stead | (noun) the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another | Synonyms: lieu, place, position |
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steadfastness | (noun) loyalty in the face of trouble and difficulty | Synonyms: staunchness |
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(noun) steadfast resolution | - |
steadiness | (noun) the quality of being steady or securely and immovably fixed in place | Synonyms: firmness |
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(noun) the quality of being steady--regular and unvarying | - |
(noun) freedom from wavering or indecision; constancy of resolve or conduct | - |
steady | (noun) a person loved by another person | Synonyms: sweetheart, sweetie, truelove |
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steak | (noun) a slice of meat cut from the fleshy part of an animal or large fish | - |
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steakhouse | (noun) a restaurant that specializes in steaks | Synonyms: chophouse |
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steal | (noun) a stolen base; an instance in which a base runner advances safely during the delivery of a pitch (without the help of a hit or walk or passed ball or wild pitch) | - |
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(noun) an advantageous purchase | Synonyms: bargain, buy |
stealer | (noun) a criminal who takes property belonging to someone else with the intention of keeping it or selling it | Synonyms: thief |
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stealing | (noun) the act of taking something from someone unlawfully | Synonyms: larceny, theft, thievery, thieving |
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(noun) avoiding detection by moving carefully | Synonyms: stealth |
stealth | (noun) avoiding detection by moving carefully | Synonyms: stealing |
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stealthiness | (noun) a disposition to be sly and stealthy and to do things surreptitiously | Synonyms: furtiveness, sneakiness |
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steam | (noun) water at boiling temperature diffused in the atmosphere | - |
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steamboat | (noun) a boat propelled by a steam engine | - |
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steamer | (noun) an edible clam with thin oval-shaped shell found in coastal regions of the United States and Europe | Synonyms: long-neck clam, Mya arenaria, soft-shell clam, steamer clam |
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(noun) a ship powered by one or more steam engines | Synonyms: steamship |
(noun) a cooking utensil that can be used to cook food by steaming it | - |
(noun) a clam that is usually steamed in the shell | Synonyms: long-neck clam, soft-shell clam, steamer clam |
steamfitter | (noun) a craftsman who installs and maintains equipment for ventilating or heating or refrigerating | - |
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steaminess | (noun) cloudiness resulting from haze or mist or vapor | Synonyms: haziness, mistiness, vaporousness, vapourousness |
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steampunk | (noun) A subgenre of speculative science fiction set in an anachronistic 19th century society. | - |
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steamroller | (noun) vehicle equipped with heavy wide smooth rollers for compacting roads and pavements | Synonyms: road roller |
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(noun) a massive inexorable force that seems to crush everything in its way | Synonyms: juggernaut |
steamship | (noun) a ship powered by one or more steam engines | Synonyms: steamer |
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steamtightness | (noun) The property of being being sealed in such a way that steam cannot leak out. | - |
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stearate | (noun) an ester of stearic acid. | - |
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(noun) a salt of stearic acid. | - |
stearin | (noun) an ester of glycerol and stearic acid | - |
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steatite | (noun) a soft heavy compact variety of talc having a soapy feel; used to make hearths and tabletops and ornaments | Synonyms: soap-rock, soaprock, soapstone |
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steatocystoma | (noun) a common cyst of the skin; filled with fatty matter (sebum) that is secreted by a sebaceous gland that has been blocked | Synonyms: pilar cyst, sebaceous cyst, wen |
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steatopygia | (noun) an extreme accumulation of fat on the buttocks | - |
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steatorrhea | (noun) the presence of greater than normal amounts of fat in the feces which are frothy and foul smelling and floating; a symptom of disorders of fat metabolism and malabsorption syndrome | - |
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