16-letter words containing str
- storm and stress — Sturm und Drang.
- straight shooter — a person who is forthright and upstanding in behavior.
- straight whiskey — pure, unblended whiskey of 80 to 110 proof.
- strain at a gnat — to hesitate or have scruples about trifles: Matt. 23:24
- strain hardening — a process in which a metal is permanently deformed in order to increase its resistance to further deformation
- strait-lacedness — the state or quality of being strait-laced
- strange particle — any elementary particle with a strangeness quantum number other than zero.
- strawberry blite — a plant, Chenopodium capitatum, having dense, rounded clusters of minute reddish flowers.
- strawberry blond — reddish blond.
- strawberry guava — a shrub or small tree, Psidium littorale, of the myrtle family, native to Brazil, having smooth, grayish-brown bark, leathery leaves, white flowers, and edible, white-fleshed, purplish-red fruit.
- strawberry shrub — Carolina allspice
- streak lightning — lightning in which there is a sudden flash from what appears to be a single main line
- streaked gurnard — a type of fish, Chelidonichthys lastoviza or Trigloporus lastoviza
- street christian — (especially in the 1960s) a Christian whose religious life centers more in social or communal groups than in institutional churches.
- street directory — a directory containing an alphabetical list of streets along with other information such as the names and addresses of householders and tradespeople
- street furniture — pieces of equipment, such as streetlights and pillar boxes, placed in the street for the benefit of the public
- street performer — busker or entertainer in a public place
- streets ahead of — superior to, more advanced than, etc
- stretch receptor — muscle spindle.
- stretcher bearer — a person who helps to carry a stretcher, esp in wartime
- stretcher-bearer — a person who helps carry a stretcher, as in removing wounded from a battlefield.
- strict inclusion — the relation between two sets that obtains when all the members of the first are members of the second
- strict liability — responsibility for damage or loss regardless of intention or culpability
- strike a balance — compromise
- strike a bargain — an advantageous purchase, especially one acquired at less than the usual cost: The sale offered bargains galore.
- string orchestra — an orchestra consisting only of violins, violas, cellos, and double basses
- striped squirrel — any squirrel with stripes on its back, as a chipmunk.
- stroboradiograph — a stroboscopic radiograph.
- strongyloidiasis — an intestinal disease caused by infection with the nematode worm Strongyloides stercoralis
- structural steel — the variety of steel shapes rolled for use in construction.
- sub-postmistress — (in Britain) a woman who runs a sub-post office
- sunrise industry — any of the high-technology industries, such as electronics, that hold promise of future development
- tensile strength — the resistance of a material to longitudinal stress, measured by the minimum amount of longitudinal stress required to rupture the material.
- the oil industry — the industry that produces and delivers petroleum and petroleum products
- the sex industry — a commercial sector that employs sex workers in prostitution, pornography, etc.
- tobacco industry — business of selling smoking products
- tourist industry — the people, activities, and organizations involved in providing services for people on holiday, for example hotels, restaurants, and tour guides
- two-stroke cycle — See under two-cycle.
- vasoconstriction — constriction of the blood vessels, as by the action of a nerve.
- vasoconstrictive — causing vasoconstriction.
- walk the streets — to be a prostitute
- weatherstripping — A piece of weatherstrip material.
- well-constructed — to build or form by putting together parts; frame; devise.
- well-illustrated — containing pictures, drawings, and other illustrations: an illustrated book.
- wind instruments — a musical instrument sounded by the breath or other air current, as the trumpet, trombone, clarinet, or flute.
- windows registry — (operating system) The database used by Microsoft Windows 95 and later to store all sorts of configuration information such as which program should be used to open a .doc file, DLL registration information, application-specific settings and much more. The Registry is stored in .dat files, one in the user's profile containing their per-user settings and one in the Windows directory containing settings that are global to all users. These are loaded into memory at login. The loaded data appears as a tree with five main branches: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, HKEY_CURRENT_USER, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, HKEY_USERS, HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG. HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT defines file types and actions, HKEY_CURRENT_USER is an alias for one of the sub-trees of HKEY_USERS and contains user settings that override the global defaults in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE. The branches of the tree are called "keys" and are identified by paths like HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion. Any node in the tree can have zero or more "values" which are actually bindings of a name and a value, e.g. "Logon User Name" = "Denis". The value can be of type string, binary, dword (long integer), multi-string value or expandable string value. Windows includes a Registry Editor (regedit.exe).