11-letter words starting with st
- stone canal — (in certain echinoderms) a tube lined with calcareous deposits, connecting the madreporite with a circular canal around the mouth.
- stone china — hard earthenware containing china stone.
- stone fruit — a fruit with a stone or hard endocarp, as a peach or plum; drupe.
- stone plant — living stones.
- stone river — a river in central Tennessee, flowing NW to the Cumberland River. Compare Murfreesboro.
- stone sheep — a wild sheep found in the Yukon and the northern Rocky Mountains
- stone shoot — a long steeply sloping line of loose boulder-strewn scree
- stone-blind — completely blind.
- stone-broke — having no money whatsoever.
- stone-faced — having a rigid, expressionless face.
- stone-scone — a village in central Scotland: site of coronation of Scottish kings until 1651.
- stonecutter — a person who cuts or carves stone.
- stoneground — (of wheat or other grain) ground between millstones, especially those made of burstone, so as to retain the whole of the grain and preserve nutritional content.
- stoneroller — an American minnow, Campostoma anomalum, named from its habit of moving stones as it feeds.
- stonewaller — to engage in stonewalling.
- stonewashed — to wash (cloth) with pebbles or stones so as to give the appearance of wear.
- stoneworker — any construction, as walls or the like, of stone; stone masonry.
- stony brook — a town in N Long Island, in SE New York.
- stony coral — a true coral consisting of numerous anthozoan polyps embedded in the calcareous material that they secrete.
- stony point — a village in SE New York, on the Hudson: site of a strategic fort in the Revolutionary War.
- stony-broke — completely without money; penniless
- stony-faced — having a rigid, expressionless face.
- stoop labor — the physical labor associated with the cultivation or picking of crops in farm fields, especially as performed by poorly paid, unskilled workers.
- stop button — (on a DVD player, cassette recorder, etc) the off switch
- stop chorus — a solo during which the rhythm section plays only the first beat of each phrase of music
- stop motion — Also called stop frame. the process of filming puppets and other objects one frame at a time while incrementally moving or modifying them, giving the illusion of lifelike motion when the captured film frames are viewed in rapid sequence (often used attributively): stop-motion animation; a stop-motion film.
- stop street — a street at the intersections of which all traffic must stop before continuing.
- stop volley — a softly hit volley that barely falls over the net and cannot be reached for a return.
- stop-and-go — characterized by periodically enforced stops, as caused by heavy traffic or traffic signals: stop-and-go traffic.
- stop-motion — Also called stop frame. the process of filming puppets and other objects one frame at a time while incrementally moving or modifying them, giving the illusion of lifelike motion when the captured film frames are viewed in rapid sequence (often used attributively): stop-motion animation; a stop-motion film.
- storability — capable of being stored for considerable time without loss of freshness or usability.
- store brand — an item offered for sale under a store's own label.
- store front — Store fronts are the windows of stores that can be looked into from the street, often displaying the types of product each store sells.
- storekeeper — a person who owns a store.
- storm cloud — raincloud before storm
- storm drain — rainwater drainage hole or gutter
- storm force — (on the Beaufort scale) force 10 0r 11
- storm glass — a sealed tube containing a solution supposed to change in appearance according to the weather
- storm house — a storm cellar.
- storm sewer — a sewer for carrying off rainfall drained from paved surfaces, roofs, etc.
- storm surge — an abnormal rise in the level of the sea along a coast caused by the onshore winds of a severe cyclone.
- storm track — the path followed by the center of a cyclonic storm.
- storm watch — watch (def 20).
- storm water — standing water produced after a heavy rainfall or snowfall
- stormstayed — isolated or unable to travel because of adverse weather conditions, esp a snowstorm
- storyteller — a person who tells or writes stories or anecdotes.
- storywriter — a person who writes stories, tales, fables, etc.
- stourbridge — an industrial town in W central England, in Dudley unitary authority, West Midlands. Pop: 55 480 (2001)
- straichtest — straightest
- straight up — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.