Words That End With: PEST

• either side of the body below the waist and above the thigh

• the structure of the vertebrate skeleton supporting the lower limbs in humans and the hind limbs or corresponding parts in other vertebrates

• the ball-and-socket joint between the head of the femur and the acetabulum

• (architecture) the exterior angle formed by the junction of a sloping side and a sloping end of a roof

• the fruit of a rose plant

• informed about the latest trends

• a slight wetness

• slightly wet

• deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping

• restrain or discourage

• make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible

• lessen in force or effect

• a violent commotion or disturbance

• (literary) a violent wind

• the uneven manner of walking that results from an injured leg

• without energy or will

• lacking or having lost rigidity

• walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury

• proceed slowly or with difficulty

• relatively deep or strong; affecting one deeply

• having great spatial extension or penetration downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or laterally or outward from a center; sometimes used in combination

• the central and most intense or profound part

• a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor

• literary term for an ocean

• to a great depth; far down or in

• to an advanced time

• to a great distance

• marked by depth of thinking

• very distant in time or space

• intense or extreme

• having or denoting a low vocal or instrumental range

• strong; intense

• relatively thick from top to bottom

• extending relatively far inward

• (of darkness) densely dark

• large in quantity or size

• with head or back bent low

• of an obscure nature

• difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge

• exhibiting great cunning usually with secrecy

• a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed-stressed syllables

• fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used

• fully prepared or eager

• most suitable or right for a particular purpose

• at the highest point of development especially in judgment or knowledge

• far along in time

• a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal

• any epidemic disease with a high death rate

• a persistently annoying person

• any unwanted and destructive insect or other animal that attacks food or crops or livestock etc.