Vocabulary : Stente to Step-

Stente : of Stent
Stenting : An opening in a wall in a coal mine.
Stentor : A herald, in the Iliad, who had a very loud voice; hence, any person having a powerful voice. ;; Any species of ciliated Infusoria belonging to the genus Stentor and allied genera, common in fresh water. The stentors have a bell-shaped, or cornucopia-like, body with a circle of cilia around the spiral terminal disk. See Illust. under Heterotricha. ;; A howling monkey, or howler.
Stentorian : Of or pertaining to a stentor; extremely loud; powerful; as, a stentorian voice; stentorian lungs.
Stentorin : A blue coloring matter found in some stentors. See Stentor, 2.

Stentorious : Stentorian.
Stentoronic : Stentorian.
Stentorophonic : Speaking or sounding very loud; stentorian.
Step : At Eton College, England, a shallow step dividing the court into an inner and an outer portion. ;; To move the foot in walking; to advance or recede by raising and moving one of the feet to another resting place, or by moving both feet in succession. ;; To walk; to go on foot; esp., to walk a little distance; as, to step to one of the neighbors. ;; To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely. ;; Fig.: To move mentally; to go in imagination. ;; To set, as the foot. ;; To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step; to erect. ;; An advance or movement made by one removal of the foot; a pace. ;; A rest, or one of a set of rests, for the foot in ascending or descending, as a stair, or a round of a ladder. ;; The space passed over by one movement of the foot in walking or running; as, one step is generally about three feet, but may be more or less. Used also figuratively of any kind of progress; as, he improved step by step, or by steps. ;; A small space or distance; as, it is but a step. ;; A print of the foot; a footstep; a
Step- : A prefix used before father, mother, brother, sister, son, daughter, child, etc., to indicate that the person thus spoken of is not a blood relative, but is a relative by the marriage of a parent; as, a stepmother to X is the wife of the father of X, married by him after the death of the mother of X. See Stepchild, Stepdaughter, Stepson, etc.

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