11-letter words starting with st
- step change — A step change is a sudden or major change in the way that something happens or the way that someone behaves.
- step reebok — a set of aerobic exercises designed to improve the cardiovascular system, which consists of stepping on and off a special box of adjustable height
- step rocket — a multistage rocket that discards burned-out stages.
- step-parent — a stepfather or stepmother.
- stepanakert — a city in and the capital of Nagorno-Karabakh, within Azerbaijan.
- stepbrother — one's stepfather's son or stepmother's son by a previous marriage.
- stepdancing — a dance emphasizing footwork or certain steps instead of other bodily gestures or movement
- stephanotis — any vine belonging to the genus Stephanotis, of the milkweed family, having fragrant, waxy, white flowers and leathery leaves.
- stephen iii — died a.d. 772, pope 768–772.
- stephen vii — died a.d. 931, pope 928–931.
- steppenwolf — a novel (1927) by Hermann Hesse.
- stepsibling — a stepbrother or stepsister.
- stereobatic — relating to or resembling a stereobate
- stereoblind — lacking the ability to see in three dimensions through both eyes
- stereocilia — any of the long, flexible microvilli that superficially resemble cilia and occur as a brush border or series of tufts on the surface of various epithelial tissues.
- stereograph — a single or double picture for a stereoscope.
- stereoimage — the single three-dimensional image perceived in the brain by the coordination of the two slightly different views seen by the eyes.
- stereometer — a device used to ascertain the specific gravity of liquid and porous bodies, powders, and solids
- stereometry — the measurement of volumes.
- stereophony — the state or condition of being stereophonic.
- stereoptics — the branch of stereoscopy that is concerned with optics
- stereoscope — an optical instrument through which two pictures of the same object, taken from slightly different points of view, are viewed, one by each eye, producing the effect of a single picture of the object, with the appearance of depth or relief.
- stereoscopy — the study of the stereoscope and its techniques.
- stereotaxia — the electrical destruction of a small area of brain tissue, using stereotactic methods, to relieve disorders such as epilepsy and Parkinsonism
- stereotaxic — of, relating to, or based on three-dimensional studies of the brain, especially as an adjunct to brain surgery.
- stereotaxis — movement of an organism in response to contact with a solid.
- stereotomic — the technique of cutting solids, as stones, to specified forms and dimensions.
- stereotyped — reproduced in or by stereotype plates.
- stereotypes — 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.
- stereotypic — 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.
- sterlitamak — a city in the Russian Federation in Europe, W of the Southern Urals.
- stern-drive — inboard-outboard (def 1).
- stern-wheel — propelled by a paddle wheel at the stern.
- sternotribe — (of a flower) having contact with the sternum of an insect
- sternutator — a chemical agent causing nose irritation, coughing, etc.
- stethometer — an instrument for measuring the expansion of the chest and abdomen during respiration.
- stethoscope — an instrument used in auscultation to convey sounds in the chest or other parts of the body to the ear of the examiner.
- stevedoring — the act or practice of loading or unloading a ship, ship's cargo, etc
- stevengraph — a small picture woven in colored silk thread: introduced in 1879 and mass-produced on a Jacquard-type loom.
- stewardship — the position and duties of a steward, a person who acts as the surrogate of another or others, especially by managing property, financial affairs, an estate, etc.
- stichometry — the practice of writing a prose text in lines, often of slightly differing lengths, that correspond to units of sense and indicate phrasal rhythms.
- stick float — a float attached at the top and bottom to the line
- stick it to — to pierce or puncture with something pointed, as a pin, dagger, or spear; stab: to stick one's finger with a needle.
- stick shift — a manually operated transmission for an automotive vehicle, with the shift lever set either in the floor or on the steering column.
- stick style — a style in mid-Victorian American wooden architecture characterized by the use of vertical board siding with battens or grids of boards over horizontal siding to express the framing beneath.
- stick-built — built piece-by-piece at the construction site, as opposed to factory-built.
- stickhandle — (in hockey and lacrosse) to control and skillfully maneuver the ball or puck with the stick.
- stickleader — a person assigned to check the appearance or condition of each person in a stick
- stickleback — any of the small, pugnacious, spiny-backed fishes of the family Gasterosteidae, inhabiting northern fresh waters and sea inlets, the male of which builds and guards the nest.
- stickup man — a man who commits a stickup.