Words in english starting with S

• Strait of Malacca — Noun – English ～ the strait between the Malay Peninsula and Sumatra; it connects the Pacific Ocean to the east with the Indian Ocean to the west and is an important shipping lane
• strait — Adjective – English ～ narrow; "strait is the gate"
• strait-laced — Adjective – English ～ exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts"
• straiten — Verb – English ～ squeeze together
• straiten — Verb – English ～ bring into difficulties or distress, especially financial hardship
• straitjacket — Noun – English ～ a garment similar to a jacket that is used to bind the arms tightly against the body as a means of restraining a violent person
• straitjacket — Noun – English ～ anything immaterial that severely hinders or confines; "they defected because Russian dance was in a straitjacket"; "the government is operating in an economic straitjacket"
• straitlaced — Adjective – English ～ exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts"
• straits — Noun – English ～ a difficult juncture; "a pretty pass"; "matters came to a head yesterday"
• straits — Noun – English ～ a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs
• strake — Noun – English ～ thick plank forming a ridge along the side of a wooden ship
• Setaria italica stramineofructa — Noun – English ～ millet having yellow grains in large drooping spikes
• Strand — Noun – English ～ a street in west central London famous for its theaters and hotels
• strand — Noun – English ～ a necklace made by stringing objects together; "a string of beads"; "a strand of pearls"
• strand — Noun – English ～ a pattern forming a unity within a larger structural whole; "he tried to pick up the strands of his former life"; "I could hear several melodic strands simultaneously"
• strand — Noun – English ～ a very slender natural or synthetic fiber
• strand — Noun – English ～ a poetic term for a shore (as the area periodically covered and uncovered by the tides)
• strand — Noun – English ～ line consisting of a complex of fibers or filaments that are twisted together to form a thread or a rope or a cable
• strand — Verb – English ～ bring to the ground; "the storm grounded the ship"
• strand — Verb – English ～ leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue; "the travellers were marooned"

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