stillroom
A room containing a still (for distillation).
A pantry adjoining a kitchen where drinks etc were stored or prepared.

stillrooms
plural of stillroom

stockgirl
A typically young woman who works in a stockroom performing duties such as unpacking boxes, placing items on store shelves, etc.

stockgirls
plural of stockgirl

stoeps
plural of stoep

stoicism
A school of philosophy popularized during the Roman Empire that emphasized reason as a means of understanding the natural state of things, or logos, and as a means of freeing oneself from emotional distress.
A real or pretended indifference to pleasure or pain; insensibility; impassiveness.

stoicisms
plural of stoicism

stolovaya
A basic, utilitarian cafeteria in Soviet Russia.

stolovayas
plural of stolovaya

stonebreak
The meadow saxifrage.

stonebreaks
plural of stonebreak

stonedelf
A stone or rock quarry.

stonedelves
plural of stonedelf

stonepit
A quarry.

stonepits
plural of stonepit

stoneworks
plural of stonework

stoneyard
A yard where quarried stone is processed.

stoneyards
plural of stoneyard

stoponium
A hypothetical bound state of a superpartner of the top quark in some supersymmetric theories.

stoponiums
plural of stoponium

storeback
The back of a store or shop.
The storage of a previously retrieved value back into memory.

storebacks
plural of storeback

storefront
The side of a store (or other shop) which faces the street and usually contains display windows.
An e-commerce website offering goods or services to the public.

storefronts
plural of storefront

storekeeping
The work of a storekeeper, looking after a shop.

stormhouse
A temporary shelter for workmen on a railway etc.

stormhouses
plural of stormhouse

stovehouse
A hothouse for plants.
A house or room artificially warmed or heated.

stovehouses
plural of stovehouse

stowboard
A place where rubbish is put.

stowboards
plural of stowboard

stowbord
Alternative form of stowboard.

stowbords
plural of stowbord

straat
A valley between dunes.

strath
A wide, flat river valley.
A piece of flat land beside a body of water.

straths
plural of strath

stratocone
A large volcano built up of material from successive lava flows

stratocones
plural of stratocone

stratovolcano
A tall conical volcano, composed of layers (or strata) of hardened lava, tephra and ash.

stratovolcanoes
plural of stratovolcano

stratovolcanos
plural of stratovolcano

stravenue
In Tucson, Arizona, a street that runs diagonally between and intersects a street (running east–west) and an avenue (running north–south).

stravenues
plural of stravenue

streambank
The bank of a stream.

streambanks
plural of streambank

streamflow
The runoff of surface water through a channel.

streamflows
plural of streamflow

streamlet
A small stream.

streamlets
plural of streamlet

streamling
A little stream; a streamlet.
A kind of Baltic herring.

streamlings
plural of streamling

streamtube
A streamsurface that has an approximately circular cross section

streamtubes
plural of streamtube

streamway
The path of a stream, especially as a route through which water or ice drains, or (below ground) through which cavers travel.

streamways
plural of streamway

stremma
A Greek unit of land area, now equal to a decare (1,000 m²) but (historical) previously 10,000 square Greek feet.
The dunam, the Turkish unit of land area derived from the Greek unit.

stremmas
plural of stremma

stremmata
plural of stremma

stretchout
Alternative form of stretch-out.

stretchouts
plural of stretchout

strewnfield
An area on the surface of the earth, usually having an elongated oval shape, containing rocky fragments which detached from a disintegrating meteor as it streaked through the portion of earth's atmosphere above the area.

strewnfields
plural of strewnfield

strippet
A small stream.
a small strip

strippets
plural of strippet

stronghold
A place built to withstand attack; a fortress.
A place of domination by, or refuge or survival of, a particular group or idea.

strongholds
plural of stronghold

strongroom
A strongly built room or vault where valuables may be safely stored.

strongrooms
plural of strongroom

studderies
plural of studdery

studdery
A stud, or collection of breeding horses and mares.
A place for keeping a stud of this kind.

studette
A sexually attractive, promiscuous female.

studettes
plural of studette

studiolo
A study (room).

stulm
A shaft, conduit, adit, or gallery to drain a mine.

stulms
plural of stulm

stumperies
plural of stumpery

stumpery
A garden feature similar to a rockery but made from parts of dead trees, especially stumps.

stumpland
Terrain having stumps of trees as a dominant feature.

stumplands
plural of stumpland

stygofauna
Any fauna that live within groundwater systems, such as caves and aquifers, particularly the small, aquatic groundwater invertebrates

stylonurine
Any eurypterid sea scorpion of the suborder †Stylonurina.

stylonurines
plural of stylonurine

subadarship
The position or office of subadar.

subarea
A physical region that makes up part of an area.
Part of a topic or discipline.

subareas
plural of subarea

subarena
A secondary or lesser arena.

subarenas
plural of subarena

subbasement
A basement located beneath another basement

subbasements
plural of subbasement

subbay
A bay located within a larger bay.

subbays
plural of subbay

subbureau
A district-level public security bureau in China.

subbureaus
plural of subbureau

subbureaux
plural of subbureau

subcallosum
The subcallosal region of the corpus callosum

subcamp
A camp (such as a labour camp or concentration camp) that makes up part of a larger camp or complex.

subcamps
plural of subcamp

subcanopies
plural of subcanopy

subcanopy
The section of a forest immediately beneath the canopy

subcellar
A cellar beneath another storey wholly or partly underground; usually, a cellar under a cellar.

subcellars
plural of subcellar

subchanter
An underchanter; a precentor's deputy in a cathedral; a succentor.

subchanters
plural of subchanter

subcities
plural of subcity

subcity
A subdivision of a city.

subcollege
A college making up part of a larger institution such as a university.

subcolleges
plural of subcollege

subcolonies
plural of subcolony

subcolony
A colony belonging to another colony.
A distinct part of a colony.

subcomarca
A subdistrict of a comarca

subcommissaries
plural of subcommissary

subcommissary
A lesser or subsidiary commissary.

subcommune
A secondary-level commune within a main commune.

subcompartment
A compartment that is part of a larger one

subcompartments
plural of subcompartment

subconjunctiva
The area below the conjunctiva

subconjunctivae
plural of subconjunctiva

subconjunctivas
plural of subconjunctiva

subconstituencies
plural of subconstituency

subconstituency
A constituency (electoral district or special interest group) that makes up part of a larger constituency.
The property of being a subconstituent.

subcontinent
A large landmass which is either smaller than a continent (such as Greenland), or part of an even larger continent (such as the Indian subcontinent).

subcontinents
plural of subcontinent

subdeaneries
plural of subdeanery

subdeanery
The office, jurisdiction, or rank of a subdean.

subdelta
A river delta forming part of another.

subdeltas
plural of subdelta

subdepartment
a subordinate department, bureau

subdepartments
plural of subdepartment

subdepositories
plural of subdepository

subdepository
A depository forming part of a larger depository.

subdepot
A lesser depot that is part of a larger one.

subdepots
plural of subdepot

subdialyzer
A compartment of a dialyzer

subdialyzers
plural of subdialyzer

subedarship
The position or office of subedar.

subeditor
An assistant editor, usually in a specific department of a newspaper.
A copy editor at a newspaper or magazine.

subeditors
plural of subeditor

subempire
A lesser or secondary empire.

subempires
plural of subempire

subentropies
plural of subentropy