8-letter words starting with ste
- stenoses — a narrowing or stricture of a passage or vessel.
- stenosis — a narrowing or stricture of a passage or vessel.
- stenotic — a narrowing or stricture of a passage or vessel.
- stentour — a tax assessor or person who determines the amount of tax that is owed
- step cut — a cut consisting of a rectangular girdle, often faceted, with two or more tiers of narrow facets running parallel to the girdle on both the crown and the pavilion: used especially in stones in which color is more important than brilliance.
- step out — 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.
- step-ins — step-in garments, esp underwear
- step-off — 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.
- stepdame — a stepmother.
- stepford — blandly conformist and submissive
- stephane — an ancient Greek headdress or crown often depicted in the statuary of various deities
- stephead — dropline.
- stephens — Saint, died a.d. c35, first Christian martyr.
- stepless — 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.
- steplike — 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.
- stepover — an instance of raising the foot over the ball while in possession in order to wrong-foot an opponent
- stepping — 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.
- stepwise — in a steplike arrangement.
- stereome — the tissue of a plant that provides mechanical support
- sterical — of or relating to the spatial relationships of atoms in a molecule.
- sterigma — a small stalk that bears a sporangium, a conidium, or especially a basidiospore.
- sterling — of, relating to, or noting British money: The sterling equivalent is #5.50.
- sternage — the stern or rear of a ship
- sternest — firm, strict, or uncompromising: stern discipline.
- sternite — a sclerite of the sternum of an insect, especially a ventral sclerite of an abdominal segment.
- sternson — a knee in a timber-framed vessel, reinforcing the angle between the keelson and the sternpost.
- sternway — Nautical. the movement of a vessel backward, or stern foremost.
- steroids — any of a large group of fat-soluble organic compounds, as the sterols, bile acids, and sex hormones, most of which have specific physiological action.
- stevinus — Stevin, Simon.
- stewable — capable of being made into a stew
- stewpond — a fishpond, often located in the garden of a monastery