English words: stonyhearted to storm-blast
300 English words, part 184 of 245 of the words starting with S, A to Z. 39 have a page of their own.
English words stonyhearted to storm-blast
- stonyhearted adjective: Cruel, compassionless, discompassionate, as if having a heart made of stone.
- stonyheartedness noun: The state or quality of being stonyhearted; remorselessness, cruelty, or pitilessness.
- stoodis contraction: Contraction of let's + do + this.
- Stoodley proper noun: A surname.
- stooge noun, verb /stuːd͡ʒ/: One who knowingly allows themself to be used for another's profit; a dupe.
- stook noun, verb /stʊk/: A pile or bundle, especially of straw.
- stooker noun: A person (e.g., smallholder, farm laborer) who gathers sheaves into stooks (shocks).
- Stookey proper noun: A surname.
- stookie noun: plaster of Paris
- stool noun, verb /stuːl/: A seat for one person without a back or armrests.
- stool-ball noun /ˈstuːlbɔːl/: An old country game, similar in some respects to cricket and rounders, and chiefly played by young men or women at Eastertide.
- stool of easement noun: A stool upon which to ease one's bowels: a commode, a chamber pot.
- stool of repentance noun: Synonym of cuttystool (“seat in Scottish churches where offenders sat for public rebuke by the minister”).
- stool pigeon noun: A pigeon tied to a stool by a piece of twine, used as a decoy to entice free-flying birds to the ground to be shot or trapped.
- stool softener noun: Any medication used to introduce water and/or fat to the contents of the patient's intestines, making those contents more likely to pass out in the feces.
- stoolball noun: Alternative form of stool-ball.
- stoolie noun /ˈstuːli/: A stool pigeon.
- stooling noun, verb: The production of stool or feces; defecation.
- stoolless adjective: Without a stool.
- stoollike adjective: Resembling or characteristic of a stool (type of seat).
- stoolmaking noun: The manufacture of stools.
- stooly noun: Alternative spelling of stoolie.
- stoom verb: Alternative form of stum.
- stooop interjection /stɒːp/: Elongated form of stop.
- stoop noun, verb /stuːp/: A stooping, bent position of the body.
- stoop and roop adverb: Completely.
- stoop ball noun: Alternative spelling of stoopball.
- stoop labor noun: labor regularly performed in a stooped or squatting position; usually referring to agricultural labor involving the planting, cultivation or harvesting of...
- stoop work noun: Alternative form of stoopwork.
- stoopball noun: A game played by bouncing a ball off a step or stoop.
- stooped adjective, verb /stuːpt/: in a bent bodily position, hunched
- stooper noun: A person who stoops.
- stoopid adjective: Eye dialect spelling of stupid, used as an emphatic form of the word.
- stooping adjective, noun, verb /ˈstuːpɪŋ/: Bending the body forward in a submissive or weak manner.
- stoopingly adverb: With a stooping posture.
- stoopless adjective: Not requiring the worker to stoop from a standing position.
- stoopwork noun: Unskilled agricultural labor that involves stooping to reach low-growing plants.
- stoopy adjective: Prone to stooping or being bent.
- stoor adjective, noun, verb /stɔː/: To move; stir.
- stoor worm noun: A giant sea serpent or sea dragon in Orcadian folklore, which had putrid breath, probably an Orkney version of Jörmungandr.
- stoorworm noun: Alternative form of stoor worm.
- stoory adjective: dusty
- stoosh adjective: Alternative form of stush
- stooshie noun: The disruption caused by a disagreement or misunderstanding.
- stooze verb: To borrow money at low to no interest for the purpose of making a profit by depositing it for higher interest.
- stoozer noun: A person who makes a profit by stoozing.
- stoozing noun, verb: A form of arbitrage in which money is borrowed at an interest rate of 0% and invested elsewhere to make a profit until the borrowing period ends.
- stop noun, punct, verb /stɒp/: To cease moving.
- stop a bullet verb: To be shot; to receive a bullet in one's body.
- stop-action noun: A film technique in which still frames depicting successive positions are displayed to create the illusion of movement.
- stop and chop noun: A phacoemulsification technique in which the nucleus is grooved and divided into halves (divide and conquer) before being chopped.
- stop and frisk adjective, noun: Synonym of stop-and-search.
- stop-and-go adjective, noun: Alternative form of stop-go.
- stop and go light noun: A stoplight.
- stop-and-go penalty noun: A type of in-race penalty sanction against a driver or a team for in-race infractions, which results in a driver having to leave the track and make a pit...
- stop and run noun: Eighty-one.
- stop and search adjective, noun: Of or pertaining to laws or policing practices, found in some jurisdictions, which permit a law enforcement officer to temporarily detain and search a...
- stop and smell the flowers verb: Alternative form of stop and smell the roses.
- stop and smell the roses verb: To relax; to take time out of one's busy schedule to enjoy or appreciate the beauty of life.
- stop at nothing verb: To take any measures to do or achieve something, especially if it involves great risk or danger; to do everything in one's power.
- stop bar noun: A transverse road marking indicating the point at which a vehicle must stop.
- stop bead noun: The moulding screwed to the inner side of a window frame, on the face of the pulley stile, completing the groove in which the inner sash is to slide.
- stop board noun: Alternative form of stopboard.
- stop by verb: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see stop, by.
- stop clock noun: Synonym of stopwatch.
- stop cock noun: Alternative form of stopcock.
- stop codon noun: a sequence of three RNA nucleotides (A, C, G or U) that instruct the synthesis, or translation, of a protein to stop. The three-letter stop codon sequences...
- stop cold verb: To halt suddenly and completely.
- stop dead verb: To stop suddenly.
- stop down verb: To decrease the aperture of a photographic lens, moving from an f/stop represented by a lower number to an f/stop represented by a higher number.
- stop, drop and roll noun: A safety technique to be used by a person who is on fire: halting one's movements, dropping to the ground, then rolling.
- stop error noun: Synonym of blue screen of death.
- stop-gap adjective, noun, verb: Alternative form of stopgap.
- stop-go adjective, noun: Alternately active and inactive; intermittent.
- stop-go animation noun: The stop-motion animation technique.
- stop-go sign noun: A semaphore-like signalling device positioned at a road intersection or pedestrian crossing to indicate when to drive, ride or walk, similar in purpose to a...
- stop in verb: To make a brief visit to a place while passing.
- stop into verb /stɑp ˈɪntu/: To briefly visit.
- stop it interjection, verb: Tells the listener to stop doing something, often an annoying but harmless activity aimed at the speaker.
- stop lamp noun: A brake light.
- stop lead verb: To be killed by a bullet from a gun.
- stop light noun: Alternative form of stoplight.
- stop line noun: A transverse road marking indicating the point at which a vehicle must stop.
- stop list noun: A list of words or other data items which, for some special reason, should be ignored or bypassed by a particular data processing operation.
- stop log noun: Alternative form of stoplog.
- stop loss noun: A requirement for soldiers to remain in service beyond their normal discharge date.
- stop loss order noun: A conditional order placed with a stockbroker (or similar) to close one's position if the market drops (or rises in some cases) to a specified price level.
- stop motion noun: An animation technique wherein physical objects are slightly altered and photographed one picture at a time to give an illusion of movement when displayed...
- stop off noun, verb: To make a short visit somewhere, on the way to another place, either same-day or overnight.
- stop order noun: Synonym of stop loss order.
- stop out verb: To use an acid-resistant liquid (stopout) to cover the parts of a surface that should not be bitten.
- stop over noun, verb: To interrupt one's journey for a short (sometimes overnight) stay.
- stop payment noun: An official request made by a bank account holder to their financial institution instructing them to cancel a check or automatic debit before it is processed.
- stop-phrase noun: A phrase consisting of one or more words, usually in a series, that is ignored by a search engine.
- stop plank noun: Any of a set of planks used to form a sort of dam in certain hydraulic works, particularly in canals as a temporary measure following a major leak.
- stop press noun, verb: An event or news article important enough to delay or interrupt the print, or require a reprint, of a publication, particularly of a newspaper edition.
- stop set noun: A break in broadcasting for announcements and advertising.
- stop short verb: To come to a sudden and unexpected stop, particularly while speaking or driving a vehicle.
- stop sign noun: A sign by the side of a road or street, often at an intersection, instructing vehicle drivers to stop.
- stop someone in their tracks verb: To prevent someone from continuing along a path or way, literal or figurative, he has begun going along.
- stop someone's clock verb: To kill someone.
- stop squark noun: A squark which is the hypothetical supersymmetric partner of a top quark.
- stop-start adjective: Intermittent; starting and stopping with regularity.
- stop street noun: Alternative form of stopstreet.
- stop-tap noun: A stopcock.
- stop the bleeding verb: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see stop, the, bleeding.
- stop the car phrase: When giving directions to a person (for example, a taxi driver), indicates that he or she should stop the vehicle.
- stop the job verb: To completely stop all traffic.
- stop the lights interjection: An interjection expressing exasperation or incredulity. or to illustrate the humour in a situation.
- stop the presses verb: An exclamation used to introduce especially new, important, surprising, or recent developments.
- stop thief interjection: Used to call attention to the fact that one is being robbed and to request aid in stopping the thief.
- stop thrust noun: coup d'arret
- stop-time noun: An accompaniment pattern interrupting, or stopping, the normal time and featuring regular accented attacks on the first beat of each or every other measure,...
- stop to smell the roses verb: Alternative form of stop and smell the roses.
- stop traffic verb: To attract astonished admiration, especially by being stunningly physically attractive.
- stop two gaps with one bush verb: Synonym of kill two birds with one stone.
- stop up verb: To fill a hole or cavity, or block (an opening or passage), as with a plug.
- stop valve noun: A valve that may be turned to regulate the flow of fluid through a pipe (especially water through a mains supply)
- stop word noun: A word, usually one of a series in a stop list, that is ignored when searches are conducted on a database, search engine, etc.
- stop-work noun: Temporary cessation of labor as a form of protest.
- Stopa proper noun: A surname from Polish.
- stopband noun: A band of frequencies in which an electronic filter will not let signals pass through.
- stopbank noun: levee, dyke
- stopblock noun: An obstruction placed at the end of a railway track to prevent rail vehicles from going any further.
- stopboard noun: A toeboard.
- stopcheck noun: Synonym of checkstop (“type of valve”).
- stopclock noun: Alternative form of stop clock.
- stopcock noun, verb /ˈstɑpkɑk/: A valve, tap or faucet which regulates the flow of liquid or gas through a pipe.
- stopcocked adjective, verb: Fitted with a stopcock.
- stopcodon noun: Alternative form of stop codon.
- stope noun, verb [stoʊp]: A mining excavation in the form of a terrace of steps.
- stoper noun: A kind of drill for excavating stopes.
- stoperator noun: An operator in a genome that stops transcription
- Stopford proper noun: A surname.
- Stopfordian adjective, noun: An inhabitant of Stockport.
- stopgap adjective, noun, verb /ˈstɒpɡæp/: That which stops up or fills a gap or hole.
- stoping noun: The removal of the desired ore from an underground mine, leaving behind an open space known as a stope.
- stopless adjective: Without a stop.
- stoplessly adverb: In a stopless manner.
- stoplessness noun: Absence of stop or stoppage.
- stoplight noun: A traffic control signal, traditionally consisting of three lights, colored green, yellow/amber, and red, meaning proceed, prepare to stop, and stop,...
- stoplist noun: Alternative spelling of stop list.
- stoplog noun: A multi-piece barrier used to close an opening, such as across a gate or channel, that is dropped into groves on the two sides of the opening.
- stopmo noun: Abbreviation of stop motion.
- stopoff noun: A short visit somewhere, on the way to another place.
- stoponium noun: A hypothetical bound state of a superpartner of the top quark in some supersymmetric theories.
- stopout noun: A student who leaves an academic institution but later returns to continue studying.
- stopover noun /ˈstɒpˌəʊvə/: A short interruption in a journey or the place visited during such an interruption.
- Stopp proper noun: A surname from German.
- stoppability noun: The quality of being stoppable.
- stoppable adjective: Capable of being stopped.
- stoppage noun: A pause or halt of some activity.
- stoppage time noun: Additional time added to the end of a match, or period of a match, in order to compensate for time lost due to any stoppages of play.
- stoppages noun: plural of stoppage
- stoppaniite noun: A hexagonal-dihexagonal dipyramidal light blue mineral containing aluminum, beryllium, hydrogen, iron, magnesium, oxygen, silicon, and sodium.
- Stoppard proper noun /ˈstɒ.pəɹd/: A surname.
- Stoppardesque adjective: Reminiscent of the works of Czech–English playwright Tom Stoppard.
- Stoppardian adjective /stɒˈpɑː.dɪ.ən/: Pertaining to, or similar in style to, Czech–English playwright Tom Stoppard.
- stopped adjective, verb /stɒpt/: Not moving, but not properly parked or berthed; said also of the occupants of such a vehicle.
- stopped pipe noun: A pipe organ tube with a uniform diameter, one closed end and one open end.
- stoppedness noun: The quality of being stopped.
- stopper noun, verb /ˈstɒp.ə/: Someone or something that stops something.
- stopper cover noun: A cover put over a fire alarm pull station used to prevent accidental or intentional false pulls.
- stopper knot noun: A knot placed in a rope either to prevent the end from fraying, or to prevent it from passing through a hole.
- stoppered adjective, verb: Fitted with a stopper
- stopperless adjective: Lacking a stopper.
- stopperman noun: A man employed to make, repair or fit stoppers.
- stoppie noun: An endo.
- stoppin' verb /ˈstɑpɪn/: Pronunciation spelling of stopping.
- stopping noun, verb /ˈstɒpɪŋ/: The act of something that stops; a halt.
- stopping distance noun: The distance that is the sum of the thinking distance and the braking distance.
- stopping out noun, verb: An etching technique used to keep the acid from those parts which are already sufficiently corroded by applying varnish or other covering matter with a...
- stopping power noun: The ability of a weapon (typically a firearm or other ranged weapon) to rapidly incapacitate or immobilize a target.
- stopping service noun: A train service operated by a stopping train.
- stopping time noun: A random variable representing the time required for a stochastic process to satisfy a certain condition, which must be determined using only information...
- stopping train noun: A passenger train that stops at most, if not all, of the stations on the route in the course of its journey.
- stoppingly adverb: In a way that causes something to stop.
- stoppit interjection: Eye dialect spelling of stop it.
- stopple noun, verb /ˈstɒpəl/: A plug; a stopper.
- stopsign noun: Alternative form of stop sign.
- stopstreet noun: An intersection having one or more stop signs; a stop intersection
- stopwatch noun, verb: A timepiece designed to measure the amount of time elapsed between a particular time when activated and when the piece is deactivated.
- stopway noun: A piece of land extending beyond the runway for use in case of an aborted takeoff.
- stopword noun: Alternative form of stop word.
- stopwork noun: Alternative form of stop-work.
- stoquastic adjective /stəˈkwæstɪk/: Of a Hermitian matrix, having real non-positive off-diagonal elements. These matrices have elements of quantum mechanics and classical theory of stochastic...
- storability noun: The property of being storable.
- storable adjective, noun: Able to be stored (without degradation).
- storably adverb: In a storable manner.
- storage noun, verb /ˈstɔː.ɹɪd͡ʒ/: The act of storing goods; the state of being stored.
- storage area network noun: A computer network which provides access to consolidated, block-level data storage.
- storage battery noun: A rechargeable battery.
- storage cell noun: A rechargeable battery.
- storage device noun: A piece of hardware whose main function is to store data.
- storage drive noun: Synonym of storage device
- storage engine noun: Synonym of database engine.
- storage heater noun: An electrical heater which stores thermal energy during the evening or at night when electricity is available at lower cost, and releases the heat during...
- storage hypervisor noun: A hardware-independent supervisory software program that operates as a transparent virtual layer across consolidated disk pools providing centrally managed...
- storage life noun: Synonym of shelf life.
- storage location noun: A specific place where data elements are stored and written, usually specifiable by an address.
- storage medium noun: Any hardware, such as a disk or tape, used to store data.
- storage organ noun: A part of a plant, such as a bulb, specifically modified for storage of energy (generally in the form of carbohydrates) or of water.
- storage polysaccharide noun: Any polysaccharide that serves to store energy in plants (typically starch) or animals (typically glycogen)
- storage power station noun: A power station that generates a store of power when power is available from other sources, and releases it to the network when needed (normally by pumping...
- storage protein noun: Any of many proteins, found especially in seeds, that act as reservoirs of amino acids and metal ions that are needed by growing organisms
- storage ring noun: A type of circular particle accelerator in which a continuous or pulsed particle beam may be kept circulating, typically for many hours.
- storage station noun: A facility or system designed to store electrical energy for later use.
- storage time noun: The total amount of time that a product spends in materials storage, in inventory that is in-process, or in an inventory of finished goods.
- storage tube noun: A class of a cathode ray tube that is designed to hold an image for a long period of time, typically as long as power is supplied to the tube.
- storage tuber noun: A modified, thickened plant stem or root that serves as an organ for storing nutrients to support the plant's survival during harsh conditions.
- storage unit noun: A space or compartment, usually rented, that is used to store personal or business items.
- storage wall noun: A floor-to-ceiling cupboard that is designed to house a variety of objects or files in an office.
- storagewall noun: Alternative form of storage wall.
- storativity noun: The volume of water released from storage per unit decline in hydraulic head in a confined aquifer, per unit area of the aquifer.
- storax noun: Any member of the genus Styrax of about 130 species of large shrubs or small trees, mostly native to temperate or tropical regions of the Northern Hemisphere.
- Storch proper noun: A surname from German.
- Storck proper noun: A surname.
- store noun, verb /stɔː/: A place where items may be accumulated or routinely kept.
- store and forward noun: The technique of having information sent to an intermediate station where it is kept and later relayed to its destination.
- store away verb: To keep a supply of something, in a place or container.
- store-bought adjective /stoɹ bɔt/: Synonym of shop-bought.
- store-boughten adjective: store-bought; shop-bought
- store brand noun: Synonym of own brand.
- store card noun: Alternative form of storecard.
- store cheese noun: Synonym of American cheese.
- store cupboard noun: A cupboard in which food ingredients are stored prior to cooking
- store detective noun: A person employed in a shop to detect and prevent shoplifting.
- store farm noun: A stock farm; a cattle farm.
- store-goer noun: Alternative form of storegoer.
- store manager noun: The manager who is directly responsible for a store.
- store of value noun: An asset such as money or gold that is purchased or accepted as payment for goods and services for its ability to purchase other assets in the future...
- store picking noun: Synonym of in-store picking.
- store-room noun: Dated form of storeroom.
- store up verb: To build up a supply of (something), usually for use at a particular time in the future, when the time is right.
- store window noun: Synonym of display window.
- storeback noun: The back of a store or shop.
- storebought adjective: Purchased from a store, rather than cooked or prepared manually.
- storecard noun: A membership card or a credit card, offered by a retailer, that gives discounts or benefits when shopping at the retailer's stores.
- storecasting noun: The broadcast on public radio of background music for shops/stores.
- storecupboard noun: Alternative form of store cupboard.
- stored procedure noun: A named program or routine stored in a database.
- stored-value card noun: A payment card with a monetary value stored on the card itself, not in an external account maintained by a financial institution.
- storeen noun: Darling.
- storefront noun: The side of a store (or other shop) which faces the street and usually contains display windows.
- storefront church noun: A church housed in a storefront or strip mall building that formerly had a commercial purpose.
- storeful noun: An amount that fills a store.
- storegoer noun: One who shops at the store; a person who shops frequently.
- storehouse noun, verb /ˈstɔː(ɹ)haʊs/: A building for keeping goods of any kind, especially provisions.
- storehouse beetle noun: A spider beetle of species Gibbium psylloides.
- storehouseman noun: Synonym of storeman.
- storekeep noun: A storekeeper.
- storekeeper noun: One who runs a shop, either the owner or manager.
- storekeeping noun: The work of a storekeeper, looking after a shop.
- storeless adjective: Without any stores; shopless.
- storelike adjective: Resembling or characteristic of a store; shoplike.
- storeman noun: A warehouseman.
- storeowner noun: A person who owns a store (or shop); a shopowner.
- storer noun: One who lays up or forms a store.
- storeroom noun: A room used for storage.
- stores ship noun: Alternative form of storeship.
- storeship noun: A vessel used to carry naval stores.
- storesman noun: Synonym of storeman.
- storeward adverb: Toward a store.
- storewards adverb: Towards a store.
- storewide adjective, adverb: Existing or applying throughout a store or store chain.
- storewoman noun: A warehousewoman.
- storeworker noun: A person who works in a store.
- storey noun /ˈstɔː.ɹɪ/: A floor or level of a building or ship.
- storeyard noun: A yard used for storage.
- storeyed adjective: Alternative spelling of storied (“US spelling”) (having the stated number of storeys (building levels)).
- storge noun /ˈstɔːɡi/: Natural affection or love, especially of parents for their children.
- storial adjective /ˈstɔːɹɪ.əl/: Synonym of historical.
- storiated adjective /ˈstɔːɹɪeɪtɪd/: Decorated with storiation.
- storiation noun /stɔːɹɪˈeɪʃən/: A decoration with scenes telling a story, usually from history or mythology.
- storied adjective, verb /ˈstɔːɹid/: Much discussed or written about.
- storier noun: A teller of stories; a historian.
- storiette noun: Alternative form of storyette.
- storification noun: The process of storifying (narrating or describing in a story).
- storiform adjective: In the shape of a cartwheel.
- storify verb: To form or tell stories of; to narrate or describe in a story.
- storiless adjective: Alternative form of storyless.
- storin noun: Alternative form of storeen.
- storing noun, verb: An amount stored.
- storiological adjective: Relating to storiology.
- storiologist noun: One who studies folk tales.
- storiology noun: The study of folk tales.
- stork noun /stɔɹk/: A large wading bird with long legs and a long beak of the order Ciconiiformes and its family Ciconiidae.
- stork-billed adjective: Having a large pointed beak that resembles the beak of a stork.
- stork bite noun: nevus flammeus nuchae
- storkish adjective: Resembling or characteristic of a stork (the bird).
- storklike adjective: Resembling or characteristic of a stork.
- storkling noun /ˈstɔɹklɪŋ/: The young of a stork.
- storksbill noun: Any plant of genus Pelargonium.
- storkwise adverb: In the manner of a stork.
- storky adjective: resembling a stork
- storm noun, verb /stɔːm/: Any disturbed state of the atmosphere causing destructive or unpleasant weather, especially one affecting the earth's surface involving strong winds...
- storm and stress noun: Synonym of Sturm und Drang.
- storm beach noun: A beach affected by particularly fierce ocean waves, usually having a very long fetch.
- storm-bird noun: The storm petrel.
- storm-blast noun: A sudden, violent gust of wind or a localized, highly forceful storm.
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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.