13-letter words starting with s
- state of mind — mental condition, mood
- state of play — current situation
- state prayers — prayers for the sovereign, the royal family, the clergy, and Parliament said at matins and evensong
- state senator — a member of a state senate
- state trooper — a member of a U.S. state police force.
- staten island — an island facing New York Bay.
- statesmanlike — a person who is experienced in the art of government or versed in the administration of government affairs.
- statesmanship — the ability, qualifications, or practice of a statesman; wisdom and skill in the management of public affairs.
- static memory — the contents of computer memory that remain fixed until written to or until the power is turned off.
- station agent — a person who manages a small railroad station.
- station break — an interval between or during programs for identifying the station, making announcements, etc.
- station house — a police station or fire station.
- station wagon — an automobile with one or more rows of folding or removable seats behind the driver and no luggage compartment but an area behind the seats into which suitcases, parcels, etc., can be loaded through a tailgate.
- stationmaster — a person in charge of a railroad station; station agent.
- statistically — of, pertaining to, consisting of, or based on statistics.
- status indian — a member of any of the numerous indigenous groups registered as Indians under the federal Indian Act, having special rights and privileges and usually living on a reservation.
- status report — statement or update
- status symbol — an object, habit, etc., by which the social or economic status of the possessor may be judged.
- statutory law — the written law established by enactments expressing the will of the legislature, as distinguished from the unwritten law or common law.
- staying power — ability or strength to last or endure; endurance; stamina.
- steadfastness — fixed in direction; steadily directed: a steadfast gaze.
- steady-handed — having steady hands; having self-control; calm.
- steak tartare — tartar steak.
- steam heating — a heating system utilizing steam circulated through radiators and pipes.
- steam turbine — a turbine driven by steam pressure.
- steam whistle — a type of whistle sounded by a blast of steam, as used formerly in factories, on locomotives, etc
- steamer chair — deck chair.
- steamer trunk — a rectangular traveling trunk low enough to slide under a bunk on a ship.
- steeplechaser — a horse race over a turf course furnished with artificial ditches, hedges, and other obstacles over which the horses must jump.
- steering gear — the apparatus or mechanism for steering a ship, automobile, bicycle, airplane, etc.
- steering lock — an anti-theft device
- steganography — the practice of concealing messages in such a way that only the sender and the recipient know that there is a message
- steganopodous — belonging to the Stegandopodes or having all four toes webbed together
- steinheim man — a human of the middle Pleistocene Epoch known from a skull found in Germany and considered to be archaic Homo sapiens.
- steller's jay — a common jay, Cyanocitta stelleri, of western North America, having blackish-brown and dusky-blue plumage.
- stem christie — a turn made by stemming one ski and then bringing the other parallel to it during the turn.
- stem the tide — prevent sth increasing
- stenopetalous — having narrow petals.
- stenophyllous — having narrow leaves.
- stentoriously — stentorian.
- step aerobics — a set of aerobic exercises designed to improve the cardiovascular system, which consists of stepping on and off a special box of adjustable height
- step function — a function that is constant on each of a finite set of subintervals of its domain, the union of the subintervals being the domain.
- step out with — to be a boyfriend or girlfriend of (someone), esp publicly
- stepford wife — a married woman who submits to her husband's will and is preoccupied by domestic concerns and her own personal appearance
- stepparenting — parenting within a stepfamily
- steppingstone — a stone, or one of a line of stones, in shallow water, a marshy place, or the like, that is stepped on in crossing.
- stercoraceous — consisting of, resembling, or pertaining to dung or feces.
- stercorarious — stercoraceous
- sterculia gum — karaya gum.
- stereo effect — the spatial effect given to sound that is achieved by using two or more separate microphones to feed two or more loudspeakers through separate channels