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  • splatter movie — a film containing many scenes of violent and gruesome murders.
  • splinter group — a small organization that becomes separated from or acts apart from an original larger group or a number of other small groups, with which it would normally be united, as because of disagreement.
  • spoiled priest — a person who was a student for the priesthood but who has withdrawn or been dismissed
  • sporotrichosis — a widespread infectious disease marked by nodules or ulcers of the skin, chiefly affecting humans and domestic mammals and caused by the fungus Sporothrix schenckii.
  • sportfisherman — a motorboat fitted out for sportfishing.
  • sporting house — Older Use. a brothel.
  • sports stadium — an arena where sports are played
  • spotted orchid — any of various common Eurasian orchids, esp the heath and common spotted orchids (Dactylorhiza maculata and D. fuchsii). The flowers are variable but usually have dark blotches
  • st. louis park — a city in E Minnesota, near Minneapolis.
  • stabbing board — A stabbing board is a platform in the derrick, on which the derrickhand stands to run in casing.
  • staffing ratio — the ratio of the staff or workforce of a place to another group, for example to staff in another department, the ratio of patients to nurses in a hospital, or the ratio of pupils to teachers in a school
  • stage director — a person who directs a theatrical production.
  • stagflationary — of, caused by, or relating to, stagflation
  • staggering bob — a newborn calf.
  • stalking horse — If you describe a person or thing as a stalking horse, you mean that it is being used to obtain a temporary advantage so that someone can get what they really want.
  • stalking-horse — a horse, or a figure of a horse, behind which a hunter hides in stalking game.
  • standing order — Military. (formerly) a general order always in force in a command and establishing uniform procedures for it; standard operating procedure.
  • stanovoi range — a mountain range in SE Russia; forms part of the watershed between rivers flowing to the Arctic and the Pacific. Highest peak: Mount Skalisty, 2482 m (8143 ft)
  • starting block — a device used by runners, especially sprinters, for increasing their speed off the mark, consisting of a metal or wooden frame, usually secured to the ground at both ends, with adjustable, triangular-shaped blocks on each side for bracing the feet.
  • starting point — place where sth begins
  • state religion — the official religion of a state as established by law.
  • station church — any of the churches in Rome that have been used from ancient times as points of assembly for religious processions
  • steganographic — of, or pertaining to, steganography
  • stella polaris — Polaris.
  • stercoricolous — (of an organism) living in dung
  • sterculiaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Sterculiaceae, a chiefly tropical family of plants that includes cacao and cola
  • stereochemical — of, relating to, stereochemistry
  • stereoisomeric — pertaining to or exhibiting stereoisomerism.
  • stereospecific — (of a reaction) producing a simple stereoisomer.
  • stick together — be united
  • stigmatiferous — (of a plant) having a stigma
  • stinking roger — any of various plants having an unpleasant odor.
  • stock in trade — the requisites for carrying on a business, especially goods kept on hand for sale in a store.
  • stock watering — the creation of more new shares in a company than is justified by its assets
  • stock-in-trade — items used in performing a job
  • stocking frame — a type of knitting machine
  • stoichiometric — of or relating to stoichiometry.
  • stomatogastric — relating to the mouth and stomach or the connections between the mouth and stomach
  • stop-and-frisk — a policy that permits a police officer to momentarily detain and pat down or search a person suspected of criminal activity, especially when suspected of concealing a weapon.
  • stopping power — a measure of the effect a substance has on the kinetic energy of a particle passing through it
  • stopping train — a train that stops at local stations as well as the main ones
  • storage device — a device used to store digital data or information, as a hard disk or CD.
  • storming party — a group deployed to make the first assault on a position or building
  • strabismometer — an instrument that measures strabismus
  • straight arrow — a person who manifests high-minded devotion to clean living and moral righteousness.
  • straight joint — a vertical joint in brickwork that is directly above a vertical joint in the course below
  • straight poker — one of the original forms of poker in which players are dealt five cards face down, upon which they bet and then have the showdown without drawing any cards.
  • straight razor — a razor having a stiff blade made of steel that is hinged to a handle into which it folds.
  • straighten out — make straighter
  • straits dollar — a former silver coin and monetary unit of the Straits Settlements.
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