12-letter words starting with ste
- ste.-therese — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada.
- steady state — physics: condition which does not change over time
- steady-going — steadfast; faithful; unchanging: steady-going service to the cause of justice.
- stealthfully — secret, clandestine, or surreptitious procedure.
- stealthiness — done, characterized, or acting by stealth; furtive: stealthy footsteps.
- steam boiler — a receptacle in which water is boiled to generate steam.
- steam engine — an engine worked by steam, typically one in which a sliding piston in a cylinder is moved by the expansive action of the steam generated in a boiler.
- steam fitter — a person who installs and repairs steampipes and their accessories.
- steam hammer — a hammer for forging, operated by steam.
- steam jacket — a casing, as on the cylinder of a steam engine, filled with live steam to keep the interior hot.
- steam shovel — a machine for digging or excavating, operated by its own engine and boiler.
- steam-boiler — a receptacle in which water is boiled to generate steam.
- steam-driven — powered by steam
- steam-engine — an engine worked by steam, typically one in which a sliding piston in a cylinder is moved by the expansive action of the steam generated in a boiler.
- steam-heated — heated by steam.
- steam-roller — a heavy steam-powered vehicle having a roller for crushing, compacting, or leveling materials used for a road or the like.
- steam-shovel — a machine for digging or excavating, operated by its own engine and boiler.
- stearic acid — a colorless, waxlike, sparingly water-soluble, odorless solid, C 1 8 H 3 6 O 2 , the most common fatty acid, occurring as the glyceride in tallow and other animal fats and in some animal oils: used chiefly in the manufacture of soaps, stearates, candles, cosmetics, and in medicine in suppositories and pill coatings.
- steatomatous — of or resembling a steatoma
- steatopygous — extreme accumulation of fat on and about the buttocks, especially of women.
- steatorrhoea — the presence of excess fat in the stools, usually caused by disease of the pancreas or intestine, and characterized by chronic diarrhea and weight loss.
- steel guitar — an acoustic, handheld guitar having a metal resonator and producing a wailing, variable sound.
- steel helmet — a helmet made of steel
- steel lumber — metal lumber composed of sheet steel.
- steel-plated — covered with steel
- steeplechase — a horse race over a turf course furnished with artificial ditches, hedges, and other obstacles over which the horses must jump.
- steerability — to guide the course of (something in motion) by a rudder, helm, wheel, etc.: to steer a bicycle.
- steering arm — the part of a vehicle's chassis that directs the input from the steering box
- stefan dušan — 1308–55, king of Serbia (1331–55), who conquered Albania (1343) and large parts of the Byzantine empire, into which he introduced legal and administrative reforms
- stefan's law — the principle that the energy radiated per second by unit area of a black body at thermodynamic temperature T is directly proportional to T4. The constant of proportionality is the Stefan constant, equal to 5.670400 × 10–8 Wm–2 K–4
- steganograph — a piece of coded writing; cipher
- stegocarpous — (of a moss) belonging to the division Stegocarpi, having an operculate capsule
- stegophilist — a person who enjoys climbing up the outside of buildings
- stegosaurian — having the characteristics of a stegosaur
- steinamanger — German name of Szombathely.
- stellar wind — the radial outflow of ionized gas from a star.
- stelliferous — having or abounding with stars.
- stem reptile — any member of the extinct order Cotylosauria, comprising heavy-bodied, splay-limbed, plant-eating reptiles that arose during the Carboniferous Period and that are considered to include the ancestors of all other reptiles.
- stem-end rot — a disease of fruits characterized by discoloration, shriveling, and decay of the stem and adjacent parts of the fruit and caused by any of several fungi of the genera Diplodia and Phomopsis.
- stem-winding — wound by turning a knob at the stem.
- stenographer — a person who specializes in taking dictation in shorthand.
- stenographic — the art of writing in shorthand.
- stenophagous — (of an animal) feeding on a limited variety of foods (opposed to euryphagous).
- stenothermal — (of animals or plants) able to exist only within a narrow range of temperature
- step by step — a movement made by lifting the foot and setting it down again in a new position, accompanied by a shifting of the weight of the body in the direction of the new position, as in walking, running, or dancing.
- stepdaughter — a daughter of one's husband or wife by a previous marriage.
- stephen jobs — (person) Stephen P. Jobs (born 24 February 1955). The co-founder and ex-president of Apple Computer, leader of the team that produced the Macintosh. In 1979, when he was president of Apple, Steven Jobs saw a demonstration of Smalltalk at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center. He and other Apple employees were "very impressed with the unique and revolutionary user-friendly design". The first Macintosh was released in January 1984. Jobs described it as insanely great. Jobs was ousted from Apple in 1985 and founded Next, Inc.. In December 1996 he was re-employed by Apple when they bought NeXT. See also lithium lick, Mathematica.
- stephen viii — died a.d. 942, pope 939–942.
- stephenville — a town in central Texas.
- stepmotherly — related to or having the characteristics of a stepmother
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