11-letter words containing str
- street cred — popularity with and acceptance by the general public, especially young people. See also cred.
- street door — the door of a house that opens onto the street
- street food — ready-to-eat food sold on the street or in a park, open-air market, or other outdoor public place.
- street luge — the sport of racing down a paved incline on a wheeled sled, in a supine position.
- street name — a broker who holds securities registered in his or her name instead of in the name of the customer, especially for convenience in executing transfers and in pledging for borrowing in margin accounts.
- streetlight — a light, usually supported by a lamppost, for illuminating a street or road.
- streetology — knowledge of how to get along in an urban neighborhood; street smarts.
- streetscape — a pictorial view of a street.
- streetwards — towards or facing the street
- strengthens — to make stronger; give strength to.
- strengthful — full of strength, strong
- strenuosity — characterized by vigorous exertion, as action, efforts, life, etc.: a strenuous afternoon of hunting.
- strenuously — characterized by vigorous exertion, as action, efforts, life, etc.: a strenuous afternoon of hunting.
- stress ball — a small rubber ball squeezed in the hand as a means of relieving stress
- stress mark — a mark placed before, after, or over a syllable to indicate stress in pronunciation; accent mark.
- stress test — a simulation designed to show how a person or thing functions when affected by adverse circumstances
- stress-test — to subject to a stress test.
- stretch out — lie down, sprawl
- stretchless — unable to stretch or be stretched
- strife-torn — divided by violent conflict or dissent
- strike back — retaliate
- strike down — to deal a blow or stroke to (a person or thing), as with the fist, a weapon, or a hammer; hit.
- strike dumb — to amaze; astound; astonish
- strike fire — to make a spark, as with tinder
- strike fund — an amount of money reserved by a union to make payments to striking works should a strike occur
- strike home — to deliver an effective blow
- strike note — the note produced by a bell when struck, defining its musical pitch
- strike slip — the component of slip on a fault parallel with the linear extension or strike of the fault.
- strike zone — the area above home plate extending from the batter's knees to his or her shoulders.
- strikebound — closed by a strike: a strikebound factory.
- string band — a band consisting of stringed instruments
- string bass — double bass.
- string bean — 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.
- string line — string (def 17b).
- stringboard — a board or facing covering the ends of the steps in a staircase.
- stringently — rigorously binding or exacting; strict; severe: stringent laws.
- stringiness — resembling a string or strings; consisting of strings or stringlike pieces: stringy weeds; a stringy fiber.
- stringpiece — a long, usually horizontal piece of timber, beam, etc., for strengthening, connecting, or supporting a framework.
- strip joint — a nightclub or other establishment featuring striptease performances.
- strip light — A strip light is an electric light in the form of a long tube.
- strip poker — a game of poker in which the losers in a hand remove an article of clothing.
- strip steak — cut of beef: sirloin
- stripe rust — a disease of wheat, barley, rye, and other grasses, characterized by elongated rows of yellow spores on the affected parts, caused by a rust fungus, Puccinia glumarum.
- stripe smut — a disease of grasses, characterized by stripes of black spores on the leaves, caused by any of several smut fungi of the genera Urocystis and Ustilago.
- strippagram — a greetings message delivered by a stripper who does a striptease on delivery
- stripteaser — stripper (def 3).
- stroboscope — a device for studying the motion of a body, especially a body in rapid revolution or vibration, by making the motion appear to slow down or stop, as by periodically illuminating the body or viewing it through widely spaced openings in a revolving disk.
- stroke hole — (in a handicap match) a hole at which players with a handicap deduct a stroke from the number taken to play the hole.
- stroke play — medal play.
- stromateoid — resembling or related to the Stromateidae.