12-letter words containing str
- distractedly — having the attention diverted: She tossed several rocks to the far left and slipped past the distracted sentry.
- distractible — to draw away or divert, as the mind or attention: The music distracted him from his work.
- distractions — Plural form of distraction.
- distrainable — Capable of being, or liable to be, distrained.
- distraughtly — distracted; deeply agitated.
- distress gun — a gun fired at one-minute intervals as a signal of distress.
- distributary — an outflowing branch of a stream or river, typically found in a delta (opposed to tributary).
- distributees — Plural form of distributee.
- distributers — a person or thing that distributes.
- distributing — to divide and give out in shares; deal out; allot.
- distribution — an act or instance of distributing.
- distributism — a socioeconomic theory and system advocating widespread ownership of private property and the means of production: based on late 19th-century Catholic teachings on economic and social justice.
- distributive — serving to distribute, assign, allot, or divide; characterized by or pertaining to distribution.
- distributors — Plural form of distributor.
- district man — a legman who covers a beat for a newspaper.
- district six — an area of Cape Town that was inhabited by a racially mixed community until it was forcibly removed in 1966
- distringases — Plural form of distringas.
- distrustless — without suspicion or distrust
- dosing strip — (in New Zealand) an area set aside for treating dogs suspected of having hydatid disease
- drill string — (on a drill rig) the assemblage of drill pipes that link the drill bit to the mechanism that imparts rotary or reciprocating motion.
- enstructured — built into the structure of something
- entoplastral — relating to an entoplastron
- entoplastron — the median plate of a turtle's plastron
- equestrienne — A female equestrian.
- estrangement — The fact of no longer being on friendly terms or part of a social group.
- etonogestrel — a progestogen used as a male contraceptive, released from two tiny rods placed under the skin
- extra-strong — stronger than average; very strong
- fenestration — the design and disposition of windows and other exterior openings of a building.
- fidel castro — Cipriano [sip-ree-ah-noh;; Spanish see-pree-ah-naw] /ˌsɪp riˈɑ noʊ;; Spanish ˌsi priˈɑ nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1858?–1924, Venezuelan military and political leader: president 1901–08; exiled 1908.
- first strike — the initial use of nuclear weapons in a conflict, in which the attacker tries to destroy the adversary's strategic nuclear forces.
- first string — composed of regular members, participants, etc. (distinguished from substitute): the first-string team.
- first-strike — the initial use of nuclear weapons in a conflict, in which the attacker tries to destroy the adversary's strategic nuclear forces.
- first-string — composed of regular members, participants, etc. (distinguished from substitute): the first-string team.
- fissirostral — having a broad, deeply cleft beak or bill, as the swallows and goatsuckers.
- flaky pastry — variety of puff pastry
- fleet street — a street in central London, England: location of many newspaper offices; often used figuratively to mean the entire British newspaper world.
- flight strip — Aeronautics. a strip of cleared land used as an emergency runway for aircraft. runway.
- four-striper — a captain in the U.S. Navy.
- frustratedly — In a frustrated manner.
- frustrations — Plural form of frustration.
- gastrectasia — (medicine) dilation of the stomach.
- gastric band — A gastric band is a device that is fitted inside someone's stomach to make it smaller in order to help them lose weight.
- gastric mill — a gizzard in decapod crustaceans, as lobsters, crabs, and shrimps, having an arrangement of teeth and small bones for grinding food and bristles for filtering small particles.
- gastrocnemii — Plural form of gastrocnemius.
- gastrodermal — the inner cell layer of the body of an invertebrate.
- gastrodermis — the inner cell layer of the body of an invertebrate.
- gastrologist — the study of the structure, functions, and diseases of the stomach.
- gastronomics — the cooking style typical of a region or country
- gastronomies — Plural form of gastronomy.
- gastronomist — a connoisseur of good food; gourmet; epicure.