12-letter words that end in st
- somnambulist — sleepwalking.
- southernmost — farthest south.
- speleologist — the exploration and study of caves.
- spiritualist — an adherent of spiritualism.
- spongioblast — one of the primordial cells in the embryonic brain and spinal cord capable of developing into neuroglia.
- spongologist — a person who studies sponges
- squat thrust — an exercise in which the hands are kept on the floor with the arms held straight while the legs are straightened out behind and quickly drawn in towards the body again
- staging post — an area, as a port of embarkation, where troops are assembled and readied for transit to a new field of operations.
- stegophilist — a person who enjoys climbing up the outside of buildings
- stercoranist — a person who believes in stercoranism
- stereotypist — a process, now often replaced by more advanced methods, for making metal printing plates by taking a mold of composed type or the like in papier-mâché or other material and then taking from this mold a cast in type metal.
- storiologist — a person who studies storiology
- subjectivist — Epistemology. the doctrine that all knowledge is limited to experiences by the self, and that transcendent knowledge is impossible.
- supraprotest — an acceptance or a payment of a bill by a third person after protest for nonacceptance or nonpayment by the drawee.
- swamp locust — water locust.
- synecologist — a student of, or expert in, synecology
- take against — If you take against someone or something, you develop a dislike for them, often for no good reason.
- technologist — a person who specializes in technology.
- tell against — If a feature or characteristic tells against someone, it spoils their chance of success when they are being considered for something, for example a job.
- tempest-tost — buffeted about, as by adversities.
- the conquest — the conquest by the United Kingdom of French North America, ending in 1763
- the far east — the countries of E Asia, usually including China, Japan, North and South Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines: sometimes extended to include all territories east of Afghanistan
- the far west — the area of the United States west of the Great Plains
- the greatest — an exceptional person
- the psalmist — King David, to whom all or certain of the Psalms are variously attributed
- theorematist — a person who creates or discovers a theorem
- therapeutist — a person trained in the use of physical methods, as exercises, heat treatments, etc., in treating or rehabilitating the sick or wounded or helping patients overcome physical defects.
- thereagainst — in opposition to; in a contrary manner
- thirty-first — next after the thirtieth; being the ordinal number for 31.
- timbrologist — a stamp-collector
- to be honest — in truth
- to hold fast — If you hold something fast, you hold it tightly and firmly. If something is stuck fast, it is stuck very firmly and cannot move.
- to know best — If you say that a particular person knows best, you mean that they have a lot of experience and should therefore be trusted to make decisions for other people.
- to play host — If a person or country plays host to an event or an important visitor, they host the event or the visit.
- totten trust — a trust created by opening a savings account in which the depositor is trustee for another, such trust being revocable at any time during the depositor's lifetime.
- trading post — a store established in an unsettled or thinly settled region by a trader or trading company to obtain furs and local products in exchange for supplies, clothing, other goods, or for cash.
- traditionist — a traditionalist.
- transformist — an adherent of transformism.
- transvestist — someone who partakes in transvestism
- trichologist — the science dealing with the study of the hair and its diseases.
- trinomialist — a person who advocates trinomialism
- triumphalist — Triumphalist behaviour is behaviour in which politicians or organizations celebrate a victory or a great success, especially when this is intended to upset the people they have defeated.
- trysail mast — a small auxiliary mast fastened just abaft the mainmast or foremast of a sailing vessel.
- turn against — become hostile to
- twenty-first — next after the twentieth; being the ordinal number for 21.
- typographist — a person skilled in the art of typography
- ultraleftist — ultraleft.
- ultrarealist — a proponent of ultrarealism
- under arrest — to seize (a person) by legal authority or warrant; take into custody: The police arrested the burglar.
- universalist — a person characterized by universalism, as in knowledge, interests, or activities.