Words that start with S

Sis forStamen

A stamen is the part of a flower that makes pollen. They are usually in the center of the flower, and have stalks called filaments with the pollen produced on anthers at the top of the stalks.

Plant parts

Photo by K.L. Mircea

A stamp is a small piece of paper that is worth money. You use stamps to pay to have letters and parcels posted. Every country has their own different stamps, and lots of different designs and pictures on all their different stamp denominations.

Office

Photo by Gopal Vijayaraghavan

Sis forStampede

A stampede is when a large group of animals suddenly all run in the same direction at the same time. Stampedes usually happen when something scares a herd of animals.

Happenings

Photo by kizzzbeth

Sis forStance

Stance is another word for position, the way your body is posed when moving a particular way. The dog in the picture is in a playful stance.

Motion

Photo by Pedro Szekely

Sis forStand (flamingo)

A group of flamingoes is called a stand.

Collective

Photo of a little girl standing on a beach

Photo by Peter Dutton

Sis forStand (motion)

Video: view

You stand up when you have only your feet touching the ground, and you are upright and vertical.

Motion

Photo by stuartpilbrow

Sis forStank

Stank is the past tense of stink.

Past

Photo by Daniel R. Blume

Sis forStaple

A staple is a small piece of wire that is put in place by using a stapler. Staples are used to hold things together, usually pieces of paper.

Office

Photo by Till Westermayer

Sis forStapler

A stapler is a device that punches a small piece of wire called a staple through several sheets of paper to hold them together.

Tools, Office

Photo by NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Co

Sis forStar (astronomy)

A star is like a big ball of fire that is very far away from us. They are thousands of times bigger than the Earth, and many stars are much, much bigger than our sun.

Astronomical