| stepfather | (noun) the husband of your mother by a subsequent marriage | - |
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| stephanion | (noun) the craniometric point on the coronal suture above the acoustic meatus | - |
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| stephanotis | (noun) any of various evergreen climbing shrubs of the genus Stephanotis having fragrant waxy flowers | - |
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| stephead | (noun) a headline with the top line flush left and succeeding lines indented to the right | Synonyms: drop line, dropline, stagger head, staggered head, stepped line |
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| stepladder | (noun) a folding portable ladder hinged at the top | Synonyms: step ladder |
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| stepmother | (noun) the wife of your father by a subsequent marriage | - |
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| stepparent | (noun) the spouse of your parent by a subsequent marriage | - |
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| steppe | (noun) extensive plain without trees (associated with eastern Russia and Siberia) | - |
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| stepper | (noun) a horse trained to lift its feet high off the ground while walking or trotting | Synonyms: high stepper |
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| (noun) a motor (especially an electric motor) that moves or rotates in small discrete steps | Synonyms: stepping motor |
| (noun) a professional dancer | Synonyms: hoofer |
| steprelationship | (noun) a family relationship by virtue of remarriage | - |
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| steps | (noun) a flight of stairs or a flight of steps | Synonyms: stairs |
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| (noun) the course along which a person has walked or is walking in | - |
| stepsister | (noun) a sister who has only one parent in common with you | Synonyms: half-sister, half sister |
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| stepson | (noun) the son of your spouse by a former marriage | - |
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| stepwise | (adjective) one thing at a time | Synonyms: bit-by-bit, in small stages, piecemeal, step-by-step |
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| (adverb) proceeding in steps | Synonyms: step by step |
| steradian | (noun) the unit of solid angle adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites | Synonyms: sr |
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| stercobilinogen | (noun) a chromogen formed in the intestine from the breakdown of bilirubin; yields urobilins on oxidation; some is excreted in the feces and some is resorbed and excreted in bile or urine | Synonyms: urobilinogen |
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| stercolith | (noun) a hard mass of fecal matter | Synonyms: coprolith, faecalith, fecalith |
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| sterculia | (noun) any tree of the genus Sterculia | - |
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| stereo | (adjective) designating the reproduction of sound using two or more independent audio channels | Synonyms: stereophonic, two-channel |
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| (noun) reproducer in which two microphones feed two or more loudspeakers to give a three-dimensional effect to the sound | Synonyms: stereo system, stereophonic system, stereophony |
| (noun) two photographs taken from slightly different angles that appear three-dimensional when viewed together | Synonyms: stereoscopic photograph, stereoscopic picture |
| stereochromy | (noun) a process of mural painting in which the pigment is fixed by a series of reactions between the lime, fluosilicic acid, and water glass. | - |
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| stereoisomer | (noun) any of a group of isomers in which atoms are linked in the same order but differ in their spatial arrangement. | - |
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| stereophonic | (adjective) designating the reproduction of sound using two or more independent audio channels | Synonyms: stereo, two-channel |
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| stereophony | (noun) reproducer in which two microphones feed two or more loudspeakers to give a three-dimensional effect to the sound | Synonyms: stereo, stereo system, stereophonic system |
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| stereophotography | (noun) photography producing images that appear to have depth and solidness and that are created by using a special device (called a stereoscope) to look at two slightly different photographs of something at the same time. | Synonyms: stereo photography, stereoscopic photography |
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| stereoscope | (noun) an optical device for viewing stereoscopic photographs | - |
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| stereoscopic | (adjective) of or relating to stereoscopy | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to a stereoscope | - |
| stereoscopy | (noun) three-dimensional vision produced by the fusion of two slightly different views of a scene on each retina | Synonyms: stereoscopic vision |
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| stereotype | (noun) a conventional or formulaic conception or image | - |
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| (verb) treat or classify according to a mental stereotype | Synonyms: pigeonhole, stamp |
| stereotyped | (adjective) lacking spontaneity or originality or individuality | Synonyms: stereotypic, stereotypical, unimaginative |
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| stereotypic | (adjective) lacking spontaneity or originality or individuality | Synonyms: stereotyped, stereotypical, unimaginative |
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| stereotypical | (adjective) lacking spontaneity or originality or individuality | Synonyms: stereotyped, stereotypic, unimaginative |
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| stereotypically | (adverb) in a stereotypical manner | - |
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| sterile | (adjective) incapable of reproducing | Synonyms: infertile, unfertile |
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| (adjective) free of or using methods to keep free of pathological microorganisms | Synonyms: aseptic |
| (adjective) deficient in originality or creativity; lacking powers of invention | Synonyms: unimaginative, uninspired, uninventive |
| sterileness | (noun) (of non-living objects) the state of being free of pathogenic organisms | Synonyms: antisepsis, asepsis, sterility |
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| sterilisation | (noun) the act of making an organism barren or infertile (unable to reproduce) | Synonyms: sterilization |
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| (noun) the procedure of making some object free of live bacteria or other microorganisms (usually by heat or chemical means) | Synonyms: sterilization |
| sterilise | (verb) make infertile | Synonyms: desex, desexualise, desexualize, fix, sterilize, unsex |
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| (verb) make free from bacteria | Synonyms: sterilize |
| sterilised | (adjective) made infertile | Synonyms: sterilized |
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| steriliser | (noun) a device for heating substances above their boiling point; used to manufacture chemicals or to sterilize surgical instruments | Synonyms: autoclave, sterilizer |
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| sterility | (noun) the state of being unable to produce offspring; in a woman it is an inability to conceive; in a man it is an inability to impregnate | Synonyms: infertility |
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| (noun) (of non-living objects) the state of being free of pathogenic organisms | Synonyms: antisepsis, asepsis, sterileness |
| sterilization | (noun) the act of making an organism barren or infertile (unable to reproduce) | Synonyms: sterilisation |
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| (noun) the procedure of making some object free of live bacteria or other microorganisms (usually by heat or chemical means) | Synonyms: sterilisation |
| sterilize | (verb) make infertile | Synonyms: desex, desexualise, desexualize, fix, sterilise, unsex |
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| (verb) make free from bacteria | Synonyms: sterilise |
| sterilized | (adjective) made infertile | Synonyms: sterilised |
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| sterilizer | (noun) a device for heating substances above their boiling point; used to manufacture chemicals or to sterilize surgical instruments | Synonyms: autoclave, steriliser |
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| 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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