10-letter words starting with str
- strip show — a form of entertainment in which one or more people take off their clothes in a titillating and erotic manner, often to music
- strip-wash — a thorough, all-over wash with a flannel, sponge, etc, and water but without getting into a bath or shower
- stripeless — without stripes
- stripiness — the state or quality of being stripy
- striplight — a row of lamps, provided with a reflector for floodlighting the stage, used as border lights, footlights, backing lights, etc.
- strippable — Mining. of or relating to ore or coal that can be produced by strip mining.
- striptease — a burlesque act in which a dancer removes garments one at a time to the accompaniment of music.
- strivingly — in a striving manner
- strobilate — to undergo strobilation
- strobiline — of or relating to a strobilus
- strobiloid — resembling a strobila
- strobotron — a glow lamp, used in stroboscopes, that gives very bright flashes of light in response to voltage pulses.
- stroessner — Alfredo [al-frey-doh;; Spanish ahl-fre-th aw] /ælˈfreɪ doʊ;; Spanish ɑlˈfrɛ ðɔ/ (Show IPA), 1912–2006, Paraguayan general and statesman: president 1954–89.
- stroganoff — a dish of meat sautéed with onion and cooked in a sauce of sour cream, seasonings, and, usually, mushrooms: beef stroganoff.
- stroke oar — the oar nearest to the stern of the boat.
- stromateid — any of numerous small marine fishes of the family Stromateidae, having a laterally compressed body and an expanded muscular esophagus, often lined with teeth.
- strong-arm — using, involving, or threatening the use of physical force or violence to gain an objective: strong-arm methods.
- strongbark — any of the several tropical American shrubs or small trees belonging to the genus Bourreria, of the borage family, especially B. ovata, of southern Florida and the West Indies, having elliptic leaves and fragrant, white flowers.
- stronghold — a well-fortified place; fortress.
- strongness — having, showing, or able to exert great bodily or muscular power; physically vigorous or robust: a strong boy.
- strongroom — a fireproof, burglarproof room in which valuables are kept.
- strophiole — a small growth on some plants' seeds
- strophulus — a papular eruption of the skin, especially in infants, occurring in several forms and usually harmless.
- structural — of or relating to structure; pertaining or essential to a structure.
- structured — having and manifesting a clearly defined structure or organization.
- structures — mode of building, construction, or organization; arrangement of parts, elements, or constituents: a pyramidal structure.
- struggling — to contend with an adversary or opposing force.
- strung out — severely debilitated from alcohol or drugs.
- strung-out — severely debilitated from alcohol or drugs.
- struthious — resembling or related to the ostriches or other ratite birds.
- strychnine — Pharmacology. a colorless, crystalline poison, C 2 1 H 2 2 N 2 O 2 , obtained chiefly by extraction from the seeds of nux vomica, formerly used as a central nervous system stimulant.