| stab | (noun) a strong blow with a knife or other sharp pointed instrument | Synonyms: knife thrust, thrust |
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| (noun) informal words for any attempt or effort | Synonyms: shot |
| (noun) a sudden sharp feeling | Synonyms: pang, twinge |
| (verb) stab or pierce | Synonyms: jab |
| (verb) poke or thrust abruptly | Synonyms: dig, jab, poke, prod |
| (verb) use a knife on | Synonyms: knife |
| stabber | (noun) someone who stabs another person | - |
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| stabbing | (adjective) causing physical or especially psychological injury | Synonyms: wounding |
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| (adjective) painful as if caused by a sharp instrument | Synonyms: cutting, keen, knifelike, lancinate, lancinating, piercing |
| stabile | (adjective) not able or intended to be moved | Synonyms: immovable, immoveable, unmovable |
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| (adjective) (chemistry, physics, biology) resistant to change | - |
| (noun) a sculpture having fixed units (usually constructed of sheet metal) and attached to a fixed support | - |
| stabilisation | (noun) the act of stabilizing something or making it more stable | Synonyms: stabilization |
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| (noun) the act of making something (as a vessel or aircraft) less likely to overturn | Synonyms: stabilization |
| stabilise | (verb) become stable or more stable | Synonyms: stabilize |
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| (verb) make stable and keep from fluctuating or put into an equilibrium | Synonyms: stabilize |
| (verb) support or hold steady and make steadfast, with or as if with a brace | Synonyms: brace, stabilize, steady |
| stabilised | (adjective) made stable or firm | Synonyms: stabilized |
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| stabiliser | (noun) a device for making something stable | Synonyms: stabilizer |
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| stabilising | (adjective) causing to become stable | Synonyms: stabilizing |
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| stabilitron | (noun) a semiconductor diode that exhibits a sharp increase in reverse current at a well-defined reverse voltage: used as a voltage regulator | Synonyms: zenerdiode |
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| stability | (noun) the quality or attribute of being firm and steadfast | Synonyms: stableness |
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| (noun) the quality of being enduring and free from change or variation | Synonyms: constancy |
| (noun) a stable order (especially of society) | - |
| stabilization | (noun) the act of stabilizing something or making it more stable | Synonyms: stabilisation |
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| (noun) the act of making something (as a vessel or aircraft) less likely to overturn | Synonyms: stabilisation |
| stabilize | (verb) become stable or more stable | Synonyms: stabilise |
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| (verb) make stable and keep from fluctuating or put into an equilibrium | Synonyms: stabilise |
| (verb) support or hold steady and make steadfast, with or as if with a brace | Synonyms: brace, stabilise, steady |
| stabilized | (adjective) made stable or firm | Synonyms: stabilised |
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| stabilizer | (noun) a device for making something stable | Synonyms: stabiliser |
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| (noun) airfoil consisting of a device for stabilizing an aircraft | - |
| (noun) a chemical that is added to a solution or mixture or suspension to maintain it in a stable or unchanging state | - |
| stabilizing | (adjective) causing to become stable | Synonyms: stabilising |
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| stable | (adjective) resistant to change of position or condition | - |
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| (adjective) maintaining equilibrium | - |
| (adjective) firm and dependable; subject to little fluctuation | - |
| (adjective) showing little if any change | Synonyms: static, unchanging |
| (adjective) not taking part readily in chemical change | - |
| (noun) a farm building for housing horses or other livestock | Synonyms: horse barn, stalls |
| (verb) shelter in a stable | - |
| stableboy | (noun) someone employed in a stable to take care of the horses | Synonyms: groom, hostler, ostler, stableman |
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| stableman | (noun) someone employed in a stable to take care of the horses | Synonyms: groom, hostler, ostler, stableboy |
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| stablemate | (noun) a horse stabled with another or one of several horses owned by the same person | Synonyms: stable companion |
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| stableness | (noun) the quality or attribute of being firm and steadfast | Synonyms: stability |
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| stabling | (noun) accommodation for animals (especially for horses) | - |
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| stably | (adverb) in a stable unchanging manner | - |
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| (adverb) in a stable solid fixed manner | - |
| staccato | (adjective) (music) marked by or composed of disconnected parts or sounds; cut short crisply | Synonyms: disconnected |
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| (adverb) separating the notes; in music | - |
| stachyose | (noun) a tetrasaccharide found in the tubers of the Chinese artichoke | - |
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| stack | (noun) a large tall chimney through which combustion gases and smoke can be evacuated | Synonyms: smokestack |
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| (noun) a storage device that handles data so that the next item to be retrieved is the item most recently stored (LIFO) | Synonyms: push-down storage, push-down store |
| (noun) a list in which the next item to be removed is the item most recently stored (LIFO) | Synonyms: push-down list, push-down stack |
| (noun) an orderly pile | - |
| (noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, tidy sum, wad |
| (verb) arrange in stacks | Synonyms: heap, pile |
| (verb) load or cover with stacks | - |
| (verb) arrange the order of so as to increase one's winning chances | - |
| stacked | (adjective) arranged in a stack | - |
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| (adjective) (of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves | Synonyms: bosomy, busty, buxom, curvaceous, curvy, full-bosomed, sonsie, sonsy, voluptuous, well-endowed |
| stacker | (noun) a laborer who builds up a stack or pile | - |
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| stacks | (noun) storage space in a library consisting of an extensive arrangement of bookshelves where most of the books are stored | - |
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| (noun) a large number or amount | Synonyms: dozens, gobs, heaps, lashings, loads, lots, oodles, piles, rafts, scads, scores, slews, tons, wads |
| stacte | (noun) (Old Testament) one of several sweet-smelling spices used in incense | - |
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| stactometer | (noun) a device for investigating surface tension using the stalagmometric method. | Synonyms: stalagmometer, stalogometer |
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| staddle | (noun) a base or platform on which hay or corn is stacked | - |
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| stadium | (noun) a large structure for open-air sports or entertainments | Synonyms: arena, bowl, sports stadium |
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| staff | (noun) a strong rod or stick with a specialized utilitarian purpose | - |
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| (noun) (music) the system of five horizontal lines on which the musical notes are written | Synonyms: stave |
| (noun) a rod carried as a symbol | - |
| (noun) the body of teachers and administrators at a school | Synonyms: faculty |
| (noun) personnel who assist their superior in carrying out an assigned task | - |
| (noun) building material consisting of plaster and hair; used to cover external surfaces of temporary structure (as at an exposition) or for decoration | - |
| (verb) provide with staff | - |
| (verb) serve on the staff of | - |
| staffer | (noun) an employee who is a member of a staff of workers (especially a member of the staff that works for the President of the United States) | Synonyms: staff member |
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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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| staid | (adjective) characterized by dignity and propriety | Synonyms: sedate |
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| staidly | (adverb) in a grave and sober manner | Synonyms: gravely, soberly |
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| staidness | (noun) a trait of dignified seriousness | Synonyms: sedateness, solemness, solemnity |
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| stain | (noun) an act that brings discredit to the person who does it | Synonyms: blot, smear, smirch, spot |
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| (noun) a soiled or discolored appearance | Synonyms: discoloration, discolouration |
| (noun) a symbol of disgrace or infamy | Synonyms: brand, mark, stigma |
| (noun) anything regarded as making something unclean | Synonyms: dirt, filth, grease, grime, grunge, soil |
| (noun) (microscopy) a dye or other coloring material that is used in microscopy to make structures visible | - |
| (verb) produce or leave stains | - |
| (verb) color with a liquid dye or tint | - |
| (verb) color for microscopic study | Synonyms: dye |
| (verb) make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically | Synonyms: defile, maculate, sully, tarnish |
| stainability | (noun) (cytology) the capacity of cells or cell parts to stain specifically with certain dyes | - |
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| stainable | (adjective) capable of being stained (especially of cells and cell parts) | - |
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| stained | (adjective) marked or dyed or discolored with foreign matter | - |
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| (adjective) having a coating of stain or varnish | Synonyms: varnished |
| stainer | (noun) a worker who stains (wood or fabric) | - |
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| staining | (noun) (histology) the use of a dye to color specimens for microscopic study | - |
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| (noun) the act of spotting or staining something | Synonyms: maculation, spotting |
| stainless | (adjective) (of reputation) free from blemishes | Synonyms: unstained, unsullied, untainted, untarnished |
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| (noun) steel containing chromium that makes it resistant to corrosion | Synonyms: chromium steel, stainless steel |
| stair | (noun) support consisting of a place to rest the foot while ascending or descending a stairway | Synonyms: step |
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| staircase | (noun) a way of access (upward and downward) consisting of a set of steps | Synonyms: stairway |
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| stairhead | (noun) platform at the top of a staircase | - |
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| stairs | (noun) a flight of stairs or a flight of steps | Synonyms: steps |
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| stairway | (noun) a way of access (upward and downward) consisting of a set of steps | Synonyms: staircase |
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| stairwell | (noun) a vertical well around which there is a stairway | - |
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| stake | (noun) a strong wooden or metal post with a point at one end so it can be driven into the ground | - |
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| (noun) instrument of execution consisting of a vertical post that a victim is tied to for burning | - |
| (noun) a pole or stake set up to mark something (as the start or end of a race track) | Synonyms: post |
| (noun) the money risked on a gamble | Synonyms: bet, stakes, wager |
| (noun) (law) a right or legal share of something; a financial involvement with something | Synonyms: interest |
| (verb) place a bet on | Synonyms: back, bet on, gage, game, punt |
| (verb) mark with a stake | Synonyms: post |
| (verb) tie or fasten to a stake | - |
| (verb) kill by piercing with a spear or sharp pole | Synonyms: impale |
| (verb) put at risk | Synonyms: adventure, hazard, jeopardize, venture |
| stakeholder | (noun) someone entrusted to hold the stakes for two or more persons betting against one another; must deliver the stakes to the winner | - |
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| stakeout | (noun) surveillance of some place or some person by the police (as in anticipation of a crime) | - |
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| stakes | (noun) the money risked on a gamble | Synonyms: bet, stake, wager |
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| stalactite | (noun) a cylinder of calcium carbonate hanging from the roof of a limestone cave | - |
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| stalagmite | (noun) a cylinder of calcium carbonate projecting upward from the floor of a limestone cave | - |
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| stalagmometer | (noun) a device for investigating surface tension using the stalagmometric method. | Synonyms: stactometer, stalogometer |
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| stale | (adjective) lacking freshness, palatability, or showing deterioration from age | - |
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| (adjective) lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new | Synonyms: cold, dusty, moth-eaten |
| (verb) urinate, of cattle and horses | - |
| stalemate | (noun) drawing position in chess: any of a player's possible moves would place his king in check | - |
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| (noun) a situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible | Synonyms: dead end, deadlock, impasse, standstill |
| (verb) subject to a stalemate | - |
| stalemated | (adjective) at a complete standstill because of opposition of two unrelenting forces or factions | Synonyms: deadlocked |
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| staleness | (noun) having lost purity and freshness as a consequence of aging | - |
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| (noun) unoriginality as a result of being dull and hackneyed | Synonyms: triteness |
| stalinise | (verb) transform in accordance with Stalin's policies | Synonyms: stalinize |
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| stalinize | (verb) transform in accordance with Stalin's policies | Synonyms: stalinise |
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| stalk | (noun) a stiff or threatening gait | Synonyms: angry walk |
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| (noun) the act of following prey stealthily | Synonyms: stalking |
| (noun) a hunt for game carried on by following it stealthily or waiting in ambush | Synonyms: stalking, still hunt |
| (noun) a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ | Synonyms: stem |
| (noun) material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds | Synonyms: chaff, husk, shuck, straw, stubble |
| (verb) walk stiffly | - |
| (verb) follow stealthily or recur constantly and spontaneously to | Synonyms: haunt |
| (verb) go through (an area) in search of prey | - |
| stalked | (adjective) having or growing on or from a peduncle or stalk | Synonyms: pedunculate |
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| stalker | (noun) someone who stalks game | - |
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| (noun) someone who walks with long stiff strides | - |
| (noun) someone who prowls or sneaks about; usually with unlawful intentions | Synonyms: prowler, sneak |
| stalking | (noun) the act of following prey stealthily | Synonyms: stalk |
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| (noun) a hunt for game carried on by following it stealthily or waiting in ambush | Synonyms: stalk, still hunt |
| stalkless | (adjective) attached directly by the base; not having an intervening stalk | Synonyms: sessile |
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| stall | (noun) a tactic used to mislead or delay | Synonyms: stalling |
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| (noun) small area set off by walls for special use | Synonyms: booth, cubicle, kiosk |
| (noun) a booth where articles are displayed for sale | Synonyms: sales booth, stand |
| (noun) small individual study area in a library | Synonyms: carrel, carrell, cubicle |
| (noun) a compartment in a stable where a single animal is confined and fed | - |
| (noun) seating in the forward part of the main level of a theater | - |
| (noun) a malfunction in the flight of an aircraft in which there is a sudden loss of lift that results in a downward plunge | - |
| (verb) deliberately delay an event or action | - |
| (verb) come to a stop | Synonyms: conk |
| (verb) cause an engine to stop | - |
| (verb) cause an airplane to go into a stall | - |
| (verb) experience a stall in flight, of airplanes | - |
| (verb) put into, or keep in, a stall | - |
| (verb) postpone doing what one should be doing | Synonyms: dilly-dally, dillydally, drag one's feet, drag one's heels, procrastinate, shillyshally |
| stalling | (noun) a tactic used to mislead or delay | Synonyms: stall |
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| stallion | (noun) uncastrated adult male horse | Synonyms: entire |
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| stalls | (noun) a farm building for housing horses or other livestock | Synonyms: horse barn, stable |
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| stalogometer | (noun) a device for investigating surface tension using the stalagmometric method. | Synonyms: stactometer, stalagmometer |
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