12-letter words that end in st
- urban forest — the trees and plants within a city.
- urbanologist — a sociologist specializing in urban life and problems
- van der post — Sir Laurens (Jan). 1906–96, South African writer and traveller. His works include the travel books Venture to the Interior (1952), The Lost World of the Kalahari (1958), and Testament to the Bushmen (1984) and the novels The Hunter and the Whale (1967) and The Admiral's Baby (1996)
- variationist — a person who studies variations in the use of a language by its speakers
- vaudevillist — a person who writes for vaudeville
- vers-librist — a person who writes free verse.
- vine harvest — the gathering of the grapes from grapevines
- vision quest — (especially among some North American Indians) the ritual seeking of personal communication with the spirit world through visions that are induced by fasting, prayer, and other measures during a time of isolation: typically undertaken by an adolescent male.
- waiting list — a list of persons waiting, as for reservations, appointments, living accommodations, or admission to a school.
- water locust — a spiny tree, Gleditsia aquatica, of the legume family, native to the southeastern coastal U.S., having pinnate leaves, greenish-yellow, bell-shaped flowers, and long-stalked, thin pods.
- whereagainst — against which
- will contest — legal proceedings to contest the authenticity or validity of a will.
- winning post — a post on a racetrack, marking the goal of a race.
- zen buddhist — a follower or adherent of Zen Buddhism