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Showing words for STILTED using the English dictionary

7 Letter Words for Stilted

slitted, stilted

6 Letter Words for Stilted

delist, desilt, idlest, listed, silted, stiled, stilet, tildes, tilted, titled, titles

5 Letter Words for Stilted

deils, deist, delis, delit, delts, diets, dites, ditts, dtset, edits, eilds, idest, idles, isled, islet, istle, liest, lited, lites, sidle, sield, siled, sited, slide, slite, steid, steil, stied, stile, stilt, stite, teils, tides, tilde, tiled, tiles, tilts, title

4 Letter Words for Stilted

deil, deis, deli, dels, delt, desi, deti, diel, dies, diet, dist, dite, dits, ditt, edit, eild, elds, elts, ides, idle, ised, isle, itel, leds, leis, lest, lets, lett, lids, lied, lies, list, lite, lits, seil, seit, seld, selt, sett, side, sild, sile, silt, site, sled, slid, slit, sted, stet, stid, stie, teds, teil, teld, teli, tels, telt, test, tets, tide, tids, tied, ties, tile, tils, tilt, tite, tits

3 Letter Words for Stilted

dei, del, des, det, die, dil, dis, dit, dle, eds, eld, eli, els, elt, esd, est, ide, ids, ile, ise, isl, ist, itd, its, led, lei, les, let, lid, lie, lis, lit, lsd, lst, ltd, sed, sei, sel, set, sie, sil, sit, sld, sle, slt, std, tdt, ted, tel, tes, tet, tid, tie, til, tis, tit, tsi, tst

Definitions for Stilted

[1] stiffly dignified or formal, as speech or literary style; pompous.
[2] Architecture . (of an arch) resting on imposts treated in part as downward continuations of the arch.
[3] one of two poles, each with a support for the foot at some distance above the bottom end, enabling the wearer to walk with his or her feet above the ground.
[4] one of several posts supporting a structure built above the surface of land or water.
[5] Ceramics . a three-armed support for an object being fired.
[6] any of several white-and-black wading birds, especially Cladorhynchus leucocephalus and Himantopus himantopus, having long, bright pink legs and a long, slender black bill.
[7] British Dialect . a plow handle. a crutch.
[8] to raise on or as if on stilts.
[9] (of speech, writing, etc) formal, pompous, or bombastic
[10] not flowing continuously or naturally stilted conversation
[11] architect (of an arch) having vertical piers between the impost and the springing
[12] either of a pair of two long poles with footrests on which a person stands and walks, as used by circus clowns
[13] a long post or column that is used with others to support a building above ground level
[14] any of several shore birds of the genera Himantopus and Cladorhynchus, similar to the avocets but having a straight bill
[15] (tr) to raise or place on or as if on stilts

Words related to Stilted

labored, pompous, overblown, sonorous, formal, affected, angular, aureate, bombastic, decorous, egotistic, flowery, forced, genteel, grandiloquent, high-flown, inflated, magniloquent, mincing, pedantic

Words nearby Stilted

stillwater, stilly, stilt, stilt bug, stilt root, stilted, stilton, stilwell, stilyaga, stim, stime

Origin of Stilted

1275–1325; Middle English stilte; cognate with Low German stilte pole, German Stelze

Other words from Stilted

un·stilt·ed , adjective
stilt·like , adjective

Word origin for Stilted

C14 (in the sense: crutch, handle of a plough): related to Low German stilte pole, Norwegian stilta

Synonyms for Stilted

formal, labored, overblown, pompous, sonorous, affected, angular, aureate, bombastic, constrained, decorous, egotistic, euphuistic, flowery, forced, genteel, grandiloquent, high-flown, high-sounding, inflated, magniloquent, mincing, pedantic, prim, rhetorical, stiff, unnatural, wooden