours.
- oastler — Richard. 1789–1861, British social reformer; he campaigned against child labour and helped achieve the ten-hour day (1847)
- oblasti — (in Russia and the Soviet Union) an administrative division corresponding to an autonomous province.
- oblasts — Plural form of oblast.
- offcast — discarded or rejected; castoff: his offcast suits.
- ooblast — a primordial cell from which the ovum is developed.
- orgiast — One who celebrates orgies.
- outcast — a falling out; quarrel.
- outfast — to fast longer than
- outlast — to endure or last longer than: The pyramids outlasted the civilization that built them.
- past it — If you say that someone or something is past it, they are no longer able to do what they used to do.
- pastern — the part of the foot of a horse, cow, etc., between the fetlock and the hoof.
- pasteur — Louis [loo-ee;; French lwee] /ˈlu i;; French lwi/ (Show IPA), 1822–95, French chemist and bacteriologist.
- pasties — of or like paste in consistency, texture, color, etc.
- pastime — something that serves to make time pass agreeably; a pleasant means of amusement, recreation, or sport: to play cards as a pastime.
- pastina — very small pieces of pasta in various shapes, used especially in soups.
- pasting — a mixture of flour and water, often with starch or the like, used for causing paper or other material to adhere to something.
- pastose — having a heavy impasto.
- pasture — Rogier [French raw-zhee-ey] /French rɔ ʒiˈeɪ/ (Show IPA), or Roger [French raw-zhey] /French rɔˈʒeɪ/ (Show IPA), de la [French duh-la] /French də la/ (Show IPA), Weyden, Rogier van der.
- peltast — (in ancient Greece) a lightly armed foot soldier
- piaster — a former coin of Turkey, the 100th part of a lira: replaced by the kurus in 1933.
- piastre — a former coin of Turkey, the 100th part of a lira: replaced by the kurus in 1933.
- plaster — a composition, as of lime or gypsum, sand, water, and sometimes hair or other fiber, applied in a pasty form to walls, ceilings, etc., and allowed to harden and dry.
- plastic — Often, plastics. any of a group of synthetic or natural organic materials that may be shaped when soft and then hardened, including many types of resins, resinoids, polymers, cellulose derivatives, casein materials, and proteins: used in place of other materials, as glass, wood, and metals, in construction and decoration, for making many articles, as coatings, and, drawn into filaments, for weaving. They are often known by trademark names, as Bakelite, Vinylite, or Lucite.
- plastid — a small, double-membraned organelle of plant cells and certain protists, occurring in several varieties, as the chloroplast, and containing ribosomes, prokaryotic DNA, and, often, pigment.
- podcast — a digital audio or video file or recording, usually part of a themed series, that can be downloaded from a website to a media player or computer: Download or subscribe to daily, one-hour podcasts of our radio show.
- precast — to cast (a concrete block or slab, etc.) in a place other than where it is to be installed in a structure.
- rastrum — a pen for drawing the five lines of a musical stave simultaneously
- retaste — to try or test the flavor or quality of (something) by taking some into the mouth: to taste food.
- roaster — roasted meat or a piece of roasted meat, as a piece of beef or veal of a quantity and shape for slicing into more than one portion.
- shastra — any of the sacred books of Hinduism.
- shastri — Lal Bahadur [lahl bah-hah-doo r] /lɑl bɑˈhɑ dʊər/ (Show IPA), 1904–66, Indian statesman: prime minister 1964–66.
- sitfast — a sore on a horse's back caused by rubbing of the saddle
- spastic — Pathology. pertaining to, of the nature of, or characterized by spasm, especially tonic spasm.
- sunfast — not subject to fading in sunlight, as a dye, fabric, or garment.
- tastier — good-tasting; savory: a tasty canapé.
- tastily — good-tasting; savory: a tasty canapé.
- tasting — event where food or drink is sampled
- toasted — a salutation or a few words of congratulation, good wishes, appreciation, remembrance, etc., uttered immediately before drinking to a person, event, etc.