Nouns starting with S

• strain gage — Noun – English ～ a gauge for measuring strain in a surface
• strain — Noun – English ～ an intense or violent exertion
• strain — Noun – English ～ an effortful attempt to attain a goal
• strain — Noun – English ～ (physics) deformation of a physical body under the action of applied forces
• soup-strainer — Noun – English ～ slang for a mustache
• strainer — Noun – English ～ a filter to retain larger pieces while smaller pieces and liquids pass through
• straining — Noun – English ～ the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
• straining — Noun – English ～ an intense or violent exertion
• strait — Noun – English ～ a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs
• Strait of Ormuz — Noun – English ～ a strategically important strait linking the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman
• Strait of Dover — Noun – English ～ the strait between the English Channel and the North Sea; shortest distance between England and the European continent
• Strait of Gibraltar — Noun – English ～ the strait between Spain and Africa
• Strait of Hormuz — Noun – English ～ a strategically important strait linking the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman
• Strait of Messina — Noun – English ～ the strait separating Sicily from the tip of Italy
• Strait of Georgia — Noun – English ～ the strait separating Vancouver Island from the Canadian mainland
• Strait of Calais — Noun – English ～ the strait between the English Channel and the North Sea; shortest distance between England and the European continent
• strait and narrow — Noun – English ～ the way of proper and honest behavior; "he taught his children to keep strictly to the straight and narrow"
• Strait of Magellan — Noun – English ～ the strait separating South America from Tierra del Fuego and other islands to the south of the continent; discovered by Ferdinand Magellan in 1520; an important route around South America before the Panama Canal was built
• strait — Noun – English ～ a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water
• 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

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