English words: staired to stanchel

300 English words, part 166 of 245 of the words starting with S, A to Z. 45 have a page of their own.

English words staired to stanchel

staired adjective /stɛɹd/: Having (a specified kind or number of) stairs.
stairflight noun: A flight of stairs.
stairfoot noun: The foot, or bottom, of a flight of stairs.
stairful noun: The amount that fills a staircase.
stairgate noun: A gate fitted across a domestic staircase to prevent young children from climbing the stairs, or falling down them.
stairhall noun: Alternative form of stair hall.
stairhead noun: The landing at the top of a staircase.
stairless adjective /ˈstɛələs/: Without stairs.
stairlessness noun: Absence of stairs.
stairlift noun: A motorized platform installed in a stairway, which traverses the stairs when activated and can be ridden by those for whom the stairs are a barrier.
stairlike adjective: Resembling or characteristic of a stair.
stairs noun /ˈstɛəz/: A contiguous set of steps connecting two floors.
stairstep adjective, noun: Any of the steps in a staircase
stairstep moss noun: Hylocomium splendens, a moss of boreal forests.
stairsteps adjective, noun: Having distinct evenly-spaced values, especially when arranged in order.
stairtower noun: A tower with stairs on the inside.
stairward adjective, adverb: Towards the stairs.
stairwards adverb: Towards the stairs.
stairway noun /ˈstɛəweɪ/: A set of steps, with or without a case, that allow one to walk up or down.
stairwell noun /ˈstɛəwɛl/: A shaft in a multi-story building enclosing a stairway or staircase.
stairwelled adjective: Furnished with a stairwell.
stairwise adjective, adverb: In the manner of a set of stairs; rising in discrete steps.
stairwork noun: The construction of flights of stairs.
Staite proper noun /steɪt/: A surname from Old English.
staith noun /steɪθ/: A shore or a riverbank.
staithe noun /steɪθ/: A riverbank
staithman noun: A man employed in weighing and shipping at a staith.
staka noun: A type of roux particular to Cretan cuisine, prepared by cooking sheep's milk cream over a low flame with wheat flour or starch, generally served hot and...
stake noun, verb /steɪk/: A piece of wood or other material, usually long and slender, pointed at one end so as to be easily driven into the ground as a marker or a support or stay.
stake a claim verb: To take an action that asserts a property right in something.
stake boat noun: A boat used to mark the start line in a sailing race.
stake-driver noun: An American bittern (Botaurus lentiginosus).
stake of Zion noun: A territorial subdivision of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints consisting of several wards and, possibly, branches.
stake one's life verb: Synonym of bet one's bottom dollar.
stake out noun, verb: To watch a location or people, generally covertly.
stakebed noun: A kind of flatbed truck equipped with sockets to hold stakes so as to enclose the loaded goods.
stakebody noun: A type of truck body or wagon body composed of stakes, often easily removable from the bed, such that a flatbed can be reconverted as needed; suitable for...
stakebuilding noun: The accumulation of shares in a company
staked adjective, verb: Marked with stakes
stakedriver noun: Alternative form of stake-driver.
stakehead noun: A horizontal bar on a stake, used for supporting the yarns which are kept apart by pins in the bar.
stakeholder noun, verb /ˈsteɪkˌhəʊl.də/: A person holding the stakes of bettors, with the responsibility of delivering the pot to the winner of the bet.
stakeholder capitalism noun: Synonym of stakeholderism.
stakeholder society noun: A society whose members have both rights from it, and duties or responsibilities to it; a concept within the New Labour movement.
stakeholderism noun: The view that a business should promote the interests of its stakeholders (employees, customers, suppliers etc.), as opposed to only its shareholders.
stakeholdership noun: The state or office of a stakeholder.
stakeholding noun: The act of holding a stake (in a business or similar operation), of being a stakeholder.
stakehole noun: A hole made when a stake is driven into the ground.
stakehorse noun, verb: A person who bets (backs with a stake) on a player
stakelike adjective: Resembling a stake (pointed stick).
stakenet noun: A form of fishing net hung on stakes.
stakeout noun: The act of watching a location or people, generally covertly.
staker noun: One who stakes something.
stakes noun, verb /steɪks/: The money wagered in gambling
stakeswin noun: A win at a stakes race
stakeswinner noun: A winner of a stakes race
stakeswinning adjective: Having won a stakes race.
stakewall noun: A wall built of stakes; a palisade.
stakewinner noun: Alternative form of stakeswinner.
stakewinning adjective: Alternative form of stakeswinning.
Stakhanov proper noun: A surname from Russian.
Stakhanovian adjective: Extremely productive or hard-working, especially in the context of the former USSR, where such workers could earn special rewards.
Stakhanovism noun: A system instituted in communist countries to encourage increased productivity.
stakhanovite adjective, noun /stəˈkɑːnəvaɪt/: An extremely productive or hardworking worker, especially in the former USSR, who may earn special rewards; a workaholic.
Stakhonovite noun: Alternative spelling of Stakhanovite.
staking noun, verb: An act of stabbing with a stake.
stalactic adjective: Having, or relating to, stalactites.
stalactical adjective: stalactic
stalactiform adjective: Resembling a stalactite.
stalactital adjective: Of or relating to stalactites.
stalactite noun /ˈstælæktaɪt/: A secondary mineral deposit of calcium carbonate or another mineral, in shapes similar to icicles, that hangs from the roof of a cave.
stalactited adjective: Having stalactites.
stalactitic adjective: Consisting of or resembling stalactites.
stalactitical adjective: Alternative form of stalactitic.
stalactitiform adjective: Having the form of a stalactite; stalactiform.
stalactitious adjective: Of or relating to stalactites.
stalag noun: A German prisoner-of-war camp, especially in World War II.
stalagmite noun /stəˈlæɡˌmaɪt/: A secondary mineral deposit of calcium carbonate or other mineral, in shapes similar to icicles, that lies on the ground of a cave.
stalagmitic adjective: containing stalagmites
stalagmitical adjective: Alternative form of stalagmitic.
stalagmitically adverb: Like a stalagmite; accumulating from floor to ceiling.
stalagmometer noun: A device for investigating surface tension by the stalagmometric method.
stalagmometric adjective: Relating to stalagmometry.
stalagmometry noun: The measurement of surface tension by measuring the weight of the drops of fluid falling from a capillary glass tube.
Stalcup proper noun: A surname.
stalder noun: A wooden frame to set casks on.
stalderite noun: A tetragonal-scalenohedral mineral containing arsenic, copper, iron, mercury, sulfur, thallium, and zinc.
stalding noun: Alternative form of scalding.
stale adjective, noun, verb /steɪl/: No longer fresh, in reference to food, urine, straw, wounds, etc.
stale drunk adjective: Drunk from a long (possibly overnight) session of drinking alcohol.
stale read noun: A read operation that fetches an incorrect value from a source that has not synchronised an update operation to the value.
stalefish noun: A grab in which the rear hand holds the heelside edge of the skateboard.
stalely adverb /ˈsteɪl.li/: In a stale manner.
stalemate noun, verb /ˈsteɪlmeɪt/: The state in which the player to move is not in check but has no legal moves, resulting in a draw.
stalemater noun: One who stalemates.
staleness noun: The state or quality of being stale.
Staley proper noun: A surname.
Stalham proper noun: A market town and civil parish with a town council in North Norfolk district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TG3725).
Stalin noun /ˈstɑːlɪn/: Synonym of Hitler (“a dictatorial person”).
Stalin-esque adjective: Alternative form of Stalinesque.
Stalin's lawn noun: A grid of upward-facing spikes placed on the ground within the fortified part of the Berlin Wall, designed to pierce the feet of anyone attempting to cross.
Stalin's organ noun: A Katyusha rocket launcher.
Stalinesque adjective: Characteristic of Joseph Stalin (1878–1953), leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953.
staling noun, verb: The process whereby bread goes stale.
Stalingrad proper noun /ˈstɑːlɪnɡræd/: Former name of Volgograd: a city, the administrative center of Volgograd Oblast, Russia, and site of a famous World War II battle; used from 1925–1961.
Stalinian adjective: Of or relating to Joseph Stalin, a Russian revolutionary and political leader.
Stalinism noun /ˈstɑː.lɪ.nɪ.zəm/: The Communist philosophies espoused by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.
Stalinist adjective, noun /ˈstɑː.lɪ.nɪst/: Of, relating to, or resembling Joseph Stalin, a Bolshevik revolutionary.
Stalinistic adjective: Stalinist
Stalinite noun: Synonym of Stalinist.
stalinization noun: The process of stalinizing.
stalinize verb: To make Stalinist.
Stalinoid adjective, noun: Stalinesque
stalk noun, verb /stɔːk/: The stem or main axis of a plant.
stalk-cutter noun: A device with rotatory blades for chopping up stalks in a field.
stalk-eyed adjective: Having the eyes on stalks.
stalk-eyed fly noun: A fly of the family Diopsidae.
stalkable adjective: Capable of being stalked (as of a hunter's prey).
stalkball noun: Synonym of stalked puffball.
stalkborer noun: Any insect or larva that bores through the stalks of plants
stalked adjective, verb: Having a stalk or stem.
stalked jellyfish noun: Any jellyfish of order Stauromedusae
stalked kelp noun: A large brown alga of species Pterygophora californica, found in shallow water off the coast of North America.
stalked puffball noun: Any fungus of the genus Tulostoma.
stalkee noun: One who is stalked; the victim of a stalker.
stalker noun /ˈstɔːkə(ɹ)/: A person who engages in stalking, i.e., quietly approaching animals to be hunted; a tracker or guide in hunting game.
stalkerhood noun: The condition of being a stalker.
stalkerish adjective /ˈstɔːkəɹɪʃ/: Of, pertaining to, or resembling a stalker.
stalkerlike adjective: Resembling a stalker or his or her behaviour.
stalkerware noun: Synonym of creepware.
stalkery adjective /ˈstɔːkəɹi/: Characterized by or displaying an obsessive, inappropriate, or unwelcomed interest in someone; characteristic of a stalker.
stalkette noun: A female stalker.
stalkily adverb /ˈstɔːkɪli/: Like, or as if made up of, one or several stalks or sticks; with a tall and thin appearance; lankily.
stalkiness noun: Quality of being stalky.
stalking noun, verb /ˈstɔːkɪŋ/: The act of going stealthily.
stalking horse noun: A horse used as cover by a hunter stalking game.
stalkingly adverb: In a stalking way; with a haughty walk.
stalkish adjective /ˈstɔːkɪʃ/: Resembling or characteristic of a stalker.
stalkless adjective: Having no stalk; sessile.
stalklessness noun: Absence of a stalk.
stalklet noun: A little stalk.
stalklike adjective: Resembling a stalk.
stalko noun: A poor person who pretends to be of grand ancestry.
stalkumentary noun: A documentary film or programme which follows its subject around and/or intrudes upon their private life, particularly to a degree characterized as stalking.
stalky adjective: Long and thin, like a stalk of a plant.
stall noun, verb /stɔːl/: A compartment for a single animal in a stable or cattle shed.
stall angle noun: The critical angle; the angle of attack beyond which an airfoil stalls (loses lift and gains drag).
stall bars noun: Synonym of wall bars.
stall feed noun, verb: Alternative form of stall-feed.
stall for time verb: To intentionally cause a delay; to stop; to wait.
stall handler noun: Someone responsible for manoeuvring the horse between the gates before the start of a race.
stall off verb: Dated form of stall (“to employ delaying tactics against”).
stall out verb: To stall completely; to come to an end or quit through stalling
stall-reader noun: A person who would stand and read books at a bookstall without buying them.
stall speed noun: The airspeed at which the lift generated by an aircraft flying with an angle of attack equal to the stall angle (the point of maximum lift for a given...
stall turn noun: Synonym of hammerhead turn.
stallage noun: The erection and use of a stall at a fair or market.
Stallard proper noun: A surname.
stallation noun: installation (as of a person into office)
stallboard noun: A strong sill underneath a shop front window
staller noun: One who stalls.
stallership noun: The state or business of a staller.
stallfeed noun, verb: Alternative form of stall-feed.
stallholder noun: A person who operates a market stall.
stallholding adjective: Operating a market stall.
stalling noun, verb: The act of a person or thing that stalls.
stallinger noun: A stallkeeper.
stallion noun /ˈstæljən/: Specifically, one that is uncastrated.
stallion plague noun: Synonym of covering sickness.
stallioneer noun: someone who looks after or breeds stallions
stallioner noun: One who looks after or breeds stallions.
stallionize verb: To behave like a stallion, especially to engage in sexual intercourse.
stallkeeper noun: The person in charge of a stall (small open-fronted shop).
stallman noun: A male stallholder, especially one who sells books.
stallon noun /ˈstælən/: A slip from a plant; a scion; a cutting.
Stallone proper noun /stəˈləʊn/: A surname;
Stallonesque adjective: in the style of Sylvester Stallone, an American actor.
Stallonian adjective /stəˈləʊ.ni.ən/: resembling Sylvester Stallone or films starring him.
stallproof adjective: Resistant to going into a stall.
stallsman noun: An accomplice.
Stallworth proper noun: A surname.
Stallybrass proper noun: A surname.
Stalnaker proper noun: A surname.
Stalnakerian adjective: Of or relating to Robert Stalnaker (born 1940), American philosopher.
Stalter proper noun: A surname.
stalwart adjective, noun /ˈstɔːl.wət/: Firmly or solidly built.
stalwartism noun: A stalwart approach or attitude.
stalwartize verb: To make stalwart.
stalwartly adverb: In a stalwart way.
stalwartness noun: The state or condition of being stalwart.
stalworth adjective, noun /ˈstɔːl.wəθ/: Stalwart.
stalworthly adjective: Synonym of stalwartly.
stalworthness noun: Synonym of stalwartness.
Stalybridge proper noun: A town in Tameside borough, Greater Manchester, England, historically divided between Lancashire and Cheshire (OS grid ref SJ9698).
stam noun, verb /stæm/: To confound.
Stambaugh proper noun: A surname.
stambha noun: A pillar or column.
Stambler proper noun: A surname.
stambomycin noun: Any of a group of polyketide macrolide antibiotics produced by Streptomyces ambofaciens
stambouline adjective, noun: A collarless frock coat worn by the Ottomans.
stame noun: dry, superheated steam
stamen noun /ˈsteɪ.mən/: In flowering plants, a male reproductive structure in a flower that produces pollen, typically consisting of an anther and a filament.
stamenate adjective: Alternative form of staminate.
stamened adjective: Having a stamen, or stamens.
stameniferous adjective: Bearing stamens
stamenless adjective: Having no stamen.
stamenlessness noun: Absence of a stamen.
stamenoid adjective, noun: Having the form (or function) of a stamen
Stamets proper noun: A surname from German.
Stamey proper noun: A surname.
Stamford proper noun: A town and locality in the Shire of Flinders, in northern Queensland, Australia.
stamfort noun: haberject
stamin noun: A kind of coarse woollen cloth from England.
stamina noun /ˈstæmɪnə/: The energy and strength for continuing to do something over a long period of time; power of sustained exertion, or resistance to hardship, illness etc.
staminal adjective /ˈstæmɪnəl/: Of or pertaining to stamens.
staminality noun: The condition of being staminal
staminate adjective: Having functional stamens, but (typically) no carpels.
staminated adjective: staminate
staminately adverb: In a staminate manner.
stamineal adjective: Bearing or having stamens.
stamineous adjective: Consisting of stamens or threads.
staminiferous adjective: Bearing or having stamens.
staminigerous adjective: staminiferous
staminodal adjective: Relating to a staminode.
staminode noun: An abortive stamen, or any organ modified from an abortive stamen; a staminodium
staminodial adjective: Relating to or composed of staminodes.
staminodium noun: Alternative form of staminode.
staminody noun: A condition of flowers in which sepals, pistils, etc. are metamorphosed into stamens.
staminoid adjective: Resembling a stamen.
staminophore noun: A structure, around the apex of eucalypt hypanthia, that supports the stamens
Stamler proper noun: A surname.
Stammaic adjective: Of or relating to the Stammaim.
Stammaim noun: Any of the rabbis who composed the anonymous statements and arguments in the Talmud, some of whom may have worked during the period of the Amoraim, but who...
Stammbaum noun: A tree of genetically related languages or dialects formed by grouping them according to their most recent common ancestor.
stammel adjective, noun: A woolen cloth (used in medieval times to make undergarments).
Stammen proper noun: A surname.
stammer noun, verb /ˈstæmə/: To keep repeating a particular sound involuntarily during speech.
stammered adjective, verb: Of speech: irregular or halting.
stammerer noun /ˈstæməɹə(ɹ)/: One who stammers; a stutterer.
stammering noun, verb: The act of one who stammers.
stammeringly adverb: In a stammering manner, done with a stammer or stutter.
stammerwort noun: Alternative form of staggerwort.
stammery adjective: Characterised by stammering.
stammtisch noun: A table in a bar etc. reserved for a group of regulars taking part in social discussion and beer drinking; a "regulars' table".
stamnos noun: An Ancient Greek pottery container used to store liquids. It is more squat than an amphora, and has handles.
stamp noun, verb /stæmp/: An act of stamping the foot, paw or hoof.
stamp act noun: Any legislation that requires a tax to be paid on the transfer of certain documents.
stamp album noun: A book used to store stamps in a collection
stamp and go noun: A Jamaican dish of saltfish, lard, and cornmeal.
stamp art noun: Artwork, typically a mosaic, made from postage stamps.
stamp battery noun: A stamp mill.
stamp collecting noun: The hobby of collecting and displaying postage stamps and related items.
stamp collection noun: A philatelist's collection of stamps.
stamp collector noun: A person who takes part in stamp collecting.
stamp coupling noun: A form of coupling where modules share a composite data structure and use only parts of it.
stamp duty noun: A tax levied upon certain documents, a stamp being applied to show that tax has been paid.
stamp hinge noun: A small gummed strip of folded glassine paper, used to mount stamps on an album page.
stamp mill noun: type of mill machine that crushes material by pounding rather than grinding, either for further processing or for extraction of metallic ores
stamp note noun: A certificate from a custom house officer for goods to be loaded as freight of a ship.
stamp of approval noun: Synonym of seal of approval.
stamp out verb /stamp aʊt/: To extinguish by stamping.
stamp pad noun: A porous pad, often made of a felt-like material, impregnated with ink, used for inking rubber stamps.
stamp tax noun: Synonym of stamp duty.
stampability noun: The ability to be marked with a stamp; the quality or degree of being stampable.
stampable adjective: Capable of being marked with a stamp.
stampedable adjective: Able to be scared or roused into a stampede.
stampede noun, verb /stæmˈpiːd/: A wild, headlong running away or scamper of a number of animals, usually caused by fright.
stampeder noun: Someone or something that stampedes.
stampedingly adverb: While, or as if, stampeding.
stampedo noun, verb: Synonym of stampede.
stampee noun: A foreign coin that is overstamped to produce a local currency, formerly used in the Caribbean.
stamper noun /ˈstæmpɚ/: One who stamps.
stampery noun: A factory for block-printing, or ‘stamping’, calico.
stampic adjective: Of or relating to postage stamps.
stamping noun, verb /ˈstæmpɪŋ/: The sound or action of one who stamps.
stamping ground noun: A habitually frequented place; a haunt or hangout.
stamping mill noun: A stamp mill
stampless adjective: Without a stamp.
stamplessness noun: Absence of a stamp or stamps.
Stampley proper noun: A surname.
stampman noun: A man who sells stamps (devices for making impressions).
stampomania noun: A passion for collecting postage stamps.
stamppot noun: A traditional Dutch dish of potatoes mashed with one or more other vegetables, sometimes also with bacon.
stamulumab noun: An experimental myostatin-inhibiting drug intended to treat Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
stan noun, suffix, verb /stæn/: An extremely obsessive fan of a person, group, character, or creative work, particularly one whose fixation is unhealthy or intrusive.
Stanard proper noun: A surname.
stanazolol noun: A synthetic anabolic steroid derived from testosterone.
Stanback proper noun: A surname.
stanbase noun: The stans (extremely obsessive fans) of a thing or person taken as a group.
Stanberry proper noun: A surname.
Stanbery proper noun: A surname.
Stanbridge proper noun: A village and civil parish in Central Bedfordshire district, Bedfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP9624).
Stanbury proper noun: A small village in Haworth and Stanbury parish, City of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE0037).
stance noun, verb /stæns/: The manner, pose, or posture in which one stands.
stance up verb: To assume bold body language.
stanceless adjective: Without any particular stance; neutral.
stancelessness noun: Lack of any particular stance; neutrality.
stanch adverb, noun, verb /stɑːn(t)ʃ/: Possibly strictly.
stanchable adjective: Able to be stanched.
stanchel noun: A stanchion.

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.