Stanley
— Noun
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~ United States inventor who built a steam-powered automobile (1849-1918)
Stanley Baldwin
— Noun
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~ English statesman; member of the Conservative Party (1867-1947)
Stanley
— Noun
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~ Welsh journalist and explorer who led an expedition to Africa in search of David Livingstone and found him in Tanzania in 1871; he and Livingstone together tried to find the source of the Nile River (1841-1904)
Stanley Frank Musial
— Noun
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~ United States baseball player (born in 1920)
Stanley Kubrick
— Noun
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~ United States filmmaker (born in 1928)
Sir Henry Morton Stanley
— Noun
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~ Welsh journalist and explorer who led an expedition to Africa in search of David Livingstone and found him in Tanzania in 1871; he and Livingstone together tried to find the source of the Nile River (1841-1904)
Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington
— Noun
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~ English astronomer remembered for his popular elucidation of relativity theory (1882-1944)
Stanleya pinnata
— Noun
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~ perennial of southwestern United States having leathery blue-green pinnatifid leaves and thick plumelike spikes of yellow flowers; sometimes placed in genus Cleome
stannic chloride
— Noun
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~ a colorless caustic liquid made by treating tin with chlorine
stannic
— Adjective
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~ of or relating to or containing tin
stannite
— Noun
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~ a dark grey mineral with a metallic luster that is a source of tin
stannous fluoride
— Noun
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~ a white powder that is used to fluoridate toothpaste
stannous
— Adjective
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~ of or relating to or containing tin
Stanton
— Noun
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~ United States suffragist and feminist; called for reform of the practices that perpetuated sexual inequality (1815-1902)
stanza
— Noun
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~ a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem
Spenserian stanza
— Noun
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~ a stanza with eight lines of iambic pentameter and a concluding Alexandrine with the rhyme pattern abab bcbc c; "the Spenserian stanza was introduced by Edmund Spenser in The Faerie Queene"
stapedectomy
— Noun
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~ surgical removal of the stapes of the middle ear
stapelia
— Noun
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~ any of various plants of the genus Stapelia having succulent leafless toothed stems resembling cacti and large foul-smelling (often star-shaped) flowers
Stapelias asterias
— Noun
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~ stapelia of Cape Province having mostly dark red-brown flowers with flat starlike corollas