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Princeton University - WordNet - a lexical database for the English language Category: General Date & country: 27/01/2008, USA Words: 85192

Steen
Jan Steen noun Dutch genre painter (1626-1679)

steenbok
steinbok noun small plains antelope of southeastern Africa

steep
adjective of a slope; set at a high angle; `note the steep incline`; `a steep roof sheds snow`

steep-sided
adjective having very steep sides

steeper
noun a vessel (usually a pot or vat) used for steeping

steepish
adjective somewhat steep

steeple
spire noun a tall tower that forms the superstructure of a building (usually a church or temple) and that tapers to a point at the top

steeplechaser
noun a horse trained to run in steeplechases

steeplejack
noun someone who builds or maintains very tall structures

steeply
adverb in a steep manner; `the street rose steeply up to the castle`

steer
noun castrated bull

steer roping
noun capturing a steer with a lasso

steerable
dirigible adjective capable of being steered or directed

steerage
noun the cheapest accommodations on a passenger ship

steerage
noun the act of steering a ship

steerageway
noun (nautical) the minimum rate of motion needed for a vessel to be maneuvered

steering
guidance noun the act of setting and holding a course; `a new council was installed under the direction of the king`

steering
noun the act of steering a ship

steering committee
noun a committee to arrange the order of business for some larger (legislative) body

steering gear
noun a gear that couples the steering wheel to the steering linkage of a motor vehicle

steering linkage
noun mechanism consisting of a system of rods and levers connected to the front wheels of a motor vehicle; the steering gear pushes it left or right which swivels the front wheels, causing the vehicle to turn

steering system
steering mechanism noun a mechanism by which something is steered (especially a motor vehicle)

steering wheel
noun a handwheel that is used for steering

Steffens
Lincoln Steffens noun United States journalist who exposes in 1906 started an era of muckraking journalism (1866-1936)

Steganopus
genus Steganopus noun a genus of Phalaropidae

Stegocephalia
order Stegocephalia noun in former classifications a division of class Amphibia comprising all pre-Jurassic and some later extinct large salamandriform amphibia

stegosaur
stegosaurus noun herbivorous ornithischian dinosaur with a row of bony plates along its back and a spiked tail probably used as a weapon

Steichen
Edward Jean Steichen noun United States photographer who pioneered artistic photography (1879-1973)

Stein
Gertrude Stein noun experimental expatriate United States writer (1874-1946)

Steinbeck
John Steinbeck noun United States writer noted for his novels about agricultural workers (1902-1968)

Steinman
David Barnard Steinman noun United States civil engineer noted for designing suspension bridges (including the George Washington Bridge) (1886-1960)

stele
stela noun an ancient upright stone slab bearing markings

stelis
noun any of various small tropical American orchids of the genus Stelis having long slender racemes of numerous small to minute flowers

stellar
astral adjective being or relating to or resembling or emanating from stars; `an astral body`; `stellar light`

stellar parallax
noun the heliocentric parallax of a star

Stellaria
genus Stellaria noun common chickweed; stitchwort

stellate venule
noun a star-shaped group of venules in the renal cortex

Steller
Georg Wilhelm Steller noun German naturalist (1709-1746)

Steller sea lion
Steller`s sea lion noun largest sea lion; of the northern Pacific

Steller`s sea cow
Hydrodamalis gigas noun extinct large sirenian mammal formerly found near Asiatic coast of the Bering Sea

Stellite
noun a very hard alloy of cobalt and chromium with cobalt as the principal ingredient; used to make cutting tools and for surfaces subject to heavy wear

stem blight
noun a fungous blight attacking the stems of plants

stem cell
noun an undifferentiated cell whose daughter cells may differentiate into other cell types (such as blood cells)

stem turn
stem noun a turn made in skiing; the back of one ski is forced outward and the other ski is brought parallel to it

stem vowel
thematic vowel noun a vowel that ends a stem and precedes an inflection

stem-cell research
noun research on stem cells and their use in medicine

stem-winder
noun a watch that is wound by turning a knob at the stem

stemless
adjective not having a stem; `stemless glassware`

stemless carline thistle
Carlina acaulis noun stemless perennial having large flowers with white or purple-brown florets nestled in a rosette of long spiny leaves hairy beneath; of alpine regions of southern and eastern Europe

stemless golden weed
Stenotus acaulis noun dark green erect herb of northwestern United States and southwestern Canada having stiff leaves in dense tufts and yellow flower heads; sometimes placed in genus Haplopappus

stemless hymenoxys
Tetraneuris acaulis noun perennial having tufted basal leaves and short leafless stalks each bearing a solitary yellow flower head; dry hillsides and plains of west central North America

stemma
noun a tree diagram showing a reconstruction of the transmission of manuscripts of a literary work

stemmatic
adjective of or relating to a textual stemma

stemmatology
stemmatics noun the humanistic discipline that attempts to reconstruct the transmission of a text (especially a text in manuscript form) on the basis of relations between the various surviving manuscripts (sometimes using cladistic analysis); `stemmatology also plays an important role in musicology`; `transcription errors are of decisive importance in stemmatics`

stemmed
adjective having a stem or stems or having a stem as specified; often used in combination; `stemmed goblets`; `long-stemmed roses`

stemmer
stemming algorithm noun an algorithm for removing inflectional and derivational endings in order to reduce word forms to a common stem

stemmer
noun a worker who strips the stems from moistened tobacco leaves and binds the leaves together into books

Sten gun
noun a lightweight British submachine gun

stencil
noun device that has a sheet perforated with printing through which ink or paint can pass to create a printed pattern

Stendhal
Marie Henri Beyle noun French writer whose novels were the first to feature psychological analysis of the character (1783-1842)

Stengel
Casey Stengel noun United States baseball manager (1890-1975)

Stenocarpus
genus Stenocarpus noun small genus of timber trees; Australia to Malaysia

Stenochlaena
genus Stenochlaena noun large tropical ferns; some epiphytic climbers and some terrestrial bog ferns; Africa; Asia; Australasia

stenograph
noun a machine for typewriting shorthand characters

stenographer
amanuensis noun someone skilled in the transcription of speech (especially dictation)

stenographic
stenographical adjective of or relating to or employing stenography

stenography
noun the act or art of writing in shorthand; `stenography is no longer a marketable skill`

Stenopelmatidae
family Stenopelmatidae noun long-horned grasshoppers

Stenopelmatus
genus Stenopelmatus noun sand crickets

stenopterygius
Stenopterygius quadrisicissus noun an ichthyosaur of the genus Stenopterygius

stenosed
stenotic adjective abnormally constricted body canal or passage; `a stenosed coronary artery`

stenosis
stricture noun abnormal narrowing of a bodily canal or passageway

Stenotaphrum
genus Stenotaphrum noun lawn grasses

Stenotomus
genus Stenotomus noun scups

Stenotus
genus Stenotus noun genus of western North American low evergreen shrubs growing in dense tufts

stent
noun a slender tube inserted inside a tubular body part (as a blood vessel) to provide support during and after surgical anastomosis

stentor
noun any of several trumpet-shaped ciliate protozoans that are members of the genus Stentor

step
stair noun support consisting of a place to rest the foot while ascending or descending a stairway; `he paused on the bottom step`

step
noun a short distance; `it`s only a step to the drugstore`

step dancing
hoofing noun dancing in which the steps are more important than gestures or postures

step ladder
stepladder noun a folding portable ladder hinged at the top

step stool
noun a stool that has one or two steps that fold under the seat

step-down transformer
noun a transformer that reduces voltage

step-up transformer
noun a transformer that increases voltage

stepbrother
half-brother noun a son of your stepparent by a former marriage

stepchild
noun a child of your spouse by a former marriage

stepdaughter
noun a daughter of your spouse by a former marriage

stepfather
noun the husband of your mother by a subsequent marriage

stephanion
noun the craniometric point on the coronal suture above the acoustic meatus

Stephanomeria
genus Stephanomeria noun malheur wire lettuce

stephanotis
noun any of various evergreen climbing shrubs of the genus Stephanotis having fragrant waxy flowers

Stephen
Sir Leslie Stephen noun English writer (1832-1904)

Stephen Crane
noun United States writer (1871-1900)

Stephen Jay Gould
noun United States paleontologist and popularizer of science (1941-2002)

Stephen Vincent Benet
noun United States poet; brother of William Rose Benet (1898-1943)

Stephenson
George Stephenson noun English railway pioneer who built the first passenger railway in 1825 (1781-1848)

stepmother
noun the wife of your father by a subsequent marriage

stepparent
noun the spouse of your parent by a subsequent marriage

steppe
noun extensive plain without trees (associated with eastern Russia and Siberia)

stepper
stepping motor noun a motor (especially an electric motor) that moves or rotates in small discrete steps