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9-letter words containing sto

  • stoolball — an English country game resembling cricket and played by young women
  • stoopball — an American street game similar to baseball in which a ball is thrown against a wall or stoop
  • stop bath — an acid bath or rinse for stopping the action of a developer before fixing a negative or print.
  • stop bead — a strip of molding along the inside of a window frame for holding a sliding sash.
  • stop down — to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.
  • stop knob — stop (def 31d).
  • stop over — stay overnight on a journey
  • stop sign — a traffic sign requiring a motorist to stop before continuing.
  • stop time — a passage where the beat stops temporarily
  • stop-loss — designed or planned to prevent continued loss, as a customer's order to a broker to sell a stock if its price declines to a specific amount.
  • stop-work — a temporary cessation of work as a form of protest
  • stoplight — traffic light.
  • stoppable — capable of being stopped.
  • stoppered — a person or thing that stops.
  • stopwatch — a watch with a hand or hands that can be stopped or started at any instant, used for precise timing, as in races.
  • store pig — a pig that has not yet been weaned and weighs less than 40 kg
  • storecard — A storecard is a plastic card that you use to buy goods on credit from a particular store or group of stores.
  • storeroom — a room in which stores are kept.
  • storeship — a government-owned ship that carries supplies to a naval fleet
  • storewide — applying to all the merchandise or all the departments within a store: the annual storewide clearance sale.
  • storiette — a very short narrative
  • storm pit — a storm cellar.
  • stormbird — any bird of several species of black, white, or grey seabirds belonging to the order Procellariiformes
  • stormless — without storms.
  • stornello — a type of short Italian rhyming poem or song which usually contains three lines
  • stornoway — a city in NW Scotland, in the Hebrides.
  • story arc — a continuing storyline in a television series that gradually unfolds over several episodes
  • storybook — a book that contains a story or stories, especially for children.
  • storyette — a short or shortened story
  • storyless — a narrative, either true or fictitious, in prose or verse, designed to interest, amuse, or instruct the hearer or reader; tale.
  • storyline — a secret plan or scheme to accomplish some purpose, especially a hostile, unlawful, or evil purpose: a plot to overthrow the government.
  • stoughton — a city in E Massachusetts.
  • stourhead — a Palladian mansion near Mere in Wiltshire: built (1722) for Henry Hoare; famous for its landscaped gardens laid out (1741) by Flitcroft
  • stovepipe — a pipe, as of sheet metal, serving as a stove chimney or to connect a stove with a chimney flue.
  • stow away — Nautical. to put (cargo, provisions, etc.) in the places intended for them. to put (sails, spars, gear, etc.) in the proper place or condition when not in use.
  • stownlins — secretly; stealthily.
  • sub-stock — a supply of goods kept on hand for sale to customers by a merchant, distributor, manufacturer, etc.; inventory.
  • tailstock — a movable or sliding support for the dead center of a lathe or grinder.
  • thyristor — a semiconductor device having two stable states, used as an electronic switch.
  • toadstone — any of various stones or stonelike objects, formerly supposed to have been formed in the head or body of a toad, worn as jewels or amulets.
  • toadstool — any of various mushrooms having a stalk with an umbrellalike cap, especially the agarics.
  • tolstoyan — Leo or Lev Nikolaevich [lev nik-uh-lahy-uh-vich;; Russian lyef nyi-kuh-lah-yi-vyich] /lɛv ˌnɪk əˈlaɪ əˌvɪtʃ;; Russian ˈlyɛf nyɪ kʌˈlɑ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), Count, 1828–1910, Russian novelist and social critic.
  • tombstone — a stone marker, usually inscribed, on a tomb or grave.
  • top story — headline news item
  • truckstop — a gas station, usually at the side of a major highway, where truck drivers stop for fuel, and often including a restaurant, sleeping and showering rooms, a store selling basic items, etc.
  • tungstous — of or containing tungsten in a low valence state
  • turnstone — any shorebird of the genus Arenaria, characterized by the habit of turning over stones in search of food.
  • unstocked — not having stock or stores
  • unstopped — to remove the stopper from: to unstop a bottle.
  • unstopper — to unstop.
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