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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stomatous | (adjective) having a mouth or mouthlike opening | - |
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(adjective) relating to or constituting plant stomata | Synonyms: stomatal |
(adjective) relating to or of the nature of or having a mouth or mouthlike opening | Synonyms: stomatal |
stomp | (noun) a dance involving a rhythmical stamping step | - |
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(verb) walk heavily | Synonyms: stamp, stump |
stomper | (noun) someone who walks with a heavy noisy gait or who stamps on the ground | Synonyms: stamper, tramper, trampler |
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stone | (adjective) of any of various dull tannish or grey colors | - |
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(noun) building material consisting of a piece of rock hewn in a definite shape for a special purpose | - |
(noun) a lack of feeling or expression or movement | - |
(noun) a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter | Synonyms: rock |
(noun) the hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed | Synonyms: endocarp, pit |
(noun) an avoirdupois unit used to measure the weight of a human body; equal to 14 pounds | - |
(noun) material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust | Synonyms: rock |
(noun) a crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry | Synonyms: gem, gemstone |
(verb) remove the pits from | Synonyms: pit |
(verb) kill by throwing stones at | Synonyms: lapidate |
stonechat | (noun) common European chat with black plumage and a reddish-brown breast | Synonyms: Saxicola torquata |
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stonecress | (noun) any Old World herb of the genus Aethionema; native of sunny limestone habitats | Synonyms: stone cress |
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stonecrop | (noun) any of various northern temperate plants of the genus Sedum having fleshy leaves and red or yellow or white flowers | - |
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stonecutter | (noun) someone who cuts or carves stone | Synonyms: cutter |
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stoned | (adjective) under the influence of narcotics, especially cannabis | Synonyms: hopped-up |
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stoneface | (noun) any plant of the genus Lithops native to Africa having solitary yellow or white flowers and thick leaves that resemble stones | Synonyms: flowering stone, lithops, living stone, stone-face, stone life face, stone plant |
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stonefish | (noun) venomous tropical marine fish resembling a piece of rock | Synonyms: Synanceja verrucosa |
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stonefly | (noun) primitive winged insect with a flattened body; used as bait by fishermen; aquatic gilled larvae are carnivorous and live beneath stones | Synonyms: plecopteran, stone fly |
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stoneless | (adjective) (of fruits having stones) having the stone removed | - |
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stonelike | (adjective) (of bone especially the temporal bone) resembling stone in hardness | Synonyms: petrous |
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stonemason | (noun) a craftsman who works with stone or brick | Synonyms: mason |
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stoner | (noun) an attacker who pelts the victim with stones (especially with intent to kill) | Synonyms: lapidator |
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stoneroot | (noun) erect perennial strong-scented with serrate pointed leaves and a loose panicle of yellowish flowers; the eastern United States | Synonyms: Collinsonia canadensis, horse balm, horseweed, richweed, stone-root, stone root |
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stonewall | (verb) engage in delaying tactics or refuse to cooperate | - |
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(verb) obstruct or hinder any discussion | - |
stonewaller | (noun) one who stonewalls or refuses to answer or cooperate; someone who delays by lengthy speeches etc. | - |
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stonewalling | (noun) stalling or delaying especially by refusing to answer questions or cooperate | - |
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stoneware | (noun) ceramic ware that is fired in high heat and vitrified and nonporous | - |
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stonewash | (verb) wash with stones to achieve a worn appearance | Synonyms: stone-wash |
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stonework | (noun) masonry done with stone | - |
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stonewort | (noun) any of various submerged aquatic algae of the genus Chara having nodes with whorled filamentlike branches; usually encrusted with calcium carbonate deposits | - |
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stonily | (adverb) in a stony manner | - |
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stoning | (noun) the act of pelting with stones; punishment inflicted by throwing stones at the victim (even unto death) | Synonyms: lapidation |
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stony | (adjective) hard as granite | Synonyms: granitelike, granitic, rocklike |
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(adjective) showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings | Synonyms: flint, flinty, granitic, obdurate |
(adjective) abounding in rocks or stones | Synonyms: bouldered, bouldery, rocky |
stonyhearted | (adjective) devoid of feeling for others | Synonyms: hardhearted, unfeeling |
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stooge | (noun) a person of unquestioning obedience | Synonyms: flunkey, flunky, yes-man |
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(noun) a victim of ridicule or pranks | Synonyms: butt, goat, laughingstock |
(verb) act as a stooge, in a compliant or subordinate manner | - |
(verb) act as the stooge | - |
(verb) cruise in slow or routine flights | - |
stool | (noun) a simple seat without a back or arms | - |
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(noun) a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination | Synonyms: can, commode, crapper, pot, potty, throne, toilet |
(noun) (forestry) the stump of a tree that has been felled or headed for the production of saplings | - |
(noun) solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels | Synonyms: BM, dejection, faecal matter, faeces, fecal matter, feces, ordure |
(verb) have a bowel movement | Synonyms: ca-ca, crap, defecate, make, shit, take a crap, take a shit |
(verb) grow shoots in the form of stools or tillers | Synonyms: tiller |
(verb) react to a decoy, of wildfowl | - |
(verb) lure with a stool, as of wild fowl | - |
stoolie | (noun) someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police | Synonyms: canary, fink, sneak, sneaker, snitch, snitcher, stool pigeon, stoolpigeon |
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