6-letter words containing r, o, s
- storer — a person or thing that stores something
- stores — an establishment where merchandise is sold, usually on a retail basis.
- storey — story2 .
- storge — natural or instinctual affection, as of a parent for a child
- stormy — affected, characterized by, or subject to storms; tempestuous: a stormy sea.
- storrs — a town in NE Connecticut.
- stoury — dusty
- stover — coarse roughage used as feed for livestock.
- stower — a person who stows
- strabo — 63? b.c.–a.d. 21? Greek geographer and historian.
- stroam — to wander idly or to stride
- strobe — Also called strobe light. stroboscope (def 2a).
- strode — simple past tense of stride.
- stroke — a short oblique stroke (/) between two words indicating that whichever is appropriate may be chosen to complete the sense of the text in which they occur: The defendant and his/her attorney must appear in court.
- stroll — to walk leisurely as inclination directs; ramble; saunter; take a walk: to stroll along the beach.
- stroma — Cell Biology. the supporting framework or matrix of a cell.
- stromb — a shellfish similar to a whelk
- strong — having, showing, or able to exert great bodily or muscular power; physically vigorous or robust: a strong boy.
- strook — a simple past tense and past participle of strike.
- stroud — a coarse woolen cloth, blanket, or garment formerly used by the British in bartering with the North American Indians.
- strout — to bulge
- strove — simple past tense of strive.
- strown — strew.
- stupor — suspension or great diminution of sensibility, as in disease or as caused by narcotics, intoxicants, etc.: He lay there in a drunken stupor.
- styron — William, 1925–2006, U.S. author.
- suborn — to bribe or induce (someone) unlawfully or secretly to perform some misdeed or to commit a crime.
- subroc — a rocket that contains a nuclear depth charge and that can be launched underwater from a submarine torpedo tube.
- succor — help; relief; aid; assistance.
- suitor — a man who courts or woos a woman.
- synroc — a titanium-ceramic substance that can incorporate nuclear waste in its crystals
- tarso- — tarsus or tarsal
- tensor — Anatomy. a muscle that stretches or tightens some part of the body.
- throes — a violent spasm or pang; paroxysm.
- tonsor — a barber
- tories — a member of the Conservative Party in Great Britain or Canada.
- torose — Botany. cylindrical, with swellings or constrictions at intervals; knobbed.
- torous — Botany. cylindrical, with swellings or constrictions at intervals; knobbed.
- torsel — a beam or slab of wood, stone, iron, etc., laid on a masonry wall to receive and distribute the weight from one end of a beam.
- tortos — Terminal Oriented Real Time Operating System
- tosher — a person who scavenged in the sewers in Victorian London
- tosser — to throw, pitch, or fling, especially to throw lightly or carelessly: to toss a piece of paper into the wastebasket.
- touser — someone who touses
- towser — a big dog.
- triose — a monosaccharide that has three atoms of carbon.
- tripos — (at Cambridge University, England) any of various final honors examinations.
- troggs — loyalty; fidelity
- trolls — to sing or utter in a full, rolling voice.
- tromps — to tramp or trample.
- tromso — a seaport in N Norway.
- tromsø — a port in N Norway, on a small island between Kvaløy and the mainland: fishing and sealing centre. Pop: 61 897 (2004 est)