Words starting with straitso
Maybe these words will be useful:
- straits dollar — a former silver coin and monetary unit of the Straits Settlements.
- straits settlements — a former British crown colony in SE Asia: included the settlements of Singapore, Penang, Malacca, and Labuan.
- straits — plural of strait.
- straits of florida — a sea passage between the Florida Keys and Cuba, linking the Atlantic with the Gulf of Mexico
- strait-lace — to bind, confine, or restrain with or as if with laces.
- strait-laced — excessively strict in conduct or morality; puritanical; prudish: strait-laced censors.
- straiten — to put into difficulties, especially financial ones: His obligations had straitened him.
- straitened — to put into difficulties, especially financial ones: His obligations had straitened him.
- straitjacket — a garment made of strong material and designed to bind the arms, as of a violently disoriented person.
- straitly — Often, straits. (used with a singular verb) a narrow passage of water connecting two large bodies of water.