8-letter words containing str
- oistrakh — David [dey-vid] /ˈdeɪ vɪd/ (Show IPA), 1908–74, Russian violinist.
- onstream — Being produced.
- ostracod — seed shrimp.
- ostracon — (in ancient Greece) a potsherd, especially one used as a ballot on which the name of a person voted to be ostracized was inscribed.
- ostrakon — ostracon.
- ostreger — a keeper of hawks
- outstrip — to outdo; surpass; excel.
- palestra — a public place for training or exercise in wrestling or athletics.
- papistry — the Roman Catholic Church.
- pastrami — a brisket of beef that has been cured in a mixture of garlic, peppercorns, sugar, coriander seeds, etc., then smoked before cooking.
- pastries — a sweet baked food made of dough, especially the shortened paste used for pie crust and the like.
- plastral — of or relating to a plastron.
- plastron — a piece of plate armor for the upper part of the torso in front.
- popstrel — a young, attractive female pop star
- postrace — designating the period after a race
- postriot — of or relating to the period after a riot
- registry — Windows Registry
- restrain — to hold back from action; keep in check or under control; repress: to restrain one's temper.
- restress — to stress or emphasize again or differently
- restrict — to confine or keep within limits, as of space, action, choice, intensity, or quantity.
- restrike — a coin freshly minted from dies of an earlier issue.
- restring — a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
- restrive — to exert oneself vigorously; try hard: He strove to make himself understood.
- restroom — rooms or a room having a washbowl, toilet, and other facilities for use by employees, visitors, etc., as in a store, theater, or office.
- restruck — a coin freshly minted from dies of an earlier issue.
- restrung — a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
- rostrate — furnished with a rostrum.
- sastruga — Usually, sastrugi. ridges of snow formed on a snowfield by the action of the wind.
- sastrugi — Usually, sastrugi. ridges of snow formed on a snowfield by the action of the wind.
- sistroid — contained between the convex sides of two intersecting curves
- strabane — a district of W Northern Ireland, in Co Tyrone. Pop: 38 565 (2003 est). Area: 862 sq km (333 sq miles)
- strachey — (Giles) Lytton [jahylz lit-n] /dʒaɪlz ˈlɪt n/ (Show IPA), 1880–1932, English biographer and literary critic.
- straddle — to walk, stand, or sit with the legs wide apart; stand or sit astride.
- stradiot — a soldier, usually of Greek or Albanian origin, who fought on horseback for the Venetian republic in the 15th and 16th centuries
- strafing — an act or instance of strafing
- straggle — to stray from the road, course, or line of march.
- straggly — straggling; rambling.
- straicht — straight
- straight — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
- strained — affected or produced by effort; not natural or spontaneous; forced: strained hospitality.
- strainer — a person or thing that strains.
- straiten — to put into difficulties, especially financial ones: His obligations had straitened him.
- straitly — Often, straits. (used with a singular verb) a narrow passage of water connecting two large bodies of water.
- stramash — an uproar; disturbance.
- strand88 — A commercial implementation of Strand from Strand Software Technologies Ltd., UK and Strand Software, Beaverton, OR, USA. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- stranded — composed of a specified number or kind of strands (usually used in combination): a five-stranded rope.
- strander — a person who strands
- stranger — French L'Étranger. a novel (1942) by Albert Camus.
- strangle — to kill by squeezing the throat in order to compress the windpipe and prevent the intake of air, as with the hands or a tightly drawn cord.
- strapped — needy; wanting: The company is rather strapped for funds.