Alum stone
() A subsulphate of alumina and potash |
Amazon stone
(n.) A variety of feldspar, having a verdigris-green color. |
Arch stone
() A wedge-shaped stone used in an arch |
Caen stone
() A cream-colored limestone for building, found near Caen, France. |
Cross-stone
(n.) See Harmotome, and Staurotide. |
Dry-stone
(a.) Constructed of uncemented stone. |
Gravel-stone
(n.) A pebble, or small fragment of stone |
Grindle stone
() A grindstone. |
Jew's-stone
(n.) Alt. of Jewstone |
Menhir
(n.) A large stone set upright in olden times as a memorial or monument. Many, of unknown date, are found in Brittany and throughout Northern Europe. |
Perpend stone
() See Perpender. |
Perpent stone
() See Perpender. |
Portland stone
() A yellowish-white calcareous freestone from the Isle of Portland in England, much used in building. |
Pumice stone
() Same as Pumice. |
Purbeck stone
() A limestone from the Isle of Purbeck in England. |
Rocking-stone
(n.) A stone, often of great size and weight, resting upon another stone, and so exactly poised that it can be rocked, or slightly moved, with but little force. |
Ro-setta stone
() A stone found at Rosetta, in Egypt, bearing a trilingual inscription, by aid of which, with other inscriptions, a key was obtained to the hieroglyphics of ancient Egypt. |
Standing
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stand |
Standing
(a.) Remaining erect |
Standing
(a.) Not flowing |
Standing
(a.) Not transitory |
Standing
(a.) Established by law, custom, or the like |
Standing
(a.) Not movable |
Standing
(n.) The act of stopping, or coming to a stand |
Standing
(n.) Maintenance of position |
Standing
(n.) Place to stand in |
Standing
(n.) Condition in society |
Stepping-stone
(n.) A stone to raise the feet above the surface of water or mud in walking. |
Stepping-stone
(n.) Fig.: A means of progress or advancement. |
Stone
(n.) Concreted earthy or mineral matter |
Stone
(n.) A precious stone |
Stone
(n.) Something made of stone. Specifically: - |
Stone
(n.) The glass of a mirror |
Stone
(n.) A monument to the dead |
Stone
(n.) A calculous concretion, especially one in the kidneys or bladder |
Stone
(n.) One of the testes |
Stone
(n.) The hard endocarp of drupes |
Stone
(n.) A weight which legally is fourteen pounds, but in practice varies with the article weighed. |
Stone
(n.) Fig.: Symbol of hardness and insensibility |
Stone
(n.) A stand or table with a smooth, flat top of stone, commonly marble, on which to arrange the pages of a book, newspaper, etc., before printing |
Stone
(n.) To pelt, beat, or kill with stones. |
Stone
(n.) To make like stone |
Stone
(n.) To free from stones |
Stone
(n.) To wall or face with stones |
Stone
(n.) To rub, scour, or sharpen with a stone. |
Stone-blind
(a.) As blind as a stone |
Stone-cold
(a.) Cold as a stone. |
Stone-dead
(a.) As dead as a stone. |
Stone-deaf
(a.) As deaf as a stone |
Stone-hearted
(a.) Hard-hearted |
| stepping stone | any means of advancement, the job was just a stepping stone on his way to fame and riches |
| standing | the act of assuming or maintaining an erect upright position |
standing operating procedure
standard operating procedure
SOP
standard procedure | a prescribed procedure to be followed routinely, rote memorization has been the educator's standard operating procedure for centuries |
stone crab
Menippe mercenaria | large edible crab of the southern coast of the United States (particularly Florida) |
stone curlew
thick-knee
Burhinus oedicnemus | large-headed large-eyed crepuscular or nocturnal shorebird of the Old World and tropical America having a thickened knee joint |
stonefly
stone fly
plecopteran | primitive winged insect with a flattened body, used as bait by fishermen, aquatic gilled larvae are carnivorous and live beneath stones |
stone marten
beech marten
Martes foina | Eurasian marten having a brown coat with pale breast and throat |
stone bass
wreckfish
Polyprion americanus | brown fish of the Atlantic and Mediterranean found around rocks and shipwrecks |
| abrading stone | a primitive stone artifact (usually made of sandstone) used as an abrader |
| Blarney Stone | a stone in a castle in Ireland that is said to impart skill in flattery to anyone who kisses it |
bore bit
borer
rock drill
stone drill | a drill for penetrating rock |
capstone
copestone
coping stone
stretcher | a stone that forms the top of wall or building |
dry wall
dry-stone wall | a stone wall made with stones fitted together without mortar |
| foundation stone | a stone laid at a ceremony to mark the founding of a new building |
jewel
gem
precious stone | a precious or semiprecious stone incorporated into a piece of jewelry |
menhir
standing stone | a tall upright megalith, found primarily in England and northern France |
| paving stone | a stone used for paving |
pit
quarry
stone pit | a surface excavation for extracting stone or slate, a British term for `quarry' is `stone pit' |
revetment
revetement
stone facing | a facing (usually masonry) that supports an embankment |
| standing press | a large printing press that exerts pressure vertically |
| standing room | room for passengers or spectators to stand, there was standing room for thousands more people |
| stone | building material consisting of a piece of rock hewn in a definite shape for a special purpose, he wanted a special stone to mark the site |
| stone wall | a fence built of rough stones, used to separate fields |
| stone | a lack of feeling or expression or movement, he must have a heart of stone, her face was as hard as stone |
| Rosetta Stone | a part of an inscribed granite stela that was originally about six feet tall and was set up in BC, the inscriptions in hieroglyphics and Demotic and Greek gave the first clues to the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphics |
| standing | an ordered listing of scores or results showing the relative positions of competitors (individuals or teams) in a sporting event |
| standing order | a rule of order permanently in force |
ovation
standing ovation | enthusiastic recognition (especially one accompanied by loud applause) |
standing wave
stationary wave | a wave (as a sound wave in a chamber or an electromagnetic wave in a transmission line) in which the ratio of its instantaneous amplitude at one point to that at any other point does not vary with time |
rib roast
standing rib roast | a cut of meat (beef or venison) including more than one rib and the meat located along the outside of the ribs |
| stone crab | pale flesh with delicate texture and flavor, found in Florida but now very rare |
| standing committee | a permanent committee |
| standing army | a permanent army of paid soldiers |
bladder stone
cystolith | a calculus formed in the bladder |
kidney stone
urinary calculus
nephrolith
renal calculus | a calculus formed in the kidney |
| rock stone | a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter, he threw a rock at me |
| stepping stone | a stone in a marsh or shallow water that can be stepped on in crossing |
| stone breaker | someone who breaks up stone |
Stone
Edward Durell Stone | United States architect (-) |
| Stone Harlan Fiske Stone | United States jurist who served on the United States Supreme Court as chief justice (-) |
Stone I. F. Stone
Isidor Feinstein Stone | United States journalist who advocated liberal causes (-) |
| Stone Lucy Stone | United States feminist and suffragist (-) |
| Stone Oliver Stone | United States filmmaker (born in ) |
Stone Harlan Stone
Harlan F. Stone
Harlan Fisk Stone | United States jurist who was named chief justice of the United States Supreme Court in by Franklin D. Roosevelt (-) |
stone pine
umbrella pine European nut pine
Pinus pinea | medium-sized two-needled pine of southern Europe having a spreading crown, widely cultivated for its sweet seeds that resemble almonds |
Swiss pine
Swiss stone pine
arolla pine
cembra nut tree
Pinus cembra | large five-needled European pine, yields cembra nuts and a resinous exudate |
stone
pit
endocarp | the hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed, you should remove the stones from prunes before cooking |
| cherry stone | the stone seed of a cherry |
lithops
living stone
stoneface
stone-face
stone plant
stone life face
flowering stone | any plant of the genus Lithops native to Africa having solitary yellow or white flowers and thick leaves that resemble stones |
living granite
living rock stone mimicry plant | highly succulent stemless clump-forming plants with grey-green leaves similar in texture to lumps of granite, South Africa |