6-letter words containing s, t, e, r
- steric — of or relating to the spatial relationships of atoms in a molecule.
- sterna — sternum
- sterne — Laurence, 1713–68, English clergyman and novelist.
- sterno — inflammable hydrocarbon jelly in a small can, used for cooking
- sterol — any of a group of solid, mostly unsaturated, polycyclic alcohols, as cholesterol and ergosterol, derived from plants or animals.
- stewer — a person who worries, ponders, or thinks about something a great deal
- stiver — Also, stuiver. a former nickel coin of the Netherlands, equal to five Dutch cents.
- stoker — Bram [bram] /bræm/ (Show IPA), (Abraham Stoker) 1847–1912, British novelist, born in Ireland: creator of Dracula.
- stoner — Slang. a person who is habitually high on drugs, especially marijuana, or alcohol; a person who is usually stoned.
- stoper — a machine for drilling rock from below.
- stored — an establishment where merchandise is sold, usually on a retail basis.
- 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
- stover — coarse roughage used as feed for livestock.
- stower — a person who stows
- strafe — to attack (ground troops or installations) by airplanes with machine-gun fire.
- strake — Nautical. a continuous course of planks or plates on a ship forming a hull shell, deck, etc.
- 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.
- streek — to stretch (one's limbs), as on awakening or by exercise.
- streel — a slovenly woman
- streep — Meryl, original name Mary Louise Streep. born 1949, US actress. Her films include The Deer Hunter (1978), Kramer vs Kramer (1979), The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), Sophie's Choice (1982), Out of Africa (1986), The Hours (2002), Mamma Mia! (2008), and The Iron Lady (2011)
- street — a public thoroughfare, usually paved, in a village, town, or city, including the sidewalk or sidewalks.
- stress — importance attached to a thing: to lay stress upon good manners. Synonyms: significance, meaning, emphasis, consequence; weight, value, worth.
- strewn — to let fall in separate pieces or particles over a surface; scatter or sprinkle: to strew seed in a garden bed.
- striae — a slight or narrow furrow, ridge, stripe, or streak, especially one of a number in parallel arrangement: striae of muscle fiber.
- stride — to walk with long steps, as with vigor, haste, impatience, or arrogance.
- strife — vigorous or bitter conflict, discord, or antagonism: to be at strife.
- strike — to deal a blow or stroke to (a person or thing), as with the fist, a weapon, or a hammer; hit.
- strine — Australian English.
- stripe — a stroke with a whip, rod, etc., as in punishment.
- strive — to exert oneself vigorously; try hard: He strove to make himself understood.
- 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.
- strove — simple past tense of strive.
- struve — Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von [free-drikh gey-awrk vil-helm fuh n] /ˈfri drɪx geɪˈɔrk ˈvɪl hɛlm fən/ (Show IPA), 1793–1864, Russian astronomer, born in Germany.
- stumer — something bogus or fraudulent.
- styler — a person or thing that styles.
- suiter — a piece of luggage for carrying suits and dresses
- sumter — a city in central South Carolina.
- surest — free from doubt as to the reliability, character, action, etc., of something: to be sure of one's data.
- surete — la [lah] /lɑ/ (Show IPA) the criminal investigation department of the French government.
- surety — security against loss or damage or for the fulfillment of an obligation, the payment of a debt, etc.; a pledge, guaranty, or bond.
- sutler — (formerly) a person who followed an army or maintained a store on an army post to sell provisions to the soldiers.
- sutter — John Augustus, 1803–80, U.S. frontiersman: owner of Sutter's Mill.
- suture — Surgery. a joining of the lips or edges of a wound or the like by stitching or some similar process. a particular method of doing this. one of the stitches or fastenings employed.
- tarbes — a department in SW France. 1751 sq. mi. (4535 sq. km). Capital: Tarbes.