11-letter words starting with st
- strike down — to deal a blow or stroke to (a person or thing), as with the fist, a weapon, or a hammer; hit.
- strike dumb — to amaze; astound; astonish
- strike fire — to make a spark, as with tinder
- strike fund — an amount of money reserved by a union to make payments to striking works should a strike occur
- strike home — to deliver an effective blow
- strike note — the note produced by a bell when struck, defining its musical pitch
- strike slip — the component of slip on a fault parallel with the linear extension or strike of the fault.
- strike zone — the area above home plate extending from the batter's knees to his or her shoulders.
- strikebound — closed by a strike: a strikebound factory.
- string band — a band consisting of stringed instruments
- string bass — double bass.
- string bean — 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.
- string line — string (def 17b).
- stringboard — a board or facing covering the ends of the steps in a staircase.
- stringently — rigorously binding or exacting; strict; severe: stringent laws.
- stringiness — resembling a string or strings; consisting of strings or stringlike pieces: stringy weeds; a stringy fiber.
- stringpiece — a long, usually horizontal piece of timber, beam, etc., for strengthening, connecting, or supporting a framework.
- strip joint — a nightclub or other establishment featuring striptease performances.
- strip light — A strip light is an electric light in the form of a long tube.
- strip poker — a game of poker in which the losers in a hand remove an article of clothing.
- strip steak — cut of beef: sirloin
- stripe rust — a disease of wheat, barley, rye, and other grasses, characterized by elongated rows of yellow spores on the affected parts, caused by a rust fungus, Puccinia glumarum.
- stripe smut — a disease of grasses, characterized by stripes of black spores on the leaves, caused by any of several smut fungi of the genera Urocystis and Ustilago.
- strippagram — a greetings message delivered by a stripper who does a striptease on delivery
- stripteaser — stripper (def 3).
- stroboscope — a device for studying the motion of a body, especially a body in rapid revolution or vibration, by making the motion appear to slow down or stop, as by periodically illuminating the body or viewing it through widely spaced openings in a revolving disk.
- stroke hole — (in a handicap match) a hole at which players with a handicap deduct a stroke from the number taken to play the hole.
- stroke play — medal play.
- stromateoid — resembling or related to the Stromateidae.
- strombolian — relating to or denoting a type of volcanic eruption characterized by repeated fountaining or jetting of fluid lava into the air
- strong gale — a wind of 47–54 miles per hour (21–24 m/sec).
- strong meat — anything arousing fear, anger, repulsion, etc, except among a tolerant or receptive minority
- strong side — the side of the offensive line where the tight end is positioned, thereby the side having the greater number of players.
- strong suit — Bridge. a long suit that contains high cards.
- strongpoint — a fortified defensive position; stronghold.
- strongyloid — of or relating to a strongyle
- struck jury — a jury obtained by special agreement between the opposing attorneys, each taking turns in eliminating a member of the impaneled group until 12 members remain.
- struggle on — If you struggle on, you continue doing something rather than stopping, even though it is difficult.
- strumectomy — excision of part or all of a goiter.
- stud muffin — a sexually attractive young man
- student's t — a statistic often used to test the hypothesis that a random sample of normally distributed observations has a given mean, μ; given by t = (̄x–μ) √n/s where ̄x is the mean of the sample, s is its standard deviation, and n is the size of the sample
- studentship — the state or condition of being a student.
- studio flat — a flat with one main room
- study group — an informal gathering of people who convene regularly to exchange ideas and information on a specific subject.
- study leave — sabbatical
- study up on — to make a careful study of
- stuffed toy — A stuffed toy is the same as a stuffed animal.
- stultifying — to make, or cause to appear, foolish or ridiculous.
- stump ranch — (in British Columbia) an undeveloped ranch in the bush where animals graze among the stumps of felled trees
- stumpsucker — windsucker; cribber.