English words: sst to staff college

300 English words, part 164 of 245 of the words starting with S, A to Z. 38 have a page of their own.

English words sst to staff college

sst interjection, noun: Initialism of supersonic transport.
sstdna noun: single-stranded template DNA
SSTF phrase: Initialism of shortest seek time first, a disk scheduling algorithm or approach
SSTH noun: Acronym of super slender twin hull (“a catamaran with very slender hulls which are designed to reduce wake wash and increase passenger comfort, generally...
SSTI noun: Initialism of skin and soft tissue infection.
SSTO adjective: Initialism of single-stage-to-orbit.
sstrange adjective /səˈstɹeɪnd͡ʒ/: Being or relating to the squark that is the superpartner of a strange quark.
sstrange squark noun: A squark which is the hypothetical supersymmetric partner of a strange quark.
SSTV noun: Initialism of slow-scan television: a technique for transmitting pictures over radio.
SSU noun: Initialism of secondary sampling unit, a sampling unit in the second stage of a polyetapic sampling.
ssu-ho-yuan noun: Alternative form of siheyuan.
SSW adjective, adverb, noun: Initialism of south-southwest.
SSZ noun: Abbreviation of sulfasalazine.
st interjection, noun, suffix, verb: Alternative letter-case form of St., abbreviation of street.
St. Andrew's Cross noun: Alternative spelling of Saint Andrew's cross.
St Andrewstide noun: Alternative spelling of St. Andrewstide.
St. Anthony's cross noun: Alternative spelling of Saint Anthony's cross.
St Anthony's fire noun: Ergotism, a disease characterised by gangrene and a burning sensation in the hands and feet.
St. Anthony's Turnip noun: Synonym of bulbous buttercup
St. Augustine grass noun: Grass of species Stenotaphrum secundatum, a dense warm-season lawn grass popular for cultivation in tropical and subtropical regions.
St. Barbara's cress noun: Yellow rocket (Barbarea spp.).
St. Bernard noun: Alternative form of Saint Bernard.
stœchiological adjective: Rare spelling of stoichiological.
stœchiology noun: Scientific study of bodily elements.
St. Cuthbert's beads noun: The perforated joints of encrinites found on Lindisfarne.
St. Cuthbert's duck noun: An eider (Somateria spp.).
stød noun /stɜːd/: a phenomenon of most Danish dialects, in which stressed long vowels or consonants are laryngealised in certain contexts; sometimes a simple glottal stop...
St. Dominguan adjective, noun: Alternative form of Saint-Dominguan.
ST elevation noun: A finding on an echocardiogram where the ST segment is raised above the baseline in one or more leads, associated with conditions such as myocardial...
St Elmo's fire noun: An electrical discharge, or corona, seen around pointed objects, caused by ionization of the atmosphere during storms.
St. Elmo's light noun: Synonym of St. Elmo's fire.
St. George's mushroom noun: An edible mushroom found in Europe, Calocybe gambosa.
St. Giles's Greek noun: Slang or cant language.
St Helena plover noun: A species of plover, Charadrius sanctaehelenae, endemic to the remote island of Saint Helena in the Atlantic Ocean.
St. Hubert's disease noun: rabies
St. Hugh's bones noun: A shoemaker's tools.
St Ignatius' bean noun: A seed of a tree of species Strychnos ignatii, with similar properties to nux vomica.
St. James's Wort noun: Alternative spelling of St. James Wort.
St. James Wort noun: Alternative form of St. James Wort.
St John's bread noun: Alternative spelling of Saint John's bread.
St. John's Day noun: Synonym of midsummer.
St. John's Wood vestal noun: A prostitute.
St John's wort noun /seɪnt ˈd͡ʒɑnz wɝt/: Any of several plants, of the genus Hypericum, especially Hypericum perforatum, that have yellow flowers and traditionally ward off evil.
St Juster noun: A native or inhabitant of St Just.
St Kilda field mouse noun: A subspecies of wood mouse, Apodemus sylvaticus hirtensis, endemic to the Hebridean island of St Kilda.
St Kildan adjective, noun: Of or relating to the Scottish archipelago of St Kilda.
St. Lawrence Island shrew noun: Alternative form of Saint Lawrence Island shrew
St Louis Co. noun: Alternative form of Saint Louis County.
St. Louisan adjective, noun: Of or pertaining to St. Louis
St. Luke's summer noun: A short period of warm weather around St Luke's Day (18 October); an Indian summer (also figuratively).
St. Lunaire-Griquet proper noun /ˈseɪnt lʊˈnɛɹ ˈɡɹɪk.ət/: A town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
St. Mark's fly noun: The fly Bibio marci.
St. Martin's lace noun: Imitation gold lace; stage tinsel.
St Martin's summer noun: Alternative spelling of St. Martin's summer.
St Patrick's cabbage noun: The plant Saxifraga spathularis
St. Paul sandwich noun: An American sandwich, found mainly in Chinese restaurants in Missouri, consisting of an egg foo yung patty between slices of white bread.
St. Peter's fish noun: tilapia
St. Petersburg lottery noun: The theoretical lottery game in the St. Petersburg paradox.
St. Petersburg paradox noun: The paradox raised by a particular (theoretical) lottery game that leads to a random variable with infinite expected value (i.e. infinite expected payoff)...
st st noun: Abbreviation of stocking stitch.
St. Thomas bean noun: Any of the species Entada phaseoloides, found in Oceania and East Asia.
St. Thomas Sunday noun: Synonym of Quasimodo (“the Sunday one week after Easter Sunday”).
St. Ulmo's fire noun: Alternative form of St. Elmo's fire.
St. Vitus' dance noun: Any chorea; usually, more specifically
ST4T adjective: Initialism of straight T4T: relating to heterosexual relationships between transgender people.
sta noun: Abbreviation of station.
sta't verb: Pronunciation spelling of start
Staab proper noun: A surname.
Staal proper noun: A surname from Dutch.
StaaS noun: Acronym of storage as a service.
Staatsburg proper noun: A hamlet and census-designated place in the town of Hyde Park, Dutchess County, New York, United States.
stab adjective, noun, verb /stæb/: An act of stabbing or thrusting with an object to hurt or kill someone.
stab a guess verb: Synonym of take a guess.
stab binding noun: A Japanese form of bookbinding with needle and thread.
stab cell noun: Synonym of band cell.
stab in the back noun, verb: An act of betrayal or treachery.
stab-in-the-back myth noun: Any denialist myth misattributing failure to internal betrayal.
stab in the dark noun: Synonym of shot in the dark.
stab pass noun: A kick passing the ball to a teammate made so the ball travels low and fast through the air.
stab-proof adjective: Alternative form of stabproof.
stab-rag noun: A regimental tailor.
stab stitch noun: A stitch in which the needle is first driven through the fabric from the right side, then pushed back up through the material from the wrong side.
stab wound noun: A wound caused by stabbing.
stab yourself and pass the dagger phrase: Help yourself to the alcoholic drink and then pass the bottle.
staballoy noun: A depleted uranium alloy mixed with metals such as titanium or molybdenum and used in armor-piercing penetrators.
stabat mater noun: A hymn, sung in Latin, telling of the sorrow of the Virgin Mary at the crucifixion of Jesus Christ; the music for this hymn.
stabbable adjective: Capable of being stabbed.
stabbee noun: one who is stabbed
stabber noun: One who, or that which, stabs.
stabbily adverb: in a stabby manner
stabbiness noun: The state or quality of being stabby.
stabbing adjective, noun, verb /ˈstæb.ɪŋ/: Sharp, intense.
stabbing board noun: A temporary platform erected in a derrick on which a derrickhand stands to run in casing.
stabbingly adverb: With a stabbing motion or action.
stabboard noun: Pronunciation spelling of starboard.
stabby adjective /ˈstæbi/: Having one or more sharp points.
Stabenow proper noun /ˈstæbɪnaʊ/: A surname.
stabilate noun: A collection of living organisms, typically microbes, preserved for a particular use.
stabilator noun: A one-piece horizontal tailplane, used especially on high-speed aircraft.
stabile noun /ˈsteɪ.baɪl/: abstract sculpture or structure of wire, sheet metal, etc.
stabilify verb: To make stable; stabilize.
stabiliment noun /stəˈbɪlɪmənt/: The act of making firm
stabilimentum noun: A particular web structure made by some spiders.
stabilimeter noun: A device used to measure stability
stabilisable adjective: UK standard spelling of stabilizable.
stabilisation noun: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of stabilization.
stabilise verb: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of stabilize.
stabiliser noun: Alternative spelling of stabilizer.
stabilism noun: Synonym of fixism.
stabilist noun: A proponent of stabilism.
stabilitate verb: To establish.
stabilitron noun: A Zener diode.
stability noun /stəˈbɪlɪti/: The condition of being stable or in equilibrium, and thus resistant to change.
stability conditions noun: Pitch configurations, as considered "out of time".
stabilizability noun: The quality or degree of being stabilizable.
stabilizable adjective: Capable of being stabilized.
stabilization noun /ˌsteɪ.bəl.ɪzˈeɪ.ʃən/: The process of stabilizing.
stabilization fund noun: A mechanism set up by a government or central bank to insulate the domestic economy from large influxes of revenue, as from commodities such as oil.
stabilize verb /ˈsteɪ.bəˌlaɪz/: To make stable.
stabilizer noun /ˈsteɪbəlaɪzɚ/: Any substance added to something in order to stabilize it, as for example a fuel additive that prolongs the shelf life of petrol.
stabilizer subgroup noun: Said of a group acting on a set, and with respect to an element of that set: the subgroup of the given group whose action leaves that element fixed.
stabilogram noun: A graphical representation of the small movements of a person in a stable stance (as feedback responds to potential instabilities)
stabilographic adjective: Relating to stabilograms or to stabilography
stabilography noun: The construction and interpretation of stabilograms
stabilome noun: The omics concept of stability of mRNA.
stabilometer noun: A device used in stabilometry
stabilometric adjective: Relating to stabilometry
stabilometry noun: The study of postural equilibrium
stabilomorph noun: A species of an organism that has survived the mass extinction of all other related species
stabilomorphism noun: The survival of one species out of many in a mass extinction
stable adjective, noun, verb /ˈsteɪ.bəl/: A building, wing or dependency set apart and adapted for lodging and feeding (and training) ungulates, especially horses.
stable boy noun: A boy or young man who attends in a stable.
stable equilibrium noun: An equilibrium in which a small disturbance causes it to move back to its original state.
stable fixation noun: The act of securely holding broken bones in correct alignment using casts, braces, plates, screws, or rods, allowing them to heal without movement.
stable fly noun: Any of several medium-sized flies in the genus Stomoxys, of the family Muscidae that includes the housefly. The genus is unusual among members of that...
stable girl noun: A girl or young woman who attends in a stable.
stable lad noun: Synonym of lad (“a groom who works with horses”).
stable marriage problem noun: The problem of finding a stable matching between two equal-sized sets of elements, given an ordering of preferences for each element.
stable matching problem noun: Synonym of stable marriage problem.
stable-stand noun: The position of a person found standing in the forest with a crossbow or longbow bent, ready to shoot at a deer, or close by a tree with greyhounds in a...
stable vice noun: An undesirable habit or stereotypy in a horse or other equine, often the result of confinement in a stable with insufficient exercise, companionship, etc.
stableboy noun: Alternative form of stable boy.
stablecoin noun: A cryptocurrency with price stability by design, often pegged to a stable asset such as the US dollar.
stabled adjective, verb: kept or located in a stable
stablefly noun: Synonym of dogfly.
stableford noun: Alternative letter-case form of Stableford.
stableful noun: The amount that fills a stable.
stablegirl noun: Alternative form of stable girl.
stablehand noun /ˈsteɪbəlˌhænd/: A person who works in a stable.
stablekeeper noun: The person who maintains a stable where animals are kept.
stableless adjective: Without a stable.
stablelike adjective: Resembling or characteristic of a stable.
stableman noun: A person employed to take care of horses in a stable.
stablemaster noun: The person in charge of a stable.
stablemate noun: One (such as a racehorse) from the same stable.
stableness noun: The quality or state of being stable, or firmly established; stability.
stabler adjective, noun: A stablekeeper.
stables noun: plural of stable
stablesome adjective: Characteristic of a stable (horsebarn).
stableward adverb: Toward a stable.
stablewards adverb: Towards a stable.
stablewoman noun: A female attendant in a stable, looking after the horses.
stableyard noun: A yard connecting horses' stables.
stablike adjective: Resembling or characteristic of a stab.
stabling noun, verb: A building, shed, or room for horses and cattle; a stable.
stabling siding noun: A storage siding for rolling stock, in particular passenger trains not being used in service.
stablish verb: To establish.
stably adverb, noun: In a stable manner.
stabproof adjective: Resistant to stabbing attacks.
stabscotch noun: Synonym of knife game.
stabstitch noun: A stitch made with the needle held at right angles to the fabric
stabulation noun: The act of stabling or housing animals.
stabvest noun: A vest designed to protect against stabbing.
stabwort noun: Aster atticus, the European Michaelmas daisy.
stabworthy adjective: Worthy of being stabbed.
stabwound noun: A wound caused by stabbing.
Stabyhoun noun: A dog of a rare Frisian breed with a sturdy build and a silky, most commonly black-and-white coat.
stacation noun: Alternative spelling of staycation.
staccatissimo adjective: Extremely staccato.
staccato adjective, adverb, noun /stəˈkɑːtoʊ/: An articulation marking directing that a note or passage of notes are to be played in an abruptly disconnected manner, with each note sounding for a very...
Stace proper noun /steɪs/: A diminutive of the female given name Stacey.
Stacee proper noun: A female given name from Ancient Greek, a fanciful respelling of Stacy or Stacey.
Stacey proper noun: An English surname transferred from the given name derived from a medieval diminutive of Eustace.
Stach proper noun: A surname from Polish.
stache noun /stɑːʃ/: A moustache.
Stachowski proper noun: A surname.
stachybotrylactam noun: The lactam mycotoxin 3,4'-dihydroxy-4,4,7,8a-tetramethylspiro[2,3,4a,5,6,7-hexahydro-1H-naphthalene-8,2'-7,8-dihydro-3H-furo[2,3-e]isoindole]-6'-one...
stachybotryotoxicosis noun: Toxicosis caused by the fungi Stachybotrys.
stachydrine noun: The betaine of proline (2S)-1,1-dimethylpyrrolidin-1-ium-2-carboxylate
stachylysin noun: A hemolysin produced by the fungus Stachybotrys chartarum
stachyose noun: A tetrasaccharide found in many vegetables and plants, used as a sweetener or for its functional oligosaccharide property.
Staci proper noun: A unisex given name from Ancient Greek, a 20th-century spelling variant of Stacy.
Stacie proper noun: A unisex given name from Ancient Greek, variant of Stacey.
stack noun, verb /stæk/: A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, larger at the bottom than the top, sometimes covered with thatch.
stack-and-pack adjective: Of a type of city planning with many residences in high density in many-story buildings.
stack-based adjective: Relying on a stack data structure or architecture to manipulate data.
stack chips noun: A kind of potato crisps/potato chips with a uniform convex shape allowing them to be stacked and packaged in an upright tube.
stack effect noun: The phenomenon of air buoyancy leading to the movement of air into and out of buildings, chimneys, etc., which may drive natural ventilation, air...
stack frame noun: An individual frame on the call stack, representing a call to a subroutine that has yet to return.
stack-guard noun: A covering or protection for a haystack, such as a canvas.
stack interchange noun: A massive, free-flowing, multi-level highway junction, connecting two intersecting highways with a series of stacked overpasses and flyovers, allowing...
stack it verb: To fall over; to topple.
stack light noun: A column of color-coded electric lights, used to indicate the status of a machine or process.
stack machine noun: A real or emulated computer that uses a pushdown stack rather than individual machine registers to evaluate each subexpression in a program.
stack off verb: To play an all in pot; to commit all of one's chips to a pot.
stack process noun: Synonym of Dutch process.
stack rank noun, verb: A ranking of employees conducted in order to identify and oust the lowest performers in a company or organization.
stack ranking noun, verb: The act or process of creating a stack rank.
stack room noun: A bookroom with stacks of books
stack smashing noun: The exploitation of a buffer overflow affecting the stack.
stack talk noun /ˈstæk tɔːk/: The sound made by the exhaust of a steam locomotive.
stack the cards verb: To surreptitiously arrange something in order to gain an unfair advantage, or to alter an outcome
stack the deck verb: To give an unfair advantage to somebody.
stack trace noun: A hierarchical trace of the function calls made by a program, used in debugging.
stack truck noun: Synonym of hand truck.
stack up verb: to put into a stack.
stack-upo'-the-kill noun: Alternative form of stack-upon-the-kill.
stack-upon-the-kill noun: A dogpile game played in Cheshire and other areas of Britain.
stack z's verb: To sleep; to be asleep.
stackability noun: The quality of being stackable.
stackable adjective, noun: Capable of being stacked.
stackably adverb: In a stackable manner; so as to permit stacking.
stackage noun: Hay, grain, etc. in stacks; things stacked.
stackback noun: The amount of wall space at either side of a window where the curtains are drawn back when fully open.
stacked adjective, verb /stækt/: Arranged in a stack.
stacked modal noun: A double modal (or, rarely, any string of multiple modals, e.g. a triple modal).
stackencloud noun: A cumulus cloud.
stacker noun /ˈstækɚ/: Any person or thing that stacks.
stacker crane noun /ˈstækə kɹeɪn/: An overhead rail-guided crane system that employs a load handling mechanism distinct from a hoist
stacker crane problem noun: A generalization of the travelling salesman problem in metric spaces.
stacket noun /ˈstækɪt/: A stockade.
stackframe noun: Alternative spelling of stack frame.
stackfreed noun: A simple spring-loaded cam mechanism used in early clocks and watches to even out the force of the mainspring and thus improve timekeeping accuracy.
stackful adjective, noun: Enough to fill or form a stack.
stackgarth noun: Synonym of stackyard.
Stackhouse proper noun: A surname.
stackie noun: A barge used to transport hay or straw on its deck
stacking noun, verb: The act by which something is stacked.
stackless adjective: Without the use of a stack (last-in-first-out data structure).
stacklessness noun: The property of being stackless.
Stackpole proper noun: A village in Stackpole and Castlemartin community, Pembrokeshire, Wales (OS grid ref SR9896).
stackroom noun: A room that houses stacks in a library.
stacks noun, verb: A large amount of money, especially winnings.
stacks of wax noun: A large collection of vinyl records.
stacks on noun: Clipping of stacks on the mill.
stacks on the mill noun: A children's dogpile game.
stackstand noun: A stand for supporting a haystack or grain stack; a rickstand.
stackup noun: A diagram used to calculate the effects of accumulated variation in dimensions and tolerances; the effects thus diagrammed.
stacky adjective: Relating to stacks (generalizations of schemes and sheaves).
stackyard noun: A farmyard in which stacks of hay etc. are stored.
Stacpoole proper noun: A surname.
stacte noun: One of the sweet spices used by the Jews in Biblical times for preparing incense; it is thought to have been an oil or other form of myrrh or cinnamon, or a...
stactometer noun: stalagmometer
stacy noun /ˈsteɪ.si/: An attractive, genetically gifted and popular woman who is sexually active, often conceived as the female counterpart of a Chad.
Stacylite noun: A woman of a slightly lower ranking on a scale of physical attractiveness than a Stacy.
stad noun, suffix: town, village
stadda noun: A double-bladed handsaw for cutting the teeth of combs.
staddle noun, verb /ˈstædəl/: A prop or support; a staff, crutch.
staddle stone noun: One of the mushroom-shaped stones used as a support (a staddle) for a barn or granary. The shape prevents rats from climbing up to the barn.
staddlestone noun: Alternative form of staddle stone
staddling noun, verb: The marking of saplings to remain when thinning a forest
Staddon proper noun: A surname from Old English.
stade noun /steɪd/: Synonym of stadion (“former Greek unit of distance”).
stadholder noun /ˈstædˌhəʊldə/: Alternative form of stadtholder.
stadholderate noun: Alternative spelling of stadtholderate.
stadholderian adjective /ˌstæd.həʊlˈdɪə.ɹi.ən/: Alternative form of stadtholderian.
stadholdership noun: Alternative spelling of stadtholdership.
stadhouder noun /ˈstædˌhaʊdə/: Alternative form of stadtholder.
stadhouse noun: Alternative form of stadthouse.
stadia noun: A level staff or graduated rod used by surveyors to measure differences in level, or to measure horizontal distances by sighting the stadia hairs...
stadia hair noun: In a theodolite, etc., one of the horizontal crosshairs equidistant from the central horizontal crosshair.
stadial adjective, noun /ˈsteɪdɪəl/: Pertaining to a glacial stade.
stadialism noun: The theory that a society, culture, etc. passes through a series of developmental stages.
stadialist noun: A proponent of stadialism.
stadially adverb: By, or in terms of, developmental stages.
stadimeter noun: A horizontal graduated bar mounted on a staff, used as a stadium, or telemeter, for measuring distances.
stadiometer noun: A device, having a vertical scale and a movable headboard, for measuring a person's height
stadiometry noun: measurement by means of a stadiometer
stadion noun: A Greek unit of distance based on standardized footraces, equivalent to about 185.4 metres.
stadium noun /ˈsteɪ.di.əm/: A venue where sporting events are held.
stadium horn noun: Synonym of vuvuzela.
stadium mustard noun: A mildly spicy brown mustard.
stadium rock noun: Synonym of arena rock.
stadium sailing noun: A type of sport sail yachting close to the shore in an in-shore environment with tight courses, with shore-based fan stands comprising the "stadium"....
stadium trumpet noun: Synonym of vuvuzela.
stadiumful noun: the amount that fills a stadium.
stadiumlike adjective: Resembling or characteristic of a stadium.
stadle noun: Alternative form of staddle.
Stadler proper noun: A surname.
stadtholder noun /ˈstædˌhəʊldə/: The chief provincial magistrate, military commander, and, as a member of the House of Orange, highest-ranking noble in the Dutch Republic, who often served...
stadtholderate noun: The office or position of a stadtholder.
stadtholderess noun: The wife of a stadtholder.
stadtholderian adjective /ˌstæd.həʊlˈdɪə.ɹi.ən/: Of or relating to a stadtholder.
stadtholdership noun: The office or rank of a stadtholder.
stadthouse noun: A town hall in a Dutch-speaking country or (former) colony.
stafette noun: Alternative form of estafette.
staff noun, verb /stɑːf/: A long, straight, thick wooden rod or stick, especially one used to assist in walking.
staff angle noun: A square rod of wood standing flush with the wall on each of its sides, at the external angles of plastering, to prevent their being damaged.
staff captain noun: The holder of various military ranks, now usually translated from other languages. In the British Royal Navy the master of the fleet was ranked as a "Staff...
staff college noun: A college where military officers are trained in the higher branches of professional knowledge, and prepared for holding staff appointments.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0): each word's first meaning. A word with a page of its own links to it; for the rest, this line is PlainSpell's entry. Total under S: 73,223 words, in 245 parts.