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Steatornis
Steatornis is a monotypic genus of nocturnal, cave-roosting Neotropical birds whose single species is the oilbird, known locally as the guácharo, one of the few birds that echolocates.
Steatorrhea
Steatorrhea, also called fatty stool, is excess fat in stool (>7 g/day) from fat malabsorption or maldigestion. Causes include exocrine pancreatic insufficiency, celiac disease, and bile acid deficiency; diagnosed by 72-hour fecal fat testing or fecal elastase.
Steatosis
Steatosis, also known as fatty degeneration, is the abnormal retention of fat within cells, most often the buildup of triglycerides in liver cells that marks fatty liver disease.
Steaua
Steaua (The Star) is a Romanian literary and cultural magazine published in Cluj-Napoca by the Writers' Union of Romania. It began in 1949 as Almanahul literar and took its present name in 1954.
Stebbins (lunar crater)
Stebbins is a roughly 130-km-wide impact crater on the lunar far side at 64.36° N, 142.64° W, named by the IAU in 1970 for American astronomer Joel Stebbins (1878-1966), with satellite craters Stebbins C and U.
Stebin Ben
Stebin Ben is an Indian playback and pop singer from Bhopal, based in Mumbai, known for streaming hits like "Sahiba" and film songs in Jersey and Baaghi 4.
Stećci Medieval Tombstone Graveyards
Stećci Medieval Tombstone Graveyards: UNESCO World Heritage serial property (2016) of 28 sites in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, and Serbia protecting medieval limestone tombstones, or stećci, used by all three medieval Christian communities from the 12th to 16th centuries.
Stechkin automatic pistol
The Stechkin automatic pistol (APS, Avtomaticheskiy Pistolet Stechkina) is a Soviet machine pistol designed by Igor Stechkin, adopted in 1951, and issued to tank and artillery crews.
Stectorium
Stectorium (Greek Στεκτόριον) was an ancient city of Phrygia in Asia Minor, one of the five Phrygian Pentapolis cities, later a bishopric and today a Catholic titular see.
STED microscopy
STED microscopy, or stimulated emission depletion microscopy, is a fluorescence technique that breaks the diffraction limit of light microscopy, achieving lateral resolutions of roughly 30–80 nm.
STED nanoscopy
STED nanoscopy is a super-resolution fluorescence microscopy method that switches off fluorophores around the focus with a donut-shaped laser beam, reaching resolutions of tens of nanometers.
Stede Bonnet
Stede Bonnet, known as the Gentleman Pirate, was a Barbadian planter who turned pirate in 1717, sailed with Blackbeard, and was hanged at Charleston in 1718.
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam is an international institution for modern and contemporary art and design on Museumplein in Amsterdam, opened in 1895, expanded in 2012, holding about 100,000 works.
Stedin
Stedin is a Dutch distribution system operator that owns and runs the regional electricity and gas grids for about 5.6 million people in South Holland, Utrecht, and Zeeland.
Stedman Graham
Stedman Graham, born in 1951, is an American businessman and author who is chairman and CEO of S. Graham and Associates and the longtime partner of Oprah Winfrey.
Steel
Steel is an alloy of iron and carbon, with the boundary to cast iron at about 2.14% carbon. It is the most used metallic material in the world.
Steel (1997 film)
Steel (1997) is a Warner Bros. superhero film directed by Kenneth Johnson, starring Shaquille O'Neal as DC Comics' John Henry Irons. It grossed $1.8 million on a $16 million budget and holds 4% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Steel (John Henry Irons)
Steel (John Henry Irons), also the Man of Steel, is a DC Comics superhero created by Louise Simonson and Jon Bogdanove in Adventures of Superman #500 (1993); an armored, hammer-wielding engineer who replaced Superman during Reign of the Supermen.
Steel Authority of India
Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) is an Indian public sector steel company headquartered in New Delhi, set up in 1973 and owned mostly by the government.
Steel Ball Run (スティール・ボール・ラン)
Steel Ball Run (スティール・ボール・ラン) is Part 7 of Hirohiko Araki's JoJo's Bizarre Adventure manga, serialized 2004-2011 in Weekly Shonen Jump then Ultra Jump, set in 1890 America around the first transcontinental horse race with Johnny Joestar and Gyro Zeppeli; its David Production anime premiered on Netflix March 19, 2026.
Steel Ball Run: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
Steel Ball Run (スティール・ボール・ラン) is Part 7 of Hirohiko Araki's JoJo's Bizarre Adventure manga, serialized 2004–2011 in Weekly Shonen Jump and Ultra Jump. Set in 1890 America, it follows paraplegic jockey Johnny Joestar and Gyro Zeppeli in a 6,000 km horse race for $50 million; a David Production anime premiered on Netflix March 19, 2026.
Steel casting
Steel casting is a manufacturing process in which molten steel, melted at about 1,600 °C, is poured into a mold and solidified into a near-final shape.
Steel Curtain
Steel Curtain: nickname of the 1970s Pittsburgh Steelers' defensive line (Joe Greene, Ernie Holmes, L.C. Greenwood, Dwight White) and later the whole defense; a play on Iron Curtain, backing four Super Bowl wins.
Steel dam
A steel dam is a fixed wall built as a steel deck supported by inclined steel struts. Only three were constructed in the United States between 1897 and 1910.
Steel Dawn
Steel Dawn is a 1987 post-apocalyptic action film directed by Lance Hool, starring Patrick Swayze as Nomad, defending a desert town's water from Damnil; formerly titled Desert Warrior and Peacekeeper, filmed in Namibia, distributed by Vestron Pictures.
Steel Dome
Steel Dome (Turkish: Çelik Kubbe) is Türkiye's national integrated air and missile defense architecture, a layered system of systems announced in 2024, with first deliveries of 47 vehicles in August 2025.
Steel Dynamics
Steel Dynamics, Inc. is an American electric arc furnace steelmaker and metals recycler headquartered in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Founded in 1993, it also produces flat rolled aluminum.
Steel frame
A steel frame, also called skeleton frame construction, is a building structure of vertical steel columns and horizontal beams carrying the entire load, so walls need not bear weight.
Steel grades
Steel grades, also known as steel grading, are standardized variants of steel, an iron-carbon alloy with under 2% carbon, with over 3,500 grades each designed for a specific application.
Steel guitar
The steel guitar is a guitar played horizontally with a metal bar rather than fretted by hand, originating in Hawaii and central to Hawaiian and country music.