Sternpost is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.
You can make 426 anagrams from letters in sternpost (enoprsstt).
First recorded in 1570-80; stern2 + post1
The after-body is generally whale-shaped, with the sternpost at a somewhat less angle than the stem.
That the sternpost should show, say, a quarter of an inch above the water-line aft, and the rudder be hung thereon.
Built for length on deck, there was no necessity for shortening up the water-line, and her sternpost had no very great rake.
After 1854 it was taken on deck from stem-head to sternpost, and certain deductions made for rake.
A few yards away from the sternpost was the jolly-boat with the crew.
Her frames were of bent elm, the sternpost and knees of tea-tree, while her keel was of tallow-wood.
Outside, copper shows wear and tear more quickly near the stem and sternpost and along the water-line.
A third buried itself in the sternpost, but fortunately did not explode.
Singularly enough a part of it was used for the sternpost of the frigate Essex.
In another house was the sternpost of a vessel, probably part of a wreck driven across from the coast of Africa.
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