6-letter words starting with st
- storrs — a town in NE Connecticut.
- stotin — a monetary unit of Slovenia until the euro was adopted, the 100th part of a tolar.
- stotty — type of flat, round loaf made in NE England
- stound — Archaic. a short time; short while.
- stoury — dusty
- stoush — stonker (defs 1, 2).
- stouth — a theft
- stover — coarse roughage used as feed for livestock.
- stow's — a city in NE Ohio.
- stowed — Nautical. to put (cargo, provisions, etc.) in the places intended for them. to put (sails, spars, gear, etc.) in the proper place or condition when not in use.
- stower — a person who stows
- strabo — 63? b.c.–a.d. 21? Greek geographer and historian.
- strafe — to attack (ground troops or installations) by airplanes with machine-gun fire.
- strain — to draw tight or taut, especially to the utmost tension; stretch to the full: to strain a rope.
- strait — Often, straits. (used with a singular verb) a narrow passage of water connecting two large bodies of water.
- strake — Nautical. a continuous course of planks or plates on a ship forming a hull shell, deck, etc.
- strand — to form (a rope, cable, etc.) by twisting strands together.
- strass — silk waste produced in making skeins.
- strata — a plural of stratum.
- strath — a wide valley.
- strati — a cloud of a class characterized by a gray, horizontal layer with a uniform base, found at a lower altitude than altostratus, usually below 8000 feet (2400 meters).
- straus — Isidor, 1845–1912, U.S. retail merchant and politician, born in Bavaria: congressman 1894–95 (brother of Nathan and Oscar Solomon Straus).
- strawy — of, containing, or resembling straw.
- strays — to deviate from the direct course, leave the proper place, or go beyond the proper limits, especially without a fixed course or purpose; ramble: to stray from the main road.
- streak — a long, narrow mark, smear, band of color, or the like: streaks of mud.
- stream — a body of water flowing in a channel or watercourse, as a river, rivulet, or brook. Synonyms: rill, run, streamlet, runnel.
- streek — to stretch (one's limbs), as on awakening or by exercise.
- streel — a slovenly woman
- streep — Meryl, original name Mary Louise Streep. born 1949, US actress. Her films include The Deer Hunter (1978), Kramer vs Kramer (1979), The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), Sophie's Choice (1982), Out of Africa (1986), The Hours (2002), Mamma Mia! (2008), and The Iron Lady (2011)
- street — a public thoroughfare, usually paved, in a village, town, or city, including the sidewalk or sidewalks.
- stress — importance attached to a thing: to lay stress upon good manners. Synonyms: significance, meaning, emphasis, consequence; weight, value, worth.
- strewn — to let fall in separate pieces or particles over a surface; scatter or sprinkle: to strew seed in a garden bed.
- striae — a slight or narrow furrow, ridge, stripe, or streak, especially one of a number in parallel arrangement: striae of muscle fiber.
- strich — the screech owl
- strick — a group of any of the major bast fibers, as flax or jute, prepared for conversion into sliver form.
- strict — characterized by or acting in close conformity to requirements or principles: a strict observance of rituals.
- stride — to walk with long steps, as with vigor, haste, impatience, or arrogance.
- strife — vigorous or bitter conflict, discord, or antagonism: to be at strife.
- strift — a struggle
- strike — to deal a blow or stroke to (a person or thing), as with the fist, a weapon, or a hammer; hit.
- strine — Australian English.
- string — a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
- stripe — a stroke with a whip, rod, etc., as in punishment.
- stript — a simple past tense and past participle of strip1 .
- stripy — having or marked with stripes.
- strive — to exert oneself vigorously; try hard: He strove to make himself understood.
- stroam — to wander idly or to stride
- strobe — Also called strobe light. stroboscope (def 2a).
- strode — simple past tense of stride.
- stroke — a short oblique stroke (/) between two words indicating that whichever is appropriate may be chosen to complete the sense of the text in which they occur: The defendant and his/her attorney must appear in court.