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.