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13-letter words starting with s

  • stereo system — a system for recording, reproducing, or broadcasting sound using two or more separate microphones to feed two or more loudspeakers through separate channels in order to give a spatial effect to the sound
  • stereognostic — the ability to determine the shape and weight of an object by touching or lifting it.
  • stereographer — a person who takes stereoscopic photographs.
  • stereological — of, relating to, stereology
  • stereoregular — pertaining to stereochemical regularity or having repeating units in a sequential configuration
  • stereotropism — a tropism determined by contact with a solid.
  • stereotypical — a process, now often replaced by more advanced methods, for making metal printing plates by taking a mold of composed type or the like in papier-mâché or other material and then taking from this mold a cast in type metal.
  • sterilization — the act of sterilizing.
  • sterling area — those countries having currencies whose values tend to vary directly with the rise and fall of the value of the pound sterling.
  • sterling bloc — those countries having currencies whose values tend to vary directly with the rise and fall of the value of the pound sterling.
  • stern-wheeler — a boat propelled by a paddle wheel at the stern.
  • sternforemost — Nautical. with the stern, foremost.
  • steroidogenic — of or pertaining to steroidogenesis
  • stethoscopist — a person who is experienced in the use of a stethoscope
  • steve wozniak — (person)   Co-founder of Apple Computer with Steve Jobs on 01 April 1976 and the inventor of the Apple II personal computer.
  • steve's shell — (operating system)   (ssh) A Unix shell with many csh- and ksh-like features, by Steve Baker <[email protected]> and Thomas Moore. Version 1.7 has been ported to Sequent, Sun, NeXT, Ultrix, BSDI and is available from comp.sources.unix volume 26.
  • stevens point — a city in central Wisconsin.
  • stewing steak — Stewing steak is beef which is suitable for cooking slowly in a stew.
  • stick out for — If you stick out for something, you keep demanding it and do not accept anything different or less.
  • sticker price — the dealer's full asking price of a new automobile as shown on a sticker attached to it and accompanied by an itemized list of the cost of its basic and optional equipment and other charges.
  • sticker shock — unpleasant surprise on learning of an unexpectedly high price for an item.
  • sticks&stones — (language, functional programming)   A functional, polymorphic hardware description language loosely based on ML by Lucca Cardelli.
  • sticky wicket — Cricket. the area of ground around a wicket when it is tacky because of recent rain and therefore does not allow the ball to bounce well.
  • stigmatically — in a stigmatic, villainous, or infamous manner
  • stiletto heel — spike heel.
  • still and all — remaining in place or at rest; motionless; stationary: to stand still.
  • still trailer — any dog that follows the trail of its quarry silently.
  • stimulability — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
  • stinging hair — sting (def 18).
  • stinging tree — any of various Australian trees and shrubs of the genus Dendrocnide with rigid stinging hairs
  • stinging-cell — a nematocyst.
  • stingless bee — any of certain social, honey-producing tropical bees of the family Apidae, as of the genus Melipona, having a nonfunctional stinger.
  • stinking iris — an iris plant, Iris foetidissima, of W Europe and N Africa, having purplish flowers and a strong unpleasant smell when bruised
  • stinking smut — bunt3 .
  • stirlingshire — Also called Stirlingshire [stur-ling-sheer, -sher] /ˈstɜr lɪŋˌʃɪər, -ʃər/ (Show IPA). a historic county in central Scotland.
  • stirpiculture — the production of special stocks or strains by careful breeding.
  • stirrup pants — close-fitting pants with a stirruplike strap, at the end of each leg, to be positioned under the arch of the foot
  • stock buyback — buyback (def 3).
  • stock company — Finance. a company or corporation whose capital is divided into shares represented by stock.
  • stock control — Stock control is the activity of making sure that a company always has exactly the right amount of goods available to sell.
  • stock footage — film containing stock shots.
  • stock options — an option giving the holder, usually an officer or employee, the right to buy stock of the issuing corporation at a specific price within a stated period.
  • stock raising — the breeding and raising of livestock.
  • stock warrant — A stock warrant is the right to buy stock at a particular price on a particular date directly from the issuing company.
  • stockbreeding — the breeding and raising of livestock for marketing or exhibition.
  • stocking loom — a type of knitting machine
  • stocking mask — a nylon stocking used, especially by a criminal, to disguise the face.
  • stocking unit — A stocking unit is a measurement or number by which items are kept in inventory, for example by dozens, kilograms, or cases.
  • stoichiometry — the calculation of the quantities of chemical elements or compounds involved in chemical reactions.
  • stokes' aster — a composite plant, Stokesia laevis, having lavender-blue, asterlike flowers.
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