9-letter words containing str
- prestrike — of the period before a strike
- proestrus — the period immediately preceding estrus.
- prostrate — to cast (oneself) face down on the ground in humility, submission, or adoration.
- provostry — the office of a (secular, ecclesiastical, or scholastic) provost
- questrist — one who quests
- re-string — to thread onto a new string
- redstreak — an English variety of apple which is streaked red and yellow and is used in cider making
- registrar — a person who keeps a record; an official recorder.
- restraint — a restraining action or influence: freedom from restraint.
- restretch — to stretch again
- restringe — to restrict, contract, or confine
- rostrally — in a rostral manner
- seastrand — seashore.
- semestral — (in many educational institutions) a division constituting half of the regular academic year, lasting typically from 15 to 18 weeks.
- sequestra — a fragment of bone that has become necrotic as a result of disease or injury and has separated from the normal bone structure.
- sinistral — of, relating to, or on the left side; left (opposed to dextral).
- sinistro- — of, at, or toward the left
- sophistry — a subtle, tricky, superficially plausible, but generally fallacious method of reasoning.
- straddler — to walk, stand, or sit with the legs wide apart; stand or sit astride.
- stradella — Alessandro [ah-les-sahn-draw] /ˌɑ lɛsˈsɑn drɔ/ (Show IPA), 1645?–82? Italian composer.
- strafford — 1st Earl of (Thomas Wentworth) 1593–1641, English statesman: chief adviser of Charles I of England.
- straggler — to stray from the road, course, or line of march.
- straights — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
- straining — to draw tight or taut, especially to the utmost tension; stretch to the full: to strain a rope.
- stralsund — a seaport in NE Germany: a member of the medieval Hanseatic League; besieged by Wallenstein 1628.
- stramazon — a downward fencing stroke
- stranding — to form (a rope, cable, etc.) by twisting strands together.
- strangely — unusual, extraordinary, or curious; odd; queer: a strange remark to make.
- strangest — unusual, extraordinary, or curious; odd; queer: a strange remark to make.
- strangled — A strangled voice or cry sounds unclear because the throat muscles of the person speaking or crying are tight.
- strangler — 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.
- strangles — distemper1 (def 1b).
- strangury — painful urination in which the urine is emitted drop by drop owing to muscle spasms of the urethra or urinary bladder.
- stranraer — a market town in SW Scotland, in W Dumfries and Galloway: fishing port with a ferry service to Northern Ireland. Pop: 10 851 (2001)
- strap-oil — a beating
- straphang — to travel as a straphanger.
- strapless — without a strap or straps.
- strapline — a subheading in a newspaper or magazine article or in any advertisement
- strappado — an old form of punishment or torture in which the victim, with arms bound behind, was raised from the ground by a rope fastened to the wrists, abruptly released, then arrested with a painful jerk just before reaching the ground.
- strapping — powerfully built; robust.
- strapwork — a type of ornamentation imitating pierced and interlaced straps or bands, usually forming a geometric pattern.
- strapwort — a seaside plant with leaves resembling straps
- strasberg — Lee, 1901–82, U.S. theatrical director, teacher, and actor, born in Austria.
- stratagem — a plan, scheme, or trick for surprising or deceiving an enemy.
- strategic — pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of strategy: strategic movements.
- stratford — a town in SW Connecticut, near Bridgeport: Shakespeare theater.
- stratonic — of or relating to an army
- straw hat — of or relating to a summer theater situated outside an urban or metropolitan area: strawhat theater; strawhat circuit.
- straw man — a mass of straw formed to resemble a man, as for a doll or scarecrow.
- straw-hat — designating, of, or having to do with a summer theater or summer theaters