| sterling | (adjective) highest in quality | Synonyms: greatest, superlative |
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| (noun) British money; especially the pound sterling as the basic monetary unit of the UK | - |
| stern | (adjective) severe and unremitting in making demands | Synonyms: exacting, strict |
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| (adjective) not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty | Synonyms: grim, inexorable, relentless, unappeasable, unforgiving, unrelenting |
| (adjective) of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect | Synonyms: austere |
| (adjective) severely simple | Synonyms: austere, severe, stark |
| (noun) the rear part of a ship | Synonyms: after part, poop, quarter, tail |
| (noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
| sternal | (adjective) of or relating to or near the sternum | - |
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| sternly | (adverb) with sternness; in a severe manner | Synonyms: severely |
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| sternness | (noun) uncompromising resolution | Synonyms: strictness |
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| (noun) the quality (as of scenery) being grim and gloomy and forbidding | - |
| sternocleidomastoid | (noun) one of two thick muscles running from the sternum and clavicle to the mastoid and occipital bone; turns head obliquely to the opposite side; when acting together they flex the neck and extend the head | Synonyms: musculus sternocleidomastoideus, sternocleido mastoideus, sternocleidomastoid muscle |
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| sternpost | (noun) (nautical) the principal upright timber at the stern of a vessel | - |
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| sternum | (noun) the flat bone that articulates with the clavicles and the first seven pairs of ribs | Synonyms: breastbone |
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| sternutation | (noun) a symptom consisting of the involuntary expulsion of air from the nose | Synonyms: sneeze, sneezing |
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| sternutative | (adjective) causing sneezing | Synonyms: sternutatory |
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| sternutator | (noun) a chemical substance that causes sneezing and coughing and crying | Synonyms: sternutatory |
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| sternutatory | (adjective) tending to cause sneezing | - |
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| (adjective) causing sneezing | Synonyms: sternutative |
| (noun) a chemical substance that causes sneezing and coughing and crying | Synonyms: sternutator |
| sternwheeler | (noun) a paddle steamer having the paddle wheel in the stern | - |
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| steroid | (noun) any of several fat-soluble organic compounds having as a basis 17 carbon atoms in four rings; many have important physiological effects | - |
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| (noun) any hormone affecting the development and growth of sex organs | Synonyms: sex hormone, steroid hormone |
| steroidal | (adjective) of or relating to steroid hormones or their effects | - |
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| sterol | (noun) any of a group of natural steroid alcohols derived from plants or animals; they are waxy insoluble substances | Synonyms: steroid alcohol |
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| stertor | (noun) the act of snoring or producing a snoring sound | Synonyms: snore, snoring |
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| stertorous | (adjective) of breathing having a heavy snoring sound | - |
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| stertorously | (adverb) in a noisy and stertorous manner | - |
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| stet | (verb) direct that a matter marked for omission or correction is to be retained | - |
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| (verb) cancel, as of a correction or deletion | - |
| stethoscope | (noun) a medical instrument for listening to the sounds generated inside the body | - |
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| stevedore | (noun) a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port | Synonyms: dock-walloper, dock worker, docker, dockhand, dockworker, loader, longshoreman, lumper |
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| stevia | (noun) any plant of the genus Stevia or the closely related genus Piqueria having glutinous foliage and white or purplish flowers; Central and South America | - |
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| (noun) any plant of the genus Piqueria or the closely related genus Stevia | - |
| stew | (noun) food prepared by stewing especially meat or fish with vegetables | - |
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| (noun) agitation resulting from active worry | Synonyms: fret, lather, sweat, swither |
| (verb) cook slowly and for a long time in liquid | - |
| (verb) bear a grudge; harbor ill feelings | Synonyms: grudge |
| (verb) be in a huff; be silent or sullen | Synonyms: brood, grizzle |
| steward | (noun) someone who manages property or other affairs for someone else | - |
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| (noun) a union member who is elected to represent fellow workers in negotiating with management | Synonyms: shop steward |
| (noun) one having charge of buildings or grounds or animals | Synonyms: custodian, keeper |
| (noun) an attendant on an airplane | Synonyms: flight attendant |
| (noun) the ship's officer who is in charge of provisions and dining arrangements | - |
| stewardess | (noun) a woman steward on an airplane | Synonyms: air hostess, hostess |
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| stewardship | (noun) the position of steward | - |
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| stewed | (adjective) cooked in hot water | Synonyms: boiled, poached |
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| stewing | (noun) cooking in a liquid that has been brought to a boil | Synonyms: boiling, simmering |
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| (noun) an extreme state of worry and agitation | - |
| stewpan | (noun) a saucepan used for stewing | Synonyms: stewing pan |
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| sthene | (noun) a unit of force equal to 1000 newtons | - |
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| stibnite | (noun) a soft grey mineral; the chief ore of antimony | - |
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| stick | (noun) threat of a penalty | - |
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| (noun) an implement consisting of a length of wood | - |
| (noun) a long thin implement resembling a length of wood | - |
| (noun) marijuana leaves rolled into a cigarette for smoking | Synonyms: joint, marijuana cigarette, reefer, spliff |
| (noun) a lever used by a pilot to control the ailerons and elevators of an airplane | Synonyms: control stick, joystick |
| (noun) a long implement (usually made of wood) that is shaped so that hockey or polo players can hit a puck or ball | - |
| (noun) informal terms for the leg | Synonyms: peg, pin |
| (noun) a rectangular quarter pound block of butter or margarine | - |
| (noun) a small thin branch of a tree | - |
| (verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stupefy, vex |
| (verb) saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous | Synonyms: sting |
| (verb) stick to firmly | Synonyms: adhere, bind, bond, hold fast, stick to |
| (verb) come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation | Synonyms: adhere, cleave, cling, cohere |
| (verb) put, fix, force, or implant | Synonyms: deposit, lodge, wedge |
| (verb) pierce or penetrate or puncture with something pointed | - |
| (verb) pierce with a thrust using a pointed instrument | - |
| (verb) fasten with an adhesive material like glue | - |
| (verb) fasten with or as with pins or nails | - |
| (verb) fasten into place by fixing an end or point into something | - |
| (verb) cover and decorate with objects that pierce the surface | - |
| (verb) be in a certain place and not leave | Synonyms: persist, remain, stay, stay put, stick around |
| (verb) be loyal to | Synonyms: adhere, stand by, stick by |
| (verb) endure | - |
| (verb) be a devoted follower or supporter | Synonyms: adhere |
| (verb) be or become fixed | - |
| stickball | (noun) a form of baseball played in the streets with a rubber ball and broomstick handle | Synonyms: stickball game |
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| sticker | (noun) a short knife with a pointed blade used for piercing or stabbing | Synonyms: dagger |
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| (noun) an adhesive label | Synonyms: gummed label, paster |
| (noun) a particularly difficult or baffling question or problem | Synonyms: poser, stumper, toughie |
| (noun) a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf | Synonyms: pricker, prickle, spikelet, spine, thorn |
| stickily | (adverb) in a sticky viscid manner | Synonyms: viscidly |
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| stickiness | (noun) the property of sticking to a surface | - |
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| sticking | (adjective) extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary | Synonyms: jutting, projected, projecting, protruding, relieved, sticking out |
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| stickle | (verb) dispute or argue stubbornly (especially minor points) | - |
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| stickleback | (noun) small (2-4 inches) pugnacious mostly scaleless spiny-backed fishes of northern fresh and littoral waters having elaborate courtship; subjects of much research | Synonyms: prickleback |
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| stickler | (noun) someone who insists on something | - |
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| sticklerism | (noun) The behaviour of a stickler; inflexible adherence to rules. | - |
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| stickpin | (noun) a decorative pin that is worn in a necktie | - |
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| sticktight | (noun) parasitic on especially the heads of chickens | Synonyms: Echidnophaga gallinacea, sticktight flea |
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| (noun) any of several plants of the genus Bidens having yellow flowers and prickly fruits that cling to fur and clothing | Synonyms: beggar's-ticks, beggar-ticks, bur marigold, burr marigold |
| stickup | (noun) robbery at gunpoint | Synonyms: armed robbery, heist, holdup |
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| stickweed | (noun) any of several herbaceous plants having seeds that cling to clothing | - |
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| sticky | (adjective) having the sticky properties of an adhesive | Synonyms: gluey, glutinous, gummy, mucilaginous, pasty, viscid, viscous |
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| (adjective) hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment | Synonyms: awkward, embarrassing, unenviable |
| (adjective) covered with an adhesive material | - |
| (adjective) hot or warm and humid | Synonyms: muggy, steamy |
| (adjective) moist as with undried perspiration and with clothing sticking to the body | - |
| stiff | (adjective) having a strong physiological or chemical effect | Synonyms: potent, strong |
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| (adjective) rigidly formal | Synonyms: buckram, starchy |
| (adjective) not moving or operating freely | - |
| (adjective) very drunk | Synonyms: besotted, blind drunk, blotto, cockeyed, crocked, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, tight, wet |
| (adjective) marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable | Synonyms: firm, steadfast, steady, unbendable, unfaltering, unshakable, unwavering |
| (adjective) strong, vigorous | - |
| (adjective) incapable of or resistant to bending | Synonyms: rigid |
| (noun) the dead body of a human being | Synonyms: cadaver, clay, corpse, remains |
| (noun) an ordinary man | - |
| (adverb) in a stiff manner | Synonyms: stiffly |
| (adverb) to a great degree | - |
| stiffen | (verb) become stiff or stiffer | - |
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| (verb) make stiff or stiffer | - |
| (verb) severely restrict in scope or extent | Synonyms: constrain, tighten, tighten up |
| stiffener | (noun) a member attached to a beam web to prevent loss of strength due to web buckling. | - |
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| (noun) material used for stiffening something | - |
| stiffening | (noun) the act of becoming stiff | - |
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| (noun) the process of becoming stiff or rigid | Synonyms: rigidification, rigidifying |
| stiffly | (adverb) in a stiff manner | Synonyms: stiff |
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| (adverb) in a rigid manner | Synonyms: bolt, rigidly |
| stiffness | (noun) the physical property of being inflexible and hard to bend | - |
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| (noun) the property of moving with pain or difficulty | - |
| (noun) the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment) | Synonyms: awkwardness, clumsiness, gracelessness |
| (noun) excessive sternness | Synonyms: hardness, harshness, inclemency, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity |
| (noun) firm resoluteness in purpose or opinion or action | - |
| stifle | (noun) joint between the femur and tibia in a quadruped; corresponds to the human knee | Synonyms: knee |
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| (verb) suppress or constrain so as to lessen in intensity | Synonyms: dampen |
| (verb) be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen | Synonyms: asphyxiate, suffocate |
| (verb) suppress in order to conceal or hide | Synonyms: muffle, repress, smother, strangle |
| (verb) impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of | Synonyms: asphyxiate, choke, suffocate |
| stifled | (adjective) held in check with difficulty | Synonyms: smothered, strangled, suppressed |
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| stifler | (noun) a person who stifles or smothers or suppresses | Synonyms: smotherer |
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| stifling | (adjective) characterized by oppressive heat and humidity | Synonyms: sulfurous, sulphurous, sultry |
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| (noun) forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority | Synonyms: crushing, quelling, suppression |
| stigma | (noun) a skin lesion that is a diagnostic sign of some disease | - |
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| (noun) an external tracheal aperture in a terrestrial arthropod | - |
| (noun) a symbol of disgrace or infamy | Synonyms: brand, mark, stain |
| (noun) the apical end of the style where deposited pollen enters the pistil | - |
| stigmata | (noun) marks resembling the wounds on the crucified body of Christ | - |
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| stigmatic | (adjective) not astigmatic | Synonyms: anastigmatic |
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| (adjective) pertaining to a lens or lens system free of astigmatism (able to form point images) | Synonyms: anastigmatic |
| (adjective) pertaining to or resembling or having stigmata | - |
| (noun) a person whose body is marked by religious stigmata (such as marks resembling the wounds of the crucified Christ) | Synonyms: stigmatist |
| stigmatisation | (noun) the act of stigmatizing | Synonyms: branding, stigmatization |
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| stigmatise | (verb) mark with a stigma or stigmata | Synonyms: stigmatize |
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| (verb) to accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful | Synonyms: brand, denounce, mark, stigmatize |
| stigmatism | (noun) normal eyesight | - |
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| (noun) (optics) condition of an optical system (as a lens) in which light rays from a single point converge in a single focal point | - |
| (noun) the condition of having or being marked by stigmata | - |
| stigmatist | (noun) a person whose body is marked by religious stigmata (such as marks resembling the wounds of the crucified Christ) | Synonyms: stigmatic |
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| stigmatization | (noun) the act of stigmatizing | Synonyms: branding, stigmatisation |
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| stigmatize | (verb) mark with a stigma or stigmata | Synonyms: stigmatise |
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| (verb) to accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful | Synonyms: brand, denounce, mark, stigmatise |
| 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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| stimulant | (adjective) that stimulates | Synonyms: stimulating |
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| (noun) a drug that temporarily quickens some vital process | Synonyms: excitant, stimulant drug |
| (noun) any stimulating information or event; acts to arouse action | Synonyms: input, stimulation, stimulus |
| stimulate | (verb) cause to be alert and energetic | Synonyms: arouse, brace, energise, energize, perk up |
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| (verb) act as a stimulant | Synonyms: excite |
| (verb) provide the needed stimulus for | Synonyms: provoke |
| (verb) cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner | Synonyms: cause, get, have, induce, make |
| (verb) cause to occur rapidly | Synonyms: hasten, induce, rush |
| (verb) stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of | Synonyms: excite, shake, shake up, stir |
| (verb) stir feelings in | Synonyms: excite, stir |
| stimulated | (adjective) emotionally aroused | Synonyms: aroused, stirred, stirred up |
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| stimulating | (adjective) rousing or quickening activity or the senses | - |
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| (adjective) making lively and cheerful | Synonyms: exhilarating |
| (adjective) that stimulates | Synonyms: stimulant |
| stimulation | (noun) the act of arousing an organism to action | - |
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| (noun) mutual sexual fondling prior to sexual intercourse | Synonyms: arousal, foreplay |
| (noun) any stimulating information or event; acts to arouse action | Synonyms: input, stimulant, stimulus |
| (noun) (physiology) the effect of a stimulus (on nerves or organs etc.) | - |
| stimulative | (adjective) capable of arousing or accelerating physiological or psychological activity or response by a chemical agent | - |
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| stimulus | (noun) any stimulating information or event; acts to arouse action | Synonyms: input, stimulant, stimulation |
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| sting | (noun) a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property | Synonyms: bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con, con game, confidence game, confidence trick, flimflam, hustle |
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| (noun) operation designed to catch a person committing a criminal act | Synonyms: sting operation |
| (noun) a kind of pain; something as sudden and painful as being stung | Synonyms: stinging |
| (noun) a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin | Synonyms: bite, insect bite |
| (noun) a mental pain or distress | Synonyms: pang |
| (verb) saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous | Synonyms: stick |
| (verb) deliver a sting to | Synonyms: bite, prick |
| (verb) cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging | - |
| (verb) cause a stinging pain | Synonyms: prick, twinge |
| (verb) cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort | Synonyms: bite, burn |
| stinger | (noun) a sharp stinging blow | - |
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| (noun) a sharp organ of offense or defense (as of a wasp or stingray or scorpion) often connected with a poison gland | - |
| (noun) a remark capable of wounding mentally | Synonyms: cut |
| (noun) a cocktail made of made of creme de menthe and brandy | - |
| stingily | (adverb) in a stingy manner | Synonyms: cheaply, chintzily |
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| stinginess | (noun) a lack of generosity; a general unwillingness to part with money | - |
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| stinging | (adjective) (of speech) harsh or hurtful in tone or character | Synonyms: cutting, edged |
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| (noun) a kind of pain; something as sudden and painful as being stung | Synonyms: sting |
| stingless | (adjective) without a sting | - |
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| stingray | (noun) large venomous ray with large barbed spines near the base of a thin whiplike tail capable of inflicting severe wounds | - |
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| stingy | (adjective) unwilling to spend (money, time, resources, etc.) | Synonyms: ungenerous |
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| (adjective) deficient in amount or quality or extent | Synonyms: meager, meagerly, meagre, scrimpy |
| stink | (noun) a distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant | Synonyms: fetor, foetor, malodor, malodour, mephitis, reek, stench |
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| (verb) smell badly and offensively | Synonyms: reek |
| (verb) be extremely bad in quality or in one's performance | - |
| stinkbird | (noun) crested ill-smelling South American bird whose young have claws on the first and second digits of the wings | Synonyms: hoactzin, hoatzin, Opisthocomus hoazin |
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| stinker | (noun) an artifact (especially an automobile) that is defective or unsatisfactory | Synonyms: lemon |
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| (noun) anything that gives off an offensive odor (especially a cheap cigar) | - |
| (noun) a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible | Synonyms: bum, crumb, dirty dog, git, lowlife, puke, rat, rotter, scum bag, scumbag, skunk, so-and-so, stinkpot |
| stinkhorn | (noun) any of various ill-smelling brown-capped fungi of the order Phallales | Synonyms: carrion fungus |
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