10-letter words containing str
- australite — a glassy object made of molten rock found in the earth of Southern Australia
- australoid — denoting, relating to, or belonging to a supposed racial group that includes the native Australians and certain other peoples of southern Asia and the Pacific islands.
- australorp — a heavy black breed of domestic fowl
- austringer — a person who keeps goshawks
- autostrada — an Italian motorway
- awe-struck — filled with awe
- backstreet — a street in a town remote from the main roads
- backstroke — Backstroke is a swimming stroke that you do lying on your back.
- balustrade — A balustrade is a railing or wall on a balcony or staircase.
- bay street — the financial centre of Toronto, in which Canada's largest stock exchange is situated
- bestraddle — to sit with one's legs either side of something
- bestraught — distraught; distracted
- bimestrial — lasting for two months
- birostrate — having two beaks or beak-like projections
- bit stream — a simple contiguous sequence of binary digits transmitted continuously over a communications path; a sequence of data in binary form.
- bit string — (programming, data) An ordered sequence of bits. This is very similar to a bit pattern except that the term "string" suggests an arbitrary length sequence as opposed to a pre-determined length "pattern".
- blackstrap — a kind of port wine
- blogstream — the publication on the internet of content from weblogs rather than from mainstream media sources
- bow street — a street in London, England: location of a metropolitan police court.
- bradstreet — Anne (Dudley). ?1612–72, US poet, born in England: regarded as the first significant US poet
- breastrail — the upper rail of any parapet on a ship
- butt-strap — (in metal construction) a plate which overlaps and fastens two pieces butted together.
- cagliostro — Count Alessandro di (alesˈsandro di), original name Giuseppe Balsamo. 1743–95, Italian adventurer and magician, who was imprisoned for life by the Inquisition for his association with freemasonry
- campestral — of or relating to open fields or country
- cant strip — an inclined or beveled strip of wood, for changing the pitch of a roof slope or for rounding out the angle between a flat roof and an adjoining parapet.
- capistrate — (zoology, rare) hooded; cowled.
- castrating — Present participle of castrate.
- castration — to remove the testes of; emasculate; geld.
- castratism — The practice of prepubescently castrating male humans as to preserve their alto or soprano voices.
- castrators — to remove the testes of; emasculate; geld.
- castratory — of or relating to castration
- castratrix — (chiefly, used in philosophy, or, psychoanalysis) A female who castrates (either literally or metaphorically).
- chin strap — a strap attached to a hat for passing under the chin of the wearer.
- chin-strap — a strap attached to a hat for passing under the chin of the wearer.
- chinstraps — Plural form of chinstrap.
- cloistress — a nun
- clostridia — Plural form of clostridium.
- coldstream — a town in SE Scotland, in Scottish Borders on the English border: the Coldstream Guards were formed here (1660). Pop: 1813 (2001)
- colostrous — containing colostrum
- constrains — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of constrain.
- constraint — A constraint is something that limits or controls what you can do.
- constricts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of constrict.
- constringe — to shrink or contract
- constructs — Plural form of construct.
- construing — to give the meaning or intention of; explain; interpret.
- crosstrees — two short bars across a ship's masthead, to spread the rigging that supports the mast
- delustrant — an agent which removes lustre from something
- derestrict — to render or leave free from restriction, esp a road from speed limits
- destratify — to form or place in strata or layers.
- destressed — importance attached to a thing: to lay stress upon good manners. Synonyms: significance, meaning, emphasis, consequence; weight, value, worth.