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Starting fluid
Starting fluid, also called starter fluid, is a volatile aerosol spray based on diethyl ether that is sprayed into an engine's air intake to help it start in cold weather.
Starting Over
Starting Over is a 1979 American romantic comedy directed by Alan J. Pakula, starring Burt Reynolds, Jill Clayburgh, and Candice Bergen. James L. Brooks's first feature screenplay, adapted from Dan Wakefield's novel, earned Clayburgh and Bergen Oscar nominations and grossed $26.5 million in 52 days.
Startle epilepsy
Startle epilepsy, a rare reflex epilepsy (ICD-10 G40.5, ICD-11 8A61.40), causes tonic seizures triggered by sudden startle stimuli, mostly auditory, with falls, spastic plegia, intellectual disability, and refractory seizures.
Startle Reflex
The startle reflex is an automatic whole-body reaction to a sudden intense stimulus, causing muscle contraction, limb flexion, eye blinking, and autonomic changes like accelerated heart rate.
STARTNEWERA-OM trial
STARTNEWERA-OM (NCT06207292), also START-NEW-ERA #OLIGO, is a single-arm Italian phase II trial of SABR for synchronous/metachronous and oligo-progressive NSCLC; 80 patients, median new systemic therapy-free survival 34 months.
Starto Entertainment (スタートエンターテインメント)
STARTO ENTERTAINMENT (スタートエンターテインメント) is the Tokyo talent management company, founded October 2023, that took over Johnny & Associates' entertainment business after the Johnny Kitagawa abuse scandal, with compensation handled separately by SMILE-UP.
Startorus Fusion (星环聚能)
Startorus Fusion (星环聚能) is a Chinese private fusion energy startup founded in 2021 as a Tsinghua University spin-off in Xi'an, developing compact spherical tokamaks heated by magnetic reconnection.
StarTree (company)
StarTree, Inc. is an American data-analytics company founded in 2019 in Mountain View, California, offering StarTree Cloud, a managed database service built on Apache Pinot.
StartUp (TV series)
StartUp is a Crackle crime drama created by Ben Ketai (2016-2018, 3 seasons, 30 episodes), starring Adam Brody, Edi Gathegi, Otmara Marrero, and Martin Freeman, about Miami founders funding the GenCoin cryptocurrency with dirty money.
Startup company
A startup is a young company built to grow fast around a repeatable, scalable business model, distinguished by speed of learning rather than reliance on venture capital.
Startup India
Startup India is an Indian government initiative launched in 2016 that provides DPIIT recognition, funding schemes like the Fund of Funds, and tax benefits for qualifying startups.
Starvation
Starvation: severe lack of food that can cause death. Covers IPC famine thresholds, global hunger figures (645 million in 2025), refeeding syndrome, the Minnesota Starvation Experiment, and long-term famine effects.
Starvation (crime)
Starvation (crime): the criminalization of depriving civilians of food and water as a method of warfare, codified in Additional Protocol I Article 54, Additional Protocol II Article 14, and Rome Statute Article 8(2)(b)(xxv), extended to non-international armed conflict by the 2019 amendment; first ICC warrants issued November 2024.
Starvation response
Starvation response: the body's coordinated metabolic adaptation to absent food intake, shifting through glycogenolysis, gluconeogenesis, and ketogenesis to fuel the brain, spare protein, and extend survival.
Starvation Winter
Starvation Winter is the Blackfeet name for the winter of 1883–1884, when failed government rations and the extermination of the buffalo left roughly 600 Piegan dead.
Starve Acre
Starve Acre: 2023 British folk horror film directed by Daniel Kokotajlo, adapted from Andrew Michael Hurley's 2019 novel, starring Matt Smith and Morfydd Clark as grieving parents in 1970s Yorkshire; premiered at the BFI London Film Festival.
Starve the beast
Starve the beast is a conservative fiscal strategy, first named in a 1985 Wall Street Journal article, of cutting taxes to create deficits that force government spending cuts; most U.S. empirical studies find it does not restrain spending.
Starved Rock Lock and Dam
Starved Rock Lock and Dam is a lock and gated dam on the Illinois River near Utica, Illinois, opened in 1933 as part of the Illinois Waterway.
Starved Rock State Park
Starved Rock State Park: Illinois state park in La Salle County along the Illinois River with 18 St. Peter Sandstone canyons, 13 miles of trails, Fort St. Louis history, and 2.4 million annual visitors.
Starwest Botanicals
Starwest Botanicals is a Sacramento, California-based distributor and processor of organic botanicals, herbs, spices, teas, and essential oils. Founded in 1975, it was acquired by Incline Equity Partners in 2021.
Stary Olsa
Stary Olsa (Стары Ольса) is a Belarusian medieval and early music band from Minsk, founded in 1999 by Zmicier Sasnoŭski, known for its viral Metallica cover.
Stary Oskol
Stary Oskol (Старый Оскол), city in Belgorod Oblast, Russia; founded 1593 as the Oskol fortress. Center of Kursk Magnetic Anomaly iron ore mining and metallurgy; population 215,937 (2025).
Stary Sad
Stary Sad (Старый Сад, "Old Orchard") is a Bronze Age burial ground in the Baraba forest-steppe, Siberia, of the eastern Pakhomovskaya culture, with ancient DNA samples Sts1-Sts10 and transitional 10th-8th century BC burials.
Staryi Uhryniv
Staryi Uhryniv (Старий Угринів) is a village in Kalush Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine, first mentioned in 1447 and known as the birthplace of OUN leader Stepan Bandera, with a memorial museum and monument on the family homestead.
Starz
Starz (STARZ, NASDAQ: STRZ) is an American premium cable and streaming service launched February 1, 1994, known for originals like Outlander and Power, and separated from Lionsgate into standalone Starz Entertainment Corp. in May 2025.
Stas Mikhaylov
Stas Mikhaylov (Стас Михайлов), born 1969 in Sochi, is a Russian estrada and chanson-pop singer known for Kremlin Palace concerts and topping Forbes's 2012 celebrity earnings list.
Staša Košarac
Staša Košarac is a Bosnian politician who serves as Minister of Foreign Trade and Economic Relations and as Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers, the deputy head of government.
StashFin
StashFin is an India-focused digital lending and neobanking fintech founded in 2016 in Delhi by Tushar Aggarwal and Shruti Aggarwal, operating under an RBI NBFC license.
Stasi
The Stasi (Ministerium für Staatssicherheit, MfS) was East Germany's secret police, 1950-1990, modeled on the KGB. Under Erich Mielke it grew to 85,000 staff plus 180,000-200,000 informers, filed six million citizens, and was dissolved in 1990.
Stasiland
Stasiland is a 2003 work of literary journalism by Australian writer Anna Funder that recounts life in East Germany under the Stasi and won the 2004 Samuel Johnson Prize.