8-letter words containing sto
- stockman — U.S. and Australia. a person who raises livestock.
- stockout — a state or instance of being out of stock of goods.
- stockpot — a pot in which stock for soup, sauces, etc., is made and kept.
- stockton — Frank R (Francis Richard Stockton) 1834–1902, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
- stoicism — a systematic philosophy, dating from around 300 b.c., that held the principles of logical thought to reflect a cosmic reason instantiated in nature.
- stoke up — to feed and tend (a fire, etc) with fuel
- stokesia — an American perennial plant, Stokesia laevis, known for its blue or purple flowers
- stolport — short take-off and landing airport: an airport designed for aircraft that can do short take-offs and landings and only require a short runway
- stolypin — Petr Arkadievich. 1863–1911, Russian conservative statesman: prime minister (1906–11). He instituted agrarian reforms but was ruthless in suppressing rebellion: assassinated
- stomachs — Anatomy, Zoology. a saclike enlargement of the alimentary canal, as in humans and certain animals, forming an organ for storing, diluting, and digesting food. such an organ or an analogous portion of the alimentary canal when divided into two or more sections or parts. any one of these sections.
- stomachy — paunchy; having a prominent stomach.
- stomatal — of, relating to, or of the nature of a stoma.
- stomatic — pertaining to the mouth.
- stomato- — indicating the mouth or a mouthlike part
- stompers — stamp (defs 1–3).
- stonecat — a yellowish-brown, freshwater catfish, Noturus flavus, of the Mississippi River valley and Great Lakes, having poisonous pectoral spines.
- stonefly — any of numerous dull-colored primitive aquatic insects of the order Plecoptera, having a distinctive flattened body shape: a major food source for game fish, especially bass and trout, which makes them popular as models for fishing flies.
- stoneham — a town in E Massachusetts, near Boston.
- stoneman — a stonecutter or stoneworker.
- stonerag — a type of lichen, Parmela saxatilis, which produces a brown dye
- stonking — of exceptional size or quality
- stooking — shock2 (def 1).
- stooling — a single seat on legs or a pedestal and without arms or a back.
- stooping — to bend the head and shoulders, or the body generally, forward and downward from an erect position: to stoop over a desk.
- stoozing — the practice of borrowing money at low interest for investment in a high-interest account
- stop log — a board or boarding that is placed along the top of a dam to increase its height and capacity
- stop off — the act of stopping.
- stop out — the act of stopping.
- stop-off — stopover.
- stop-out — a temporary withdrawal from school or a delay in the pursuit of one's education.
- stopbank — an embankment to prevent flooding
- stopcock — cock1 (def 3).
- stopless — not having any stops, continuous
- stopover — a brief stop in the course of a journey, as to eat, sleep, or visit friends.
- stoppage — an act or instance of stopping; cessation of activity: the stoppage of all work at the factory.
- stoppard — Tom (Thomas Straussler) born 1937, British playwright, born in the Czech Republic.
- stopping — the act of stopping.
- stopword — any of a number of very commonly used words, as a, and, in, and to, that are normally excluded by computer search engines or when compiling a concordance.
- storable — capable of being stored for considerable time without loss of freshness or usability.
- store up — save, keep in reserve
- storeman — a man employed to look after a storeroom
- storeyed — having stories or floors (often used in combination): a two-storied house.
- stormful — having many storms; stormy
- storming — a disturbance of the normal condition of the atmosphere, manifesting itself by winds of unusual force or direction, often accompanied by rain, snow, hail, thunder, and lightning, or flying sand or dust.
- stormont — a suburb of Belfast: site of Parliament House (1928–30), formerly the seat of the parliament of Northern Ireland (1922–72) and since 1998 of the Northern Ireland assembly, and Stormont Castle, formerly the residence of the prime minister of Northern Ireland and since 1998 the office of the province's first minister
- storting — the parliament of Norway, elected by popular vote, which is divided into the upper house (Lagting) comprising one quarter of the members, and the lower house (Odelsting) comprising the rest.
- stotinka — a minor coin of Bulgaria, the 100th part of a lev.
- stotious — drunk; inebriated
- stoutest — bulky in figure; heavily built; corpulent; thickset; fat: She is getting too stout for her dresses. Synonyms: big, rotund, stocky, portly, fleshy. Antonyms: thin, lean, slender, slim; skinny, scrawny.
- stoutish — rather stout.