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13-letter words starting with st

  • straight away — immediately
  • straight face — a serious or impassive facial expression that conceals one's true feelings about something, especially a desire to laugh.
  • straight time — the time or number of hours established as standard for a specific work period in a particular industry, usually computed on the basis of a workweek and fixed variously from 35 to 40 hours.
  • straight-edge — advocating abstinence from alcohol, cigarettes, drugs, and sex and sometimes advocating vegetarianism.
  • straight-line — (of a machine) having components that are arranged in a row or that move in a straight line when in operation
  • straighten up — stand straighter
  • straightforth — straight or directly forward
  • strait-jacket — a garment made of strong material and designed to bind the arms, as of a violently disoriented person.
  • strange quark — a quark having electric charge −1/3 times the elementary charge and strangeness −1; it is more massive than the up and down quarks.
  • stranger rape — sexual assault by an assailant upon a person he or she does not know.
  • strangulation — Pathology, Surgery. to compress or constrict (a duct, intestine, vessel, etc.) so as to prevent circulation or suppress function.
  • strategic fit — (in business) the degree to which the activities of different sections of a business or businesses working together complement one another to achieve competitive advantage and business success
  • strategically — pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of strategy: strategic movements.
  • stratigraphic — a branch of geology dealing with the classification, nomenclature, correlation, and interpretation of stratified rocks.
  • stratocumulus — a cloud of a class characterized by large dark, rounded masses, usually in groups, lines, or waves, the individual elements being larger than those in altocumulus and the whole being at a lower altitude, usually below 8000 feet (2400 meters).
  • stratospheric — relating to the stratosphere
  • stratovolcano — a large, steep volcano built up of alternating layers of lava and ash or cinders.
  • stratum title — a system of registered ownership of space in multistorey buildings, to be equivalent to the ownership of the land of a single-storey building
  • streaky bacon — Streaky bacon is bacon which has stripes of fat between stripes of meat.
  • street artist — creates art in public
  • street hockey — road hockey.
  • street market — outdoor stalls
  • street number — the number on a street of a particular building or address
  • street people — homeless people
  • street person — a homeless person
  • street smarts — You can use street smarts to refer to the skills and intelligence people need to be successful in difficult situations, especially in a city.
  • street urchin — a child who spends or appears to spend a lot of time roaming the streets
  • street-walker — a prostitute who solicits on the streets.
  • streets apart — markedly different
  • strengthening — to make stronger; give strength to.
  • strenuousness — characterized by vigorous exertion, as action, efforts, life, etc.: a strenuous afternoon of hunting.
  • strepsipteran — strepsipterous.
  • strepsipteron — a strepsipterous insect.
  • streptocarpus — any of various plants belonging to the genus Streptocarpus, of the gesneria family, native to Africa and Asia, having showy white, pink, or purplish flowers and often cultivated as a houseplant.
  • streptococcus — any of several spherical or oval bacteria of the genus Streptococcus, occurring in pairs or chains, certain species of which are pathogenic for humans, causing scarlet fever, tonsillitis, etc.
  • streptokinase — an enzyme used to dissolve blood clots.
  • stress relief — Stress relief involves removing stresses in a material, usually by heating it to a temperature at which it can deform easily.
  • stressed skin — a composite plywood material used especially in the construction of light aircraft
  • stretch marks — Stretch marks are lines or marks on someone's skin caused by the skin stretching after the person's weight has changed rapidly. Women who have had children often have stretch marks.
  • strikebreaker — a person who takes part in breaking up a strike of workers, either by working or by furnishing workers.
  • string bikini — a skimpy bikini having often a triangular covering part held in place by narrow, string-like ties
  • string course — a horizontal band or course, as of stone, projecting beyond or flush with the face of a building, often molded and sometimes richly carved.
  • string player — a person who plays an instrument of the violin family.
  • string theory — a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
  • string-puller — a person who uses his or her influence with other people to get things done, often unfairly
  • stringentness — the quality or state of being stringent
  • stringer bead — a small, usually round object of glass, wood, stone, or the like with a hole through it, often strung with others of its kind in necklaces, rosaries, etc.
  • strip cartoon — A strip cartoon is the same as a comic strip.
  • striped hyena — a hyena, Hyaena hyaena, of northern Africa, Arabia, and India, having a grayish coat with distinct blackish stripes.
  • striped maple — a maple, Acer pensylvanicum, of northeastern North America, having white-striped bark.
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