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6-letter words containing a, s, r

  • stator — Electricity, Machinery. a portion of a machine that remains fixed with respect to rotating parts, especially the collection of stationary parts in the magnetic circuits of a machine. Compare rotor (def 1).
  • stayer — a person or thing that stays
  • stelar — an upright stone slab or pillar bearing an inscription or design and serving as a monument, marker, or the like.
  • sterna — sternum
  • storax — a solid resin with a vanillalike odor, obtained from a small tree, Styrax officinalis: formerly used in medicine and perfumery.
  • strabo — 63? b.c.–a.d. 21? Greek geographer and historian.
  • strafe — to attack (ground troops or installations) by airplanes with machine-gun fire.
  • strain — to draw tight or taut, especially to the utmost tension; stretch to the full: to strain a rope.
  • strait — Often, straits. (used with a singular verb) a narrow passage of water connecting two large bodies of water.
  • strake — Nautical. a continuous course of planks or plates on a ship forming a hull shell, deck, etc.
  • strand — to form (a rope, cable, etc.) by twisting strands together.
  • strass — silk waste produced in making skeins.
  • strata — a plural of stratum.
  • strath — a wide valley.
  • strati — a cloud of a class characterized by a gray, horizontal layer with a uniform base, found at a lower altitude than altostratus, usually below 8000 feet (2400 meters).
  • straus — Isidor, 1845–1912, U.S. retail merchant and politician, born in Bavaria: congressman 1894–95 (brother of Nathan and Oscar Solomon Straus).
  • strawy — of, containing, or resembling straw.
  • strays — to deviate from the direct course, leave the proper place, or go beyond the proper limits, especially without a fixed course or purpose; ramble: to stray from the main road.
  • streak — a long, narrow mark, smear, band of color, or the like: streaks of mud.
  • stream — a body of water flowing in a channel or watercourse, as a river, rivulet, or brook. Synonyms: rill, run, streamlet, runnel.
  • striae — a slight or narrow furrow, ridge, stripe, or streak, especially one of a number in parallel arrangement: striae of muscle fiber.
  • stroam — to wander idly or to stride
  • stroma — Cell Biology. the supporting framework or matrix of a cell.
  • struma — Pathology. goiter.
  • stuart — a member of the royal family that ruled in Scotland from 1371 to 1714 and in England from 1603 to 1714.
  • stylar — having the shape of an ancient style; resembling a pen, pin, or peg.
  • styrax — any tropical or subtropical tree of the genus Styrax, which includes the storaxes
  • styria — a province in SE Austria: formerly a duchy. 6327 sq. mi. (16,385 sq. km). Capital: Graz.
  • suarez — Francisco [fran-sis-koh;; Spanish frahn-thees-kaw,, -sees-] /frænˈsɪs koʊ;; Spanish frɑnˈθis kɔ,, -ˈsis-/ (Show IPA), 1548–1617, Spanish theologian and philosopher.
  • suaver — (of persons or their manner, speech, etc.) smoothly agreeable or polite; agreeably or blandly urbane.
  • subpar — below an average, usual, or normal level, quality, or the like; below par: This month his performance has been subpar.
  • sugars — a sweet, crystalline substance, C 1 2 H 2 2 O 1 1 , obtained chiefly from the juice of the sugarcane and the sugar beet, and present in sorghum, maple sap, etc.: used extensively as an ingredient and flavoring of certain foods and as a fermenting agent in the manufacture of certain alcoholic beverages; sucrose. Compare beet sugar, cane sugar.
  • sugary — of, containing, or resembling sugar.
  • sunray — a ray of sunlight; sunbeam.
  • supra- — over, above, beyond, or greater than
  • surtax — an additional or extra tax on something already taxed.
  • swager — a tool for bending cold metal to a required shape.
  • swaraj — (in India) self-government.
  • swardy — covered by sward
  • swarth — sward; greensward.
  • sweary — characterized by or involving the use of swearwords
  • synura — any of several species of green alga
  • syriac — a form of Aramaic used by various Eastern Churches.
  • syrian — of or relating to Syria or its inhabitants.
  • syzran — a city in the E Russian Federation in Europe, on the Volga.
  • tarbes — a department in SW France. 1751 sq. mi. (4535 sq. km). Capital: Tarbes.
  • tarsal — of or relating to the tarsus of the foot.
  • tarsia — intarsia.
  • tarski — Alfred, 1902–1983, U.S. mathematician and logician, born in Poland.
  • tarso- — tarsus or tarsal
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