15-letter words starting with str
- straight matter — the body text of an article, story, etc., as distinguished from the title, subhead, and other display matter.
- straight ticket — a ballot on which all votes have been cast for candidates of the same party.
- straight-acting — (of a gay person) having the mannerisms of a heterosexual person: used esp by gay people of other gay people
- straight-backed — having a straight, usually high, back: a straight-backed chair.
- straightforward — going or directed straight ahead: a straightforward gaze.
- straining piece — (in a queen-post roof) a horizontal beam uniting the tops of the two queen posts, and resisting the thrust of the roof.
- strait of canso — a channel in Canada, between the Nova Scotia mainland and S Cape Breton Island
- strait of dover — a strait between SE England and N France, linking the English Channel with the North Sea. Width: about 32 km (20 miles)
- strait of tiran — a strait between the Gulf of Aqaba and the Red Sea. Length: 16 km (10 miles). Width: 8 km (5 miles)
- stranger danger — the potential or perceived risk posed by unknown people to children and about which it may be advisable to warn them
- strawberry bass — the black crappie. See under crappie.
- strawberry bush — an E North American shrub or small tree, Euonymus americanus, having pendulous capsules that split when ripe to reveal scarlet seeds: family Celastraceae
- strawberry dish — a shallow, circular fruit dish with a fluted or pierced border.
- strawberry mark — a small, reddish, slightly raised birthmark.
- strawberry roan — a horse with a reddish coat that is liberally flecked with white hairs.
- strawberry tree — an evergreen shrub or tree, Arbutus unedo, of the heath family, native to southern Europe, bearing a scarlet, strawberrylike fruit.
- streamline flow — the flow of a fluid past an object such that the velocity at any fixed point in the fluid is constant or varies in a regular manner.
- street accident — a traffic accident
- street fighting — violent and illegal fighting between individuals or groups
- street lighting — the provision of lighting at night in public places to illuminate the streets
- street ministry — the vocation of a church worker, clergyman, or the like who frequents public places in an attempt to help runaways, prostitutes, or others on the margins of society.
- strephosymbolia — a condition of perceiving objects as their mirror image and, specifically, having difficulty in distinguishing letters in words
- streptobacillus — any of various bacilli that form in chains.
- stress fracture — a hairline crack in a bone, especially of a foot or leg, caused by repeated or prolonged stress and often occurring in runners, dancers, and soldiers (march fracture)
- stress position — an enforced body position, applied esp in the interrogation of detainees, which causes the victim pain by concentrating a large amount of his or her weight on a small number of muscles, joints, etc
- stretch a point — a sharp or tapering end, as of a dagger.
- stretcher party — a group of stretcher bearers and the stretchers they are carrying
- strike it lucky — to have some good luck
- strike pay dirt — to achieve one's objective
- strike the flag — to relinquish command, esp of a ship
- striking circle — the semicircular area in front of each goal, which an attacking player must have entered before scoring a goal
- string together — arrange coherently
- string variable — data on which arithmetical operations will not be performed
- strobe lighting — a high-intensity flashing beam of light produced by rapid electrical discharges in a tube or by a perforated disc rotating in front of an intense light source: used in discotheques, etc
- strombuliferous — having organs coiled as spirals
- strontium oxide — a white insoluble solid substance used in making strontium salts and purifying sugar. Formula: SrO
- structural gene — cistron.
- structural iron — iron shaped for use in construction.
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