9-letter words containing str
- exstrophy — (medicine) The eversion or turning out of any organ, or of its inner surface.
- eyestrain — Tiredness or pain in the eyes, sometimes accompanied by headache, caused by excessive or improper use of the eyes, or by uncorrected defects of vision.
- fantastry — a fantastic or ostentatious display
- fenestral — (archaeology) A casement or window sash closed with cloth or paper instead of glass.
- filmstrip — a length of film containing a series of related transparencies for projection on a screen.
- floristry — The art of creating flower arrangements.
- flystrike — myiasis.
- frustrate — to make (plans, efforts, etc.) worthless or of no avail; defeat; nullify: The student's indifference frustrated the teacher's efforts to help him.
- gastraeum — the underside of the body, especially of a bird
- gastrique — A syrupy reduction of vinegar (or wine) and sugar.
- gastritis — inflammation of the stomach, especially of its mucous membrane.
- gastrobot — a robot that is able to supply itself with sugar, which it uses as a source of fuel
- gastropod — any mollusk of the class Gastropoda, comprising the snails, whelks, slugs, etc.
- gastropub — a bar that serves good food and high-quality alcoholic beverages.
- gastrular — Of or pertaining to a gastrula.
- gastrulas — Plural form of gastrula.
- go astray — person: deviate from correct or good way
- gobstruck — (slang, chiefly, UK) gobsmacked; astonished; astounded.
- goustrous — boisterous
- guestroom — a room for the lodging of guests.
- hamstring — (in humans and other primates) any of the tendons that bound the ham of the knee.
- hamstrung — (in humans and other primates) any of the tendons that bound the ham of the knee.
- instructs — (informal) shortened form of instructions.
- jackstraw — one of a group of strips of wood or similar objects, as straws or toothpicks, used in the game of jackstraws.
- jetstream — Alternative spelling of jet stream.
- jillstrap — (informal) A pelvic protector, a woman's equivalent of a man's jockstrap.
- jockstrap — an elasticized belt, a men's undergarment, with a pouch for supporting and protecting the genitals, worn especially while participating in athletics.
- keystream — (cryptography) A stream of random or pseudorandom characters that are combined with the plaintext to produce a ciphertext.
- keystroke — one stroke of any key on a machine operated by a keyboard, as a typewriter, computer terminal, or Linotype: I can do 3000 keystrokes an hour.
- klystrons — Plural form of klystron.
- lapstrake — clinker-built (def 2).
- lapstreak — Alternative form of lapstrake.
- ligustrum — any of various shrubs or trees belonging to the genus Ligustrum, of the olive family, comprising the privets.
- lustrated — Simple past tense and past participle of lustrate.
- lustrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lustrate.
- lustrical — Pertaining to, or used for, purification.
- lustrious — Fantastic; amazing; splendid.
- maelstrom — a large, powerful, or violent whirlpool.
- magistral — Pharmacology. prescribed or prepared for a particular occasion, as a remedy. Compare officinal (def 1).
- magstripe — Magnetic stripe.
- maistring — ruling or subduing
- megestrol — A steroidal progestin.
- menstrate — Misspelling of menstruate.
- menstrual — of or relating to menstruation or to the menses.
- menstruum — a solvent.
- mestranol — an estrogen, C 2 1 H 2 6 O 2 , used in oral contraceptives in combination with a progestin.
- mestrovic — Ivan [ahy-vuh n Serbo-Croatian. ee-vahn] /ˈaɪ vən Serbo-Croatian. ˈi vɑn/ (Show IPA), 1883–1962, Yugoslav sculptor, in the U.S. after 1946.
- metestrus — the luteal phase of the reproductive cycle in mammalian females, occurring after ovulation and characterized by development of the corpus luteum, increased progesterone secretion, and decreased estrogen secretion.
- midstream — the middle of a stream.
- midstride — In the middle of a stride.