5 Letter Words That Start With ST

stoic

Noun : A person indifferent to pleasure or pain.

Adjective : Not affected by pain or distress.

Adjective : Not displaying any external signs of being affected by pain or distress.

stark

Adjective : Plain in appearance; barren, desolate.

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

Adjective : Complete, absolute, full.

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 (after end) of a ship or other vessel.

stout

Adjective : (of a person) Large; bulky.

Noun : (beer) A dark and strong malt brew made with toasted grain.

Adjective : Materially strong, enduring.

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 : 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.

Adjective : (in general) Not new or recent; having been in place or in effect for some time.

stare

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

Noun : A persistent gaze.

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

stoop

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

Noun : A stooping, bent position of the body.

Verb : To lower oneself; to demean oneself in doing something below one's status, standards, or morals.

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, 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.

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

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

Noun : (UK dialectal, Ulster) A blowing or deposit of dust; dust in motion or at rest; dust in general.

Noun : (now dialectal) Tumult, commotion; confusion.

Verb : (now chiefly dialectal) Severely; strongly.

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.

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; especially, such substance when regarded as a building material.

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 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.

Noun : The thrust of a sting into the flesh; the act of stinging; a wound inflicted by stinging.

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

Verb : (intransitive) To wander, as from a direct course; to deviate, or go out of the way.

Verb : (intransitive) To wander from company or outside proper limits; to rove or roam at large; to go astray.

Verb : (intransitive) To wander from the path of duty or rectitude; to err.

stead

Noun : (of a person or thing) The position or function (of someone or something), as taken on by a successor.

Noun : (figurative) A place as it relates to a role, service, or ability; capacity.

Noun : (figurative, uncountable) A relational or circumstantial position; standing.

style

Noun : Senses relating to a thin, pointed object.

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

Noun : The gnomon or pin of a sundial, the shadow of which indicates the hour.

stuff

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

Noun : (informal) Unspecified things or matters.

Noun : The tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object.

steep

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

Adjective : (informal) Expensive.

Verb : (transitive, middle voice) To soak or wet thoroughly.

stria

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

Noun : A stretch mark.

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

staff

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

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.

stake

Noun : A share or interest in a business or a given situation.

Noun : That which is laid down as a wager; that which is staked or hazarded; a pledge.

Verb : (transitive) To put at risk upon success in competition, or upon a future contingency.

strap

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

Noun : A strap worn on the shoulder.

Noun : Something made of such a strip, or of a part of one, or a combination of two or more for a particular use.

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 sequence of events, or a situation, such as might be related in an account.

Noun : A lie, fiction.

stomp

Verb : (ambitransitive) To trample heavily.

Verb : (transitive) To stamp (one’s foot or feet).

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

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 : (botany) The central core of a plant's root and stem system, especially including the vascular tissue and developed from the plerome.

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 : A small piece of paper, with a design and a face value, used to prepay postage or other dues such as tax or licence fees.

Noun : A small piece of paper bearing a design on one side and adhesive on the other, used to decorate letters or craft work.

Noun : A device for imprinting designs.

stain

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

Verb : (transitive) To discolor, as by spilling or other contact with a fluid or substance.

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

stash

Noun : (countable) A collection, sometimes hidden.

Verb : (transitive) To hide or store away for later use.

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

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 : A stage of progress

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

Noun : (geology) in glaciation during which a secondary advance of the glaciers occurs.

stime

Noun : a glimps

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 : To populate with at random points; to cause to appear randomly distributed throughout.

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

stymy

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

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).]

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.

Noun : A stall; a fold for cattle.

Noun : (Scotland) A prop; a support, as for the feet in standing or climbing.

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 : (mainly North American) A building (or portion thereof) where items may be purchased.

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

Noun : A supply held in storage.

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) To feed, stir up, especially, a fire or furnace.

Verb : (transitive, by extension) To encourage a behavior or emotion.

Verb : (intransitive) To attend to or supply a furnace with fuel; to act as a stoker or fireman.

stung

Adjective : feeling sharp psychological pai

steed

Noun : (archaic, poetic) A stallion, especially one used for riding.

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

Noun : A surname.

steem

Verb : (obsolete) To value, to esteem.

Noun : (obsolete) Value.

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

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.

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

Noun : (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) A bad mood or temper. A tantrum.

stipe

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

Noun : The petiole of the frond of a fern or palm

Noun : The trunk of a tree.

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.

Verb : To pelt with stones; throw stones at; stone.

Verb : To fit with stones; mend, line, pave, etc. with stones.

strig

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

Verb : To strip the pedical from a plant.

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

stove

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

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

Noun : A stovetop, with hotplates.

stunt

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

Noun : An act or activity viewed as the outcome of a plan or scheme, often malicious or nefarious.

Verb : (transitive) To check or hinder the growth or development of.

staph

Noun : Staphylococcus bacteria and the infection it causes.

stoor

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

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

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

stola

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

Noun : A chorister's surplice.

stive

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

stoma

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 : An artificial anus.

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

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 from German Stein.

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

stint

Noun : A period of time spent doing or being something; a spell.

Verb : (transitive) To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to restrict to a scant allowance.

Noun : Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted.

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 place where a chasm or gorge is narrow enough to be crossed.

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.

Noun : A strong bad smell.

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

stair

Noun : A series of steps; a staircase.

Noun : A single step in 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

Verb : To stink; to smell bad.

Verb : To cause to smell bad.

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

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 : (slang, US) Short for "Mustang", a brand of automobile produced by the Ford Motor Company.

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

Verb : (intransitive, Scotland) To shoot with pain, to sting.

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.

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