Sterns is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for STERNS in dictionary:

VERB:
• STERN, to back, row backwards, also STARN
NOUN:
• the rearmost part of a ship or boat
• a person's bottom
ADJECTIVE:
• (of a person or their manner) serious and unrelenting, especially in the assertion of authority and exercise of discipline
• (of an act or statement) strict and severe
• (of competition or opposition) putting someone or something under extreme pressure
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the rear part of a ship

Words related to STERNS

stern5 sternage9

Words that contain STERNS

cisterns10 pasterns10 posterns10 sternson8 testerns8 westerns11 sternsons9 sternsheet13 sternsheets14 morgensterns15

How to use STERNS in a sentence

• The name painted on the two smashed boats had been ripped from their sterns, and everything that would float was locked securely in cabins or made fast.
• Many of them, too, were adorned and decorated in the most sumptuous manner, with gilded sterns, purple awnings, and silver-mounted oars.
• Over the sterns of the boats there are long baskets.
• All we might do, therefore, was to close up to the sterns of the vessels that were leading, and wait to send our men across their decks when the time came.
• Striking out to the left, still followed by the Gujarati, he swam along past the sterns of the lashed vessels until he came under the side of the one nearest the shore.
• Their prows and sterns stand high out of the water, and are adorned with intricate carvings.
• The spirits of all lightened, and there was loud talk in the sterns among the Bearsarks.
• The canoes were just like big Indian canoes, with high prows and sterns and painted with targets.
• The double-shotted British guns raked the enemy vessels with frightful effect as their muzzles passed close by the sterns.
• At once the destroyers turned, all together, lashing the sea into foam as their sterns whisked round, and charged, faster than any cavalry, straight for the enemy.
• Dodging this way and that, rounding the sterns of big ships, and disputing the water-way with lesser craft, the boat made for shore.
• At a slow trot, their sterns whipping their flanks at every step, they threaded the high tussockks.
• The models which figure in old pictures, with high sterns and bows, proved too clumsy for war, and modern forms were adopted.

Similar words containing STERN without suffix s

stern5 astern6 sterna6 cistern9 eastern7 pastern9 postern9 sternal7 sterned8 sterner7 sternly10 sternum9 testern7 western10 yestern10 asternal8 cisterna10 cisterns10 pasterns10 posterns10 sternage9 sternest8 sterning9 sternite8 sternson8 sternums10 sternway14 testerns8 westerns11 cisternae11 cisternal11 easterner9 episterna11 hesternal12 presterna11 prosterna11 sternages10 sternebra11 sternfast12 sternites9 sternitic11 sternmost11 sternness9 sternport11 sternpost11 sternsons9 sternward13 sternways15 testerned10 westerner12 easterners10 episternal12 episternum14 presternum14 prosternum14 sternalgia11 sternalgic13 sternboard13 sternebrae12 sternfasts13 sternports12 sternposts12 sternsheet13 sternwards14 sternworks17 substernal12 testerning11 westerners13 westernise13 westernism15 westernize22 midwestern16 consternate13 easternmost13 episternums15 morgenstern14 presternums15 prosternums15 sternalgias12 sternboards14 sternnesses11 sternotribe13 sternsheets14 sternutator11 westernised15 westernises14 westernisms16 westernized24 westernizes23 westernmost16 xiphisterna23 yesternight18 westernizer23 consternated15 consternates14 lectisternia14 morgensterns15 northeastern15 northwestern18 sinisterness12 Show more ...

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