Words that rhyme with presta

n 1: a musical instrument consisting of graduated steel plates that are struck by hammers activated by a keyboard

n 1: an elaborate party (often outdoors) [syn: fete, feast, fiesta]

n 1: someone who samples food or drink for its quality [syn: taster, taste tester, taste-tester, sampler]

n 1: English surgeon who was the first to use antiseptics (1827-1912) [syn: Lister, Joseph Lister, Baron Lister] 2: assessor who makes out the tax lists 3: moldboard plow with a double moldboard designed to move dirt to either side of a central furrow [syn: lister, lister plow, lister plough, middlebreaker, middle buster]

n 1: wind that blows from west to east [syn: west wind, wester]

n 1: protective outer layer of seeds of flowering plants [syn: testa, episperm, seed coat]

n 1: (Roman mythology) goddess of the hearth and its fire whose flame was tended by vestal virgins; counterpart of Greek Hestia 2: the brightest asteroid but the fourth to be discovered

n 1: a city of southeastern Pennsylvania on the Delaware river (an industrial suburb of Philadelphia)

n 1: (Old Testament) a beautiful Jewess chosen by the king of Persia to be his queen; she stopped a plot to massacre all the Jews in Persia (an event celebrated by Jews as the feast of Purim) 2: an Old Testament book telling of a beautiful Jewess who became queen of Persia and saved her people from massacre [syn: Esther, Book of Esther]

n 1: a largely agricultural county in central England [syn: Leicestershire, Leicester] 2: an industrial city in Leicestershire in central England; built on the site of a Roman settlement

n 1: (Greek mythology) a wise old counselor to the Greeks at Troy 2: a genus of Psittacidae [syn: Nestor, genus Nestor]

n 1: a blouse with buttons down the front; "in Britain they call a shirtwaist a shirtwaister" [syn: shirtwaist, shirtwaister]

n 1: an injection of a liquid through the anus to stimulate evacuation; sometimes used for diagnostic purposes [syn: enema, clyster]