5-letter words containing s, t, r
- snort — (of animals) to force the breath violently through the nostrils with a loud, harsh sound: The spirited horse snorted and shied at the train.
- sorta — sort of; somewhat: I'm sorta nervous about asking for a date.
- soter — (Soter) king of Pergamum 241–197 b.c.
- spart — a type of grass or esparto
- spirt — to gush or issue suddenly in a stream or jet, as a liquid; spout.
- sport — an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature, as racing, baseball, tennis, golf, bowling, wrestling, boxing, hunting, fishing, etc.
- sprat — a species of herring, Clupea sprattus, of the eastern North Atlantic.
- sprit — a small pole or spar crossing a fore-and-aft sail diagonally from the mast to the upper aftermost corner, serving to extend the sail.
- spurt — to gush or issue suddenly in a stream or jet, as a liquid; spout.
- sruti — the Vedas and some of the Upanishads, regarded as divinely revealed.
- stair — one of a flight or series of steps for going from one level to another, as in a building.
- stare — to gaze fixedly and intently, especially with the eyes wide open.
- stark — sheer, utter, downright, or complete: stark madness.
- starr — Belle (Myra Belle Shirley) 1848–89, U.S. outlaw and folk hero.
- stars — any of the heavenly bodies, except the moon, appearing as fixed luminous points in the sky at night.
- start — to begin or set out, as on a journey or activity.
- steer — to guide the course of (something in motion) by a rudder, helm, wheel, etc.: to steer a bicycle.
- stere — a cubic meter equivalent to 35.315 cubic feet or 1.3080 cubic yards, used to measure cordwood. Abbreviation: st.
- stern — rear of boat
- steyr — an industrial city in N central Austria, in Upper Austria. Pop: 39 340 (2001)
- stirk — a young bull or cow, especially one in its second year.
- stirp — a line of descendants from a common ancestor.
- store — an establishment where merchandise is sold, usually on a retail basis.
- stork — any of several wading birds of the family Ciconiidae, having long legs and a long neck and bill. Compare adjutant stork, jabiru, marabou (def 1), white stork, wood ibis.
- storm — Theodore Woldsen [tey-aw-dawr vawlt-suh n] /ˈteɪ ɔˌdɔr ˈvɔlt sən/ (Show IPA), 1817–88, German poet and novelist.
- story — a narrative, either true or fictitious, in prose or verse, designed to interest, amuse, or instruct the hearer or reader; tale.
- stour — British Dialect. tumult; confusion. a storm.
- strad — Stradivarius
- strag — a straggler or stray
- strap — a narrow strip of flexible material, especially leather, as for fastening or holding things together.
- straw — a single stalk or stem, especially of certain species of grain, chiefly wheat, rye, oats, and barley.
- stray — 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.
- strep — streptococcus.
- strew — to let fall in separate pieces or particles over a surface; scatter or sprinkle: to strew seed in a garden bed.
- stria — a slight or narrow furrow, ridge, stripe, or streak, especially one of a number in parallel arrangement: striae of muscle fiber.
- strig — to remove the stalk from
- strim — to cut (grass) using a Strimmer
- strip — to cut, tear, or form into strips.
- strop — any of several devices for sharpening razors, especially a strip of leather or other flexible material.
- strow — strew.
- stroy — to destroy.
- strum — to play on (a stringed musical instrument) by running the fingers lightly across the strings.
- strut — to walk with a vain, pompous bearing, as with head erect and chest thrown out, as if expecting to impress observers.
- sturt — violent quarreling.
- surat — a seaport in S Gujarat, in W India: first British settlement in India 1612.
- sutor — a cobbler or shoemaker
- sutra — Hinduism. a collection of aphorisms relating to some aspect of the conduct of life.
- swart — swarthy.
- tares — the weight of the wrapping, receptacle, or conveyance containing goods.
- tars- — tarso-