"state of cessation of movement," 1702, from stand (v.) + still (adv.). Earlier the notion would have been expressed simply by stand.
stand-off
standoffish
stand-out
stand-pipe
standpoint
standstill
stand-up
Stanford-Binet
stanine
Stanislavsky
stank
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