8-letter words containing str
- strapper — a person or thing that straps.
- strategy — Also, strategics. the science or art of combining and employing the means of war in planning and directing large military movements and operations.
- stratify — to form or place in strata or layers.
- stratose — formed in strata or layers
- stratous — of or relating to stratus
- stratton — Charles Sherwood ("General Tom Thumb") 1838–83, U.S. midget who performed in the circus of P. T. Barnum.
- straucht — straight
- stravage — Scot., Irish, and North England. to wander aimlessly.
- stravaig — Scot., Irish, and North England. to wander aimlessly.
- strawhat — of or relating to a summer theater situated outside an urban or metropolitan area: strawhat theater; strawhat circuit.
- strawman — a mass of straw formed to resemble a man, as for a doll or scarecrow.
- strawson — Sir Peter (Frederick). 1919–2006, British philosopher. His early work deals with the relationship between language and logic, his later work with metaphysics. His books include The Bounds of Sense (1966) and Freedom and Resentment (1974)
- straying — to deviate from the direct course, leave the proper place, or go beyond the proper limits, especially without a fixed course or purpose; ramble: to stray from the main road.
- streaker — a long, narrow mark, smear, band of color, or the like: streaks of mud.
- streamer — something that streams: streamers of flame.
- streator — a city in N Illinois.
- streeker — to stretch (one's limbs), as on awakening or by exercise.
- streeter — a public thoroughfare, usually paved, in a village, town, or city, including the sidewalk or sidewalks.
- strelitz — a Russian soldier armed with firearms in the 16th and 17th centuries
- strength — the quality or state of being strong; bodily or muscular power; vigor.
- strepent — noisy
- strepper — streptococcus.
- strepto- — indicating a shape resembling a twisted chain
- stressed — importance attached to a thing: to lay stress upon good manners. Synonyms: significance, meaning, emphasis, consequence; weight, value, worth.
- stresses — importance attached to a thing: to lay stress upon good manners. Synonyms: significance, meaning, emphasis, consequence; weight, value, worth.
- stressor — an activity, event, or other stimulus that causes stress.
- stretchy — having a tendency to stretch, especially excessively or unduly.
- streusel — a topping for coffeecake, consisting of crumbs of blended sugar, cinnamon, flour, butter, and chopped nutmeats.
- strewage — strewn or discarded items
- striated — striated.
- striatum — a striped mass of white and grey matter in the brain which controls movement and balance
- stricken — a past participle of strike.
- strickle — a straightedge used for sweeping off heaped-up grain to the level of the rim of a measure.
- stricter — characterized by or acting in close conformity to requirements or principles: a strict observance of rituals.
- strictly — in a strict manner; rigorously; stringently: strictly enforced.
- strident — making or having a harsh sound; grating; creaking: strident insects; strident hinges.
- striding — to walk with long steps, as with vigor, haste, impatience, or arrogance.
- strigate — (of animals) streaked with different colours
- strigine — of or like an owl
- strigose — Botany. set with stiff bristles of hairs; hispid.
- strijdom — Johannes Gerhardus (joˈhanəs ɡeːrˈhɑːdəs). 1893–1958, South African statesman; prime minister (1954–58)
- striking — Military. describing a fighter-bomber aircraft designed to carry large payloads at high speeds and low altitudes and also to engage in air-to-air combat.
- strimmer — A Strimmer is an electric tool used for cutting long grass or grass at the edge of a lawn. It cuts the grass with a piece of plastic cord which goes round very fast.
- stringed — fitted with strings (often used in combination): a five-stringed banjo.
- stringer — a person or thing that strings.
- striping — a relatively long, narrow band of a different color, appearance, weave, material, or nature from the rest of a surface or thing: the stripes of a zebra.
- stripped — having had a covering, clothing, equipment, or furnishings removed: trees stripped of their leaves by the storm; a stripped bed ready for clean sheets.
- stripper — a person who strips.
- strivers — to exert oneself vigorously; try hard: He strove to make himself understood.
- striving — to exert oneself vigorously; try hard: He strove to make himself understood.