10-letter words containing s, t, e, r, o
- stenotyper — a machine with a keyboard for recording speeches or dictation in phonetic shorthand
- stentorian — very loud or powerful in sound: a stentorian voice.
- stepmother — the wife of one's father by a later marriage.
- stercorary — a weatherproof place where dung is stored
- stercorate — dung or faecal matter
- stereobate — the foundation or base upon which a building or the like is erected.
- stereocard — a card showing two stereoscopic pictures
- stereogram — a diagram or picture representing objects in a way to give the impression of solidity.
- stereology — a branch of science dealing with the determination of the three-dimensional structure of objects based on two-dimensional views of them.
- stereopair — a pair of photographs of the same area taken from slightly different positions so as to give a stereoscopic effect when properly mounted and viewed.
- stereopsis — stereoscopic vision; the ability to perceive depth.
- stereotape — magnetic tape used for recording and reproducing sound stereophonically.
- stereotaxy — brain surgery that makes use of measurement in three dimensions for positioning an electrode, needle, etc. precisely
- stereotomy — the technique of cutting solids, as stones, to specified forms and dimensions.
- stereotype — a process, now often replaced by more advanced methods, for making metal printing plates by taking a mold of composed type or the like in papier-mâché or other material and then taking from this mold a cast in type metal.
- stereotypy — the stereotype process.
- sternboard — a backward motion of a boat
- sterno can — a small can of Sterno
- sternworks — the rear of a vessel
- stertorous — characterized by stertor or heavy snoring.
- stockhorse — a horse or pony used in herding cattle.
- stockinger — a person who knits on a stocking frame
- stockowner — stockholder (def 1).
- stockrider — a cowboy.
- stockroute — a public trail having right of way across private properties and over which cattle and sheep may be herded to grazing grounds or to market.
- stone crab — an edible crab, Menippe mercenaria, of rocky shores from the southern U.S. to Mexico and certain areas of the Caribbean, prized for the meat of its claws.
- stoneborer — an animal that can bore through rocks, esp certain types of bivalve molluscs that bore into limestone
- stonebrash — a type of subsoil consisting of small or broken stones or rock
- stonebreak — any of a variety of plants in the genus Saxifraga
- stonehorse — a stallion or uncastrated male horse
- stop order — an order from a customer to a broker to sell a security if the market price drops below a designated level.
- stop press — Stop press is sometimes printed next to an article in a newspaper to indicate that this is very recent news and was added after the rest of the newspaper had been printed.
- stop price — the price at which a stop order is activated.
- stop-frame — Also called stop frame. the process of filming puppets and other objects one frame at a time while incrementally moving or modifying them, giving the illusion of lifelike motion when the captured film frames are viewed in rapid sequence (often used attributively): stop-motion animation; a stop-motion film.
- store away — keep
- store card — a token bearing the name of a business, often exchangeable for a particular item.
- storefront — the side of a store facing a street, usually containing display windows.
- storehouse — a building in which things are stored.
- storm belt — an area of the earth's surface in which storms are frequent
- storm cell — an air mass formed by powerful updrafts and downdrafts moving in convective loops, the smallest unit of a storm system.
- storm cone — a canvas cone hoisted as a warning of high winds
- story line — plot (def 2).
- storyville — a red-light district of New Orleans known as a wellspring of jazz before World War I.
- stoutherie — theft
- stouthrief — theft using force or violence
- straw vote — an unofficial vote taken to obtain an indication of the general trend of opinion on a particular issue.
- streamflow — the water that flows in a specific stream site, especially its volume and rate of flow.
- streamwood — a city in NE Illinois.
- street rod — an old automobile that has been well maintained and typically has been provided with a powerful, modern engine and modern interior fittings.
- streetroom — the amount of space in a street