| standout |
a person or thing that is distinctly superior to one or more others. [2 definitions] |
| stand out |
to elicit notice by being significantly different from or superior to others. |
| standpat |
(informal) having a tendency to resist change or alter one's course; conservative. |
| stand pat |
to refuse to change one's decision, policy, or opinion. |
| standpipe |
a vertical water pipe, either within a building or without, that is filled to a certain pressure in order to allow water to flow at various valves. |
| standpoint |
the outlook, opinion, and attitudes that determine how one views, understands, and evaluates things; perspective or point of view. |
| standstill |
a complete stop; halt. |
| stand-up |
done in or requiring a standing position. [4 definitions] |
| stand up |
to move your body into a standing position. |
| Stanford-Binet test |
an intelligence test that is a revision of the Binet-Simon scale. |
| stanhope |
a light open carriage with one seat and two or four wheels, drawn by one horse. |
| Stanislaus |
a sixty-five mile long river in California. [2 definitions] |
| stank |
a past tense of stink. |
| Stanley Kubrick |
U.S. filmmaker (b.1928--d.1999). |
| stannic |
of or containing tin, esp. when tetravalent. |
| stannous |
of or containing tin, esp. when bivalent. |
| stanza |
a group of related lines in a poem that are separated typographically from other similar groups and that often have a regular meter and rhyme scheme. |
| stapes |
the innermost of three tiny bones found in the middle ear of mammals; stirrup. (See incus, malleus.) |
| staph |
staphylococcus. |
| staphylococcus |
any of various spherical bacteria that occur in clusters and can cause boils, abscesses, and other infections in humans. |
| staple1 |
a short, thin, U-shaped piece of stiff wire designed to be pushed through several sheets of paper or the like and then bent inward to serve as a fastener. [3 definitions] |