10-letter words containing sto
- stock cube — bouillon cube used for gravy, etc.
- stock dove — a cosmopolitan wild pigeon, Columba oenas, of Europe.
- stock farm — a farm devoted to breeding livestock.
- stock list — a list or inventory of the goods or raw materials kept on the premises of a shop or business
- stock lock — a lock that is enclosed in a wooden case
- stock shot — Movies. any of various prefilmed shots, as from newsreels or travelogues, available from specialized film libraries for inserting into a film to establish locale, atmosphere, etc.
- stock unit — the tax basis for evaluating farmers' stock. Cattle, sheep, and deer are each given differing stock-unit values, the basic measure being the ewe equivalent
- stock whip — a whip with a long lash and a short handle, as used to herd cattle
- stockhorse — a horse or pony used in herding cattle.
- stockiness — the quality of being stocky
- stockinged — a close-fitting covering for the foot and part of the leg, usually knitted, of wool, cotton, nylon, silk, or similar material.
- stockinger — a person who knits on a stocking frame
- stockowner — stockholder (def 1).
- stockrider — a cowboy.
- stockroute — a public trail having right of way across private properties and over which cattle and sheep may be herded to grazing grounds or to market.
- stodginess — heavy, dull, or uninteresting; tediously commonplace; boring: a stodgy Victorian novel.
- stoke-hold — Also, stokehold [stohk-hohld] /ˈstoʊkˌhoʊld/ (Show IPA). fireroom.
- stolenwise — in a stealthy or secretive manner
- stolidness — not easily stirred or moved mentally; unemotional; impassive.
- stomachful — the amount one's stomach can hold
- stomachous — resentful, sullen, obstinate
- stomatitis — inflammation of the mouth.
- stomatopod — any crustacean of the order Stomatopoda, having a carapace that does not cover the posterior thorax and a broad abdomen bearing gills on the appendages.
- stomodaeum — stomodeum.
- stone bass — wreckfish.
- stone cold — completely cold
- stone crab — an edible crab, Menippe mercenaria, of rocky shores from the southern U.S. to Mexico and certain areas of the Caribbean, prized for the meat of its claws.
- stone dead — undeniably dead; completely lifeless.
- stone deaf — totally deaf.
- stone face — living stones.
- stone lily — a fossil crinoid.
- stone mint — dittany (def 2).
- stone pine — Also called umbrella pine, parasol pine. a tree, Pinus pinea, native to southern Europe, having branches forming an umbrellalike crown and bearing edible, nutlike seeds.
- stone-cold — If something that should be warm is stone-cold, it is very cold.
- stone-dead — undeniably dead; completely lifeless.
- stone-deaf — totally deaf.
- stone-lily — a fossil crinoid.
- stoneborer — an animal that can bore through rocks, esp certain types of bivalve molluscs that bore into limestone
- stonebrash — a type of subsoil consisting of small or broken stones or rock
- stonebreak — any of a variety of plants in the genus Saxifraga
- stonehenge — a prehistoric monument on Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England, consisting of a large circle of megaliths surrounding a smaller circle and four massive trilithons; dating to late Neolithic and early Bronze Age times (c1700–1200 b.c.) and believed to have been connected with a sun cult or used for astronomical observations.
- stonehorse — a stallion or uncastrated male horse
- stonemason — a person who builds with or dresses stone.
- stonington — a town in NE Connecticut.
- stool ball — a game resembling cricket, still played by girls and women in Sussex, England
- stoop ball — a game resembling baseball, played in a street, schoolyard, or other confined paved area, in which a ball is thrown forcibly against a stairway or wall so that it rebounds into the air, bases and runs being awarded depending on the number of bounces the ball takes before being caught by the opposing player or team.
- stop codon — a codon that stops the synthesis of a protein molecule.
- stop order — an order from a customer to a broker to sell a security if the market price drops below a designated level.
- stop plank — a board or boarding that is placed along the top of a dam to increase its height and capacity
- stop press — Stop press is sometimes printed next to an article in a newspaper to indicate that this is very recent news and was added after the rest of the newspaper had been printed.