13-letter words starting with st
- stinging-cell — a nematocyst.
- stingless bee — any of certain social, honey-producing tropical bees of the family Apidae, as of the genus Melipona, having a nonfunctional stinger.
- stinking iris — an iris plant, Iris foetidissima, of W Europe and N Africa, having purplish flowers and a strong unpleasant smell when bruised
- stinking smut — bunt3 .
- stirlingshire — Also called Stirlingshire [stur-ling-sheer, -sher] /ˈstɜr lɪŋˌʃɪər, -ʃər/ (Show IPA). a historic county in central Scotland.
- stirpiculture — the production of special stocks or strains by careful breeding.
- stirrup pants — close-fitting pants with a stirruplike strap, at the end of each leg, to be positioned under the arch of the foot
- stock buyback — buyback (def 3).
- stock company — Finance. a company or corporation whose capital is divided into shares represented by stock.
- stock control — Stock control is the activity of making sure that a company always has exactly the right amount of goods available to sell.
- stock footage — film containing stock shots.
- stock options — an option giving the holder, usually an officer or employee, the right to buy stock of the issuing corporation at a specific price within a stated period.
- stock raising — the breeding and raising of livestock.
- stock warrant — A stock warrant is the right to buy stock at a particular price on a particular date directly from the issuing company.
- stockbreeding — the breeding and raising of livestock for marketing or exhibition.
- stocking loom — a type of knitting machine
- stocking mask — a nylon stocking used, especially by a criminal, to disguise the face.
- stocking unit — A stocking unit is a measurement or number by which items are kept in inventory, for example by dozens, kilograms, or cases.
- stoichiometry — the calculation of the quantities of chemical elements or compounds involved in chemical reactions.
- stokes' aster — a composite plant, Stokesia laevis, having lavender-blue, asterlike flowers.
- 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.