12-letter words starting with st
- st. george's — one of the Windward Islands, in the E West Indies.
- st. gotthard — a mountain range in S Switzerland; a part of the Alps; highest peak, 10,490 feet (3195 meters).
- st. lawrence — D(avid) H(erbert) 1885–1930, English novelist.
- st. matthews — a town in N Kentucky.
- st.-eustache — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada.
- stabat mater — (italics) a Latin hymn, composed in the 13th century, commemorating the sorrows of the Virgin Mary at the Cross.
- stabilimeter — stabilograph.
- stabilizator — a stabilizer
- stabilograph — an instrument for measuring body sway.
- stackability — capable of being stacked, especially easily: stackable chairs.
- stacked heel — a shoe heel constructed from several layers of material.
- staddlestone — (formerly) one of several supports for a hayrick, consisting of a truncated conical stone surmounted by a flat circular stone
- stadia-hairs — a method of surveying in which distances are read by noting the interval on a graduated rod intercepted by two parallel cross hairs (stadia hairs or stadia wires) mounted in the telescope of a surveying instrument, the rod being placed at one end of the distance to be measured and the surveying instrument at the other.
- stag hunting — the act of hunting or chasing and killing stags
- stage effect — a highly spectacular or artificial device or means, especially for attracting attention.
- stage fright — nervousness felt by a performer or speaker when appearing before an audience.
- stage pocket — one of several metal boxes placed backstage in the floor (floor pocket) or wall of a theater and containing jacks for electric cables used in lighting units.
- stage-driver — the driver of a stagecoach.
- stage-manage — to work as a stage manager for: When he wasn't acting, he stage-managed a repertory theater.
- stage-struck — obsessed with the desire to become an actor or actress.
- stageability — a single step or degree in a process; a particular phase, period, position, etc., in a process, development, or series.
- stagger head — dropline.
- staggeringly — tending to stagger or overwhelm: a staggering amount of money required in the initial investment.
- staging area — an area, as a port of embarkation, where troops are assembled and readied for transit to a new field of operations.
- staging post — an area, as a port of embarkation, where troops are assembled and readied for transit to a new field of operations.
- stakeholders — the holder of the stakes of a wager.
- stakhanovism — a method for increasing production by rewarding individual initiative, developed in the Soviet Union in 1935.
- stakhanovite — a worker in the Soviet Union who regularly surpassed production quotas and was specially honored and rewarded.
- stalactiform — resembling or shaped like a stalactite.
- stamp dealer — someone who buys and sells postage stamps (to collectors)
- stand a show — to have a chance, esp. a remote one
- stand in for — to substitute for
- stand surety — to act as a surety
- stand up for — (of a person) to be in an upright position on the feet.
- stand-offish — If you say that someone is stand-offish, you mean that they behave in a formal and rather unfriendly way.
- standardbred — one of an American breed of trotting and pacing horses used chiefly for harness racing.
- standardized — to bring to or make of an established standard size, weight, quality, strength, or the like: to standardize manufactured parts.
- standardless — having no standard or standards
- standing cup — a tall decorative cup of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, having a raised cover.
- standpattism — belief in or the practice of resisting or refusing to accept change, especially in politics.
- stanislaus i — (Stanislaus Leszczynski) 1677–1766, king of Poland 1704–09, 1733–35.
- stanislavski — Konstantin [kon-stuh n-teen;; Russian kuh n-stuhn-tyeen] /ˈkɒn stənˌtin;; Russian kən stʌnˈtyin/ (Show IPA), (Konstantin Sergeevich Alekseev) 1863–1938, Russian actor, producer, and director.
- stanislavsky — Konstantin [kon-stuh n-teen;; Russian kuh n-stuhn-tyeen] /ˈkɒn stənˌtin;; Russian kən stʌnˈtyin/ (Show IPA), (Konstantin Sergeevich Alekseev) 1863–1938, Russian actor, producer, and director.
- stanisław ii — surnamed Poniatowski. 1732–98, the last king of Poland (1764–95), during whose reign Poland was repeatedly invaded and partitioned (1772, 1791, 1795) by its neighbours: abdicated
- stanley pool — a lake between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Congo-Brazzaville, formed by a widening of the River Congo. Area: 829 sq km (320 sq miles)
- stanleyville — former name of Kisangani.
- stannic acid — any of the series of acids usually occurring as amorphous powders and varying in composition from H 2 SnO 3 (alpha-stannic acid) to H 4 SnO 4 .
- stanniferous — containing tin; tin-bearing
- stapedectomy — a microsurgical procedure to relieve deafness by replacing the stapes of the ear with a prosthetic device.
- star chamber — a former court of inquisitorial and criminal jurisdiction in England that sat without a jury and that became noted for its arbitrary methods and severe punishments, abolished 1641.
On this page, we collect all 12-letter words starting with ST. It’s easy to find right word with a certain length. It is the easiest way to find 12-letter word that beginning with ST to use in Scrabble or Crossword puzzles.