16-letter words starting with st
- st. clair shores — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
- st. john's-bread — carob (def 2).
- st. lucie cherry — mahaleb.
- stab in the back — to pierce or wound with or as if with a pointed weapon: She stabbed a piece of chicken with her fork.
- staffing officer — someone who recruits, hires, and ensures the interests of staff and employees in an organization
- stage production — a play or show which is performed on stage
- stagedoor johnny — a man who often goes to a theater or waits at a stage door to court an actress.
- stalked puffball — a puffball-like mushroom of the genus Tulestoma, maturing in early winter.
- stamp collecting — Stamp collecting is the hobby of building up a collection of stamps.
- stamp collection — the act of collecting postage stamps as a hobby
- stand to someone — to be useful to someone
- standard annuity — A standard annuity is a retirement investment insurance contract that pays a regular income in return for a lump sum payment.
- standard english — the English language in its most widely accepted form, as written and spoken by educated people in both formal and informal contexts, having universal currency while incorporating regional differences.
- standing cypress — a plant, Ipomopsis rubra, of the southern U.S., having feathery leaves and clusters of red and yellow flowers.
- standing ovation — rising to applaud
- standing rigging — rigging remaining permanently in position as a means of steadying various spars, shrouds, stays, etc. (contrasted with running rigging).
- standoff missile — a missile capable of striking a distant target after launch by an aircraft outside the range of missile defences
- stannic chloride — a colorless fuming and caustic liquid, SnCl 4 , soluble in water and alcohol, that converts with water to a crystalline solid: used for electrically conductive and electroluminescent coatings and in ceramics.
- stannic sulphide — an insoluble solid compound of tin usually existing as golden crystals or as a yellowish-brown powder: used as a pigment. Formula: SnS2
- starry grasswort — a weedy plant, Cerastium arvense, of the pink family, native to the North Temperate Zone, having narrow leaves and white flowers.
- start-up capital — capital used to set up a new business
- start-up company — new business
- state apartments — the most impressive rooms in a palace or mansion, used by royalty, or to receive visiting dignitaries
- state capitalism — a form of capitalism in which the central government controls most of the capital, industry, natural resources, etc.
- state department — state (def 12).
- state of affairs — situation
- state of the art — the latest and most sophisticated or advanced stage of a technology, art, or science.
- state university — a university maintained by the government of a state.
- state's attorney — (in judicial proceedings) the legal representative of the state.
- state's evidence — evidence given by an accomplice in a crime who becomes a voluntary witness against the other defendants: The defendants' case was lost when one of them turned state's evidence.
- state-controlled — controlled by the government
- state-maintained — publicly funded
- state-of-the-art — the latest and most sophisticated or advanced stage of a technology, art, or science.
- state-subsidized — partly paid for by the state; subsidized by the state
- static character — a literary or dramatic character who undergoes little or no inner change; a character who does not grow or develop.
- static discharge — Static discharge is the release of static electricity when two objects touch each other.
- stationary front — a front between warm and cold air masses that is moving very slowly or not at all.
- stationary orbit — an orbit lying in, or approximately in, the plane of the equator for which the orbital period is equal to the spin period of the central body
- stationary point — a point on a curve at which the tangent is either horizontal or vertical, such as a maximum, a minimum, or a point of inflection
- stationary state — any of several energy states an atom may occupy without emitting electromagnetic radiation.
- statutory change — a change in the law
- steal a march on — to walk with regular and measured tread, as soldiers on parade; advance in step in an organized body.
- steam locomotive — a locomotive moved by steam power generated in its own boiler: still in commercial use in nations that have not yet converted entirely to diesel and electric locomotives.
- steamboat gothic — a florid architectural style suggesting the gingerbread-decorated construction of river boats of the Victorian period.
- stenothermophile — a stenothermophilic bacterium.
- step out of line — to fail to conform to expected standards, attitudes, etc
- stephen f austin — Alfred, 1835–1913, English poet: poet laureate 1896–1913.
- stereomicroscope — stereoscopic microscope.
- stereoregularity — (of a polymer) the degree to which successive configurations in space along the chain follow a simple rule. Also called tacticity. Compare configuration (def 4).
- steric hindrance — the prevention or retardation of inter- or intramolecular interactions as a result of the spatial structure of a molecule.
On this page, we collect all 16-letter words starting with ST. It’s easy to find right word with a certain length. It is the easiest way to find 16-letter word that beginning with ST to use in Scrabble or Crossword puzzles.