| stinkiness | (noun) the attribute of having a strong offensive smell | Synonyms: fetidness, foulness, malodorousness, rankness |
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| stinking | (adjective) very bad | Synonyms: crappy, icky, lousy, rotten, shitty, stinky |
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| (adjective) offensively malodorous | Synonyms: fetid, foetid, foul-smelling, foul, funky, ill-scented, noisome, smelly |
| stinkpot | (noun) small freshwater turtle having a strong musky odor | Synonyms: musk turtle |
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| (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, stinker |
| stinkweed | (noun) foetid Eurasian weed having round flat pods; naturalized throughout North America | Synonyms: fanweed, field pennycress, French weed, mithridate mustard, penny grass, Thlaspi arvense |
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| stinky | (adjective) having an unpleasant smell | Synonyms: ill-smelling, malodorous, malodourous, unpleasant-smelling |
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| (adjective) very bad | Synonyms: crappy, icky, lousy, rotten, shitty, stinking |
| stint | (noun) an individual's prescribed share of work | - |
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| (noun) smallest American sandpiper | Synonyms: Erolia minutilla, least sandpiper |
| (noun) an unbroken period of time during which you do something | Synonyms: stretch |
| (verb) subsist on a meager allowance | Synonyms: scrimp, skimp |
| (verb) supply sparingly and with restricted quantities | Synonyms: scant, skimp |
| stinter | (noun) an economizer who stints someone with something | - |
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| stinting | (adjective) avoiding waste | Synonyms: economical, frugal, scotch, sparing |
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| stipe | (noun) supporting stalk or stem-like structure especially of a pistil or fern frond or supporting a mushroom cap | - |
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| stipend | (noun) a sum of money allotted on a regular basis; usually for some specific purpose | - |
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| stipendiary | (adjective) pertaining to or of the nature of a stipend or allowance | - |
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| (adjective) for which money is paid | Synonyms: compensable, paying, remunerative, salaried |
| (adjective) receiving or eligible for compensation | Synonyms: compensated, remunerated, salaried |
| (noun) (United Kingdom) a paid magistrate (appointed by the Home Secretary) dealing with police cases | Synonyms: stipendiary magistrate |
| stipple | (verb) produce a mottled effect | Synonyms: speckle |
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| (verb) engrave by means of dots and flicks | - |
| (verb) make by small short touches that together produce an even or softly graded shadow, as in paint or ink | - |
| (verb) apply (paint) in small dots or strokes | - |
| stippled | (adjective) having a pattern of dots | Synonyms: dotted, flecked, specked, speckled |
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| stippler | (noun) a painter who stipples (creates a stippled effect) | - |
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| stipulate | (verb) specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an agreement | Synonyms: condition, qualify, specify |
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| (verb) give a guarantee or promise of | - |
| (verb) make an oral contract or agreement in the verbal form of question and answer that is necessary to give it legal force | - |
| stipulation | (noun) a restriction that is insisted upon as a condition for an agreement | Synonyms: specification |
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| (noun) an assumption on which rests the validity or effect of something else | Synonyms: condition, precondition |
| (noun) (law) an agreement or concession made by parties in a judicial proceeding (or by their attorneys) relating to the business before the court; must be in writing unless they are part of the court record | Synonyms: judicial admission |
| stipulatory | (adjective) constituted or contracted by stipulation or agreement | Synonyms: agreed upon |
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| stipule | (noun) a small leafy outgrowth at the base of a leaf or its stalk; usually occurring in pairs and soon shed | - |
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| stir | (noun) a rapid active commotion | Synonyms: ado, bustle, flurry, fuss, hustle |
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| (noun) emotional agitation and excitement | - |
| (noun) a prominent or sensational but short-lived news event | Synonyms: splash |
| (verb) mix or add by stirring | - |
| (verb) summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic | Synonyms: arouse, bring up, call down, call forth, conjure, conjure up, evoke, invoke, put forward, raise |
| (verb) affect emotionally | Synonyms: touch |
| (verb) stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of | Synonyms: excite, shake, shake up, stimulate |
| (verb) move very slightly | Synonyms: agitate, budge, shift |
| (verb) move an implement through | - |
| (verb) to begin moving | Synonyms: arouse |
| (verb) stir feelings in | Synonyms: excite, stimulate |
| stirk | (noun) yearling heifer or bullock | - |
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| stirred | (adjective) being excited or provoked to the expression of an emotion | Synonyms: affected, moved, touched |
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| (adjective) set into a usually circular motion in order to mix or blend | - |
| (adjective) emotionally aroused | Synonyms: aroused, stimulated, stirred up |
| stirrer | (noun) an implement used for stirring | - |
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| (noun) a person who spreads frightening rumors and stirs up trouble | Synonyms: scaremonger |
| stirring | (adjective) exciting strong but not unpleasant emotions | Synonyms: soul-stirring |
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| (adjective) capable of arousing enthusiasm or excitement | Synonyms: rousing |
| (noun) agitating a liquid with an implement | - |
| (noun) arousing to a particular emotion or action | Synonyms: inspiration |
| stirringly | (adverb) in a stirring manner | - |
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| stirrup | (noun) support consisting of metal loops into which rider's feet go | Synonyms: stirrup iron |
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| (noun) the stirrup-shaped ossicle that transmits sound from the incus to the cochlea | Synonyms: stapes |
| stitch | (noun) a link or loop or knot made by an implement in knitting, crocheting, embroidery, or sewing | - |
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| (noun) a sharp spasm of pain in the side resulting from running | - |
| (verb) fasten by sewing; do needlework | Synonyms: run up, sew, sew together |
| stitched | (adjective) fastened with stitches | Synonyms: sewed, sewn |
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| stitcher | (noun) a garmentmaker who performs the finishing steps | - |
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| stitchery | (noun) needlework on which you are working with needle and thread | Synonyms: sewing |
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| stitching | (noun) joining or attaching by stitches | Synonyms: sewing |
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| stitchwort | (noun) low-growing north temperate herb having small white star-shaped flowers; named for its alleged ability to ease sharp pains in the side | Synonyms: greater stitchwort, starwort, Stellaria holostea |
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| stoat | (noun) the ermine in its brown summer coat with black-tipped tail | - |
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| stob | (noun) a short straight stick of wood | - |
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| stochastic | (adjective) being or having a random variable | - |
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| stochastically | (adverb) by stochastic means | - |
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| stochasticity | (noun) the quality of lacking any predictable order or plan | Synonyms: haphazardness, noise, randomness |
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| stock | (adjective) regularly and widely used or sold | Synonyms: standard |
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| (adjective) routine | - |
| (adjective) repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse | Synonyms: banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn |
| (noun) any animals kept for use or profit | Synonyms: farm animal, livestock |
| (noun) the merchandise that a shop has on hand | Synonyms: inventory |
| (noun) the handle end of some implements or tools | - |
| (noun) the handle of a handgun or the butt end of a rifle or shotgun or part of the support of a machine gun or artillery gun | Synonyms: gunstock |
| (noun) an ornamental white cravat | Synonyms: neckcloth |
| (noun) lumber used in the construction of something | - |
| (noun) liquid in which meat and vegetables are simmered; used as a basis for e.g. soups or sauces | Synonyms: broth |
| (noun) a special variety of domesticated animals within a species | Synonyms: breed, strain |
| (noun) the hereditary derivation of an individual | Synonyms: ancestry, blood, blood line, bloodline, descent, line, line of descent, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, stemma |
| (noun) persistent thickened stem of a herbaceous perennial plant | Synonyms: caudex |
| (noun) any of several Old World plants cultivated for their brightly colored flowers | Synonyms: gillyflower |
| (noun) any of various ornamental flowering plants of the genus Malcolmia | Synonyms: Malcolm stock |
| (noun) a plant or stem onto which a graft is made; especially a plant grown specifically to provide the root part of grafted plants | - |
| (noun) the capital raised by a corporation through the issue of shares entitling holders to an ownership interest (equity) | - |
| (noun) a supply of something available for future use | Synonyms: fund, store |
| (noun) a certificate documenting the shareholder's ownership in the corporation | Synonyms: stock certificate |
| (noun) the reputation and popularity a person has | - |
| (verb) put forth and grow sprouts or shoots | Synonyms: sprout |
| (verb) have on hand | Synonyms: carry, stockpile |
| (verb) amass so as to keep for future use or sale or for a particular occasion or use | Synonyms: buy in, stock up |
| (verb) provide or furnish with a stock of something | - |
| (verb) supply with livestock | - |
| (verb) supply with fish | - |
| (verb) equip with a stock | - |
| stockade | (noun) a penal camp where political prisoners or prisoners of war are confined (usually under harsh conditions) | Synonyms: concentration camp |
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| (noun) fortification consisting of a fence made of a line of stout posts set firmly for defense | - |
| (verb) surround with a stockade in order to fortify | - |
| stockbroker | (noun) an agent in the buying and selling of stocks and bonds | - |
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| stockcar | (noun) boxcar with latticed sides; for transporting livestock | - |
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| stocked | (adjective) furnished with more than enough | Synonyms: stocked with |
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| stocker | (noun) a domestic animal (especially a young steer or heifer) kept as stock until fattened or matured and suitable for a breeding establishment | - |
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| stockfish | (noun) fish cured by being split and air-dried without salt | - |
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| stockholder | (noun) someone who holds shares of stock in a corporation | Synonyms: shareholder, shareowner |
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| stockholding | (noun) ownership of stocks; the state or fact of holding stock | - |
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| (noun) a specific number of stocks or shares owned | Synonyms: stockholdings |
| stockholdings | (noun) a specific number of stocks or shares owned | Synonyms: stockholding |
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| stockhorn | (noun) an ancient (now obsolete) single-reed woodwind; usually made of bone | Synonyms: hornpipe, pibgorn |
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| stockily | (adverb) so as to be stocky | - |
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| stockiness | (noun) The quality of being compact, sturdy, and relatively thick in build. | - |
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| stockinet | (noun) knit used especially for infants' wear and undergarments | Synonyms: stockinette |
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| stockinette | (noun) knit used especially for infants' wear and undergarments | Synonyms: stockinet |
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| stocking | (noun) the activity of supplying a stock of something | - |
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| (noun) close-fitting hosiery to cover the foot and leg; come in matched pairs (usually used in the plural) | - |
| stockinged | (adjective) wearing stockings | - |
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| stockist | (noun) one (as a retailer or distributor) that stocks goods | - |
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| stockjobber | (noun) one who deals only with brokers or other jobbers | - |
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| stockman | (noun) farmer who breed or raises livestock | Synonyms: stock farmer, stock raiser |
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| stockpile | (noun) a storage pile accumulated for future use | - |
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| (noun) something kept back or saved for future use or a special purpose | Synonyms: backlog, reserve |
| (verb) have on hand | Synonyms: carry, stock |
| stockpiling | (noun) accumulating and storing a reserve supply | - |
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| stockpot | (noun) a pot used for preparing soup stock | - |
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| stockroom | (noun) storeroom for storing goods and supplies used in a business | Synonyms: stock room |
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| stocks | (noun) a former instrument of punishment consisting of a heavy timber frame with holes in which the feet (and sometimes the hands) of an offender could be locked | - |
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| (noun) a frame for constraining an animal while it is receiving veterinary attention or while being shod | - |
| (noun) a frame that supports a boat while it is under construction | - |
| stocktake | (noun) an instance of stocktaking | Synonyms: stock-take |
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| stocktaker | (noun) an employee whose job is to take inventory | Synonyms: stock-taker |
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| stocktaking | (noun) making an itemized list of merchandise or supplies on hand | Synonyms: inventory, inventorying, stock-taking |
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| (noun) reappraisal of a situation or position or outlook | Synonyms: stock-taking |
| stocky | (adjective) having a short and solid form or stature | Synonyms: compact, heavyset, thick, thickset |
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| stockyard | (noun) enclosed yard where cattle, pigs, horses, or sheep are kept temporarily | - |
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| stodge | (noun) heavy and filling (and usually starchy) food | - |
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| stodgily | (adverb) in a stuffy manner | Synonyms: stuffily |
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| stodginess | (noun) dull and pompous gravity | Synonyms: stuffiness |
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| stodgy | (adjective) excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull | Synonyms: stuffy |
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| (adjective) heavy and starchy and hard to digest | - |
| (adjective) (used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned | Synonyms: fogyish, moss-grown, mossy, stick-in-the-mud |
| stoep | (noun) small porch or set of steps at the front entrance of a house | Synonyms: stoop |
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| stogie | (noun) a cheap cigar | Synonyms: stogy |
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| stogy | (noun) a cheap cigar | Synonyms: stogie |
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| stoic | (adjective) seeming unaffected by pleasure or pain; impassive | Synonyms: stoical |
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| (noun) someone who is seemingly indifferent to emotions | Synonyms: unemotional person |
| stoical | (adjective) seeming unaffected by pleasure or pain; impassive | Synonyms: stoic |
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| stoically | (adverb) without emotion; in a stoic manner | - |
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| stoichiometric | (adjective) of or relating to stoichiometry | - |
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| stoichiometry | (noun) (chemistry) the relation between the quantities of substances that take part in a reaction or form a compound (typically a ratio of whole integers) | - |
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| stoicism | (noun) an indifference to pleasure or pain | Synonyms: stolidity, stolidness |
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| stoke | (verb) stir up or tend; of a fire | - |
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| stokehold | (noun) (nautical) chamber or compartment in which the furnaces of a ship are stoked or fired | Synonyms: fireroom, stokehole |
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| stokehole | (noun) (nautical) chamber or compartment in which the furnaces of a ship are stoked or fired | Synonyms: fireroom, stokehold |
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| stoker | (noun) a mechanical device for stoking a furnace | - |
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| (noun) a laborer who tends fires (as on a coal-fired train or steamship) | Synonyms: fireman |
| stole | (noun) a wide scarf worn about their shoulders by women | - |
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| stolid | (adjective) having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; not easily aroused or excited | Synonyms: impassive |
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| stolidity | (noun) an indifference to pleasure or pain | Synonyms: stoicism, stolidness |
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| (noun) apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions | Synonyms: emotionlessness, impassiveness, impassivity, indifference, phlegm, unemotionality |
| stolidly | (adverb) in a stolid manner | - |
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| stolidness | (noun) an indifference to pleasure or pain | Synonyms: stoicism, stolidity |
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| stolon | (noun) a horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips | Synonyms: offset, runner |
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| stoloniferous | (adjective) producing stolons | - |
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| stoma | (noun) a mouth or mouthlike opening (especially one created by surgery on the surface of the body to create an opening to an internal organ) | - |
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| (noun) a minute epidermal pore in a leaf or stem through which gases and water vapor can pass | Synonyms: pore, stomate |
| stomach | (noun) an enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal; the principal organ of digestion | Synonyms: breadbasket, tum, tummy |
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| (noun) the region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis | Synonyms: abdomen, belly, venter |
| (noun) an appetite for food | - |
| (noun) an inclination or liking for things involving conflict or difficulty or unpleasantness | - |
| (verb) put up with something or somebody unpleasant | Synonyms: abide, bear, brook, digest, endure, put up, stand, stick out, suffer, support, tolerate |
| (verb) bear to eat | - |
| stomachache | (noun) an ache localized in the stomach or abdominal region | Synonyms: bellyache, gastralgia, stomach ache |
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| stomachal | (adjective) relating to or involving the stomach | Synonyms: gastric, stomachic |
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| stomacher | (noun) garment consisting of a V-shaped panel of stiff material worn over the chest and stomach in the 16th century | - |
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| stomachic | (adjective) relating to or involving the stomach | Synonyms: gastric, stomachal |
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| stomatal | (adjective) relating to or constituting plant stomata | Synonyms: stomatous |
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| (adjective) relating to or of the nature of or having a mouth or mouthlike opening | Synonyms: stomatous |
| stomate | (noun) a minute epidermal pore in a leaf or stem through which gases and water vapor can pass | Synonyms: pore, stoma |
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| stomatitis | (noun) inflammation of the mucous membrane of the mouth | - |
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| stomatopod | (noun) a kind of crustacean | Synonyms: stomatopod crustacean |
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