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Stickles
- verb - dispute or argue stubbornly (especially minor points)
Stickpin
- noun - a decorative pin that is worn in a necktie
Stickups
- noun - robbery at gunpoint
Stiffens
- verb - become stiff or stiffer; "He stiffened when he saw his boss enter the room"
- make stiff or stiffer; "Stiffen the cream by adding gelatine"
- restrict; "Tighten the rules"; "stiffen the regulations"
Stiffest
- unknown - rigid, difficult to bend.
Stiflers
- noun - a person who stifles or smothers or suppresses; "he is a real conversation stifler"; "I see from all the yawn smotherers that it is time to stop"
Stifling
- verb - be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen; "The child suffocated under the pillow"
- characterized by oppressive heat and humidity; "the summer was sultry and oppressive"; "the stifling atmosphere"; "the sulfurous atmosphere preceding a thunderstorm"
- conceal or hide; "smother a yawn"; "muffle one's anger"; "strangle a yawn"
- forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority; "the suppression of heresy"; "the quelling of the rebellion"; "the stifling of all dissent"
- impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of; "The foul air was slowly suffocating the children"
- smother or suppress; "Stifle your curiosity"
Stigmata
- noun - a skin lesion that is a diagnostic sign of some disease
- a symbol of disgrace or infamy; "And the Lord set a mark upon Cain"--Genesis
- an external tracheal aperture in a terrestrial arthropod
- marks resembling the wounds on the crucified body of Christ
- the apical end of the style where deposited pollen enters the pistil
Stilbene
- - A hydrocarbon, C14H12, produced artificially in large, fine crystals; -- called also diphenyl ethylene, toluylene, etc.