| backstage | (adjective) concealed from public view or attention | Synonyms: offstage |
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| (noun) a stage area out of sight of the audience | Synonyms: offstage, wing |
| (adverb) in or to a backstage area of a theater | - |
| (adverb) out of view of the public; behind the scenes | - |
| downstage | (adjective) of the front half of a stage | - |
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| (noun) the front half of the stage (as seen from the audience) | - |
| (adverb) at or toward the front of the stage | - |
| forestage | (noun) the part of a modern theater stage between the curtain and the orchestra (i.e., in front of the curtain) | Synonyms: apron, proscenium |
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| hostage | (noun) a prisoner who is held by one party to insure that another party will meet specified terms | Synonyms: surety |
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| instagay | (noun) A photo on the Instagram website, which is related to homosexuality | - |
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| instagood | (adjective) likely to get many upvotes on Instagram | - |
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| multistage | (noun) occurring in more than one stage | - |
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| nystagmus | (noun) involuntary movements of the eyeballs; its presence or absence is used to diagnose a variety of neurological and visual disorders | - |
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| offstage | (adjective) situated or taking place in the area of a stage not visible to the audience | - |
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| (adjective) concealed from public view or attention | Synonyms: backstage |
| (noun) a stage area out of sight of the audience | Synonyms: backstage, wing |
| (adverb) behind the scenes; not on stage | - |
| (adverb) not in public | - |
| onstage | (adjective) situated or taking place on the area of a stage visible to the audience | - |
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| (adverb) on the stage | - |
| postage | (noun) a small adhesive token stuck on a letter or package to indicate that postal fees have been paid | Synonyms: postage stamp, stamp |
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| (noun) the charge for mailing something | - |
| prostaglandin | (noun) a potent substance that acts like a hormone and is found in many bodily tissues (and especially in semen); produced in response to trauma and may affect blood pressure and metabolism and smooth muscle activity | - |
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| stag | (noun) adult male deer | - |
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| (noun) a male deer, especially an adult male red deer | Synonyms: hart |
| (verb) watch, observe, or inquire secretly | Synonyms: sleuth, snoop, spy |
| (verb) give away information about somebody | Synonyms: betray, denounce, give away, grass, rat, shit, shop, snitch, tell on |
| (verb) attend a dance or a party without a female companion | - |
| stage | (noun) a section or portion of a journey or course | Synonyms: leg |
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| (noun) a large platform on which people can stand and can be seen by an audience | - |
| (noun) a large coach-and-four formerly used to carry passengers and mail on regular routes between towns | Synonyms: stagecoach |
| (noun) a small platform on a microscope where the specimen is mounted for examination | Synonyms: microscope stage |
| (noun) the theater as a profession (usually `the stage') | - |
| (noun) any scene regarded as a setting for exhibiting or doing something | - |
| (noun) a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process | Synonyms: degree, level, point |
| (noun) any distinct time period in a sequence of events | Synonyms: phase |
| (verb) perform (a play), especially on a stage | Synonyms: present, represent |
| (verb) plan, organize, and carry out (an event) | Synonyms: arrange |
| stagecoach | (noun) a large coach-and-four formerly used to carry passengers and mail on regular routes between towns | Synonyms: stage |
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| stagecraft | (noun) skill in writing or staging plays | - |
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| staged | (adjective) written for or performed on the stage | - |
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| (adjective) deliberately arranged for effect | Synonyms: arranged |
| stagehand | (noun) an employee of a theater who performs work involved in putting on a theatrical production | Synonyms: stage technician |
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| stager | (noun) someone who supervises the physical aspects in the production of a show and who is in charge of the stage when the show is being performed | Synonyms: stage manager |
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| (noun) an experienced person who has been through many battles; someone who has given long service | Synonyms: old-timer, old hand, old stager, oldtimer, veteran, warhorse |
| stagey | (adjective) having characteristics of the stage especially an artificial and mannered quality | Synonyms: stagy |
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| stagflation | (noun) a period of slow economic growth and high unemployment (stagnation) while prices rise (inflation) | - |
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| stagflationary | (adjective) characteristic of or promoting stagflation | - |
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| stagger | (noun) an unsteady uneven gait | Synonyms: lurch, stumble |
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| (verb) to arrange in a systematic order | Synonyms: distribute |
| (verb) astound or overwhelm, as with shock | - |
| (verb) walk as if unable to control one's movements | Synonyms: careen, keel, lurch, reel, swag |
| (verb) walk with great difficulty | Synonyms: flounder |
| staggerbush | (noun) deciduous shrub of coastal plain of the eastern United States having nodding pinkish-white flowers; poisonous to stock | Synonyms: Lyonia mariana, stagger bush |
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| staggerer | (noun) someone who walks unsteadily as if about to fall | Synonyms: reeler, totterer |
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| staggering | (adjective) so surprisingly impressive as to stun or overwhelm | Synonyms: astonishing, astounding, stupefying |
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| staggeringly | (adverb) vastly | Synonyms: enormously, hugely, tremendously |
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| staggers | (noun) a disease of the central nervous system affecting especially horses and cattle; characterized by an unsteady swaying gait and frequent falling | Synonyms: blind staggers |
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| staghead | (noun) an abnormal tufted growth of small branches on a tree or shrub caused by fungi or insects or other physiological disturbance | Synonyms: hexenbesen, witch broom, witches' broom |
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| staghound | (noun) a large heavy hound formerly used in hunting stags and other large game; similar to but larger than a foxhound | - |
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| stagily | (adverb) in a stagy and theatrical manner | Synonyms: theatrically |
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| staginess | (noun) an artificial and mannered quality | Synonyms: theatricality |
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| staging | (noun) travel by stagecoach | - |
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| (noun) getting rid of a stage of a multistage rocket | - |
| (noun) a system of scaffolds | Synonyms: scaffolding |
| (noun) the production of a drama on the stage | Synonyms: theatrical production |
| stagnancy | (noun) a state of inactivity (in business or art etc) | Synonyms: doldrums, stagnation |
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| (noun) inactivity of liquids; being stagnant; standing still; without current or circulation | Synonyms: stagnation |
| stagnant | (adjective) not circulating or flowing | Synonyms: dead |
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| (adjective) not growing or changing; without force or vitality | Synonyms: moribund |
| stagnate | (verb) be idle; exist in a changeless situation | Synonyms: idle, laze, slug |
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| (verb) cease to flow; stand without moving | - |
| (verb) stand still | - |
| (verb) cause to stagnate | - |
| stagnation | (noun) a state of inactivity (in business or art etc) | Synonyms: doldrums, stagnancy |
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| (noun) inactivity of liquids; being stagnant; standing still; without current or circulation | Synonyms: stagnancy |
| stagy | (adjective) having characteristics of the stage especially an artificial and mannered quality | Synonyms: stagey |
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| unstaged | (adjective) not performed on the stage | - |
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| upstage | (adjective) of the back half of a stage | - |
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| (adjective) remote in manner | Synonyms: aloof, distant |
| (noun) the rear part of the stage | - |
| (adverb) at or toward the rear of the stage | - |
| (verb) steal the show, draw attention to oneself away from someone else | - |
| (verb) move upstage, forcing the other actors to turn away from the audience | - |
| (verb) treat snobbishly, put in one's place | - |
| upstager | (noun) a selfish actor who upstages the other actors | - |
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| wastage | (noun) anything lost by wear or waste | - |
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| (noun) the process of wasting | - |