10-letter words containing t, r, i, n, s
- stockinger — a person who knits on a stocking frame
- story line — plot (def 2).
- stracchino — a soft cheese from North Italy
- straggling — to stray from the road, course, or line of march.
- straighten — make straight
- 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.
- stramonium — jimson weed.
- strandline — a mark left by the high tide or a line of seaweed and other debris washed onto the beach by the tide
- strangling — an incident in which someone is strangled
- strapontin — a seat which is folded down to sit on
- stravaging — Scot., Irish, and North England. to wander aimlessly.
- stravinsky — Igor Fëdorovich [ee-gawr fyaw-duh-roh-vich;; Russian ee-guh r fyaw-duh-ruh-vyich] /ˈi gɔr ˌfyɔ dəˈroʊ vɪtʃ;; Russian ˈi gər ˈfyɔ də rə vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1882–1971, U.S. composer, born in Russia.
- 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
- stretching — the activity of straightening the arms and legs and tightening the muscles
- strickland — William, 1787–1854, U.S. architect and engineer.
- strictness — characterized by or acting in close conformity to requirements or principles: a strict observance of rituals.
- strikingly — attractive; impressive: a scene of striking beauty.
- strindberg — Johan August [yoo-hahn ou-goo st] /ˈyu hɑn ˈaʊ gʊst/ (Show IPA), 1849–1912, Swedish novelist, dramatist, and essayist.
- string bag — an openwork bag made of string, especially one with handles.
- string out — a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
- 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
- stringhalt — a nerve disorder in horses, causing exaggerated flexing movements of the hind legs in walking.
- stringless — a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
- strip bond — a bond that has been stripped into its principal certificate and interest coupons, each part to be sold separately.
- strip down — remove paint or wallpaper from
- 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.
- stripiness — the state or quality of being stripy
- strivingly — in a striving manner
- strobiline — of or relating to a strobilus
- struggling — to contend with an adversary or opposing force.
- strychnine — Pharmacology. a colorless, crystalline poison, C 2 1 H 2 2 N 2 O 2 , obtained chiefly by extraction from the seeds of nux vomica, formerly used as a central nervous system stimulant.
- stupration — an act of ravishing or a violation
- sturdiness — strongly built; stalwart; robust: sturdy young athletes.
- subintrant — having attacks or fits one after the other
- subnitrate — a basic salt of nitric acid.
- subreption — Canon Law. a concealment of the pertinent facts in a petition, as for dispensation or favor, that in certain cases nullifies the grant. Compare obreption (def 1).
- subroutine — an instruction sequence in a machine or assembly language program that can be prewritten and referred to as often as needed. Compare procedure (def 4a).
- subterrain — a cave or subterranean room.
- sultriness — oppressively hot and close or moist; sweltering: a sultry day.
- superation — the action or process of superating, overcoming or surpassing
- supergiant — Astronomy. supergiant star.
- superpaint — (graphics) A pioneering graphics program and framebuffer computer system developed by Richard Shoup at Xerox PARC. Design started in 1972 and the system produced its first stable image in April 1973. SuperPaint was one of the first computers used for creative work, video editing and animation, all which would become major sections within the entertainment industry and major components of industrial design. SuperPaint had a graphical user interface and could capture images from video input or combine them with digital data. SuperPaint was the first program with features such as changing hue, saturation and value, a colour palette, custom polygons and lines, virtual paintbrushes and pencils, auto-filling of images and anti-aliasing.
- supertonic — the second tone of a diatonic scale, being the next above the tonic.