10-letter words containing stri
- maestricht — Maastricht.
- magstripes — Plural form of magstripe.
- ministries — the service, functions, or profession of a minister of religion.
- moonstrike — the act of landing a spacecraft on the moon
- no strings — without conditions
- no-strings — done without conditions or limitations: a no-strings proposal.
- nonstriker — One who is not participating in an industrial strike.
- nonstriped — Not striped.
- orchestric — relating to dancing
- ostrichism — the act of refusing to accept reality or hiding one's head in the sand
- overstride — to surpass: to overstride one's competitors.
- overstrike — to stamp a new device, value, or inscription on (a coin).
- overstring — Music. to arrange the strings of (a piano) so that the bass strings cross over the treble.
- palestrina — Giovanni Pierluigi da [jaw-vahn-nee pyer-loo-ee-jee dah] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni ˌpyɛr luˈi dʒi dɑ/ (Show IPA), 1526?–94, Italian composer.
- pedestrian — a person who goes or travels on foot; walker.
- perstringe — to allude to or imply
- pin-stripe — a very thin stripe, especially in fabrics.
- pinstriped — (of a fabric or garment) having a pattern of pin stripes.
- poststrike — of or relating to the period after a (workers) strike
- redistrict — to divide anew into districts, as for administrative or electoral purposes.
- restricted — confined; limited.
- restrictor — to confine or keep within limits, as of space, action, choice, intensity, or quantity.
- rupestrian — made or found on cave walls or rocks
- rupestrine — living or growing on or among rocks.
- semestrial — (in many educational institutions) a division constituting half of the regular academic year, lasting typically from 15 to 18 weeks.
- shoestring — a shoelace.
- strickland — William, 1787–1854, U.S. architect and engineer.
- strictness — characterized by or acting in close conformity to requirements or principles: a strict observance of rituals.
- stridulate — to produce a shrill, grating sound, as a cricket does, by rubbing together certain parts of the body; shrill.
- stridulous — Also, stridulant. making or having a harsh or grating sound.
- strifeless — without strife
- strigiform — of, pertaining, or belonging to the order Strigiformes, comprising the owls.
- strigilate — an instrument with a curved blade, used especially by the ancient Greeks and Romans for scraping the skin at the bath and in the gymnasium.
- strike off — to deal a blow or stroke to (a person or thing), as with the fist, a weapon, or a hammer; hit.
- strike oil — any of a large class of substances typically unctuous, viscous, combustible, liquid at ordinary temperatures, and soluble in ether or alcohol but not in water: used for anointing, perfuming, lubricating, illuminating, heating, etc.
- strike out — to deal a blow or stroke to (a person or thing), as with the fist, a weapon, or a hammer; hit.
- strike pay — strike benefit.
- strikeover — an act or instance of typing over a character, as one typed in error, without erasing it.
- strikingly — attractive; impressive: a scene of striking beauty.
- strindberg — Johan August [yoo-hahn ou-goo st] /ˈyu hɑn ˈaʊ gʊst/ (Show IPA), 1849–1912, Swedish novelist, dramatist, and essayist.
- string bag — an openwork bag made of string, especially one with handles.
- string out — a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
- string tie — a short, very narrow, and unflared necktie, usually tied in a bow.
- stringbean — any of various kinds of bean, as the green bean, the unripe pods of which are used as food, usually after stripping off the fibrous thread along the side.
- stringency — stringent character or condition: the stringency of poverty.
- stringendo — to be performed with increasing speed
- stringhalt — a nerve disorder in horses, causing exaggerated flexing movements of the hind legs in walking.
- stringless — a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
- strip away — remove entirely
- strip bond — a bond that has been stripped into its principal certificate and interest coupons, each part to be sold separately.