| aftertaste | (noun) an afterimage of a taste | - |
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| alabaster | (noun) a very light white | - |
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| (noun) a compact fine-textured, usually white gypsum used for carving | - |
| (noun) a hard compact kind of calcite | Synonyms: Mexican onyx, onyx marble, oriental alabaster |
| aster | (noun) star-shaped structure formed in the cytoplasm of a cell having fibers like rays that surround the centrosome during mitosis | - |
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| (noun) any of various chiefly fall-blooming herbs of the genus Aster with showy daisylike flowers | - |
| astereognosis | (noun) a loss of the ability to recognize objects by handling them | Synonyms: tactile agnosia |
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| asterion | (noun) the craniometric point at the junction of the lamboid suture and the occipitomastoid suture and the parietomastoid suture | - |
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| asterisk | (noun) a star-shaped character * used in printing | Synonyms: star |
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| asterism | (noun) (astronomy) a cluster of stars (or a small constellation) | - |
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| (noun) (mineralogy) a star-shaped figure with six rays that is seen in some crystal structures under reflected or transmitted light | - |
| asteroid | (noun) any of numerous small celestial bodies composed of rock and metal that move around the sun (mainly between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter) | - |
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| bandmaster | (noun) the conductor of a band | - |
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| baste | (noun) a loose temporary sewing stitch to hold layers of fabric together | Synonyms: basting, basting stitch, tacking |
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| baster | (noun) a tube with a rubber bulb used to take up and release melted fat or gravy in order to moisten roasting meat | - |
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| (noun) a sewer who fastens a garment with long loose stitches | Synonyms: tacker |
| (noun) a cook who bastes roasting meat with melted fat or gravy | - |
| blastema | (noun) a mass of undifferentiated cells from which an organ or body part develops | - |
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| blaster | (noun) a workman employed to blast with explosives | Synonyms: chargeman |
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| boaster | (noun) a very boastful and talkative person | Synonyms: blowhard, braggart, bragger, line-shooter, vaunter |
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| broadcaster | (noun) a mechanical device for scattering something (seed or fertilizer or sand etc.) in all directions | Synonyms: spreader |
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| (noun) someone who broadcasts on radio or television | - |
| burgomaster | (noun) a mayor of a municipality in Germany or Holland or Flanders or Austria | - |
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| cadaster | (noun) a public register showing the details of ownership and value of land; made for the purpose of taxation | Synonyms: cadastre |
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| caste | (noun) in some social insects (such as ants) a physically distinct individual or group of individuals specialized to perform certain functions in the colony | - |
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| (noun) a social class separated from others by distinctions of hereditary rank or profession or wealth | - |
| (noun) (Hinduism) a hereditary social class among Hindus; stratified according to ritual purity | - |
| (noun) social status or position conferred by a system based on class | - |
| caster | (noun) a pivoting roller attached to the bottom of furniture or trucks or portable machines to make them movable | Synonyms: castor |
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| (noun) a shaker with a perforated top for sprinkling powdered sugar | Synonyms: castor |
| (noun) a worker who casts molten metal into finished products | - |
| cerastes | (noun) highly venomous viper of northern Africa and southwestern Asia having a horny spine above each eye | Synonyms: Cerastes cornutus, horned asp, horned viper, sand viper |
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| chasteness | (noun) lack of ornamentation | Synonyms: restraint, simpleness, simplicity |
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| chastening | (noun) a rebuke for making a mistake | Synonyms: chastisement, correction |
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| choirmaster | (noun) the musical director of a choir | Synonyms: cantor, precentor |
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| coaster | (noun) a covering (plate or mat) that protects the surface of a table (i.e., from the condensation on a cold glass or bottle) | - |
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| (noun) someone who coasts | - |
| (noun) a resident of a coastal area | - |
| conacaste | (noun) tropical South American tree having a wide-spreading crown of bipinnate leaves and coiled ear-shaped fruits; grown for shade and ornament as well as valuable timber | Synonyms: elephant's ear, Enterolobium cyclocarpa |
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| cotoneaster | (noun) any shrub of the genus Cotoneaster: erect or creeping shrubs having richly colored autumn foliage and many small white to pinkish flowers followed by tiny red or black fruits | - |
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| diastema | (noun) a gap or vacant space between two teeth | - |
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| disaster | (noun) an act that has disastrous consequences | - |
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| (noun) an event resulting in great loss and misfortune | Synonyms: calamity, cataclysm, catastrophe, tragedy |
| (noun) a state of extreme (usually irremediable) ruin and misfortune | Synonyms: catastrophe |
| distaste | (noun) a feeling of intense dislike | Synonyms: antipathy, aversion |
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| distastefulness | (noun) the quality of being offensive | Synonyms: odiousness, offensiveness |
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| (noun) extreme unpalatability to the mouth | Synonyms: disgustingness, nauseatingness, sickeningness, unsavoriness |
| easter | (noun) a wind from the east | Synonyms: east wind, easterly |
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| easterly | (noun) a wind from the east | Synonyms: east wind, easter |
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| easterner | (noun) an inhabitant of an eastern area; especially of the U.S. | - |
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| fastener | (noun) restraint that attaches to something or holds something in place | Synonyms: fastening, fixing, holdfast |
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| (noun) a person who fastens or makes fast | - |
| fastening | (noun) the act of fastening things together | Synonyms: attachment |
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| (noun) restraint that attaches to something or holds something in place | Synonyms: fastener, fixing, holdfast |
| fishpaste | (noun) a paste of fish or shellfish | - |
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| forecaster | (noun) someone who makes predictions of the future (usually on the basis of special knowledge) | Synonyms: predictor, prognosticator, soothsayer |
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| foretaste | (noun) an early limited awareness of something yet to occur | - |
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| gasteromycete | (noun) any fungus of the class Gasteromycetes | Synonyms: gastromycete |
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| grandmaster | (noun) a player of exceptional or world class skill in chess or bridge | - |
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| haste | (noun) the act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner | Synonyms: hurry, rush, rushing |
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| (noun) overly eager speed (and possible carelessness) | Synonyms: hastiness, hurriedness, hurry, precipitation |
| (noun) a condition of urgency making it necessary to hurry | Synonyms: hurry |
| headmaster | (noun) presiding officer of a school | Synonyms: master, schoolmaster |
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| headmastership | (noun) the position of headmaster | - |
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| housemaster | (noun) teacher in charge of a school boardinghouse | - |
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| hypercoaster | (noun) a roller coaster that goes up 200 feet or higher and can catapult riders from 0 to 70 mph in 4 seconds by motors originally designed to launch rockets | - |
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| lockmaster | (noun) a worker in charge of a lock (on a canal) | Synonyms: lockkeeper, lockman |
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| mastectomy | (noun) surgical removal of a breast to remove a malignant tumor | - |
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| master | (noun) an original creation (i.e., an audio recording) from which copies can be made | Synonyms: master copy, original |
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| (noun) key that secures entrance everywhere | Synonyms: master key, passe-partout, passkey |
| (noun) an artist of consummate skill | Synonyms: maestro |
| (noun) a combatant who is able to defeat rivals | Synonyms: superior, victor |
| (noun) an authority qualified to teach apprentices | Synonyms: professional |
| (noun) directs the work of others | - |
| (noun) a person who has general authority over others | Synonyms: lord, overlord |
| (noun) someone who holds a master's degree from academic institution | - |
| (noun) presiding officer of a school | Synonyms: headmaster, schoolmaster |
| (noun) an officer who is licensed to command a merchant ship | Synonyms: captain, sea captain, skipper |
| mastering | (noun) the act of making a master recording from which copies can be made | - |
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| (noun) becoming proficient in the use of something; having mastery of | - |
| mastermind | (noun) someone who creates new things | Synonyms: conceiver, originator |
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| (noun) someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality | Synonyms: brain, brainiac, Einstein, genius |
| masterpiece | (noun) an outstanding achievement | - |
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| (noun) the most outstanding work of a creative artist or craftsman | Synonyms: chef-d'oeuvre |
| mastership | (noun) the position of master | - |
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| (noun) the skill of a master | - |
| masterstroke | (noun) an achievement demonstrating great skill or mastery | - |
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| masterwort | (noun) any plant of the genus Astrantia | Synonyms: astrantia |
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| mastery | (noun) the act of mastering or subordinating someone | Synonyms: subordination |
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| (noun) great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity | Synonyms: command, control |
| (noun) power to dominate or defeat | Synonyms: domination, supremacy |
| monastery | (noun) the residence of a religious community | - |
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| newscaster | (noun) someone who broadcasts the news | - |
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| noreaster | (noun) a storm blowing from the northeast | Synonyms: northeaster |
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| northeaster | (noun) a storm blowing from the northeast | Synonyms: noreaster |
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| oleaster | (noun) any of several shrubs of the genus Elaeagnus having silver-white twigs and yellow flowers followed by olivelike fruits | - |
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| outcaste | (noun) a person belonging to no caste | - |
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| paste | (noun) a tasty mixture to be spread on bread or crackers or used in preparing other dishes | Synonyms: spread |
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| (noun) an adhesive made from water and flour or starch; used on paper and paperboard | Synonyms: library paste |
| (noun) any mixture of a soft and malleable consistency | - |
| (noun) a hard, brilliant lead glass that is used in making artificial jewelry | - |
| pasteboard | (noun) stiff cardboard made by pasting together layers of paper | - |
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| pastel | (noun) any of various pale or light colors | - |
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| paster | (noun) an adhesive label | Synonyms: gummed label, sticker |
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| (noun) a workman who pastes | - |
| pastern | (noun) the part between the fetlock and the hoof | Synonyms: fetter bone |
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| pasteurellosis | (noun) an acute infectious disease characterized by pneumonia and blood infection | Synonyms: hemorrhagic septicemia |
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| pasteurisation | (noun) partial sterilization of foods at a temperature that destroys harmful microorganisms without major changes in the chemistry of the food | Synonyms: pasteurization |
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| pasteuriser | (noun) an apparatus for pasteurizing substances (especially milk). | Synonyms: pasteurizer |
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| pasteurization | (noun) partial sterilization of foods at a temperature that destroys harmful microorganisms without major changes in the chemistry of the food | Synonyms: pasteurisation |
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| pasteurizer | (noun) an apparatus for pasteurizing substances (especially milk). | Synonyms: pasteuriser |
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| paymaster | (noun) a person in charge of paying wages | - |
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| piaster | (noun) a fractional monetary unit in Egypt and Lebanon and Sudan and Syria | Synonyms: piastre |
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| (noun) 100 kurus equal 1 lira in Turkey | Synonyms: kurus, piastre |
| pilaster | (noun) a rectangular column that usually projects about a third of its width from the wall to which it is attached | - |
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| plaster | (noun) adhesive tape used in dressing wounds | Synonyms: adhesive plaster, sticking plaster |
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| (noun) a surface of hardened plaster (as on a wall or ceiling) | Synonyms: plasterwork |
| (noun) a medical dressing consisting of a soft heated mass of meal or clay that is spread on a cloth and applied to the skin to treat inflamed areas or improve circulation etc. | Synonyms: cataplasm, poultice |
| (noun) a mixture of lime or gypsum with sand and water; hardens into a smooth solid; used to cover walls and ceilings | - |
| (noun) any of several gypsum cements; a white powder (a form of calcium sulphate) that forms a paste when mixed with water and hardens into a solid; used in making molds and sculptures and casts for broken limbs | Synonyms: plaster of Paris |
| plasterboard | (noun) wallboard with a gypsum plaster core bonded to layers of paper or fiberboard; used instead of plaster or wallboard to make interior walls | Synonyms: gypsum board |
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| plasterer | (noun) a worker skilled in applying plaster | - |
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| plastering | (noun) the application of plaster | Synonyms: daubing |
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| plasterwork | (noun) a surface of hardened plaster (as on a wall or ceiling) | Synonyms: plaster |
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| pleonaste | (noun) a dark-colored spinel containing iron | Synonyms: ceylonite |
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| postmaster | (noun) the person in charge of a post office | - |
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| quartermaster | (noun) an army officer who provides clothing and subsistence for troops | - |
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| quizmaster | (noun) the host or chairman of a radio or tv quiz show or panel game | Synonyms: question master |
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| raster | (noun) the rectangular formation of parallel scanning lines that guide the electron beam on a television screen or a computer monitor | - |
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| ringmaster | (noun) the person in charge of performances in a circus ring | - |
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| roaster | (noun) a special cooking pan for roasting | - |
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| (noun) flesh of a large young chicken over 3 1/2 lb suitable for roasting | - |
| (noun) a cook who roasts food | - |
| (noun) a harsh or humorous critic (sometimes intended as a facetious compliment) | - |
| sandblaster | (noun) a tool that throws out a blast of steam laden with sand; used to clean or grind hard surfaces | - |
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| schoolmaster | (noun) food fish of warm Caribbean and Atlantic waters | Synonyms: Lutjanus apodus |
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| (noun) presiding officer of a school | Synonyms: headmaster, master |
| (noun) any person (or institution) who acts as an educator | - |
| scoutmaster | (noun) the leader of a troop of Scouts | - |
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| shinplaster | (noun) paper money of little value issued on insufficient security | - |
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| solenogaster | (noun) deep-water wormlike mollusks lacking calcareous plates on the body but having fine slimy spicules on the covering mantle | Synonyms: aplacophoran |
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| southeaster | (noun) a strong wind from the southeast | Synonyms: sou'easter |
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| sportscaster | (noun) an announcer who reads sports news or describes sporting events | Synonyms: sports announcer, sports commentator |
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| spymaster | (noun) someone who directs clandestine intelligence activities | - |
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| stationmaster | (noun) the person in charge of a railway station | Synonyms: station agent |
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| tagasaste | (noun) shrub of Canary Islands having bristle-tipped oblanceolate leaves; used as cattle fodder | Synonyms: Chamaecytisus palmensis, Cytesis proliferus |
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| taskmaster | (noun) someone who imposes hard or continuous work | - |
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| taste | (noun) a kind of sensing; distinguishing substances by means of the taste buds | Synonyms: tasting |
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| (noun) delicate discrimination (especially of esthetic values) | Synonyms: appreciation, discernment, perceptiveness |
| (noun) the sensation that results when taste buds in the tongue and throat convey information about the chemical composition of a soluble stimulus | Synonyms: gustatory perception, gustatory sensation, taste perception, taste sensation |
| (noun) the faculty of distinguishing sweet, sour, bitter, and salty properties in the mouth | Synonyms: gustation, gustatory modality, sense of taste |
| (noun) a brief experience of something | - |
| (noun) a strong liking | Synonyms: penchant, predilection, preference |
| (noun) a small amount eaten or drunk | Synonyms: mouthful |
| tastebud | (noun) an oval sensory end organ on the surface of the tongue | Synonyms: gustatory organ, taste bud |
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| tastefulness | (noun) elegance indicated by good taste | - |
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