6-letter words containing s, t, o, r
- 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.
- suitor — a man who courts or woos a woman.
- 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)
- troops — armed forces; soldiers
- tropes — Rhetoric. any literary or rhetorical device, as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony, that consists in the use of words in other than their literal sense. an instance of this. Compare figure of speech.
- trouse — close-fitting breeches worn in Ireland
- troyes — a river in N France, flowing NW to the Seine. 125 miles (200 km) long.
- tsoris — trouble, distress, woe, misery, etc.
- tudors — Antony, 1909–87, English choreographer and dancer.
- tussor — a tan silk from India. Compare Shantung (def 2a).
- unsort — a particular kind, species, variety, class, or group, distinguished by a common character or nature: to develop a new sort of painting; nice people, of course, but not really our sort.
- worsts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of worst.
- worths — good or important enough to justify (what is specified): advice worth taking; a place worth visiting.
- zoster — Also called herpes zoster. Pathology. shingles.