12-letter words containing str
- candy stripe — a pattern of bright stripes of one color against a plain background, used chiefly in fabrics.
- car industry — the industry concerned with the manufacture and selling of automobiles
- carey street — (formerly) the street in which the London bankruptcy court was situated
- carol stream — a town in NE Illinois.
- catastrophal — (rare) Catastrophic.
- catastrophes — Plural form of catastrophe.
- catastrophic — Something that is catastrophic involves or causes a sudden terrible disaster.
- chalk stripe — (on a fabric) a pattern of thin white lines on a dark ground.
- chalk-stripe — a stripe, as in the fabric of some suits, that is wider and usually more muted than a pinstripe
- cheese straw — a long thin cheese-flavoured strip of pastry
- choux pastry — a very light pastry made with eggs, used for eclairs, etc
- cirrostratus — a uniform layer of cloud above about 6000 metres (20 000 feet)
- civvy street — People in the armed forces use civvy street to refer to life and work which is not connected with the armed forces.
- claustration — the act of confining to a small space (usually a cloister)
- clickstreams — Plural form of clickstream.
- clytemnestra — the wife of Agamemnon, whom she killed on his return from the Trojan War
- constraineth — Archaic third-person singular form of constrain.
- constraining — Present participle of constrain.
- constricting — inhibiting; limiting
- constriction — Constrictions are rules or factors which limit what you can do and prevent you from doing what you want to do.
- constrictive — constricting; tending to constrict.
- constrictors — Plural form of constrictor.
- constringent — constricting.
- constructers — Plural form of constructer.
- constructing — Present participle of construct.
- construction — Construction is the building of things such as houses, factories, roads, and bridges.
- constructive — A constructive discussion, comment, or approach is useful and helpful rather than negative and unhelpful.
- constructors — Plural form of constructor.
- constructure — a construction
- cross street — a street running at right angles to a major thoroughfare
- cross stroke — the horizontal line through the vertical of a t or f.
- cross-string — overstring.
- cub mistress — a woman who organizes a pack of cub scouts
- curvirostral — having a curved or crooked beak
- davis strait — a strait between Baffin Island, in Canada, and Greenland
- deckle strap — a strap on each edge of the moving web of paper on a paper-making machine that fixes the width of the paper
- deconstructs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of deconstruct.
- defenestrate — to throw (a person or a thing) out of a window
- demonstrable — A demonstrable fact or quality can be shown to be true or to exist.
- demonstrably — capable of being demonstrated or proved.
- demonstrated — Simple past tense and past participle of demonstrate.
- demonstrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of demonstrate.
- demonstrator — Demonstrators are people who are marching or gathering somewhere to show their opposition to something or their support for something.
- dentirostral — (of birds) having a toothed beak
- derestricted — (of a road or stretch of road) with no speed limits at all
- destructible — capable of being or liable to be destroyed
- destructured — mode of building, construction, or organization; arrangement of parts, elements, or constituents: a pyramidal structure.
- diastrophism — the process of movement and deformation of the earth's crust that gives rise to large-scale features such as continents, ocean basins, and mountains
- disastrously — causing great distress or injury; ruinous; very unfortunate; calamitous: The rain and cold proved disastrous to his health.
- distractable — Alternative form of distractible.