13-letter words starting with s
- stoloniferous — producing or bearing stolons.
- stolonization — the production of stolons.
- stomach tooth — a lower canine milk tooth of infants.
- stomach upset — a slight illness affecting your stomach and/or bowels characterized by nausea, vomiting and/or diarrhoea
- stomatologist — a person who works in stomatology
- stomatoplasty — plastic surgery of the mouth or the cervix.
- stone boiling — a primitive method of boiling liquid with heated stones
- stone bramble — a herbaceous Eurasian rosaceous plant, Rubus saxatilis, of stony places, having white flowers and berry-like scarlet fruits (drupelets)
- stone lantern — (in Japan) an intricately carved lantern of stone, often placed in a garden or before a shrine.
- stone massage — a form of massage using heated smooth stones
- stone parsley — a parsley, Sison amomum, of Eurasia, bearing aromatic seeds that are used as a condiment.
- stone's throw — a short distance: The railroad station is only a stone's throw from our house.
- stone-hearted — stony-hearted.
- stony-hearted — hardhearted.
- stop the show — (of a stage act, etc) to receive so much applause as to interrupt the performance
- stoppage time — In soccer and some other sports, stoppage time is the period of time that is added to the end of a game because play was stopped during the game as a result of, for example, injuries to players.
- storage organ — any swollen plant part in which food is stored, as fruit, root, or tuber.
- storax family — the plant family Styracaceae, characterized by trees and shrubs having simple, alternate leaves, clusters of bell-shaped white flowers, and fleshy or dry fruit, and including the silver bell, snowbell, and storax.
- store baggage — If a hotel stores baggage, it puts a guest's baggage in a storage room until it is needed by the guest.
- store manager — sb who runs a shop
- store rollout — Store rollout happens when a retailer expands, opening new outlets in a planned way.
- stores ledger — a record kept of the amount, type, etc., of raw materials and supplies on hand, as in a manufacturing plant.
- stork parking — spaces reserved in a parking lot for cars driven by pregnant women or new mothers.
- storm trooper — a member of the storm troops.
- storm trysail — a small fore-and-aft sail, triangular or square, set on the mainmast of a sailing vessel in foul weather to help keep her head to the wind
- storm warning — a showing of storm signals.
- storm-trooper — a member of the storm troops.
- stormy petrel — the British storm petrel, Hydrobates pelagicus, of the eastern Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea, and Indian Ocean.
- stout-hearted — brave and resolute; dauntless.
- stovepipe hat — a tall silk hat.
- straight away — immediately
- straight face — a serious or impassive facial expression that conceals one's true feelings about something, especially a desire to laugh.
- straight time — the time or number of hours established as standard for a specific work period in a particular industry, usually computed on the basis of a workweek and fixed variously from 35 to 40 hours.
- straight-edge — advocating abstinence from alcohol, cigarettes, drugs, and sex and sometimes advocating vegetarianism.
- straight-line — (of a machine) having components that are arranged in a row or that move in a straight line when in operation
- straighten up — stand straighter
- straightforth — straight or directly forward
- strait-jacket — a garment made of strong material and designed to bind the arms, as of a violently disoriented person.
- strange quark — a quark having electric charge −1/3 times the elementary charge and strangeness −1; it is more massive than the up and down quarks.
- stranger rape — sexual assault by an assailant upon a person he or she does not know.
- strangulation — Pathology, Surgery. to compress or constrict (a duct, intestine, vessel, etc.) so as to prevent circulation or suppress function.
- strategic fit — (in business) the degree to which the activities of different sections of a business or businesses working together complement one another to achieve competitive advantage and business success
- strategically — pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of strategy: strategic movements.
- stratigraphic — a branch of geology dealing with the classification, nomenclature, correlation, and interpretation of stratified rocks.
- stratocumulus — a cloud of a class characterized by large dark, rounded masses, usually in groups, lines, or waves, the individual elements being larger than those in altocumulus and the whole being at a lower altitude, usually below 8000 feet (2400 meters).
- stratospheric — relating to the stratosphere
- stratovolcano — a large, steep volcano built up of alternating layers of lava and ash or cinders.
- stratum title — a system of registered ownership of space in multistorey buildings, to be equivalent to the ownership of the land of a single-storey building
- streaky bacon — Streaky bacon is bacon which has stripes of fat between stripes of meat.
- street artist — creates art in public