| BALISTA | • balista n. Alternative form of ballista. • BALISTA n. (Latin) a Roman machine for throwing projectiles, also BALLISTA. |
| BARISTA | • barista n. A person who prepares coffee in a coffee shop for customers. • BARISTA n. one who makes and serves coffee to the public. |
| CANASTA | • canasta n. (Uncountable, games, card games) A card game similar to rummy and played using two packs, where the… • canasta n. (Countable, card games) A meld of seven cards in a game of canasta. • CANASTA n. (Spanish) a card game similar to rummy. |
| CATASTA | • catasta n. (Historical) A platform for exhibiting slaves for sale. • catasta n. (Historical) A stage or place for torture. • CATASTA n. (Latin) a scaffold or stage for torture or selling slaves. |
| CELESTA | • celesta n. (Music) A musical instrument consisting principally of a set of graduated steel plates struck with hammers… • Celesta prop.n. A female given name. • CELESTA n. (French) a keyboard instrument, also CELESTE. |
| GANGSTA | • gangsta n. (Slang) A member of an urban criminal or street gang. • gangsta adj. (Slang) Exhibiting the traits or demeanor associated with the lifestyle of urban thugs or hustlers. • GANGSTA n. an aggressive, misogynistic style of rap music. |
| GENISTA | • genista n. (Botany) Any member of the flowering plant genus Genista. • Genista prop.n. A taxonomic genus within the family Fabaceae – broom. • GENISTA n. (Latin) a genus of plants including the common broom of Western Europe. |
| INGESTA | • ingesta n. Material introduced into the body by the stomach or alimentary canal. • INGESTA n. (Latin) that which is introduced into the body by the stomach or alimentary canal. |
| LOCUSTA | • locusta n. (Botany) The spikelet or flower cluster of grasses. • Locusta prop.n. A taxonomic genus within the family Acrididae – the locusts. • LOCUSTA n. (Latin) the spikelet or flower cluster of grasses. |
| PODESTA | • podesta n. (Historical) A chief magistrate of the Italian republics in the Middle Ages. • podesta n. A municipal office (Variously denoting a mayor, councilor, etc.) in some Italian-speaking towns. • Podesta prop.n. A surname from Italian. |
| ROBUSTA | • robusta n. A plant of the African coffee plant species Coffea canephora. • robusta n. Beans, ground roasted beans, or beverage from the robusta coffee bean, used primarily in instant coffee… • ROBUSTA n. a kind of coffee grown in Africa. |
| TURISTA | • TURISTA n. (Spanish) intestinal sickness affecting a tourist in a foreign country, also TOURISTA. |
| WANKSTA | • wanksta n. (Slang, derogatory) A person who pretends to be a member of an urban gang or affects hip-hop styles… • WANKSTA n. (vulgar colloquial) a person who acts and dresses like a gangster but is not involved in crime. |