14-letter words containing sto
- stock solution — a concentrated chemical solution, diluted before using.
- stock transfer — Stock transfer is the act of moving goods from one part of the distribution chain to another.
- stock turnover — the rate at which stock is sold and replenished
- 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
- stockade fence — a fence of closely fitted vertical boards with pointed tops.
- stockbrokerage — a stockbroker's work or business
- stocking frame — a type of knitting machine
- stoichiometric — of or relating to stoichiometry.
- stoke-on-trent — a city in N Staffordshire, in central England, on the Trent River: pottery and china.
- stomachfulness — the quality of being stomachful
- stomatogastric — relating to the mouth and stomach or the connections between the mouth and stomach
- stone mountain — a massive, dome-shaped granite outcrop in NW Georgia, near Atlanta: sculptures of Confederate heroes: 825 feet (252 meters) high.
- stony tunguska — one of three rivers in Russia, in central Siberia, that is a tributary of the Yenisei and is 1550 km (960 miles) long
- stop consonant — a consonant sound that is made while stopping the airway
- stop the clock — an instrument for measuring and recording time, especially by mechanical means, usually with hands or changing numbers to indicate the hour and minute: not designed to be worn or carried about.
- 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 place — a place where vehicles may stop temporarily
- 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.
- storage heater — an electrical device capable of accumulating and radiating heat generated by off-peak electricity
- store of value — the function of money that enables goods and services to be paid for a considerable time after they have been acquired
- storming party — a group deployed to make the first assault on a position or building
- ten-cent store — five-and-ten (def 1).
- the story goes — it is commonly said or believed
- the-bostonians — a novel (1886) by Henry James.
- transistorized — (of a device) equipped with a transistor
- treasury stock — outstanding shares of stock reacquired and held by the issuing corporation.
- tropical storm — a tropical cyclone of less than hurricane force.
- unaccustomedly — in an unaccustomed manner
- virginia stock — a plant, Malcolmia maritima, of the mustard family, native to the Mediterranean region, having oblong leaves on a weak, often reclining stem and reddish or white flowers.
- wollaston lake — a lake in NE Saskatchewan, in central Canada. About 796 sq. mi. (2062 sq. km).
- wollaston wire — extremely fine wire formed by a process (Wollaston process) in which the metal, drawn as an ordinary wire, is encased in another metal and the two drawn together, after which the outer metal is stripped off or dissolved.
- wollstonecraft — Mary (Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin) 1759–97, English author and feminist (mother of Mary Shelley).