Nouns

Words that name people, places, things, or ideas

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staphylea

noun

a genus of small trees or shrubs of the family Staphylaceae

staphylinidae

noun

rove beetles

staphylococci

noun

spherical Gram-positive parasitic bacteria that tend to form...

staplegun

noun

a hand-held machine for driving staples home

starer

noun

a viewer who gazes fixedly (often with hostility)

starets

noun

a religious adviser (not necessarily a priest) in the Easter...

starkness

noun

the quality of being complete or utter or extreme

stateliness

noun

impressiveness in scale or proportion

stateswoman

noun

a woman statesman

stationariness

noun

remaining in place

staunchness

noun

loyalty in the face of trouble and difficulty

staurikosaur

noun

primitive dinosaur found in Brazil

staurikosaurus

noun

primitive dinosaur found in Brazil

stayman

noun

apple grown chiefly in the Shenandoah Valley

stealthiness

noun

a disposition to be sly and stealthy and to do things surrep...

steamfitter

noun

a craftsman who installs and maintains equipment for ventila...

steaminess

noun

cloudiness resulting from haze or mist or vapor

steatocystoma

noun

a common cyst of the skin; filled with fatty matter (sebum)...

steatornis

noun

type and sole genus of the family Steatornithidae

steatornithidae

noun

oilbirds

steatorrhea

noun

the presence of greater than normal amounts of fat in the fe...

steeplechaser

noun

a horse trained to run in steeplechases

steepness

noun

the property possessed by a slope that is very steep

steerer

noun

the person who steers a ship

steganography

noun

act of writing in code or cipher

steganopus

noun

a genus of Phalaropidae

stegocephalia

noun

in former classifications a division of class Amphibia compr...

stegosaurus

noun

herbivorous ornithischian dinosaur with a row of bony plates...

stelis

noun

any of various small tropical American orchids of the genus...

stellaria

noun

common chickweed; stitchwort

steller

noun

German naturalist (1709-1746)

stellite

noun

a very hard alloy of cobalt and chromium with cobalt as the...

stemmatics

noun

the humanistic discipline that attempts to reconstruct the t...

stemmatology

noun

the humanistic discipline that attempts to reconstruct the t...

stengel

noun

United States baseball manager (1890-1975)

stenocarpus

noun

small genus of timber trees; Australia to Malaysia

stenochlaena

noun

large tropical ferns; some epiphytic climbers and some terre...

stenopelmatidae

noun

long-horned grasshoppers

stenopelmatus

noun

sand crickets

stenopterygius

noun

an ichthyosaur of the genus Stenopterygius

stenotaphrum

noun

lawn grasses

stenotomus

noun

scups

stenotus

noun

genus of western North American low evergreen shrubs growing...

stent

noun

a slender tube inserted inside a tubular body part (as a blo...

stephanion

noun

the craniometric point on the coronal suture above the acous...

stephanomeria

noun

malheur wire lettuce

steprelationship

noun

a family relationship by virtue of remarriage

stercobilinogen

noun

a chromogen formed in the intestine from the breakdown of bi...

stercolith

noun

a hard mass of fecal matter

stercorariidae

noun

jaegers and skuas: