8-letter words starting with sta
- standout — something or someone, as a person, performance, etc., remarkably superior to others: Evans was a standout in the mixed doubles.
- standpat — standpatter.
- stanford — (Amasa) Leland, 1824–93, U.S. railroad developer, politician, and philanthropist: governor of California 1861–63; senator 1885–93.
- stanhope — James, 1st Earl Stanhope, 1673–1721, British soldier and statesman: prime minister 1717–18.
- stannary — a tin-mining region or district.
- stannate — a salt of a stannic acid.
- stannite — a mineral, iron-black to steel-gray in color, with a metallic luster, copper iron tin sulfide, Cu 2 FeSnS 4 : an ore of tin.
- stannous — containing tin, especially in the bivalent state.
- stanovoi — a mountain range in the E Russian Federation in Asia: a watershed between the Pacific and Arctic oceans; highest peak, 8143 feet (2480 meters).
- stanzaic — an arrangement of a certain number of lines, usually four or more, sometimes having a fixed length, meter, or rhyme scheme, forming a division of a poem.
- stapelia — any of various plants of the genus Stapelia, of the milkweed family, native to southern Africa, having short, fleshy, leafless stems, and flowers that are oddly colored or mottled and in most species emit a fetid, carrionlike odor.
- stapling — a principal raw material or commodity grown or manufactured in a locality.
- star cut — a gem cut having a hexagonal table surrounded by six facets in the form of equilateral triangles.
- star key — a push button on a telephone or other electronic device that is marked with an asterisk, often in the lower left-hand area.
- star map — star chart.
- starched — a white, tasteless, solid carbohydrate, (C 6 H 1 0 O 5) n , occurring in the form of minute granules in the seeds, tubers, and other parts of plants, and forming an important constituent of rice, corn, wheat, beans, potatoes, and many other vegetable foods.
- stardust — (not in technical use) a mass of distant stars appearing as tiny particles of dust.
- starfish — any echinoderm of the class Asteroidea, having the body radially arranged, usually in the form of a star, with five or more rays or arms radiating from a central disk; asteroid.
- stargaze — to gaze at or observe the stars.
- starkers — naked
- starkest — sheer, utter, downright, or complete: stark madness.
- starless — any of the heavenly bodies, except the moon, appearing as fixed luminous points in the sky at night.
- starlike — of the shape of or like a star.
- starling — a pointed cluster of pilings for protecting a bridge pier from drifting ice, debris, etc.
- starlisp — *LISP
- starosta — the headman of a Russian village
- starosty — (in the past in Poland) the estate of a starosta, given by the Crown
- starring — any of the heavenly bodies, except the moon, appearing as fixed luminous points in the sky at night.
- starship — a spaceship designed for intergalactic travel.
- starspot — a dark patch on the surface of a star
- start in — to undertake (something or doing something); commence or begin
- start on — begin attacking
- start up — the act or fact of starting something; a setting in motion.
- start-up — the act or fact of starting something; a setting in motion.
- starters — a person or thing that starts.
- startful — tending to make sudden small involuntary movements of the body from fright or nerves, etc
- startled — to disturb or agitate suddenly as by surprise or alarm.
- starving — very hungry
- starwort — any of several chickweeds of the genus Stellaria.
- stasimon — (in ancient Greek drama) a choral ode, especially in tragedy, divided into strophe and antistrophe: usually alternating with the epeisodion and, in the final ode, preceding the exodos.
- statable — the condition of a person or thing, as with respect to circumstances or attributes: a state of health.
- statedly — fixed or settled: a stated price.
- statelet — a small state, especially one resulting from the dissolution of a larger state.
- statical — pertaining to or characterized by a fixed or stationary condition.
- staticky — containing or producing static electricity.
- statuary — statues collectively.
- statured — of or having a stature of a certain kind (usually used in combination): the short-statured inhabitants of the Malay Peninsula.
- statures — the height of a human or animal body.
- statuses — the position of an individual in relation to another or others, especially in regard to social or professional standing.
- statutes — permanent rules made by a body or institution for the government of its internal affairs