10-letter words containing ster
- roystering — roister.
- roysterous — boisterous
- sestertium — a money of account of ancient Rome, equal to 1000 sesterces.
- sestertius — sesterce.
- shipmaster — a person who commands a ship; master; captain.
- sinisterly — threatening or portending evil, harm, or trouble; ominous: a sinister remark.
- sisterhood — the state of being a sister.
- sisterless — without a sister
- sisterlike — like a sister
- sitosterol — any of five steroid alcohols having the formula C 2 2 H 5 0 O, especially the beta form, obtained from various plant sources: used in organic synthesis.
- sob sister — a journalist who writes human-interest stories with sentimental pathos.
- sou'wester — a waterproof hat, often of oilskin, having the brim very broad behind and slanted, worn especially by seamen.
- spinsterly — relating to or resembling a spinster
- stepsister — one's stepfather's or stepmother's daughter by a previous 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.
- sterically — of or relating to the spatial relationships of atoms in a molecule.
- sterilized — Something that is sterilized has been made free from bacteria or other microorganisms.
- sterilizer — to destroy microorganisms in or on, usually by bringing to a high temperature with steam, dry heat, or boiling liquid.
- sterlingly — in a sterling way or manner
- sternalgia — pain occurring in or around the sternum
- sternalgic — relating to or having sternalgia
- sternboard — a backward motion of a boat
- sterno can — a small can of Sterno
- sternsheet — the part of an open boat near the stern
- sternwards — towards the stern; astern
- sternwheel — a paddle wheel at the stern of a vessel.
- sternworks — the rear of a vessel
- stertorous — characterized by stertor or heavy snoring.
- subcluster — a number of things of the same kind, growing or held together; a bunch: a cluster of grapes.
- substernal — of or relating to the sternum.
- tankbuster — an aircraft, missile, etc designed to destroy tanks
- taskmaster — a person whose function it is to assign tasks, especially burdensome ones, to others.
- the master — the man of the house
- tonguester — a person who talks endlessly or who gossips
- tree aster — any of various composite shrubs or trees of the genus Olearia, native chiefly to Australia and New Zealand, having large, often leathery leaves and daisylike flower heads.
- two-master — a vessel rigged with two masts.
- ulsterette — a small ulster
- uncloister — to free from confinement of any kind