| Christmas stocking | a stocking that is filled with small Christmas presents |
| Christmas tree | an ornamented evergreen used as a Christmas decoration |
| stress test | a test measuring how a system functions when subjected to controlled amounts of stress |
| Christmas card | a card expressing a Christmas greeting |
| stress mark | a mark indicating the stress on a syllable |
carol
Christmas carol | joyful religious song celebrating the birth of Christ |
stress emphasis
accent | the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch), he put the stress on the wrong syllable |
word stress
word accent | the distribution of stresses within a polysyllabic word |
| sentence stress | the distribution of stresses within a sentence |
plum pudding
Christmas pudding | a rich steamed or boiled pudding that resembles cake |
| Christmas cake | a rich fruitcake (usually covered with icing and marzipan) and eaten at Christmas |
Santa Claus
Santa
Kriss Kringle
Father Christmas
Saint Nicholas Saint Nick
St. Nick | the legendary patron saint of children, an imaginary being who is thought to bring presents to children at Christmas |
| stress | (physics) force that produces strain on a physical body, the intensity of stress is expressed in units of force divided by units of area |
amabilis fir
white fir Pacific silver fir
red silver fir
Christmas tree Abies amabilis | medium to tall fir of western North America having a conic crown and branches in tiers, leaves smell of orange when crushed |
European silver fir
Christmas tree Abies alba | tall timber tree of central and southern Europe having a regular crown and grey bark |
Christmas rose
winter rose
black hellebore Helleborus niger | European evergreen plant with white or purplish rose-like winter-blooming flowers |
Christmas cactus
Schlumbergera buckleyi
Schlumbergera baridgesii | epiphytic cactus of Brazilian ancestry widely cultivated as a houseplant having jointed flat segments and usually rose-purple flowers that bloom in winter |
Christmas begonia
blooming-fool begonia
Begonia cheimantha | hybrid winter-blooming begonia grown for its many large pink flowers |
| Christmas bells | any of several plants of the genus Blandfordia having large orange or crimson flowers |
toyon
tollon
Christmasberry Christmas berry Heteromeles arbutifolia
Photinia arbutifolia | ornamental evergreen treelike shrub of the Pacific coast of the United States having large white flowers and red berrylike fruits, often placed in genus Photinia |
flame tree fire tree
Christmas tree Nuytsia floribunda | a terrestrial evergreen shrub or small tree of western Australia having brilliant yellow-orange flowers, parasitic on roots of grasses |
American holly
Christmas holly | an evergreen tree |
Christmas bush
Christmas tree Ceratopetalum gummiferum | Australian tree or shrub with red flowers, often used in Christmas decoration |
| Christmasberry Christmas berry Lycium carolinianum | spiny evergreen shrub of southeastern United States having spreading branches usually blue or mauve flowers and red berries |
poinsettia
Christmas star
Christmas flower
lobster plant
Mexican flameleaf
painted leaf Euphorbia pulcherrima | tropical American plant having poisonous milk and showy tapering usually scarlet petallike leaves surrounding small yellow flowers |
Christmas fern
canker brake
dagger fern
evergreen wood fern Polystichum acrostichoides | North American evergreen fern having pinnate leaves and dense clusters of lance-shaped fronds |
| ground pine Christmas green | any of several club mosses having long creeping stems and erect branches |
Christmas present
Christmas gift | a present given at Christmas time |
| Christmas box | a present given at Christmas for services during the year |
| stress incontinence | urinary incontinence that occurs when involuntary pressure is put on the bladder by coughing or laughing or sneezing or lifting or straining |
hemophilia B
haemophilia B
Christmas disease | a clotting disorder similar to hemophilia A but caused by a congenital deficiency of factor IX |
fatigue fracture
stress fracture | fracture resulting from excessive activity rather than a specific injury |
| tension tenseness stress | (psychology) a state of mental or emotional strain or suspense, he suffered from fatigue and emotional tension, stress is a vasoconstrictor |
posttraumatic stress disorder
PTSD | an anxiety disorder associated with serious traumatic events and characterized by such symptoms as survivor guilt, reliving the trauma in dreams, numbness and lack of involvement with reality, or recurrent thoughts and images |
| stress strain | difficulty that causes worry or emotional tension, she endured the stresses and strains of life, he presided over the economy during the period of the greatest stress and danger- R.J.Samuelson |
| stress focus | special emphasis attached to something, the stress was more on accuracy than on speed |
Christmas factor
factor IX | coagulation factor whose absence is associated with hemophilia B |
Christmas
Christmas Day
Xmas
Dec | a Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Christ, a quarter day in England, Wales, and Ireland |
Christmas Eve
Dec | the day before Christmas |
Christmas Christmastide
Christmastime
Yule
Yuletide
Noel | period extending from Dec. to Jan. |
stress accent
accentuate | put stress on, utter with an accent, In Farsi, you accent the last syllable of each word |
stress
emphasize
emphasise
punctuate
accent accentuate | to stress, single out as important, Dr. Jones emphasizes exercise in addition to a change in diet |
try
strain
stress | test the limits of, You are trying my patience! |