| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| stabbingly | adverb | By stabbing; with intent to injure covertly. |
| stableness | noun | The quality or state of being stable, or firmly established; stability. |
| stackstand | noun | A staging for supporting a stack of hay or grain; a rickstand. |
| stadimeter | noun | A horizontal graduated bar mounted on a staff, used as a stadium, or telemeter, for measuring distances. |
| stagecoach | noun | A coach that runs regularly from one stage, station, or place to another, for the conveyance of passengers. |
| stagehouse | noun | A house where a stage regularly stops for passengers or a relay of horses. |
| staggering | present participle & vb. noun | of Stagger |
| stagnantly | adverb | In a stagnant manner. |
| stagnating | present participle & vb. noun | of Stagnate |
| stagnation | noun | The condition of being stagnant; cessation of flowing or circulation, as of a fluid; the state of being motionless; as, the stagnation of the blood; the stagnation of water or air; the stagnation of vapors., The cessation of action, or of brisk action; the state of being dull; as, the stagnation of business. |
| stalactite | noun | A pendent cone or cylinder of calcium carbonate resembling an icicle in form and mode of attachment. Stalactites are found depending from the roof or sides of caverns, and are produced by deposition from waters which have percolated through, and partially dissolved, the overlying limestone rocks., In an extended sense, any mineral or rock of similar form and origin; as, a stalactite of lava. |
| stalagmite | noun | A deposit more or less resembling an inverted stalactite, formed by calcareous water dropping on the floors of caverns; hence, a similar deposit of other material. |
| stalk-eyed | adjective | Having the eyes raised on a stalk, or peduncle; — opposed to sessile-eyed. Said especially of podophthalmous crustaceans. |
| stallation | noun | Installation. |
| stall-feed | verb t. | To feed and fatten in a stall or on dry fodder; as, to stall-feed an ox. |
| stalwartly | adverb | In a stalwart manner. |
| stamineous | adjective | Consisting of stamens or threads., Of or pertaining to the stamens; possessing stamens; also, attached to the stamens; as, a stamineous nectary. |
| staminodia | plural | of Staminodium |
| stammering | present participle & vb. noun | of Stammer, Apt to stammer; hesitating in speech; stuttering., A disturbance in the formation of sounds. It is due essentially to long-continued spasmodic contraction of the diaphragm, by which expiration is preented, and hence it may be considered as a spasmodic inspiration. |
| stanchless | adjective | Incapable of being stanched, or stopped., Unquenchable; insatiable. |
| stanchness | noun | The quality or state of being stanch. |
| stander-by | noun | One who stands near; one who is present; a bystander. |
| standpoint | noun | A fixed point or station; a basis or fundamental principle; a position from which objects or principles are viewed, and according to which they are compared and judged. |
| standstill | noun | A standing without moving forward or backward; a stop; a state or rest. |
| stannaries | plural | of Stannary |
| stannotype | noun | A photograph taken upon a tin plate; a tintype. |
| staphyline | adjective | Of or pertaining to the uvula or the palate. |
| staphyloma | noun | A protrusion of any part of the globe of the eye; as, a staphyloma of the cornea. |
| star-blind | adjective | Half blind. |
| starchness | noun | Of or pertaining to starched or starch; stiffness of manner; preciseness. |
| starchwort | noun | The cuckoopint, the tubers of which yield a fine quality of starch. |
| stargasing | noun | The act or practice of observing the stars with attention; contemplation of the stars as connected with astrology or astronomy., Hence, absent-mindedness; abstraction. |
| starmonger | noun | A fortune teller; an astrologer; — used in contempt. |
| starriness | noun | The quality or state of being starry; as, the starriness of the heavens. |
| starthroat | noun | Any humming bird of the genus Heliomaster. The feathers of the throat have a brilliant metallic luster. |
| startingly | adverb | By sudden fits or starts; spasmodically. |
| starvation | noun | The act of starving, or the state of being starved. |
| starveling | noun | One who, or that which, pines from lack or food, or nutriment., Hungry; lean; pining with want. |
| statecraft | noun | The art of conducting state affairs; state management; statesmanship. |
| statehouse | noun | The building in which a State legislature holds its sessions; a State capitol. |
| statically | adverb | In a statical manner. |
| stationing | present participle & vb. noun | of Station |
| stationary | adjective | Not moving; not appearing to move; stable; fixed., Not improving or getting worse; not growing wiser, greater, better, more excellent, or the contrary., Appearing to be at rest, because moving in the line of vision; not progressive or retrograde, as a planet., One who, or that which, is stationary, as a planet when apparently it has neither progressive nor retrograde motion. |
| stationery | noun | The articles usually sold by stationers, as paper, pens, ink, quills, blank books, etc., Belonging to, or sold by, a stationer. |
| statistics | noun | The science which has to do with the collection and classification of certain facts respecting the condition of the people in a state., Classified facts respecting the condition of the people in a state, their health, their longevity, domestic economy, arts, property, and political strength, their resources, the state of the country, etc., or respecting any particular class or interest; especially, those facts which can be stated in numbers, or in tables of numbers, or in any tabular and classified arrangement., The branch of mathematics which studies methods for the calculation of probabilities. |
| statoblast | noun | One of a peculiar kind of internal buds, or germs, produced in the interior of certain Bryozoa and sponges, especially in the fresh-water species; — also called winter buds. |
| statocracy | noun | Government by the state, or by political power, in distinction from government by ecclesiastical power. |
| statuaries | plural | of Statuary |
| statueless | adjective | Without a statue. |
| statuelike | adjective | Like a statue; motionless. |
| statuesque | adjective | Partaking of, or exemplifying, the characteristics of a statue; having the symmetry, or other excellence, of a statue artistically made; as, statuesquelimbs; a statuesque attitude. |
| status quo | The state in which anything is already. The phrase is also used retrospectively, as when, on a treaty of place, matters return to the status quo ante bellum, or are left in statu quo ante bellum, i.e., the state (or, in the state) before the war. | |
| statutable | adjective | Made or introduced by statute; proceeding from an act of the legistature; as, a statutable provision or remedy., Made or being in conformity to statute; standard; as, statutable measures. |
| statutably | adverb | Conformably to statute. |
| staurolite | noun | A mineral of a brown to black color occurring in prismatic crystals, often twinned so as to form groups resembling a cross. It is a silicate of aluminia and iron, and is generally found imbedded in mica schist. Called also granatite, and grenatite. |
| staurotide | noun | Staurolite. |
| stavesacre | noun | A kind of larkspur (Delphinium Staphysagria), and its seeds, which are violently purgative and emetic. They are used as a parasiticide, and in the East for poisoning fish. |
| stayedness | noun | Staidness., Solidity; weight. |
| steadiness | noun | The quality or state of being steady. |
| stealingly | adverb | By stealing, or as by stealing, furtively, or by an invisible motion. |
| stealthful | adjective | Given to stealth; stealthy. |
| stealthily | adverb | In a stealthy manner. |
| steaminess | noun | The quality or condition of being steamy; vaporousness; mistness. |
| steatopyga | noun | A remarkable accretion of fat upon the buttocks of Africans of certain tribes, especially of Hottentot women. |
| stedfastly | adverb | See Stead, Steadfast, etc. |
| steeliness | noun | The quality of being steely. |
| steep-down | adjective | Deep and precipitous, having steep descent. |
| steepening | present participle & vb. noun | of Steepen |
| steepiness | noun | Steepness. |
| steersmate | noun | One who steers; steersman. |
| steganopod | noun | One of the Steganopodes. |
| stellation | noun | Radiation of light. |
| stellerida | noun pl. | An extensive group of echinoderms, comprising the starfishes and ophiurans. |
| stelliform | adjective | Like a star; star-shaped; radiated. |
| stellulate | adjective | Minutely stellate. |
| stencilled | of Stencil | |
| stenciling | present participle & vb. noun | of Stencil |
| stenograph | verb t. | To write or report in stenographic characters., A production of stenography; anything written in shorthand. |
| stenostome | adjective | Having a small or narrow mouth; — said of certain small ground snakes (Opoterodonta), which are unable to dilate their jaws. |
| stentorian | adjective | Of or pertaining to a stentor; extremely loud; powerful; as, a stentorian voice; stentorian lungs. |
| stepfather | noun | The husband of one’s mother by a subsequent marriage. |
| stephanion | noun | The point on the side of the skull where the temporal line, or upper edge of the temporal fossa, crosses the coronal suture. |
| stephanite | noun | A sulphide of antimony and silver of an iron-black color and metallic luster; called also black silver, and brittle silver ore. |
| stepladder | noun | A portable set of steps. |
| stepmother | noun | The wife of one’s father by a subsequent marriage. |
| stepparent | noun | Stepfather or stepmother. |
| stepsister | noun | A daughter of one’s stepfather or stepmother by a former marriage. |
| stercorary | noun | A place, properly secured from the weather, for containing dung. |
| stercorate | noun | Excrement; dung. |
| stereobate | noun | The lower part or basement of a building or pedestal; — used loosely for several different forms of basement. |
| stereogram | noun | A diagram or picture which represents objects in such a way as to give the impression of relief or solidity; also, a stereograph. |
| stereotomy | noun | The science or art of cutting solids into certain figures or sections, as arches, and the like; especially, the art of stonecutting. |
| stereotype | noun | A plate forming an exact faximile of a page of type or of an engraving, used in printing books, etc.; specifically, a plate with type-metal face, used for printing., The art or process of making such plates, or of executing work by means of them., To prepare for printing in stereotype; to make the stereotype plates of; as, to stereotype the Bible., Fig.: To make firm or permanent; to fix. |
| stereotypy | noun | The art or process of making stereotype plates. |
| sterilized | imp. & past participle | of Sterilize |
| sternebrae | plural | of Sternebra |
| stertorous | adjective | Characterized by a deep snoring, which accompaines inspiration in some diseases, especially apoplexy; hence, hoarsely breathing; snoring. |
| stewardess | noun | A female steward; specifically, a woman employed in passenger vessels to attend to the wants of female passengers. |
| stiacciato | noun | The lowest relief, — often used in Italian sculpture of the 15th and 16th centuries. |
| stibialism | noun | Antimonial intoxication or poisoning. |
| stichidium | noun | A special podlike or fusiform branch containing tetraspores. It is found in certain red algae. |
| stickiness | noun | The quality of being sticky; as, the stickiness of glue or paste. |
| stick-seed | noun | A plant (Echinospermum Lappula) of the Borage family, with small blue flowers and prickly nutlets. |
| stiffening | present participle & vb. noun | of Stiffen, Act or process of making stiff., Something used to make anything stiff. |
| stigmatist | noun | One believed to be supernaturally impressed with the marks of Christ’s wounds. See Stigma, 8. |
| stigmatize | verb t. | To mark with a stigma, or brand; as, the ancients stigmatized their slaves and soldiers., To set a mark of disgrace on; to brand with some mark of reproach or infamy. |
| stigmatose | adjective | Same as Stigmatic. |
| stilettoed | imp. & past participle | of Stiletto |
| stillatory | adjective | An alembic; a vessel for distillation., A laboratory; a place or room in which distillation is performed. |
| stillbirth | noun | The birth of a dead fetus. |
| still-burn | present participle & vb. noun | To burn in the process of distillation; as, to still-burn brandy. |
| stillhouse | noun | A house in which distillation is carried on; a distillery. |
| still-hunt | noun | A hunting for game in a quiet and cautious manner, or under cover; stalking; hence, colloquially, the pursuit of any object quietly and cautiously. |
| stillicide | noun | A continual falling or succession of drops; rain water falling from the eaves. |
| stilliform | adjective | Having the form of a drop. |
| stillstand | noun | A standstill. |
| stimulated | imp. & past participle | of Stimulate |
| stimulator | noun | One who stimulates. |
| stinginess | noun | The quality or state of being stingy. |
| stinkingly | adverb | In a stinking manner; with an offensive smell. |
| stinkstone | noun | One of the varieties of calcite, barite, and feldspar, which emit a fetid odor on being struck; — called also swinestone. |
| stipellate | adjective | Having stipels. |
| stipulated | imp. & past participle | of Stipulate |
| stipulator | noun | One who stipulates, contracts, or covenants. |
| stitchwort | noun | See Stichwort. |
| stochastic | adjective | Conjectural; able to conjecture. |
| stockading | present participle & vb. noun | of Stockade |
| stockinger | noun | A stocking weaver. |
| stolidness | noun | Same as Stolidity. |
| stomaching | present participle & vb. noun | of Stomach, Resentment. |
| stomachful | adjective | Willfully obstinate; stubborn; perverse. |
| stomachous | adjective | Stout; sullen; obstinate. |
| stomatitis | noun | Inflammation of the mouth. |
| stomatopod | noun | One of the Stomatopoda. |
| stomodaeum | noun | A part of the alimentary canal. See under Mesenteron., The primitive mouth and esophagus of the embryo of annelids and arthropods. |
| stonebrash | noun | A subsoil made up of small stones or finely-broken rock; brash. |
| stone-cold | adjective | Cold as a stone. |
| stone-dead | adjective | As dead as a stone. |
| stone-deaf | adjective | As deaf as a stone; completely deaf. |
| stonehatch | noun | The ring plover, or dotterel. |
| stonehenge | noun | An assemblage of upright stones with others placed horizontally on their tops, on Salisbury Plain, England, — generally supposed to be the remains of an ancient Druidical temple. |
| stoppering | present participle & vb. noun | of Stopper |
| storehouse | noun | A building for keeping goods of any kind, especially provisions; a magazine; a repository; a warehouse., A mass or quality laid up. |
| storm-beat | adjective | Beaten, injured, or impaired by storms. |
| stormfinch | noun | The storm petrel. |
| stormglass | noun | A glass vessel, usually cylindrical, filled with a solution which is sensitive to atmospheric changes, indicating by a clouded appearance, rain, snow, etc., and by clearness, fair weather. |
| storminess | noun | The state of being stormy; tempestuousness; biosteruousness; impetuousness. |
| stovehouse | noun | A hothouse. |
| strabismus | noun | An affection of one or both eyes, in which the optic axes can not be directed to the same object, — a defect due either to undue contraction or to undue relaxation of one or more of the muscles which move the eyeball; squinting; cross-eye. |
| strabotomy | noun | The operation for the removal of squinting by the division of such muscles as distort the eyeball. |
| straddling | present participle & vb. noun | of Straddle, Applied to spokes when they are arranged alternately in two circles in the hub. See Straddle, v. i., and Straddle, v. t., 3. |
| straggling | present participle & vb. noun | of Straggle, a. & n. from Straggle, v. |
| straighted | imp. & past participle | of Straighten |
| straighten | verb t. | To make straight; to reduce from a crooked to a straight form., To make right or correct; to reduce to order; as, to straighten one’s affairs; to straighten an account., A variant of Straiten. |
| straightly | adverb | In a right line; not crookedly., A variant of Straitly. See 1st Straight. |
| strainable | adjective | Capable of being strained., Violent in action. |
| strainably | adverb | Violently. |
| straitened | imp. & past participle | of Straiten |
| straitness | noun | The quality or condition of being strait; especially, a pinched condition or situation caused by poverty; as, the straitnessof their circumstances. |
| stramazoun | noun | A direct descending blow with the edge of a sword. |
| stramonium | noun | A poisonous plant (Datura Stramonium); stinkweed. See Datura, and Jamestown weed. |
| strangling | present participle & vb. noun | of Strangle |
| strategics | noun | Strategy. |
| strategist | noun | One skilled in strategy, or the science of directing great military movements. |
| strathspey | noun | A lively Scottish dance, resembling the reel, but slower; also, the tune. |
| stratified | adjective | Having its substance arranged in strata, or layers; as, stratified rock., of Stratify |
| stratiform | adjective | Having the form of strata. |
| strawberry | noun | A fragrant edible berry, of a delicious taste and commonly of a red color, the fruit of a plant of the genus Fragaria, of which there are many varieties. Also, the plant bearing the fruit. The common American strawberry is Fragaria virginiana; the European, F. vesca. There are also other less common species. |
| strawboard | noun | Pasteboard made of pulp of straw. |
| streamless | adjective | Destitute of streams, or of a stream, as a region of country, or a dry channel. |
| streetward | noun | An officer, or ward, having the care of the streets., Facing toward the street. |
| streighten | verb t. | See Straiten. |
| strelitzia | noun | A genus of plants related to the banana, found at the Cape of Good Hope. They have rigid glaucous distichous leaves, and peculiar richly colored flowers. |
| strengthen | verb t. | To make strong or stronger; to add strength to; as, to strengthen a limb, a bridge, an army; to strengthen an obligation; to strengthen authority., To animate; to encourage; to fix in resolution., To grow strong or stronger. |
| streperous | adjective | Loud; boisterous. |
| stretching | present participle & vb. noun | of Stretch, a. & n. from Stretch, v. |
| strickless | noun | See Strickle. |
| strictness | noun | Quality or state of being strict. |
| strictured | adjective | Affected with a stricture; as, a strictured duct. |
| stridulate | verb t. | To make a shrill, creaking noise, to make a shrill or musical sound, such as is made by the males of many insects. |
| stridulous | adjective | Making a shrill, creaking sound. |
| stringency | noun | The quality or state of being stringent. |
| stringendo | adjective | Urging or hastening the time, as to a climax. |
| stringhalt | noun | An habitual sudden twitching of the hinder leg of a horse, or an involuntary or convulsive contraction of the muscles that raise the hock. |
| stringless | adjective | Having no strings. |
| strip-leaf | noun | Tobacco which has been stripped of its stalks before packing. |
| strobiline | adjective | Of or pertaining to a strobile; strobilaceous; strobiliform; as, strobiline fruits. |
| strokesman | plural | of Strokesman, The man who rows the aftermost oar, and whose stroke is to be followed by the rest. |
| stronghand | noun | Violence; force; power. |
| stronghold | noun | A fastness; a fort or fortress; fortfield place; a place of security. |
| strongylid | adjective & noun | Strongyloid. |
| strontitic | adjective | Strontic. |
| strophiole | noun | A crestlike excrescence about the hilum of certain seeds; a caruncle. |
| strophulus | noun | See Red-gum, 1. |
| structural | adjective | Of or pertaining to structure; affecting structure; as, a structural error., Of or pertaining to organit structure; as, a structural element or cell; the structural peculiarities of an animal or a plant. |
| structured | adjective | Having a definite organic structure; showing differentiation of parts. |
| struggling | present participle & vb. noun | of Struggle |
| strumstrum | noun | A rude musical instrument somewhat like a cittern. |
| struthious | adjective | Of or pertaining to the Struthiones, or Ostrich tribe. |
| strychnine | noun | A very poisonous alkaloid resembling brucine, obtained from various species of plants, especially from species of Loganiaceae, as from the seeds of the St. Ignatius bean (Strychnos Ignatia) and from nux vomica. It is obtained as a white crystalline substance, having a very bitter acrid taste, and is employed in medicine (chiefly in the form of the sulphate) as a powerful neurotic stimulant. Called also strychnia, and formerly strychnina. |
| stubbiness | noun | The state of being stubby. |
| stuccowork | noun | Work done in stucco. |
| stud-horse | noun | A stallion, esp. one kept for breeding. |
| stuffiness | noun | The quality of being stuffy. |
| stultifier | noun | One who stultifies. |
| stultified | imp. & past participle | of Stultify |
| stumpiness | noun | The state of being stumpy. |
| stupefying | present participle & vb. noun | of Stupefy |
| stupendous | adjective | Astonishing; wonderful; amazing; especially, astonishing in magnitude or elevation; as, a stupendous pile. |
| stupration | noun | Violation of chastity by force; rape. |
| sturdiness | noun | Quality of being sturdy. |
| sturionian | noun | One of the family of fishes of which the sturgeon is the type. |
| stuttering | present participle & vb. noun | of Stutter, The act of one who stutters; — restricted by some physiologists to defective speech due to inability to form the proper sounds, the breathing being normal, as distinguished from stammering., Apt to stutter; hesitating; stammering. |
| stylograph | noun | A stylographic pen. |
| stylohyoid | adjective | Of or pertaining to the styloid process and the hyoid bone. |
| stylometer | noun | An instrument for measuring columns. |
| stylommata | noun pl. | Same as Stylommatophora. |
| stylopodia | plural | of Stylopodium |
| stypticity | noun | The quality or state of being styptic; astringency. |