5-letter words starting with st
- stoma — Also, stomate. Botany. any of various small apertures, especially one of the minute orifices or slits in the epidermis of leaves, stems, etc., through which gases are exchanged.
- stomp — stamp (defs 1–3).
- stone — the hard substance, formed of mineral matter, of which rocks consist.
- stonk — to bombard (soldiers, buildings, etc) with artillery
- stony — full of or abounding in stones or rock: a stony beach.
- stood — simple past tense and past participle of stand.
- stook — shock2 (def 1).
- stool — a single seat on legs or a pedestal and without arms or a back.
- stoop — to bend the head and shoulders, or the body generally, forward and downward from an erect position: to stoop over a desk.
- stope — any excavation made in a mine, especially from a steeply inclined vein, to remove the ore that has been rendered accessible by the shafts and drifts.
- stops — to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.
- stopt — a simple past tense and past participle of stop.
- store — an establishment where merchandise is sold, usually on a retail basis.
- stork — any of several wading birds of the family Ciconiidae, having long legs and a long neck and bill. Compare adjutant stork, jabiru, marabou (def 1), white stork, wood ibis.
- storm — Theodore Woldsen [tey-aw-dawr vawlt-suh n] /ˈteɪ ɔˌdɔr ˈvɔlt sən/ (Show IPA), 1817–88, German poet and novelist.
- story — a narrative, either true or fictitious, in prose or verse, designed to interest, amuse, or instruct the hearer or reader; tale.
- stoss — Geology. noting or pertaining to the side, as of a hill or dale, that receives or has received the thrust of a glacier or other impulse.
- stoup — a basin for holy water, as at the entrance of a church.
- stour — British Dialect. tumult; confusion. a storm.
- stout — bulky in figure; heavily built; corpulent; thickset; fat: She is getting too stout for her dresses. Synonyms: big, rotund, stocky, portly, fleshy. Antonyms: thin, lean, slender, slim; skinny, scrawny.
- stove — one of the thin, narrow, shaped pieces of wood that form the sides of a cask, tub, or similar vessel.
- stowe — Harriet (Elizabeth) Beecher, 1811–96, U.S. abolitionist and novelist.
- stowp — stoup.
- strad — Stradivarius
- strag — a straggler or stray
- strap — a narrow strip of flexible material, especially leather, as for fastening or holding things together.
- straw — a single stalk or stem, especially of certain species of grain, chiefly wheat, rye, oats, and barley.
- stray — to deviate from the direct course, leave the proper place, or go beyond the proper limits, especially without a fixed course or purpose; ramble: to stray from the main road.
- strep — streptococcus.
- strew — to let fall in separate pieces or particles over a surface; scatter or sprinkle: to strew seed in a garden bed.
- stria — a slight or narrow furrow, ridge, stripe, or streak, especially one of a number in parallel arrangement: striae of muscle fiber.
- strig — to remove the stalk from
- strim — to cut (grass) using a Strimmer
- strip — to cut, tear, or form into strips.
- strop — any of several devices for sharpening razors, especially a strip of leather or other flexible material.
- strow — strew.
- stroy — to destroy.
- strum — to play on (a stringed musical instrument) by running the fingers lightly across the strings.
- strut — to walk with a vain, pompous bearing, as with head erect and chest thrown out, as if expecting to impress observers.
- stuck — simple past tense and past participle of stick2 .
- study — a room, in a house or other building, set apart for private study, reading, writing, or the like.
- stuff — the material of which anything is made: a hard, crystalline stuff.
- stuka — a German two-seated dive bomber with a single in-line engine, used by the Luftwaffe in World War II.
- stull — a timber prop.
- stulm — a shaft for draining a mine
- stump — the lower end of a tree or plant left after the main part falls or is cut off; a standing tree trunk from which the upper part and branches have been removed.
- stung — a simple past tense and past participle of sting.
- stunk — a simple past tense and past participle of stink.
- stunt — to use in doing stunts: to stunt an airplane.
- stupa — a monumental pile of earth or other material, in memory of Buddha or a Buddhist saint, and commemorating some event or marking a sacred spot.