Find your perfect word!

 

Definition stint

Etymology 1

From Middle English stinten, from Old English styntan (“to make blunt”) and *stintan (attested in Old English ?stintan (“to make dull, stint, assuage”)), from Proto-Germanic *stuntijan? and *stintan? (“to make short”), probably influenced in some senses by cognate Old Norse *stynta, stytta (“to make short, shorten”).

Noun

stint (plural stints)

  1. A period of time spent doing or being something; a spell.
  2. Limit; bound; restraint; extent.
  3. Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted.
Verb

stint (third-person singular simple present stints, present participle stinting, simple past and past participle stinted)

  1. (archaic, intransitive) To stop (an action); cease, desist.
  2. (obsolete, intransitive) To stop speaking or talking (of a subject).
  3. (intransitive) To be sparing or mean.
  4. (transitive) To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to restrict to a scant allowance.
  5. To assign a certain task to (a person), upon the performance of which he/she is excused from further labour for that day or period; to stent.
  6. (of mares) To impregnate successfully; to get with foal.

Etymology 2

Origin unknown.

Noun

stint (plural stints)

  1. Any of several very small wading birds in the genus Calidris. Types of sandpiper, such as the dunlin or the sanderling.

Etymology 3

Noun

stint (plural stints)

  1. Misspelling of stent (medical device).

Results 247 Words with the letters STINT

2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8 letter words with the letters STINT 
7 letter words with the letters STINT 
6 letter words with the letters STINT 
5 letter words with the letters STINT 
4 letter words with the letters STINT 
NITS 5
SNIT 5
TINS 5
TINT 5
TITS 4
3 letter words with the letters STINT 
INS 4
ITS 3
NIT 4
SIN 4
SIT 3
TIN 4
TIS 3
TIT 3
2 letter words with the letters STINT 
IN 3
IS 2
IT 2
SI 2
TI 2

You can also try words with the phrase STINT, words starting with the letters STINT, or words ending in the letters STINT.