10-letter words containing s, t, e, r, i
- stewarding — a person who manages another's property or financial affairs; one who administers anything as the agent of another or others.
- stickering — a person or thing that sticks.
- stillwater — a city in N Oklahoma.
- stimpmeter — a machine used in golf to measure the speed of a putting green
- stir-fried — stir-fried.
- stockinger — a person who knits on a stocking frame
- stockrider — a cowboy.
- stop price — the price at which a stop order is activated.
- story line — plot (def 2).
- storyville — a red-light district of New Orleans known as a wellspring of jazz before World War I.
- stoutherie — theft
- stouthrief — theft using force or violence
- straighten — make straight
- straighter — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
- strainedly — in a strained manner
- strainless — to draw tight or taut, especially to the utmost tension; stretch to the full: to strain a rope.
- straitened — to put into difficulties, especially financial ones: His obligations had straitened him.
- strandline — a mark left by the high tide or a line of seaweed and other debris washed onto the beach by the tide
- strategics — strategy (def 1).
- strategies — Also, strategics. the science or art of combining and employing the means of war in planning and directing large military movements and operations.
- strategise — to make up or determine strategy; plan.
- strategist — an expert in strategy, especially in warfare: Julius Caesar was a great military strategist.
- strategize — to make up or determine strategy; plan.
- stratified — to form or place in strata or layers.
- stravaiger — Scot., Irish, and North England. to wander aimlessly.
- straw wine — a usually rich or sweet wine produced from grapes partially dried on the vine or picked and dried in the sun on a bed of straw or reeds.
- streamline — a teardrop line of contour offering the least possible resistance to a current of air, water, etc.
- streamling — a small stream
- streamside — the land on the sides of a stream.
- streetwise — street-smart.
- strelitzia — any southern African perennial herbaceous plant of the genus Strelitzia, cultivated for its showy flowers: includes the bird-of-paradise flower: family Strelitziaceae
- strepitoso — (to be performed) boisterously
- strepitous — boisterous; noisy.
- stretching — the activity of straightening the arms and legs and tightening the muscles
- strictness — characterized by or acting in close conformity to requirements or principles: a strict observance of rituals.
- stridulate — to produce a shrill, grating sound, as a cricket does, by rubbing together certain parts of the body; shrill.
- strifeless — without strife
- strigilate — an instrument with a curved blade, used especially by the ancient Greeks and Romans for scraping the skin at the bath and in the gymnasium.
- strike off — to deal a blow or stroke to (a person or thing), as with the fist, a weapon, or a hammer; hit.
- strike oil — any of a large class of substances typically unctuous, viscous, combustible, liquid at ordinary temperatures, and soluble in ether or alcohol but not in water: used for anointing, perfuming, lubricating, illuminating, heating, etc.
- strike out — to deal a blow or stroke to (a person or thing), as with the fist, a weapon, or a hammer; hit.
- strike pay — strike benefit.
- strikeover — an act or instance of typing over a character, as one typed in error, without erasing it.
- strindberg — Johan August [yoo-hahn ou-goo st] /ˈyu hɑn ˈaʊ gʊst/ (Show IPA), 1849–1912, Swedish novelist, dramatist, and essayist.
- string tie — a short, very narrow, and unflared necktie, usually tied in a bow.
- stringbean — any of various kinds of bean, as the green bean, the unripe pods of which are used as food, usually after stripping off the fibrous thread along the side.
- stringency — stringent character or condition: the stringency of poverty.
- stringendo — to be performed with increasing speed
- stringless — a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
- strip mine — A strip mine is a mine in which the coal, metal, or mineral is near the surface, and so underground passages are not needed.