Index of English words, starting with "st"

(1) - Sticky (superl.) Having the quality of sticking to a surface; adhesive; gluey; viscous; viscid; glutinous; tenacious.

(1) - Stiff (superl.) Very large, strong, or costly; powerful; as, a stiff charge; a stiff price.
(2) - Stiff (superl.) Bearing a press of canvas without careening much; as, a stiff vessel; -- opposed to crank.
(3) - Stiff (superl.) Harsh; disagreeable; severe; hard to bear.
(4) - Stiff (superl.) Not natural and easy; formal; constrained; affected; starched; as, stiff behavior; a stiff style.
(5) - Stiff (superl.) Not easily subdued; unyielding; stubborn; obstinate; pertinacious; as, a stiff adversary.
(6) - Stiff (superl.) Firm; strong; violent; difficult to oppose; as, a stiff gale or breeze.
(7) - Stiff (superl.) Not liquid or fluid; thick and tenacious; inspissated; neither soft nor hard; as, the paste is stiff.
(8) - Stiff (superl.) Not easily bent; not flexible or pliant; not limber or flaccid; rigid; firm; as, stiff wood, paper, joints.

(1) - Stiff-necked (a.) Stubborn; inflexibly obstinate; contumacious; as, stiff-necked pride; a stiff-necked people.

(1) - Stiffen (v. i.) To become stiff or stiffer, in any sense of the adjective.
(2) - Stiffen (v. t.) To make torpid; to benumb.
(3) - Stiffen (v. t.) To inspissate; to make more thick or viscous; as, to stiffen paste.
(4) - Stiffen (v. t.) To make stiff; to make less pliant or flexible; as, to stiffen cloth with starch.

(1) - Stiffener (n.) One who, or that which, stiffens anything, as a piece of stiff cloth in a cravat.