Words that rhyme with testa

• ballista 0
  n 1: an engine that provided medieval artillery used during sieges; a heavy war engine for hurling large stones and other missiles [syn: catapult, arbalest, arbalist, ballista, bricole, mangonel, onager, trebuchet, trebucket]
• bistre 0
  n 1: a water-soluble brownish-yellow pigment made by boiling wood soot [syn: bister, bistre]
• blister 0
  n 1: a flaw on a surface resulting when an applied substance does not adhere (as an air bubble in a coat of paint) 2: (botany) a swelling on a plant similar to that on the skin 3: (pathology) an elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid [syn: blister, bulla, bleb] v 1: get blistered; "Her feet blistered during the long hike" [syn: blister, vesicate] 2: subject to harsh criticism; "The Senator blistered the administration in his speech on Friday"; "the professor scaled the students"; "your invectives scorched the community" [syn: blister, scald, whip] 3: cause blisters to form on; "the tight shoes and perspiration blistered her feet"
• celesta 0
  n 1: a musical instrument consisting of graduated steel plates that are struck by hammers activated by a keyboard
• ester 0
  n 1: formed by reaction between an acid and an alcohol with elimination of water
• fester 0
  n 1: a sore that has become inflamed and formed pus [syn: fester, suppurating sore] v 1: ripen and generate pus; "her wounds are festering" [syn: fester, maturate, suppurate]
• fiesta 0
  n 1: an elaborate party (often outdoors) [syn: fete, feast, fiesta]
• glister 0
  n 1: the quality of shining with a bright reflected light [syn: glitter, glister, glisten, scintillation, sparkle]
• jester 0
  n 1: a professional clown employed to entertain a king or nobleman in the Middle Ages [syn: jester, fool, motley fool]
• leister 0
  n 1: a spear with three or more prongs; used for spearing fish (especially salmon)
• mister 0
  n 1: a form of address for a man [syn: Mister, Mr, Mr.]
• northeaster 0
  n 1: a storm blowing from the northeast [syn: northeaster, noreaster]
• pester 0
  v 1: annoy persistently; "The children teased the boy because of his stammer" [syn: tease, badger, pester, bug, beleaguer]
• resistor 0
  n 1: an electrical device that resists the flow of electrical current [syn: resistor, resistance]
• siesta 0
  n 1: a nap in the early afternoon (especially in hot countries)
• sister 0
  n 1: a female person who has the same parents as another person; "my sister married a musician" [syn: sister, sis] [ant: blood brother, brother] 2: (Roman Catholic Church) a title given to a nun (and used as a form of address); "the Sisters taught her to love God" 3: a female person who is a fellow member of a sorority or labor union or other group; "none of her sisters would betray her" 4: (slang) sometimes used as a term of address for attractive young women [syn: baby, babe, sister]
• southeaster 0
  n 1: a strong wind from the southeast [syn: southeaster, sou'easter]
• stepsister 0
  n 1: a sister who has only one parent in common with you [syn: half sister, half-sister, stepsister]
• taster 0
  n 1: someone who samples food or drink for its quality [syn: taster, taste tester, taste-tester, sampler]
• tester 0
  n 1: someone who administers a test to determine your qualifications [syn: examiner, tester, quizzer] 2: a flat canopy (especially one over a four-poster bed)
• thermistor 0
  n 1: a semiconductor device made of materials whose resistance varies as a function of temperature; can be used to compensate for temperature variation in other components of a circuit [syn: thermistor, thermal resistor]
• transistor 0
  n 1: a semiconductor device capable of amplification [syn: transistor, junction transistor, electronic transistor]
• twister 0
  n 1: a localized and violently destructive windstorm occurring over land characterized by a funnel-shaped cloud extending toward the ground [syn: tornado, twister] 2: small friedcake formed into twisted strips and fried; richer than doughnuts [syn: cruller, twister]
• vista 0
  n 1: the visual percept of a region; "the most desirable feature of the park are the beautiful views" [syn: view, aspect, prospect, scene, vista, panorama]
• waster 0
  n 1: someone who dissipates resources self-indulgently [syn: wastrel, waster] 2: a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to; "a destroyer of the environment"; "jealousy was his undoer"; "uprooters of gravestones" [syn: destroyer, ruiner, undoer, waster, uprooter]
• easter 0
  n 1: a Christian celebration of the Resurrection of Christ; celebrated on the Sunday following the first full moon after the vernal equinox 2: a wind from the east [syn: east wind, easter, easterly]
• lister 0
  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]
• wester 0
  n 1: wind that blows from west to east [syn: west wind, wester]
• vesta 0
  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
• chester 0
  n 1: a city of southeastern Pennsylvania on the Delaware river (an industrial suburb of Philadelphia)
• esther 0
  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]
• leicester 0
  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
• nestor 0
  n 1: (Greek mythology) a wise old counselor to the Greeks at Troy 2: a genus of Psittacidae [syn: Nestor, genus Nestor]
• shirtwaister 0
  n 1: a blouse with buttons down the front; "in Britain they call a shirtwaist a shirtwaister" [syn: shirtwaist, shirtwaister]
• clyster 0
  n 1: an injection of a liquid through the anus to stimulate evacuation; sometimes used for diagnostic purposes [syn: enema, clyster]
• assister 0
• enlister 0
• feaster 0
• phototransistor 0
• poetaster 0
• varistor 0
• crista 0
• krista 0
• sandinista 0
• agresta 0
• cuesta 0
• esta 0
• festa 0
• mesta 0
• nesta 0
• pesta 0
• presta 0
• claresta 0
• modesta 0
• podesta 0
• sebesta 0
• sonesta 0
• tempesta 0
• malatesta 0
• batista 0
• hester 0
• questor 0
• polyhistor 0

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