| astilbe | (noun) any plant of the genus Astilbe having compound leaves and showy panicles of tiny colorful flowers | - |
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| bastille | (noun) a jail or prison (especially one that is run in a tyrannical manner) | - |
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| diethylstilbesterol | (noun) synthetic nonsteroid with the properties of estrogen; formerly used to treat menstrual problems but was found to be associated with vaginal cancers in the daughters of women so treated during pregnancy | Synonyms: DES, stilbesterol |
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| diethylstilbestrol | (noun) a potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry | Synonyms: DES, diethylstilboestrol, stilbestrol, stilboestrol |
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| diethylstilboestrol | (noun) a potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry | Synonyms: DES, diethylstilbestrol, stilbestrol, stilboestrol |
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| distil | (verb) give off (a liquid) | Synonyms: distill |
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| (verb) undergo the process of distillation | Synonyms: distill |
| (verb) extract by the process of distillation | Synonyms: distill, extract |
| (verb) undergo condensation; change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops | Synonyms: condense, distill |
| (verb) remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation | Synonyms: distill, make pure, purify, sublimate |
| distill | (verb) give off (a liquid) | Synonyms: distil |
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| (verb) undergo the process of distillation | Synonyms: distil |
| (verb) extract by the process of distillation | Synonyms: distil, extract |
| (verb) remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation | Synonyms: distil, make pure, purify, sublimate |
| (verb) undergo condensation; change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops | Synonyms: condense, distil |
| distillate | (noun) a purified liquid produced by condensation from a vapor during distilling; the product of distilling | Synonyms: distillation |
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| distillation | (noun) the process of purifying a liquid by boiling it and condensing its vapors | Synonyms: distillment |
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| (noun) a purified liquid produced by condensation from a vapor during distilling; the product of distilling | Synonyms: distillate |
| distiller | (noun) someone who distills alcoholic liquors | - |
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| distillery | (noun) a plant and works where alcoholic drinks are made by distillation | Synonyms: still |
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| distillment | (noun) the process of purifying a liquid by boiling it and condensing its vapors | Synonyms: distillation |
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| frostily | (adverb) without warmth or enthusiasm | Synonyms: frigidly |
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| hastily | (adverb) in a hurried or hasty manner | Synonyms: hurriedly, in haste |
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| hostile | (adjective) characterized by enmity or ill will | - |
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| (adjective) not belonging to your own country's forces or those of an ally | - |
| (adjective) unsolicited and resisted by the management of the target company (used of attempts to buy or take control of a business) | - |
| (adjective) very unfavorable to life or growth | Synonyms: uncongenial, unfriendly |
| (adjective) impossible to bring into friendly accord | - |
| (noun) troops belonging to the enemy's military forces | - |
| hostilely | (adverb) with hostility; in a belligerent hostile manner | Synonyms: belligerently |
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| hostilities | (noun) fighting; acts of overt warfare | Synonyms: belligerency |
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| hostility | (noun) violent action that is hostile and usually unprovoked | Synonyms: aggression |
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| (noun) a hostile (very unfriendly) disposition | Synonyms: ill will |
| (noun) the feeling of a hostile person | Synonyms: enmity, ill will |
| (noun) a state of deep-seated ill-will | Synonyms: antagonism, enmity |
| instil | (verb) enter drop by drop | Synonyms: instill |
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| instill | (verb) fill, as with a certain quality | Synonyms: impregnate, infuse, tincture |
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| (verb) produce or try to produce a vivid impression of | Synonyms: impress, ingrain |
| (verb) teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions | Synonyms: inculcate, infuse |
| (verb) enter drop by drop | Synonyms: instil |
| (verb) impart gradually | Synonyms: transfuse |
| instillation | (noun) the introduction of a liquid (by pouring or injection) drop by drop | Synonyms: instillment, instilment |
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| (noun) a liquid that is instilled drop by drop | - |
| instillator | (noun) medical apparatus that puts a liquid into a cavity drop by drop | - |
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| instilling | (noun) teaching or impressing upon the mind by frequent instruction or repetition | Synonyms: inculcation, ingraining |
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| instillment | (noun) the introduction of a liquid (by pouring or injection) drop by drop | Synonyms: instillation, instilment |
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| instilment | (noun) the introduction of a liquid (by pouring or injection) drop by drop | Synonyms: instillation, instillment |
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| lustily | (adverb) in a healthy manner | - |
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| mistily | (adverb) in a misty manner | - |
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| (adverb) in a vague way | Synonyms: vaguely |
| nastily | (adverb) in a nasty ill-tempered manner | Synonyms: meanly |
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| pastil | (noun) a medicated lozenge used to soothe the throat | Synonyms: cough drop, pastille, troche |
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| pastille | (noun) a medicated lozenge used to soothe the throat | Synonyms: cough drop, pastil, troche |
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| pestilence | (noun) a pernicious and malign influence that is hard to get rid of | Synonyms: canker |
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| (noun) any epidemic disease with a high death rate | Synonyms: pest, plague |
| (noun) a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal | Synonyms: pest, pestis, plague |
| pestilent | (adjective) likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease | Synonyms: pestiferous, pestilential, plaguey |
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| (adjective) exceedingly harmful | Synonyms: baneful, deadly, pernicious |
| pestilential | (adjective) likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease | Synonyms: pestiferous, pestilent, plaguey |
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| pistil | (noun) the female ovule-bearing part of a flower composed of ovary and style and stigma | - |
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| pistillate | (adjective) bearing or consisting of carpels | Synonyms: carpellate |
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| (adjective) having gynoecia, or pistils, the ovule-bearing organ of a seed plant | - |
| pistillode | (noun) a sterile vestigial pistil remaining in a staminate flower | - |
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| postilion | (noun) someone who rides the near horse of a pair in order to guide the horses pulling a carriage (especially a carriage without a coachman) | Synonyms: postillion |
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| postillion | (noun) someone who rides the near horse of a pair in order to guide the horses pulling a carriage (especially a carriage without a coachman) | Synonyms: postilion |
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| standstill | (noun) an interruption of normal activity | Synonyms: stand, tie-up |
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| (noun) a situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible | Synonyms: dead end, deadlock, impasse, stalemate |
| stilbesterol | (noun) synthetic nonsteroid with the properties of estrogen; formerly used to treat menstrual problems but was found to be associated with vaginal cancers in the daughters of women so treated during pregnancy | Synonyms: DES, diethylstilbesterol |
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| stilbestrol | (noun) a potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry | Synonyms: DES, diethylstilbestrol, diethylstilboestrol, stilboestrol |
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| stilboestrol | (noun) a potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry | Synonyms: DES, diethylstilbestrol, diethylstilboestrol, stilbestrol |
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| stile | (noun) an upright that is a member in a door or window frame | - |
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| stiletto | (noun) a small dagger with a tapered blade | - |
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| still | (adjective) not sparkling | Synonyms: noneffervescent |
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| (adjective) used of pictures; of a single or static photograph not presented so as to create the illusion of motion; or representing objects not capable of motion | - |
| (adjective) (of a body of water) free from disturbance by heavy waves | Synonyms: placid, quiet, smooth, tranquil, unruffled |
| (adjective) marked by absence of sound | Synonyms: silent, soundless |
| (adjective) not in physical motion | Synonyms: inactive, motionless, static |
| (adjective) free from noticeable current | - |
| (noun) an apparatus used for the distillation of liquids; consists of a vessel in which a substance is vaporized by heat and a condenser where the vapor is condensed | - |
| (noun) a static photograph (especially one taken from a movie and used for advertising purposes) | - |
| (noun) a plant and works where alcoholic drinks are made by distillation | Synonyms: distillery |
| (noun) (poetic) tranquil silence | Synonyms: hush, stillness |
| (adverb) to a greater degree or extent; used with comparisons | Synonyms: even, yet |
| (adverb) with reference to action or condition; without change, interruption, or cessation | - |
| (adverb) without moving or making a sound | Synonyms: stock-still |
| (adverb) despite anything to the contrary (usually preceding a concession) | Synonyms: all the same, at the same time, even so, however, nevertheless, nonetheless, notwithstanding, withal, yet |
| (verb) cause to be quiet or not talk | Synonyms: hush, hush up, quieten, shut up, silence |
| (verb) make motionless | - |
| (verb) make calm or still | Synonyms: calm, calm down, lull, quiet, quieten, tranquilize, tranquillise, tranquillize |
| (verb) lessen the intensity of or calm | Synonyms: allay, ease, relieve |
| stillbirth | (noun) a natural loss of the products of conception | Synonyms: miscarriage, spontaneous abortion |
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| stillborn | (adjective) (of newborn infant) showing no signs of life at birth; not liveborn | - |
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| (adjective) failing to accomplish an intended result | Synonyms: abortive, unsuccessful |
| stillness | (noun) (poetic) tranquil silence | Synonyms: hush, still |
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| (noun) calmness without winds | Synonyms: windlessness |
| (noun) a state of no motion or movement | Synonyms: lifelessness, motionlessness |
| stillroom | (noun) a pantry or storeroom connected with the kitchen (especially in a large house) for preparing tea and beverages and for storing liquors and preserves and tea etc | Synonyms: still room |
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| stilly | (adjective) (poetic) still or calm | - |
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| stilt | (noun) long-legged three-toed black-and-white wading bird of inland ponds and marshes or brackish lagoons | Synonyms: Himantopus stilt, long-legs, longlegs, stilt plover, stiltbird |
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| (noun) long-legged three-toed wading bird of brackish marshes of Australia | Synonyms: Australian stilt |
| (noun) one of two stout poles with foot rests in the middle; used for walking high above the ground | - |
| (noun) a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure | Synonyms: pile, piling, spile |
| stiltbird | (noun) long-legged three-toed black-and-white wading bird of inland ponds and marshes or brackish lagoons | Synonyms: Himantopus stilt, long-legs, longlegs, stilt, stilt plover |
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| stilted | (adjective) artificially formal | Synonyms: artificial, contrived, hokey |
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| stiltedly | (adverb) in a stilted manner | - |
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| tastily | (adverb) in a tasty manner | - |
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| (adverb) with taste; in a tasteful manner | Synonyms: tastefully |
| testily | (adverb) in a petulant manner | Synonyms: irritably, pettishly, petulantly |
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| thirstily | (adverb) in a thirsty manner | - |
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| (adverb) with eagerness; in an eager manner | Synonyms: eagerly |
| turnstile | (noun) a gate consisting of a post that acts as a pivot for rotating arms; set in a passageway for controlling the persons entering | - |
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| unstilted | (adjective) flowing naturally and continuously | - |
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| zestily | (adverb) with zest | Synonyms: zestfully |
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