| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| steadfastly | adverb | In a steadfast manner; firmly. |
| stealthlike | adjective | Stealthy; sly. |
| stearoptene | noun | The more solid ingredient of certain volatile oils; — contrasted with elaeoptene. |
| steerageway | noun | A rate of motion through the water sufficient to render a vessel governable by the helm. |
| stegosauria | noun pl. | An extinct order of herbivorous dinosaurs, including the genera Stegosaurus, Omosaurus, and their allies. |
| stegosaurus | noun | A genus of large Jurassic dinosaurs remarkable for a powerful dermal armature of plates and spines. |
| stelleridan | noun | Alt. of Stelleridean |
| stellionate | noun | Any fraud not distinguished by a more special name; — chiefly applied to sales of the same property to two different persons, or selling that for one’s own which belongs to another, etc. |
| stelography | noun | The art of writing or inscribing characters on pillars. |
| stem-winder | noun | A stem-winding watch. |
| stencilling | of Stencil | |
| stenography | noun | The art of writing in shorthand, by using abbreviations or characters for whole words; shorthand. |
| stentorious | adjective | Stentorian. |
| stentoronic | adjective | Stentorian. |
| stepbrother | noun | A brother by the marriage of one’s father with the mother of another, or of one’s mother with the father of another. |
| stephanotis | noun | A genus of climbing asclepiadaceous shrubs, of Madagascar, Malaya, etc. They have fleshy or coriaceous opposite leaves, and large white waxy flowers in cymes., A perfume said to be prepared from the flowers of Stephanotis floribunda. |
| stercobilin | noun | A coloring matter found in the faeces, a product of the alteration of the bile pigments in the intestinal canal, — identical with hydrobilirubin. |
| stereograph | noun | Any picture, or pair of pictures, prepared for exhibition in the stereoscope. Stereographs are now commonly made by means of photography. |
| stereometer | noun | An instrument for measuring the solid contents of a body, or the capacity of a vessel; a volumenometer., An instrument for determining the specific gravity of liquid bodies, porous bodies, and powders, as well as solids. |
| stereometry | noun | The art of measuring and computing the cubical contents of bodies and figures; — distinguished from planimetry. |
| stereoplasm | noun | The solid or insoluble portion of the cell protoplasm. See Hygroplasm. |
| stereoscope | noun | An optical instrument for giving to pictures the appearance of solid forms, as seen in nature. It combines in one, through a bending of the rays of light, two pictures, taken for the purpose from points of view a little way apart. It is furnished with two eyeglasses, and by refraction or reflection the pictures are superimposed, so as to appear as one to the observer. |
| stereoscopy | noun | The art or science of using the stereoscope, or of constructing the instrument or the views used with it. |
| stereotomic | adjective | Alt. of Stereotomical |
| stereotyped | imp. & past participle | of Stereotype, Formed into, or printed from, stereotype plates., Fig.: Formed in a fixed, unchangeable manner; as, stereotyped opinions. |
| stereotyper | noun | One who stereotypes; one who makes stereotype plates, or works in a stereotype foundry. |
| stereotypic | adjective | Of or pertaining to stereotype, or stereotype plates. |
| sterilizing | present participle & vb. noun | of Sterilize |
| sternohyoid | adjective | Of or pertaining to the sternum and the hyoid bone or cartilage. |
| stern-wheel | adjective | Having a paddle wheel at the stern; as, a stern-wheel steamer. |
| sterrometal | noun | Any alloy of copper, zinc, tin, and iron, of which cannon are sometimes made. |
| stertorious | adjective | Stertorous. |
| stethograph | noun | See Pneumatograph. |
| stethometer | noun | An apparatus for measuring the external movements of a given point of the chest wall, during respiration; — also called thoracometer. |
| stethoscope | noun | An instrument used in auscultation for examining the organs of the chest, as the heart and lungs, by conveying to the ear of the examiner the sounds produced in the thorax., To auscultate, or examine, with a stethoscope. |
| stethoscopy | noun | The art or process of examination by the stethoscope. |
| stewardship | noun | The office of a steward. |