10-letter words containing sto
- norristown — a borough in SE Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia.
- nostologic — geriatrics.
- nostomania — intense homesickness; an irresistible compulsion to return home.
- nostopathy — a fear of returning home, often observed in those who have been in institutions such as prison or hospital for a long time
- open stock — merchandise, especially china, silverware, and glassware, sold in sets with additional individual pieces available from stock for future purchases, as for replacement.
- organ stop — a set of organ pipes allowed to sound as a group by stopping all others
- overstored — an establishment where merchandise is sold, usually on a retail basis.
- overstorey — the highest level of trees in a rainforest
- palmerston — Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount, 1784–1865, British statesman: prime minister 1855–58, 1859–65.
- pastorally — having the simplicity, charm, serenity, or other characteristics generally attributed to rural areas: pastoral scenery; the pastoral life.
- pastorship — the position, authority, or office of a pastor.
- pentastome — any wormlike invertebrate of the phylum Pentastomida (or subphylum of Arthropoda), having two pairs of hooks at the sides of the mouth: all are parasitic, some in the respiratory tracts of mammals.
- phlogiston — a nonexistent chemical that, prior to the discovery of oxygen, was thought to be released during combustion.
- photostory — photo essay.
- piston pin — wrist pin.
- piston rod — a rod communicating the rectilinear motion of a piston to the small end of a connecting rod or elsewhere.
- pitchstone — a glassy volcanic rock having a resinous luster and resembling hardened pitch.
- plastogamy — the fusion of multiple cells without the fusion of their nuclei
- plastogene — a separate genetic particle associated with, and influencing the activity of, the plastids
- plastotype — a casting of a type specimen, especially of a fossil.
- pleustonic — a buoyant mat of weeds, algae, and associated organisms that floats on or near the surface of a lake, river, or other body of fresh water.
- polyhistor — a person of great and varied learning.
- postocular — located behind the eye
- praepostor — a senior student at an English public school who is given authority over other students.
- prehistory — human history in the period before recorded events, known mainly through archaeological discoveries, study, research, etc.; history of prehistoric humans.
- prestorage — occurring before storage
- presystole — Physiology. the normal rhythmical contraction of the heart, during which the blood in the chambers is forced onward. Compare diastole.
- prostomium — the unsegmented, preoral portion of the head of certain lower invertebrates.
- protostome — any member of the lower invertebrate phyla in which the mouth appears before the anus during development, cleavage is spiral and determinate, and the coelom forms as a splitting of the mesoderm.
- pumy stone — a piece of pumice stone
- queenstown — former name of Cóbh.
- quernstone — Either of a pair of stones used for grinding material by hand.
- reaccustom — to familiarize by custom or use; habituate: to accustom oneself to cold weather.
- resistojet — a jet engine that obtains its thrust from a propellant heated by a resistance device using electrical power
- restorable — to bring back into existence, use, or the like; reestablish: to restore order.
- rhinestone — an artificial gem of paste, often cut to resemble a diamond.
- ring stone — a voussoir appearing on a face of an arch.
- rune-stone — a stone bearing one or more runic inscriptions.
- schistosis — fibrosis of the lungs caused by inhaling dust from slate.
- sebastopol — Sevastopol.
- sevastopol — a fortified seaport in the S Crimea, in S Ukraine: famous for its heroic resistance during sieges of 349 days in 1854–55, and 245 days in 1941–42.
- six-storey — having six floors or storeys
- sleekstone — a stone used for polishing
- slingstone — a stone fired from a sling
- snakestone — a piece of porous material popularly supposed to neutralize the toxic effect of a snakebite.
- spellstopt — immobilized by magic
- stinkstone — any of various limestones that emit an unpleasant odor when scratched or struck.
- stochastic — of or relating to a process involving a randomly determined sequence of observations each of which is considered as a sample of one element from a probability distribution.
- stock book — a permanent record of the capital stock of a corporation, listing the names and addresses of the stockholders, the number of the shares owned, the serial numbers of their stock certificates, etc.
- stock code — an abbreviation that identifies a particular security on a stock-quotation machine