stairs; stairway; staircase
stage; step; level; rank; order; stairs
storey; story; stairs; stage (in chronostratigraphy); counter for storeys and floors of a building
first floor; ground floor; one floor; one storey; one rank
(social) class; rank; grade
class; level; stratum; layer; hierarchy
lower floor; downstairs; bottom of the stairs; foot of the stairs
stairs; stairs at the front of a noh stage
first floor; ground floor; one floor; one storey; one rank
upper class; upper echelons of society; the rich and powerful; the elite
emergency staircase; emergency stairs
floor above; floor upstairs
present stage; current phase; current rank; present grade
upper floor; upstairs; top of the stairs
incremental; step-by-step; gradual; stepwise
preliminary step; first step
under the staircase; understairs
second basement level; subbasement
number of stairs or stories (storeys); rank; order
upper floor (of a building)
stairs; rank; grade; guide; guidebook; slanted ladder (exercise equipment)
trial stage; experimental phase; prototype stage
experimental stage; experimental phase
proletariat; lower classes
class society; class-based society; hierarchical society
upper floor (of a high-rise building)
intellectual class; educated class; intelligentsia
middle class; bourgeoisie
class system; caste system; hierarchical system
stairwell; stair hall; staircase
floor below; floor downstairs
ladder; stairs; going to several places in succession (e.g. barhopping)
two-storey house; two-story house
graded on N steps; scored out of N
above-ground floor; ground floor
layered structure; layered system; stratification; hierarchical structure
second basement level; subbasement
class struggle; class warfare; class conflict
basement floor; underground floor
two-storey house; two-story house
middle class; bourgeoisie
planning stage; planning stages
upper classes; high society
stratification; hierarchization; layering; tiering
bottom floor; lowest floor
salaried class; working class
ordination (esp. Catholic)
classism; class discrimination
the propertied class; bourgeoisie
social class; social strata; social scale
the fourth estate; the proletariat
first system to rank officials into 12 levels (603 CE)
something that cannot be done no matter how hard one tries (and is slightly frustrating because of this); (lit.) eye drops from the second floor
chest of drawers that also function as stairs
relative rank accorded the gods of Shintoism
court rank and honors; court rank and honours
the third estate; the bourgeoisie
Nikai faction (of the Liberal Democratic Party); Shisuikai
exploiting class; exploiting classes
article; item; quality; flirtatiousness; coquetry
two-factor authentication
all stages; every level; entire sequence
name of a note in a movable do solfège system
Okinawan scale (hemitonic pentatonic scale: do, mi, fa, so, ti)
heptatonic scale; seven note scale; heptachord
two-factor authentication
pent roof (below the true roof of a pagoda, etc.)
stairs; stairs at the front of a noh stage
stairs; rank; grade; guide; guidebook; slanted ladder (exercise equipment)
chest of drawers that also function as stairs
chest of drawers that also function as stairs
height of a storey; floor height
anhemitonic pentatonic scale (pentatonic scale containing no semitones)
hemitonic pentatonic scale (pentatonic scale containing semitones)
miyako-bushi scale (characteristic Japanese hemitonic pentatonic scale: mi, fa, la, ti, do)
folk scale (anhemitonic pentatonic scale: mi, so, la, ti, re)
ritsu scale (anhemitonic pentatonic scale primarily used in gagaku: re, mi, so, la, ti)
HARC; Hierarchical Storage Archive and Retrieve Controller
hierarchical computer network
hierarchical constraint set
hierarchical classification system
hierarchical tree structure
general hierarchical model
general hierarchical model
stairlift; (home) chair lift
pent roof built atop the stairs of a shrine or a building in a classic aristocratic villa
Beaufort scale (of wind force)
analytic hierarchy process; AHP