13-letter words containing sta
- costardmonger — a costermonger
- counter staff — people who work behind the counter of a bank, post office, etc
- counterstains — Plural form of counterstain.
- cracker state — a nickname for Georgia
- crustaceology — The branch of zoology dealing with crustaceans.
- crustal plate — a large block or tabular section of the lithosphere that reacts to tectonic forces as a unit and moves as such.
- crystal class — any of 32 possible types of crystals, classified according to their rotational symmetry about axes through a point
- crystal clear — Water that is crystal clear is absolutely clear and transparent like glass.
- crystal habit — the external shape of a crystal
- crystal pleat — one of a series of fine, permanently pressed pleats of varying widths, usually in a sheer fabric
- crystal-clear — absolutely clear; transparent; lucid.
- crystallinity — of or like crystal; clear; transparent.
- crystallizing — Present participle of crystallize.
- crystalloidal — Relating to a crystalloid.
- custard apple — a West Indian tree, Annona reticulata: family Annonaceae
- custard cream — a biscuit consisting of two layers with a filling of vanilla-flavoured paste
- cyberstalkers — Plural form of cyberstalker.
- cyberstalking — Cyberstalking is the use of the Internet to contact someone or find out information about them in a way that is annoying or frightening.
- cystathionine — an amino acid, C 7 H 14 O 4 N 2 S, that is an intermediate in the transfer of sulfur from methionine to cysteine.
- dastardliness — The state or quality of being dastardly.
- decongestants — Plural form of decongestant.
- deforestation — to divest or clear of forests or trees: Poor planning deforested the area in ten years.
- destabilising — Present participle of destabilise.
- destabilizing — Present participle of destabilize.
- detestability — The state or quality of being detestable.
- devastatingly — tending or threatening to devastate: a devastating fire.
- diamond state — Delaware (used as a nickname).
- dijon mustard — a medium-hot mustard, originally made in Dijon.
- dim statement — (programming) (From "dimension") A keyword in most versions of the BASIC programming language that declares the size of an array. E.g. DIM A(100) declares a one-dimensional array with 101 numeric elements (including A(0)). Dim DepartmentNumber As Integer which declares a single (scalar) variable of type Integer.
- distance race — a running race longer than 1500 meters (1635 yards).
- distastefully — In a distasteful manner.
- dog-leg stair — a half-turn stair, the successive flights of which are immediately side by side and connected by an intervening platform.
- earth station — a terminal equipped to receive, or receive and transmit, signals from or to communications satellites.
- east pakistan — former name of Bangladesh.
- electrostatic — Of or relating to stationary electric charges or fields as opposed to electric currents.
- encrustations — Plural form of encrustation.
- enhypostatize — to come together in one person or hypostasis
- equidistantly — In an equidistant manner or to an equidistant degree.
- establishable — Able to be established.
- establishment — The action of establishing something or being established.
- estate agency — business that sells property
- evangelistary — a book containing passages from the gospels to be used as part of the liturgy
- for-instances — an instance or example: Give me a for-instance of what you mean.
- fourth estate — the journalistic profession or its members; the press.
- free-standing — A free-standing piece of furniture or other object is not fixed to anything, or stands on its own away from other things.
- general staff — a group of officers who are without command and whose duty is to assist high commanders in planning and carrying out orders in peace and war.
- geostationary — of or relating to a satellite traveling in an orbit 22,300 miles (35,900 km) above the earth's equator: at this altitude, the satellite's period of rotation, 24 hours, matches the earth's and the satellite always remains in the same spot over the earth: geostationary orbit.
- gold standard — a monetary system with gold of specified weight and fineness as the unit of value.
- goods station — a railway station dealing solely with goods trains
- grandstanding — the main seating area of a stadium, racetrack, parade route, or the like, usually consisting of tiers with rows of individual seats.