| 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. |