10-letter words starting with st
- stop codon — a codon that stops the synthesis of a protein molecule.
- stop order — an order from a customer to a broker to sell a security if the market price drops below a designated level.
- stop plank — a board or boarding that is placed along the top of a dam to increase its height and capacity
- stop press — Stop press is sometimes printed next to an article in a newspaper to indicate that this is very recent news and was added after the rest of the newspaper had been printed.
- stop price — the price at which a stop order is activated.
- stop-frame — Also called stop frame. the process of filming puppets and other objects one frame at a time while incrementally moving or modifying them, giving the illusion of lifelike motion when the captured film frames are viewed in rapid sequence (often used attributively): stop-motion animation; a stop-motion film.
- stop-start — frequently stopping then starting again
- store away — keep
- store card — a token bearing the name of a business, often exchangeable for a particular item.
- storefront — the side of a store facing a street, usually containing display windows.
- storehouse — a building in which things are stored.
- storiology — the study of the origins and development of folk narratives and legends
- storksbill — Also called heron's-bill. any of various plants belonging to the genus Erodium, of the geranium family, having deeply lobed leaves, loose clusters of pink, purple, white, or yellow flowers, and long, slender fruit.
- storm belt — an area of the earth's surface in which storms are frequent
- storm boat — assault boat.
- storm cell — an air mass formed by powerful updrafts and downdrafts moving in convective loops, the smallest unit of a storm system.
- storm coat — an overcoat, usually of a water-repellent fabric, lined with material serving as insulation against very cold weather, often having a fur collar.
- storm cone — a canvas cone hoisted as a warning of high winds
- storm door — a supplementary outside door, usually glazed, for protecting the entrance door against drafts, driving rain, etc.
- stormbound — confined, detained, or isolated by storms: a stormbound ship; a stormbound village.
- stormfully — in a stormful manner
- stormproof — protected from or not affected by storms.
- story line — plot (def 2).
- storyboard — a panel or panels on which a sequence of sketches depict the significant changes of action and scene in a planned film, as for a movie, television show, or advertisement.
- storyville — a red-light district of New Orleans known as a wellspring of jazz before World War I.
- stoutherie — theft
- stouthrief — theft using force or violence
- stove bolt — a small bolt, similar to a machine screw but with a coarser thread.
- stove coal — anthracite coal in sizes ranging from 1 5/8 to 2 7/16 (about 4 to 6 cm), intermediate between egg coal and chestnut coal.
- stovepipes — a pipe, as of sheet metal, serving as a stove chimney or to connect a stove with a chimney flue.
- strabismic — a disorder of vision due to a deviation from normal orientation of one or both eyes so that both cannot be directed at the same object at the same time; squint; crossed eyes.
- strabismus — a disorder of vision due to a deviation from normal orientation of one or both eyes so that both cannot be directed at the same object at the same time; squint; crossed eyes.
- strabotomy — the operation of cutting one or more of the muscles of the eye to correct strabismus.
- stracchino — a soft cheese from North Italy
- straddlers — to walk, stand, or sit with the legs wide apart; stand or sit astride.
- stradivari — Antonio [an-toh-nee-oh;; Italian ahn-taw-nyaw] /ænˈtoʊ ni oʊ;; Italian ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA), 1644?–1737, Italian violinmaker of Cremona (pupil of Nicolò Amati).
- stragglers — to stray from the road, course, or line of march.
- straggling — to stray from the road, course, or line of march.
- straight a — achieving or showing the highest grade or superior accomplishment, especially scholastically: a straight A report card.
- straighten — make straight
- straighter — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
- strainedly — in a strained manner
- strainless — to draw tight or taut, especially to the utmost tension; stretch to the full: to strain a rope.
- straitened — to put into difficulties, especially financial ones: His obligations had straitened him.
- stramonium — jimson weed.
- strandflat — a shore platform found along the coasts of Greenland, Iceland and Norway which may have formed as the result of glacial erosion
- strandline — a mark left by the high tide or a line of seaweed and other debris washed onto the beach by the tide
- strandwolf — brown hyena.
- stranglers — to kill by squeezing the throat in order to compress the windpipe and prevent the intake of air, as with the hands or a tightly drawn cord.
- strangling — an incident in which someone is strangled