6-Letter Words That Start With: STA

• a large number or amount

• storage space in a library consisting of an extensive arrangement of bookshelves where most of the books are stored

• personnel who assist their superior in carrying out an assigned task

• a strong rod or stick with a specialized utilitarian purpose

• the body of teachers and administrators at a school

• building material consisting of plaster and hair; used to cover external surfaces of temporary structure (as at an exposition) or for decoration

• a rod carried as a symbol

• (music) the system of five horizontal lines on which the musical notes are written

• provide with staff

• serve on the staff of

• a complex carbohydrate found chiefly in seeds, fruits, tubers, roots and stem pith of plants, notably in corn, potatoes, wheat, and rice; an important foodstuff and used otherwise especially in adhesives and as fillers and stiffeners for paper and textiles

• a commercial preparation of starch that is used to stiffen textile fabrics in laundering

• stiffen with starch

• in a stable solid fixed manner

• in a stable unchanging manner

• stop the flow of a liquid

• spherical Gram-positive parasitic bacteria that tend to form irregular colonies; some cause boils or septicemia or infections

• (law) a right or legal share of something; a financial involvement with something

• a pole or stake set up to mark something (as the start or end of a race track)

• instrument of execution consisting of a vertical post that a victim is tied to for burning

• the money risked on a gamble

• a strong wooden or metal post with a point at one end so it can be driven into the ground

• put at risk

• place a bet on

• mark with a stake

• tie or fasten to a stake

• kill by piercing with a spear or sharp pole