5 Letter Words That Start With ST

stoic

Noun : (philosophy) Proponent of stoicism, a school of thought, from in 300 B.C.E. up to about the time of Marcus Aurelius, who holds that by cultivating an understanding of the logos, or natural law, one can be free of suffering.

Noun : A person indifferent to pleasure or pain.

Adjective : Of or relating to the Stoics or their ideas.

stark

Adjective : (obsolete) Hard, firm; obdurate.

Adjective : Severe; violent; fierce (now usually in describing the weather).

Adjective : (poetic, literary or archaic) Strong; vigorous; powerful.

state

Noun : A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time.

Noun : (physics) A complete description of a system, consisting of parameters that determine all properties of the system.

Noun : (colloquial, in the singular) A mess; disorder; a bad condition or set of circumstances.

stern

Adjective : Having a hardness and severity of nature or manner.

Adjective : Grim and forbidding in appearance.

Noun : (nautical) The rear part or after end of a ship or vessel.

stout

Adjective : (of a person) Large; bulky.

Adjective : (obsolete) Bold, strong-minded.

Adjective : (obsolete) Proud; haughty.

stiff

Adjective : (of an object) Rigid; hard to bend; inflexible.

Adjective : (figurative, of policies and rules and their application and enforcement) Inflexible; rigid.

Adjective : (of a person) Formal in behavior; unrelaxed.

still

Adjective : Not moving; calm.

Adjective : Not effervescing; not sparkling.

Adjective : Uttering no sound; silent.

stock

Noun : A store or supply.

Noun : (operations) A store of goods ready for sale; inventory.

Noun : A supply of anything, stored until used; especially, such a supply that is ready for use.

staid

Adjective : Not capricious or impulsive; sedate, serious, sober.

Adjective : (rare) Always fixed in the same location; stationary.

Verb : Obsolete spelling of stayed.

stale

Adjective : (alcoholic beverages, obsolete) Clear, free of dregs and lees; old and strong.

Adjective : No longer fresh, in reference to food, urine, straw, wounds, etc.

Adjective : No longer fresh, new, or interesting, in reference to ideas and immaterial things; clichéd, hackneyed, dated.

stare

Verb : (intransitive, followed by "at") To look fixedly (at something).

Verb : (transitive) To influence in some way by looking fixedly.

Verb : (intransitive) To be very conspicuous on account of size, prominence, colour, or brilliancy.

stoop

Noun : A stooping, bent position of the body.

Noun : An accelerated descent in flight, as that for an attack.

Verb : To bend the upper part of the body forward and downward to a half-squatting position; crouch.

stall

Noun : (countable) A compartment for a single animal in a stable or cattle shed.

Noun : A stable; a place for cattle.

Noun : A bench or table on which small articles of merchandise are exposed for sale.

strut

Verb : (intransitive) Of a peacock or other fowl: to stand or walk stiffly, with the tail erect and spread out.

Verb : (intransitive, by extension, also figuratively) To walk haughtily or proudly with one's head held high.

Verb : (transitive, by extension) To walk across or on (a stage or other place) haughtily or proudly.

study

Verb : (usually academic, transitive, intransitive) To review materials already learned in order to make sure one does not forget them, usually in preparation for an examination.

Verb : (academic, transitive) To take a course or courses on a subject.

Verb : (transitive) To acquire knowledge on a subject with the intention of applying it in practice.

stave

Noun : One of a number of narrow strips of wood, or narrow iron plates, placed edge to edge to form the sides, covering, or lining of a vessel or structure; especially, one of the strips which form the sides of a cask, barrel, pail, etc.

Noun : One of the bars or rounds of a rack, rungs of a ladder, etc; one of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel

Noun : (poetry) A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.

stour

Adjective : (now rare outside dialects) Tall; large; stout.

Adjective : (now rare outside dialects) Strong; powerful; hardy; robust; sturdy.

Adjective : (now rare outside dialects) Bold; audacious.

storm

Noun : Any disturbed state of the atmosphere causing destructive or unpleasant weather, especially one affecting the earth's surface involving strong winds (leading to high waves at sea) and usually lightning, thunder, and precipitation; a tempest.

Noun : (by extension) A heavy fall of precipitation (hail, rain, or snow) or bout of lightning and thunder without strong winds; a hail storm, rainstorm, snowstorm, or thunderstorm.

Noun : (by extension) Synonym of cyclone (“a weather phenomenon consisting of a system of winds rotating around a centre of low atmospheric pressure”)

stalk

Noun : The stem or main axis of a plant.

Noun : The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle of a plant.

Noun : Something resembling the stalk of a plant, such as the stem of a quill.

stage

Noun : A phase.

Noun : (by extension) One of the portions of a device (such as a rocket or thermonuclear weapon) which are used or activated in a particular order, one after another.

Noun : (theater) A platform; a surface, generally elevated, upon which show performances or other public events are given.

steer

Verb : (intransitive) To guide the course of a vessel, vehicle, aircraft etc. (by means of a device such as a rudder, paddle, or steering wheel).

Verb : (transitive) To guide the course of a vessel, vehicle, aircraft etc. (by means of a device such as a rudder, paddle, or steering wheel).

Verb : (intransitive) To be directed and governed; to take a direction, or course; to obey the helm.

stone

Noun : (uncountable, geology) A hard earthen substance that can form rocks.

Noun : (countable, geology) A piece of such material: a rock or a pebble.

Noun : A gemstone, a jewel, especially a diamond.

steel

Noun : (countable, uncountable) An artificial metal produced from iron, harder and more elastic than elemental iron; used figuratively as a symbol of hardness.

Noun : (countable) Any item made of this metal, particularly including:

Noun : Bladed or pointed weapons, as swords, javelins, daggers.

stand

Verb : To position or be positioned physically:

Verb : (intransitive, copulative) To support oneself on the feet in an erect position.

Verb : (intransitive) To rise to one’s feet; to stand up.

sting

Noun : A bump left on the skin after having been stung.

Noun : A puncture made by an insect or arachnid in an attack, usually including the injection of venom.

Noun : A pointed portion of an insect or arachnid used for attack.

start

Noun : The beginning of an activity.

Noun : A sudden involuntary movement.

Noun : The beginning point of a race, a board game, etc.

stony

Adjective : As hard as stone.

Adjective : Containing or made up of stones.

Adjective : (figuratively, of a person) Lacking warmth and emotion.

stick

Noun : An elongated piece of wood or similar material, typically put to some use, for example as a wand or baton.

Noun : A small, thin branch from a tree or bush; a twig; a branch.

Noun : A relatively long, thin piece of wood, of any size.

stray

Noun : Any domestic animal that lacks an enclosure, proper place, or company, but that instead wanders at large or is lost; an estray.

Noun : A person who is lost, either literally or figuratively.

Noun : An act of wandering off or going astray.

stead

Noun : (archaic or literary) A place, or spot, in general; location.

Noun : (obsolete) A place where a person normally rests; a seat.

Noun : (obsolete) An inhabited place; a settlement, city, town etc.

style

Noun : Senses relating to a thin, pointed object.

Noun : (historical) A sharp stick used for writing on clay tablets or other surfaces; a stylus; (by extension, obsolete) an instrument used to write with ink; a pen.

Noun : A tool with a sharp point used in engraving; a burin, a graver, a stylet, a stylus.

stuff

Noun : (informal) Miscellaneous items or objects; (with possessive) personal effects.

Noun : (obsolete, uncountable) Furniture; goods; domestic vessels or utensils.

Noun : (informal) Unspecified things or matters.

steep

Adjective : Of a near-vertical gradient; of a slope, surface, curve, etc. that proceeds upward at an angle near vertical.

Adjective : (informal) expensive

Adjective : (obsolete) Difficult to access; not easy reached; lofty; elevated; high.

stria

Noun : A stripe, usually one of a set of parallel stripes.

Noun : (architecture) One of the fillets between the flutes of columns, etc.

Noun : A stretch mark.

staff

Noun : (plural staffs or staves) A long, straight, thick wooden rod or stick, especially one used to assist in walking.

Noun : (music, plural staffs or staves) A series of horizontal lines on which musical notes are written; a stave.

Noun : (uncountable) A mixture of plaster and fibre used as a temporary exterior wall covering.ᵂ

stake

Noun : 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.

Noun : (croquet) A piece of wood driven in the ground, placed in the middle of the court, that is used as the finishing point after scoring 12 hoops in croquet.

Noun : A stick or similar object (e.g., steel channel or angle stock) inserted upright in a lop, eye, or mortise, at the side or end of a cart, flat car, flatbed trailer, or the like, to prevent goods from falling off; often connected in a grid forming a stakebody.

strap

Noun : A long, narrow, pliable strip of leather, cloth, or the like.

Noun : A strap worn on the shoulder.

Noun : A strip of thick leather used in flogging.

strip

Noun : (countable) A long, thin piece of land; any long, thin area.

Noun : (usually countable, sometimes uncountable) A long, thin piece of any material; any such material collectively.

Noun : A comic strip.

story

Noun : An account of real or fictional events.

Noun : A lie, fiction.

Noun : (US, colloquial, usually pluralized) A soap opera.

stomp

Verb : (ambitransitive) To trample heavily.

Verb : (transitive, slang) To severely beat someone physically or figuratively.

Verb : (transitive, gaming) To completely defeat or overwhelm an enemy, to win by a large lead over someone

stele

Noun : (archaeology) An upright (or formerly upright) slab containing engraved or painted decorations or inscriptions; a stela.

Noun : (archaeology, uncommon) Any carved or engraved surface.

Noun : (architecture, archaeology, obsolete) An acroterion, the decoration on the ridge of an ancient Greek building such as a temple.

stuck

Adjective : Unable to move.

Adjective : Unable to progress with a task.

Adjective : No longer functioning, frozen up, frozen.

steps

Noun : a course followed by a person in walking or as walking

Noun : a flight of stairs, especially out of doors

Noun : (British) stepladder

stamp

Noun : An act of stamping the foot, paw or hoof.

Noun : An indentation, imprint, or mark made by stamping.

Noun : A device for imprinting designs.

stain

Noun : A discolored spot or area caused by spillage or other contact with certain fluids or substances.

Noun : A blemish on one's character or reputation.

Noun : A substance used to soak into a surface and colour it.

stash

Noun : (countable) A collection, sometimes hidden; a reserve.

Noun : (countable, US, slang, informal, African-American Vernacular) A place where drugs are stored.

Noun : (uncountable, UK, slang) Clothing or other items branded with a particular university club or society's logo.

stilt

Noun : Either of two poles with footrests that allow someone to stand or walk above the ground; used mostly by entertainers.

Noun : A tall pillar or post used to support some structure; often above water.

Noun : Any of various wading birds of the genera Himantopus and Cladorhynchus, related to the avocet, that have extremely long legs and long thin bills.

stade

Noun : (historical) Synonym of stadion: a former Greek unit of distance (variously 150–210 m at different places and times).

Noun : (dated) A track for footraces and its surrounding stadium.

Noun : A stage of progress

stime

Noun : (UK, dialect) A slight gleam or glimmer; a glimpse.

stack

Noun : (heading) A pile.

Noun : A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, larger at the bottom than the top, sometimes covered with thatch.

Noun : A pile of similar objects, each directly on top of the last.

strew

Verb : (dated, except strewn) To distribute objects or pieces of something over an area, especially in a random manner.

Verb : (archaic) To cover, or lie upon, by having been scattered.

Verb : (transitive, archaic) To spread abroad; to disseminate.

stymy

Noun : Alternative spelling of stymie [(golf) A situation where an opponent's ball is directly in the way of one's own ball and the hole, on the putting green (abolished 1952).]

Verb : Alternative spelling of stymie [To thwart or stump; to cause to fail or to leave hopelessly puzzled, confused, or stuck.]

straw

Noun : (countable) A dried stalk of a cereal plant.

Noun : (uncountable) Such dried stalks considered collectively; this bulk matter may be a chief salable product, a by-product, fodder, bedding, or green manure, depending on region and on current market conditions.

Noun : (countable) A drinking straw.

stell

Verb : (transitive, UK dialectal, Scotland) To place in position; set up, fix, plant; prop, mount.

Verb : (transitive, obsolete) To portray; delineate; display.

Noun : (archaic) A place; station.

steam

Noun : The hot gaseous form of water, formed when water changes from the liquid phase to the gas phase (at or above its boiling point temperature).

Noun : The suspended condensate (cloud) formed by water vapour when it encounters colder air

Noun : mist, fog

steal

Verb : (transitive) To take illegally, or without the owner's permission, something owned by someone else without intending to return it.

Verb : (transitive, of ideas, words, music, a look, credit, etc.) To appropriate without giving credit or acknowledgement.

Verb : (transitive) To get or effect surreptitiously or artfully.

store

Noun : A place where items may be accumulated or routinely kept.

Noun : A supply held in storage.

Noun : (mainly North American) A place where items may be purchased; a shop.

stool

Noun : A seat, especially for one person and without armrests.

Noun : A seat for one person without a back or armrests.

Noun : A footstool.

stoke

Verb : (transitive, obsolete) To poke, pierce, thrust.

Noun : An act of poking, piercing, thrusting

Verb : (transitive) To feed, stir up, especially, a fire or furnace.

stung

Adjective : feeling sharp psychological pai

steed

Noun : (archaic, poetic) A stallion, especially in the sense of mount.

Noun : (cycling, slang, humorous) A bicycle.

Noun : A surname.

steem

Noun : (obsolete) A gleam of light; a flame.

Noun : (obsolete) Value.

Verb : (obsolete) To value, esteem.

stump

Noun : The remains of something that has been cut off; especially the remains of a tree, the remains of a limb.

Noun : (politics) The place or occasion at which a campaign takes place; the husting.

Noun : (figurative) A place or occasion at which a person harangues or otherwise addresses a group in a manner suggesting political oration.

stile

Noun : A set of one or more steps surmounting a fence or wall, or a narrow gate or contrived passage through a fence or wall, which in either case allows people but not livestock to pass.

Noun : A vertical component of a frame or panel, such as that of a door, window, or ladder.

Noun : Obsolete form of style. [Senses relating to a thin, pointed object.]

strum

Verb : (ambitransitive) To play (a guitar or other stringed instrument) by plucking various strings simultaneously.

Noun : The sound made by playing various strings of a stringed instrument simultaneously.

Noun : The act of strumming.

strop

Noun : A strap; more specifically a piece of leather or a substitute (notably canvas), or strip of wood covered with a suitable material, for honing a razor.

Noun : (nautical) A piece of rope spliced into a circular wreath, and put round a block for hanging it.

Verb : To hone (a razor or knife) with a strop.

stipe

Noun : The stem of a mushroom, kelp, etc.

Noun : The trunk of a tree.

Noun : The caudicle within the pollinarium of an orchid flower

strix

Noun : (mythology) A bird-like demon feeding on human flesh and blood.

stroy

Verb : (obsolete) To destroy.

stean

Noun : A vessel made of clay or stone; a pot of stone or earth.

Noun : A wall of brick, stone, or cement, used as a lining, as of a well, cistern, etc.; a steening.

Noun : (UK, dialectal) A stone.

strig

Noun : (botany) A pedicel or footstalk, especially of a flowering or fruit-bearing plant, such as the currant.

Noun : The tang of a sword-blade.

Noun : (UK dialectal) The string of a button.

stove

Noun : A heater, a closed apparatus to burn fuel for the warming of a room.

Noun : A device for heating food, (UK) a cooker.

Noun : A stovetop, with hotplates.

stunt

Noun : A daring or dangerous feat, often involving the display of gymnastic skills.

Noun : (archaic) A skill.

Noun : (American football) A special means of rushing the quarterback done to confuse the opposing team's offensive line.

staph

Noun : Staphylococcus bacteria and the infection it causes.

stoor

Verb : (intransitive, UK dialectal) To move; stir.

Verb : (intransitive, UK dialectal) To move actively; keep stirring.

Verb : (intransitive, UK dialectal) To rise up in clouds, as smoke, dust, etc.

stola

Noun : (historical) The traditional garment of women in Ancient Rome, corresponding to the toga worn by men.

Noun : A chorister's surplice.

stive

Noun : The floating dust in a flour mill caused by the operation of grinding.

Verb : (UK, dialect, transitive, intransitive) To stew; to be stifled or suffocated.

Verb : (transitive) Sometimes with up: to compress (something); to cram.

stear

Noun : A surname.

Verb : Obsolete form of steer. [(intransitive) To guide the course of a vessel, vehicle, aircraft etc. (by means of a device such as a rudder, paddle, or steering wheel).]

stend

Verb : (UK, dialect, archaic, intransitive) To rear or leap.

Verb : (UK, dialect, archaic, intransitive) To walk with long strides.

Noun : (UK, dialect, archaic) A leap.

stoma

Noun : (botany) One of the tiny pores in the epidermis of a leaf or stem through which gases and water vapor pass.

Noun : (medicine) A small opening in a membrane; a surgically constructed opening, especially one in the abdominal wall that permits the passage of waste after a colostomy or ileostomy.

Noun : (zoology) A mouthlike opening, such as the oral cavity of a nematode.

stole

Noun : A garment consisting of a decorated band worn on the back of the neck, each end hanging over the chest, worn in ecclesiastical settings or sometimes as a part of graduation dress.

Noun : A scarf-like garment, often made of fur.

Noun : (botany) A stolon.

stein

Noun : A beer mug, usually made of ceramic or glass.

Noun : A surname originating as a patronymic from a Scots diminutive of Stephen.

Noun : A surname from German Stein.

stint

Verb : (archaic, intransitive) To stop (an action); cease, desist.

Verb : (obsolete, intransitive) To stop speaking or talking (of a subject).

Verb : (intransitive) To be sparing or mean.

stood

Verb : To position or be positioned physically:

Verb : (intransitive, copulative) To support oneself on the feet in an erect position.

Verb : (intransitive) To rise to one’s feet; to stand up.

steve

Noun : A diminutive of the male given name Steven and Stephen; also used as a formal male given name.

Noun : A diminutive of the female given name Stephanie.

Verb : To pack or stow, as cargo in a ship's hold.

strid

Noun : (UK, Northern England, dated) A narrow passage between a gorge or chasm.

stirs

Verb : (transitive) To disturb the relative position of the particles (of a liquid or similar) by passing an object through it.

Verb : (transitive) To disturb the content of (a container) by passing an object through it.

Verb : (transitive) To emotionally affect; to touch, to move.

stong

Noun : (Lincolnshire, obsolete or historical) An area of land equivalent to a quarter of an acre; a rood; a stang.

Noun : A surname.

stype

Noun : Obsolete spelling of stipe. [The stem of a mushroom, kelp, etc.]

styed

Adjective : Enclosed in a sty.

stink

Verb : (intransitive) To have a strong bad smell.

Verb : (intransitive, stative, informal) To be greatly inferior; to perform badly.

Verb : (intransitive) To give an impression of dishonesty, untruth, or sin.

stair

Noun : A single step in a staircase.

Noun : A series of steps; a staircase.

Noun : A surname.

steak

Noun : beefsteak, a slice of beef, broiled or cut for broiling.

Noun : (by extension) A relatively large, thick slice or slab cut from another animal, a vegetable, etc.

Noun : A slice of meat cut across the grain (perpendicular to the spine) from a fish.

stoat

Noun : Mustela erminea, the ermine or short-tailed weasel, a mustelid native to Eurasia and North America, distinguished from the least weasel by its larger size and longer tail with a prominent black tip.

stank

Adjective : (African-American Vernacular, slang, derogatory) Foul-smelling, stinking, unclean.

Noun : (African-American Vernacular, slang, derogatory) A stink; a foul smell.

Verb : To stink; to smell bad.

stars

Noun : (with "the") Outer space.

Noun : The 53rd sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.

stupa

Noun : (Buddhism) A dome-shaped Buddhist monument, used to house relics of the Lord Buddha.

Noun : A stupe (medicated cloth or sponge).

stupe

Noun : (slang) A stupid person or (rarely) thing.

Noun : A hot, wet medicated cloth or sponge applied externally.

Verb : To foment with such a cloth or sponge.

stang

Noun : (Wicca, paganism) A forked ritual staff.

Noun : (archaic or obsolete) A long bar; a pole; a shaft; a stake.

Noun : (obsolete or historical) In land measure, a pole, rod, or perch.

stope

Noun : A mining excavation in the form of a terrace of steps.

Verb : (mining) To excavate in the form of stopes.

Verb : (mining) To fill in with rubbish, as a space from which the ore has been worked out.

Trending On The Word Mixer