10-letter words starting with st
- staycation — a vacation spent at home or near home, doing enjoyable activities or visiting local attractions.
- steadiness — firmly placed or fixed; stable in position or equilibrium: a steady ladder.
- steakhouse — a restaurant specializing in beefsteak.
- stealingly — in a stealthy or elusive manner; by stealing
- stealthful — secret, clandestine, or surreptitious procedure.
- stealthier — done, characterized, or acting by stealth; furtive: stealthy footsteps.
- stealthily — done, characterized, or acting by stealth; furtive: stealthy footsteps.
- steam bath — a bath of steam, usually in a specially equipped room or enclosure, for cleansing or refreshing oneself.
- steam beer — a naturally carbonated, malt-flavored beer brewed especially in the western U.S.
- steam coal — coal with relatively high sulfur content, suited for generating steam but not for coking.
- steam heat — heat obtained by the circulation of steam in pipes, radiators, etc.
- steam iron — an electric iron with a water chamber, which emits steam onto the fabric or garment being ironed.
- steam room — a steam-filled and heated room to induce sweating, as in a Turkish bath.
- steam trap — a device in a steam pipe that collects and discharges condensed water
- steam-punk — a subgenre of science fiction and fantasy featuring advanced machines and other technology based on steam power of the 19th century and taking place in a recognizable historical period or a fantasy world.
- steamed up — obscured by vapour
- steamtight — impervious to steam.
- steatocele — a fatty tumour located in the scrotum
- steel band — a band, native to Trinidad and common in the West Indies, using steel drums cut to various heights and tuned to specific pitches.
- steel blue — dark bluish gray.
- steel drum — Music. a bowl-shaped percussion instrument common in the West Indies, made from a steel barrel divided into sections producing different notes when struck.
- steel gray — dark metallic gray with a bluish tinge.
- steel grey — a dark grey colour, usually slightly purple
- steel mill — a steelworks.
- steel tape — a metal tape measure
- steel trap — a trap for catching animals, consisting of spring-operated steel jaws with sharp projections that clamp shut.
- steel wool — a tangled or matted mass of stringlike steel shavings, used for scouring, polishing, smoothing, etc.
- steel-clad — covered with steel; steel-panelled
- steelmaker — a manufacturer of steel.
- steelworks — an establishment where steel is made and often manufactured into girders, rails, etc.
- steepdowne — very steep or precipitous
- steeped in — full of
- stefansson — Vilhjalmur [vil-hyoul-mer] /ˈvɪlˌhyaʊl mər/ (Show IPA), 1879–1962, U.S. arctic explorer and author, born in Canada.
- steganopod — a bird belonging to the Steganopodes, a group of swimming birds such as pelicans and cormorants
- steiermark — German name of Styria.
- stelliform — star-shaped.
- stellulate — minutely star-shaped
- stem duchy — (in medieval Germany) any of the independent duchies corresponding in part to areas of tribal settlement and preserving some elements of tribal social structure.
- stemmatous — of or relating to a stemma
- stemwinder — a stemwinding watch.
- stenciling — a device for applying a pattern, design, words, etc., to a surface, consisting of a thin sheet of cardboard, metal, or other material from which figures or letters have been cut out, a coloring substance, ink, etc., being rubbed, brushed, or pressed over the sheet, passing through the perforations and onto the surface.
- stencilize — to make into a stencil.
- stencilled — a device for applying a pattern, design, words, etc., to a surface, consisting of a thin sheet of cardboard, metal, or other material from which figures or letters have been cut out, a coloring substance, ink, etc., being rubbed, brushed, or pressed over the sheet, passing through the perforations and onto the surface.
- stenograph — any of various keyboard instruments, somewhat resembling a typewriter, used for writing in shorthand, as by means of phonetic or arbitrary symbols.
- stenopaeic — pertaining to or containing a narrow slit or minute opening: a stenopeic device to aid vision after eye surgery.
- stenotherm — an organism that is only able to live within a narrow parameter of temperatures
- stenotopic — (of an animal or plant) able to tolerate only small environmental changes.
- stenotyper — a machine with a keyboard for recording speeches or dictation in phonetic shorthand
- stentorian — very loud or powerful in sound: a stentorian voice.
- step aside — move to one side