13-letter words containing sto
- crestone peak — a peak in S central Colorado, in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. 14,294 feet (4360 meters).
- cucking stool — stool in which suspected witches were tested
- curling stone — a large, heavy, ellipsoidal stone or a similar object made of iron, usually having one rough side and one smooth side with a hole in the center of each for screwing in a handle by which the stone is released, for use in the game of curling.
- custodianship — the condition of being a custodian
- custody suite — the part of a police station where people who have been arrested are held in custody
- custom-tailor — to modify to fit a specific use or need; tailor-make.
- customariness — The state or quality of being customary.
- customer base — A business's customer base is all its regular customers, considered as a group.
- customer care — the work of looking after customers and ensuring their satisfaction with one's business and its goods or services
- customer data — Customer data is information held on file about customers by a store or other business, usually including names, contact details, and buying habits.
- customer flow — Customer flow is the movement of customers around a store.
- customisation — Alternative spelling of customization.
- customization — to modify or build according to individual or personal specifications or preference: to customize an automobile.
- customs union — an association of nations which promotes free trade within the union and establishes common tariffs on trade with nonmember nations
- deuterostomes — Plural form of deuterostome.
- disaccustomed — Simple past tense and past participle of disaccustom.
- distortedness — The quality of being distorted.
- distortionary — an act or instance of distorting.
- ducking stool — a former instrument of punishment consisting of a chair in which an offender was tied to be plunged into water.
- elastoplasted — Covered with Elastoplast.
- ethnohistoric — relating to ethnohistory
- evening stock — a plant, Matthiola incana, of the genus Matthiola, of the Mediterranean region, cultivated for its brightly coloured flowers: Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- extrasystoles — Plural form of extrasystole.
- extrasystolia — (medicine) An alteration in the rhythm of the heart due to extrasystoles.
- extrasystolic — Relating to extrasystole, the premature contraction of the heart.
- feature story — a newspaper or magazine article or report of a person, event, an aspect of a major event, or the like, often having a personal slant and written in an individual style. Compare follow-up (def 3b), hard news, news story.
- festoon blind — a window blind consisting of vertical rows of horizontally gathered fabric that may be drawn up to form a series of ruches
- floutingstock — a laughing-stock; the object of mockery or flouting
- four-way stop — an intersection of two roads with four stop signs, one facing in each direction
- galveston bay — an inlet of the Gulf of Mexico.
- gastrostomies — Plural form of gastrostomy.
- general store — a store, usually in a rural area, that sells a wide variety of merchandise, as clothing, food, or hardware, but is not divided into departments.
- gladstone bag — a small rectangular suitcase hinged to open into two compartments of equal size.
- glamour stock — a popular stock that rises quickly or continuously in price and attracts large numbers of investors.
- grocery store — supermarket, food shop
- hair restorer — a lotion claimed to promote hair growth
- heartstopping — Very exciting or shocking, as though to cause one's heart to skip beats.
- heterocystous — containing or relating to heterocysts
- histochemical — the branch of science dealing with the chemical components of cellular and subcellular tissue.
- histodialysis — histolysis.
- histogramming — (mathematics) The construction of histograms.
- historicizing — Present participle of historicize.
- honey stomach — the crop of an ant, bee, or other hymenopterous insect, serving as a reservoir for honeydew and nectar, especially the enlarged crop of a honeybee in which nectar is acted on by enzymes to form honey.
- housing stock — the total number of houses, flats, etc, in an area
- ileocolostomy — the surgical formation of an artificial opening between the ileum and the colon.
- jejunostomies — Plural form of jejunostomy.
- joint custody — custody, as of a child whose parents are separated, in which two or more people share responsibility.
- kidney stones — an abnormal stone, or concretion, composed primarily of oxalates and phosphates, found in the kidney.
- knox-johnston — Sir Robin (William Robert Patrick). born 1939, British yachtsman. He was the first to sail round the world alone nonstop (1968–69)
- laughingstock — an object of ridicule; the butt of a joke or the like: His ineptness as a public official made him the laughingstock of the whole town.