10-letter words starting with str
- street cry — the cry of a street hawker
- street map — A street map is a map of a town or city, showing the positions and names of all the streets.
- street rod — an old automobile that has been well maintained and typically has been provided with a powerful, modern engine and modern interior fittings.
- street-car — a public vehicle running regularly along certain streets, usually on rails, as a trolley car or trolley bus.
- streetlamp — light mounted on a post in street
- streetroom — the amount of space in a street
- streetward — towards or in the direction of the street
- streetwear — fashionable casual clothes
- streetwise — street-smart.
- strelitzia — any southern African perennial herbaceous plant of the genus Strelitzia, cultivated for its showy flowers: includes the bird-of-paradise flower: family Strelitziaceae
- strengthen — to make stronger; give strength to.
- streperous — boisterous, loud, or harsh-sounding
- strepitoso — (to be performed) boisterously
- strepitous — boisterous; noisy.
- stresemann — Gustav [goo s-tahf] /ˈgʊs tɑf/ (Show IPA), 1878–1929, German statesman: Nobel Peace Prize 1926.
- stress out — be tense and anxious
- stressless — importance attached to a thing: to lay stress upon good manners. Synonyms: significance, meaning, emphasis, consequence; weight, value, worth.
- stretching — the activity of straightening the arms and legs and tightening the muscles
- stretchout — a deliberate extension of time for meeting a production quota.
- 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.
- strip city — a continuous area of urban development lying between or embracing two or more large cities and having a population of at least one million; megalopolis.
- strip club — strip joint.
- strip down — remove paint or wallpaper from
- strip farm — a tract of land where strip cropping is done.
- strip mall — a retail complex consisting of stores or restaurants in adjacent spaces in one long building, typically having a narrow parking area directly in front of the stores.
- strip mill — a mill in which steel slabs are rolled into strips
- strip mine — A strip mine is a mine in which the coal, metal, or mineral is near the surface, and so underground passages are not needed.