9-letter words starting with str
- straddler — to walk, stand, or sit with the legs wide apart; stand or sit astride.
- stradella — Alessandro [ah-les-sahn-draw] /ˌɑ lɛsˈsɑn drɔ/ (Show IPA), 1645?–82? Italian composer.
- strafford — 1st Earl of (Thomas Wentworth) 1593–1641, English statesman: chief adviser of Charles I of England.
- straggler — to stray from the road, course, or line of march.
- straights — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
- straining — to draw tight or taut, especially to the utmost tension; stretch to the full: to strain a rope.
- stralsund — a seaport in NE Germany: a member of the medieval Hanseatic League; besieged by Wallenstein 1628.
- stramazon — a downward fencing stroke
- stranding — to form (a rope, cable, etc.) by twisting strands together.
- strangely — unusual, extraordinary, or curious; odd; queer: a strange remark to make.
- strangest — unusual, extraordinary, or curious; odd; queer: a strange remark to make.
- strangled — A strangled voice or cry sounds unclear because the throat muscles of the person speaking or crying are tight.
- strangler — to kill by squeezing the throat in order to compress the windpipe and prevent the intake of air, as with the hands or a tightly drawn cord.
- strangles — distemper1 (def 1b).
- strangury — painful urination in which the urine is emitted drop by drop owing to muscle spasms of the urethra or urinary bladder.
- stranraer — a market town in SW Scotland, in W Dumfries and Galloway: fishing port with a ferry service to Northern Ireland. Pop: 10 851 (2001)
- strap-oil — a beating
- straphang — to travel as a straphanger.
- strapless — without a strap or straps.
- strapline — a subheading in a newspaper or magazine article or in any advertisement
- strappado — an old form of punishment or torture in which the victim, with arms bound behind, was raised from the ground by a rope fastened to the wrists, abruptly released, then arrested with a painful jerk just before reaching the ground.
- strapping — powerfully built; robust.
- strapwork — a type of ornamentation imitating pierced and interlaced straps or bands, usually forming a geometric pattern.
- strapwort — a seaside plant with leaves resembling straps
- strasberg — Lee, 1901–82, U.S. theatrical director, teacher, and actor, born in Austria.
- stratagem — a plan, scheme, or trick for surprising or deceiving an enemy.
- strategic — pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of strategy: strategic movements.
- stratford — a town in SW Connecticut, near Bridgeport: Shakespeare theater.
- stratonic — of or relating to an army
- straw hat — of or relating to a summer theater situated outside an urban or metropolitan area: strawhat theater; strawhat circuit.
- straw man — a mass of straw formed to resemble a man, as for a doll or scarecrow.
- straw-hat — designating, of, or having to do with a summer theater or summer theaters
- strawless — without a straw or without straw
- strawworm — caddisworm.
- strayhorn — William ("Billy") 1915–67, U.S. jazz pianist and composer: collaborator with Duke Ellington.
- strayling — a stray
- streaking — a long, narrow mark, smear, band of color, or the like: streaks of mud.
- streambed — the channel in which a stream flows or formerly flowed.
- streaming — a body of water flowing in a channel or watercourse, as a river, rivulet, or brook. Synonyms: rill, run, streamlet, runnel.
- streamlet — a small stream; rivulet.
- streamway — the bed of a stream.
- streeking — the act of stretching one's limbs, as on awakening or by exercise.
- streetage — a toll charged for using a street
- streetboy — a boy living on the street
- streetcar — a public vehicle running regularly along certain streets, usually on rails, as a trolley car or trolley bus.
- streetful — the amount of people or things a street can hold
- streicher — Julius. 1885–1946, German Nazi journalist and politician, who spread anti-Semitic propaganda as editor of Der Stürmer (1923–45). He was hanged as a war criminal
- streisand — Barbra. born 1942, US singer, actress, and film director: the films she has acted in include Funny Girl (1968) and A Star is Born (1976); her films as actress and director include Yentl (1983), Prince of Tides (1990), and The Mirror has Two Faces (1996)
- strenuous — characterized by vigorous exertion, as action, efforts, life, etc.: a strenuous afternoon of hunting.
- stressful — full of stress or tension: the stressful days before a war.
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