5 Letter Words That Start With ST

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.

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.

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.

stock

Noun : A store or supply.

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

Noun : A supply of anything ready for use.

stone

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

Noun : A small piece of stone, a pebble.

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

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.

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.

study

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

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

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

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.

story

Noun : An account of real or fictional events.

Noun : A lie, fiction.

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

start

Noun : The beginning of an activity.

Noun : A sudden involuntary movement.

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

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.

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 : (plural staff or staffs) The employees of a business.

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”)

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.

still

Adjective : Not moving; calm.

Adjective : Not effervescing; not sparkling.

Adjective : Uttering no sound; silent.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

stark

Adjective : (obsolete) Hard, firm; obdurate.

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

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

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.

stamp

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

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

Noun : A device for stamping designs.

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.

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.

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.

stuck

Adjective : Unable to move.

Adjective : Unable to progress with a task.

Adjective : No longer functioning, frozen up, frozen.

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.

stalk

Noun : The stem or main axis of a plant, which supports the seed-carrying parts.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

stray

Noun : Any domestic animal that has no enclosure nor proper place and company, but that instead wanders at large or is lost; an estray.

Noun : One who is lost, literally or figuratively.

Noun : An act of wandering off or going astray.

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.

steam

Noun : The vapor formed when water changes from the liquid phase to the gas phase.

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

Noun : mist, fog

stout

Adjective : Large; bulky.

Adjective : (obsolete) Bold, strong-minded.

Adjective : (obsolete) Proud; haughty.

stunt

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

Noun : (archaic) skill

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

staid

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

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

Verb : Obsolete spelling of stayed

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.

stead

Noun : (obsolete) A place, or spot, in general.

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

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

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.

stent

Noun : A slender tube inserted into a blood vessel, a ureter or the oesophagus in order to provide support and to prevent disease-induced closure.

Verb : (medicine) To insert a stent or tube into a blood vessel.

Noun : (archaic) An allotted portion; a stint.

stomp

Verb : (transitive, intransitive) To trample heavily.

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

Verb : (transitive) To crush grapes with one's feet to make wine

staub

Noun : A surname from German.

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.

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.

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.]

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.

steap

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.

stork

Noun : A large wading bird with long legs and a long beak of the family Ciconiidae.

Noun : (children's folklore) The mythical bringer of babies to families, or good news.

Noun : (cartomancy) The seventeenth Lenormand card.

stars

Noun : (with "the") Outer space.

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

steed

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

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

Noun : A surname.

strum

Verb : (transitive, intransitive) To play (a guitar or other stringed instrument) using various strings simultaneously.

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

Noun : The act of strumming.

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.

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.

steps

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

Noun : a flight of stairs, especially out of doors

Noun : (Britain) stepladder

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.

stine

stoll

Noun : A surname.

stair

Noun : A single step in a staircase.

Noun : A series of steps; a staircase.

Noun : A surname.

stike

Noun : (obsolete) A stanza.

stook

Noun : A pile or bundle, especially of straw.

Noun : (specifically) A group of 6 or 8 sheaves of grain stacked to dry vertically in a rectangular arrangement at harvest time, largely obsolete since the advent of combine harvesters and powered grain driers (mid 20th century).

Verb : (intransitive, agriculture) To make stooks.

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.

stime

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

stupa

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

Noun : A stupe (medicated cloth or sponge).

stere

Noun : (obsolete) A measure of volume used e.g. for cut wood, equal to one cubic metre.

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).]

stony

Adjective : As hard as stone.

Adjective : Containing or made up of stones.

Adjective : (figuratively) Of a person, lacking warmth and emotion.

staph

Noun : Staphylococcus bacteria and the infection it causes.

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.

stoup

Noun : (obsolete) A bucket.

Noun : (archaic) A mug or drinking vessel.

Noun : A receptacle for holy water, especially a basin set at the entrance of a church.

stich

Noun : (obsolete) A verse, of whatever measure or number of feet, especially a verse of Scripture.

Noun : A part of a line of poetry, especially in the distichal poetry of the Hebrew Bible and in early Germanic heroic verse such as Beowulf, where the line is composed of two (occasionally three) such parts.

Noun : (obsolete) A row, line, or rank of trees.

stela

Noun : (archaeology) an obelisk or upright stone pillar, usually as a primitive commemoration or gravestone

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.

steem

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

Noun : (obsolete) Value.

Verb : (obsolete) To value, esteem.

stont

stote

Noun : Obsolete form of stoat. [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.]

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.

stats

Noun : (roleplaying games, video games slang) Attributes of a unit in a game (e.g. health, damage output)

Noun : (informal, in the singular) Clipping of statistics. (the subject) [A discipline, principally within applied mathematics, concerned with the systematic study of the collection, presentation, analysis, and interpretation of data.]

Noun : (informal, in the plural, plural only) Clipping of statistics. (data, figures) [A discipline, principally within applied mathematics, concerned with the systematic study of the collection, presentation, analysis, and interpretation of data.]

stays

Noun : A corset.

stops

Noun : a gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in his hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that car

strom

stowe

Noun : A surname.

Noun : A civil parish and former village in Buckinghamshire, England

Noun : A small village in Shropshire, England, also spelt Stow.

starp

Adjective : indicating the most important performer or rol

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