STREPHONN
First name STREPHONN's origin is Other. STREPHONN means "one who turns". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with STREPHONN below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of strephonn.(Brown names are of the same origin (Other) with STREPHONN and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
First Names Rhyming STREPHONN
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES STREPHONN AS A WHOLE:
NAMES RHYMING WITH STREPHONN (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 8 Letters (trephonn) - Names That Ends with trephonn:
Rhyming Names According to Last 7 Letters (rephonn) - Names That Ends with rephonn:
Rhyming Names According to Last 6 Letters (ephonn) - Names That Ends with ephonn:
Rhyming Names According to Last 5 Letters (phonn) - Names That Ends with phonn:
Rhyming Names According to Last 4 Letters (honn) - Names That Ends with honn:
shonnRhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (onn) - Names That Ends with onn:
caoilfhionn ceannfhionn mazonn fionn aodhfionn bairrfhionn conn devonn donn jayronn ronn trevonn lonn eamonn jonnRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (nn) - Names That Ends with nn:
fynn cynn corann tuireann caolabhuinn eachann labhruinn lachlann martainn addilynn adelynn aislinn aislynn alinn alynn angelynn annalynn aoibheann ashelynn ashlinn ashlynn avlynn bebhinn bethann brendalynn brilynn brooklynn brynn caitlinn caitlynn caoilfhinnn carolann carolynn carynn charlynn cherilynn chrysann crisann daelynn dalynn danylynn davynn deann deeann diahann doireann dyann edlynn elynn erynn evelynn geralynn gracelynn gwendalynn gwenn gwynn inghinn jacklynn jadalynn jaecilynn jaelynn jaimelynn jaslynn jaylynn jazlynn jazmynn jenalynn jennyann jerilynn jeslynn joann jonalynn jordynn josalynn joshlynn joycelynn jozzlynn kadalynn kaelynn kaitlinn kaitlynn kalynn katelynn kathrynnNAMES RHYMING WITH STREPHONN (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 8 Letters (strephon) - Names That Begins with strephon:
strephonRhyming Names According to First 7 Letters (strepho) - Names That Begins with strepho:
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Rhyming Names According to First 4 Letters (stre) - Names That Begins with stre:
streRhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (str) - Names That Begins with str:
strahan strang stratford strod strong stroud struan struana struthersRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (st) - Names That Begins with st:
stacey stacie stacy stacyann staerling stafford stamfo stamford stamitos stan stanb stanbeny stanburh stanbury stanciyf stancliff stanclyf standa standish stanedisc stanfeld stanfield stanford stanhop stanhope stanislav stanley stanly stanton stantu stantun stanway stanweg stanwi stanwic stanwick stanwik stanwode stanwood stanwyk star starbuck starla starlene starling starls starr stasia staunton stayton steadman stearc stearn steathford stedeman stedman steele stefan stefana stefania stefanie stefano stefford stefn stefon stein steiner steise stela stem step stepan stephan stephana stephania stephanie stephen stephenie stephenson stephon sterling sterlyn stern sterne stetson stevan steve steven stevensonNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH STREPHONN:
First Names which starts with 'stre' and ends with 'honn':
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First Names which starts with 'st' and ends with 'nn':
stillmannFirst Names which starts with 's' and ends with 'n':
sachin safin safwan sahran salamon salhtun salman salomon salton samman sampson samson sanborn sanderson sandon sanson santon saran sarpedon sasson saturnin saunderson sawsan saxan saxon scanlan scanlon scannalan scelftun scotlyn scrydan seadon sean seanachan seanan seaton sebasten sebastian sebastien sebastyn sebestyen seeton sefton sein seireadan selden seldon selvyn selwin selwyn sen senen senon seosaimhin seosaimhthin seppanen serafin serban seren seton severin severn sevin sevrin sextein sexton shaaban shaan shaelynn shaheen shain shan shanahan shandon shann shannen shannon sharaden sharon shauden shaughn shaun shawn shawnn shayan shaylon shaylynn shayten shealyn sheehan shelden sheldon shelton sherbourn sheridan sherman shermon sheron sherwinEnglish Words Rhyming STREPHONN
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES STREPHONN AS A WHOLE:
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH STREPHONN (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 8 Letters (trephonn) - English Words That Ends with trephonn:
Rhyming Words According to Last 7 Letters (rephonn) - English Words That Ends with rephonn:
Rhyming Words According to Last 6 Letters (ephonn) - English Words That Ends with ephonn:
Rhyming Words According to Last 5 Letters (phonn) - English Words That Ends with phonn:
Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (honn) - English Words That Ends with honn:
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ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH STREPHONN (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 8 Letters (strephon) - Words That Begins with strephon:
Rhyming Words According to First 7 Letters (strepho) - Words That Begins with strepho:
Rhyming Words According to First 6 Letters (streph) - Words That Begins with streph:
Rhyming Words According to First 5 Letters (strep) - Words That Begins with strep:
strepent | adjective (a.) Noisy; loud. |
streperous | adjective (a.) Loud; boisterous. |
strepitores | noun (n. pl.) A division of birds, including the clamatorial and picarian birds, which do not have well developed singing organs. |
strepsipter | noun (n.) Alt. of Strepsipteran |
strepsipteran | noun (n.) One of the Strepsiptera. |
strepsiptera | noun (n. pl.) A group of small insects having the anterior wings rudimentary, and in the form of short and slender twisted appendages, while the posterior ones are large and membranous. They are parasitic in the larval state on bees, wasps, and the like; -- called also Rhipiptera. See Illust. under Rhipipter. |
strepsipterous | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Strepsiptera. |
strepsorhina | noun (n. pl.) Same as Lemuroidea. |
strepsorhine | noun (n.) One of the Strepsorhina; a lemur. See Illust. under Monkey. |
adjective (a.) Having twisted nostrils; -- said of the lemurs. |
streptobacteria | noun (n. pl.) A so-called variety of bacterium, consisting in reality of several bacteria linked together in the form of a chain. |
streptococcus | noun (n.) A long or short chain of micrococci, more or less curved. |
streptoneura | noun (n. pl.) An extensive division of gastropod Mollusca in which the loop or visceral nerves is twisted, and the sexes separate. It is nearly to equivalent to Prosobranchiata. |
streptothrix | noun (n.) A genus of bacilli occurring of the form of long, smooth and apparently branched threads, either straight or twisted. |
Rhyming Words According to First 4 Letters (stre) - Words That Begins with stre:
stre | noun (n.) Straw. |
streak | noun (n.) A line or long mark of a different color from the ground; a stripe; a vein. |
noun (n.) A strake. | |
noun (n.) The fine powder or mark yielded by a mineral when scratched or rubbed against a harder surface, the color of which is sometimes a distinguishing character. | |
noun (n.) The rung or round of a ladder. | |
verb (v. t.) To stretch; to extend; hence, to lay out, as a dead body. | |
verb (v. t.) To form streaks or stripes in or on; to stripe; to variegate with lines of a different color, or of different colors. | |
verb (v. t.) With it as an object: To run swiftly. |
streaking | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Streak |
streaked | adjective (a.) Marked or variegated with stripes. |
adjective (a.) Uncomfortable; out of sorts. | |
(imp. & p. p.) of Streak |
streaky | adjective (a.) Same as Streaked, 1. |
stream | noun (n.) A current of water or other fluid; a liquid flowing continuously in a line or course, either on the earth, as a river, brook, etc., or from a vessel, reservoir, or fountain; specifically, any course of running water; as, many streams are blended in the Mississippi; gas and steam came from the earth in streams; a stream of molten lead from a furnace; a stream of lava from a volcano. |
noun (n.) A beam or ray of light. | |
noun (n.) Anything issuing or moving with continued succession of parts; as, a stream of words; a stream of sand. | |
noun (n.) A continued current or course; as, a stream of weather. | |
noun (n.) Current; drift; tendency; series of tending or moving causes; as, the stream of opinions or manners. | |
verb (v. i.) To issue or flow in a stream; to flow freely or in a current, as a fluid or whatever is likened to fluids; as, tears streamed from her eyes. | |
verb (v. i.) To pour out, or emit, a stream or streams. | |
verb (v. i.) To issue in a stream of light; to radiate. | |
verb (v. i.) To extend; to stretch out with a wavy motion; to float in the wind; as, a flag streams in the wind. | |
verb (v. t.) To send forth in a current or stream; to cause to flow; to pour; as, his eyes streamed tears. | |
verb (v. t.) To mark with colors or embroidery in long tracts. | |
verb (v. t.) To unfurl. |
streaming | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stream |
noun (n.) The act or operation of that which streams; the act of that which sends forth, or which runs in, streams. | |
noun (n.) The reduction of stream tin; also, the search for stream tin. | |
adjective (a.) Sending forth streams. |
streamer | noun (n.) An ensign, flag, or pennant, which floats in the wind; specifically, a long, narrow, ribbonlike flag. |
noun (n.) A stream or column of light shooting upward from the horizon, constituting one of the forms of the aurora borealis. | |
noun (n.) A searcher for stream tin. |
streamful | adjective (a.) Abounding in streams, or in water. |
streaminess | noun (n.) The state of being streamy; a trailing. |
streamless | adjective (a.) Destitute of streams, or of a stream, as a region of country, or a dry channel. |
streamlet | noun (n.) A small stream; a rivulet; a rill. |
streamy | adjective (a.) Abounding with streams, or with running water; streamful. |
adjective (a.) Resembling a stream; issuing in a stream. |
stree | noun (n.) Straw. |
streen | noun (n.) See Strene. |
street | adjective (a.) Originally, a paved way or road; a public highway; now commonly, a thoroughfare in a city or village, bordered by dwellings or business houses. |
streetwalker | noun (n.) A common prostitute who walks the streets to find customers. |
streetward | noun (n.) An officer, or ward, having the care of the streets. |
adjective (a.) Facing toward the street. |
streit | adjective (a.) Drawn. |
adjective (a.) Close; narrow; strict. |
strelitz | noun (n. sing. & pl.) A soldier of the ancient Muscovite guard or Russian standing army; also, the guard itself. |
strelitzia | noun (n.) A genus of plants related to the banana, found at the Cape of Good Hope. They have rigid glaucous distichous leaves, and peculiar richly colored flowers. |
strene | noun (n.) Race; offspring; stock; breed; strain. |
strength | noun (n.) The quality or state of being strong; ability to do or to bear; capacity for exertion or endurance, whether physical, intellectual, or moral; force; vigor; power; as, strength of body or of the arm; strength of mind, of memory, or of judgment. |
noun (n.) Power to resist force; solidity or toughness; the quality of bodies by which they endure the application of force without breaking or yielding; -- in this sense opposed to frangibility; as, the strength of a bone, of a beam, of a wall, a rope, and the like. | |
noun (n.) Power of resisting attacks; impregnability. | |
noun (n.) That quality which tends to secure results; effective power in an institution or enactment; security; validity; legal or moral force; logical conclusiveness; as, the strength of social or legal obligations; the strength of law; the strength of public opinion; strength of evidence; strength of argument. | |
noun (n.) One who, or that which, is regarded as embodying or affording force, strength, or firmness; that on which confidence or reliance is based; support; security. | |
noun (n.) Force as measured; amount, numbers, or power of any body, as of an army, a navy, and the like; as, what is the strength of the enemy by land, or by sea? | |
noun (n.) Vigor or style; force of expression; nervous diction; -- said of literary work. | |
noun (n.) Intensity; -- said of light or color. | |
noun (n.) Intensity or degree of the distinguishing and essential element; spirit; virtue; excellence; -- said of liquors, solutions, etc.; as, the strength of wine or of acids. | |
noun (n.) A strong place; a stronghold. | |
verb (v. t.) To strengthen. |
strengthening | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Strengthen |
adjective (a.) That strengthens; giving or increasing strength. |
strengthener | noun (n.) One who, or that which, gives or adds strength. |
strengthful | adjective (a.) Abounding in strength; full of strength; strong. |
strengthing | noun (n.) A stronghold. |
strengthless | adjective (a.) Destitute of strength. |
strengthner | noun (n.) See Strengthener. |
strengthy | adjective (a.) Having strength; strong. |
strenuity | noun (n.) Strenuousness; activity. |
strenuous | adjective (a.) Eagerly pressing or urgent; zealous; ardent; earnest; bold; valiant; intrepid; as, a strenuous advocate for national rights; a strenuous reformer; a strenuous defender of his country. |
stress | noun (n.) Distress. |
noun (n.) Pressure, strain; -- used chiefly of immaterial things; except in mechanics; hence, urgency; importance; weight; significance. | |
noun (n.) The force, or combination of forces, which produces a strain; force exerted in any direction or manner between contiguous bodies, or parts of bodies, and taking specific names according to its direction, or mode of action, as thrust or pressure, pull or tension, shear or tangential stress. | |
noun (n.) Force of utterance expended upon words or syllables. Stress is in English the chief element in accent and is one of the most important in emphasis. See Guide to pronunciation, // 31-35. | |
noun (n.) Distress; the act of distraining; also, the thing distrained. | |
verb (v. t.) To press; to urge; to distress; to put to difficulties. | |
verb (v. t.) To subject to stress, pressure, or strain. | |
verb (v. t.) To subject to phonetic stress; to accent. | |
verb (v. t.) To place emphasis on; to make emphatic; emphasize. |
stressful | adjective (a.) Having much stress. |
stretching | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stretch |
() a. & n. from Stretch, v. |
stretch | noun (n.) Act of stretching, or state of being stretched; reach; effort; struggle; strain; as, a stretch of the limbs; a stretch of the imagination. |
noun (n.) A continuous line or surface; a continuous space of time; as, grassy stretches of land. | |
noun (n.) The extent to which anything may be stretched. | |
noun (n.) The reach or extent of a vessel's progress on one tack; a tack or board. | |
noun (n.) Course; direction; as, the stretch of seams of coal. | |
verb (v. t.) To reach out; to extend; to put forth. | |
verb (v. t.) To draw out to the full length; to cause to extend in a straight line; as, to stretch a cord or rope. | |
verb (v. t.) To cause to extend in breadth; to spread; to expand; as, to stretch cloth; to stretch the wings. | |
verb (v. t.) To make tense; to tighten; to distend forcibly. | |
verb (v. t.) To draw or pull out to greater length; to strain; as, to stretch a tendon or muscle. | |
verb (v. t.) To exaggerate; to extend too far; as, to stretch the truth; to stretch one's credit. | |
verb (v. i.) To be extended; to be drawn out in length or in breadth, or both; to spread; to reach; as, the iron road stretches across the continent; the lake stretches over fifty square miles. | |
verb (v. i.) To extend or spread one's self, or one's limbs; as, the lazy man yawns and stretches. | |
verb (v. i.) To be extended, or to bear extension, without breaking, as elastic or ductile substances. | |
verb (v. i.) To strain the truth; to exaggerate; as, a man apt to stretch in his report of facts. | |
verb (v. i.) To sail by the wind under press of canvas; as, the ship stretched to the eastward. |
stretcher | noun (n.) One who, or that which, stretches. |
noun (n.) A brick or stone laid with its longer dimension in the line of direction of the wall. | |
noun (n.) A piece of timber used in building. | |
noun (n.) A narrow crosspiece of the bottom of a boat against which a rower braces his feet. | |
noun (n.) A crosspiece placed between the sides of a boat to keep them apart when hoisted up and griped. | |
noun (n.) A litter, or frame, for carrying disabled, wounded, or dead persons. | |
noun (n.) An overstretching of the truth; a lie. | |
noun (n.) One of the rods in an umbrella, attached at one end to one of the ribs, and at the other to the tube sliding upon the handle. | |
noun (n.) An instrument for stretching boots or gloves. | |
noun (n.) The frame upon which canvas is stretched for a painting. |
stretto | noun (n.) The crowding of answer upon subject near the end of a fugue. |
noun (n.) In an opera or oratorio, a coda, or winding up, in an accelerated time. |
strewing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Strew |
noun (n.) The act of scattering or spreading. | |
noun (n.) Anything that is, or may be, strewed; -- used chiefly in the plural. |
strewment | noun (n.) Anything scattered, as flowers for decoration. |
streamline | adjective (a.) Of or pert. to a stream line; designating a motion or flow that is free from turbulence, like that of a particle in a streamline; hence, designating a surface, body, etc., that is designed so as to afford an unbroken flow of a fluid about it, esp. when the resistance to flow is the least possible; as, a streamline body for an automobile or airship. |
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (str) - Words That Begins with str:
strabism | noun (n.) Strabismus. |
strabismometer | noun (n.) An instrument for measuring the amount of strabismus. |
strabismus | noun (n.) An affection of one or both eyes, in which the optic axes can not be directed to the same object, -- a defect due either to undue contraction or to undue relaxation of one or more of the muscles which move the eyeball; squinting; cross-eye. |
strabotomy | noun (n.) The operation for the removal of squinting by the division of such muscles as distort the eyeball. |
straddling | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Straddle |
adjective (a.) Applied to spokes when they are arranged alternately in two circles in the hub. See Straddle, v. i., and Straddle, v. t., 3. |
straddle | noun (n.) The act of standing, sitting, or walking, with the feet far apart. |
noun (n.) The position, or the distance between the feet, of one who straddles; as, a wide straddle. | |
noun (n.) A stock option giving the holder the double privilege of a "put" and a "call," i. e., securing to the buyer of the option the right either to demand of the seller at a certain price, within a certain time, certain securities, or to require him to take at the same price, and within the same time, the same securities. | |
verb (v. i.) To part the legs wide; to stand or to walk with the legs far apart. | |
verb (v. i.) To stand with the ends staggered; -- said of the spokes of a wagon wheel where they join the hub. | |
verb (v. t.) To place one leg on one side and the other on the other side of; to stand or sit astride of; as, to straddle a fence or a horse. |
stradometrical | adjective (a.) Of, or relating to, the measuring of streets or roads. |
straggling | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Straggle |
() a. & n. from Straggle, v. |
straggle | noun (n.) The act of straggling. |
verb (v. t.) To wander from the direct course or way; to rove; to stray; to wander from the line of march or desert the line of battle; as, when troops are on the march, the men should not straggle. | |
verb (v. t.) To wander at large; to roam idly about; to ramble. | |
verb (v. t.) To escape or stretch beyond proper limits, as the branches of a plant; to spread widely apart; to shoot too far or widely in growth. | |
verb (v. t.) To be dispersed or separated; to occur at intervals. |
straggler | noun (n.) One who straggles, or departs from the direct or proper course, or from the company to which he belongs; one who falls behind the rest; one who rambles without any settled direction. |
noun (n.) A roving vagabond. | |
noun (n.) Something that shoots, or spreads out, beyond the rest, or too far; an exuberant growth. | |
noun (n.) Something that stands alone or by itself. |
stragulum | noun (n.) The mantle, or pallium, of a bird. |
straight | noun (n.) A hand of five cards in consecutive order as to value; a sequence. When they are of one suit, it is calles straight flush. |
adjective (a.) A variant of Strait, a. | |
superlative (superl.) Right, in a mathematical sense; passing from one point to another by the nearest course; direct; not deviating or crooked; as, a straight line or course; a straight piece of timber. | |
superlative (superl.) Approximately straight; not much curved; as, straight ribs are such as pass from the base of a leaf to the apex, with a small curve. | |
superlative (superl.) Composed of cards which constitute a regular sequence, as the ace, king, queen, jack, and ten-spot; as, a straight hand; a straight flush. | |
superlative (superl.) Conforming to justice and rectitude; not deviating from truth or fairness; upright; as, straight dealing. | |
superlative (superl.) Unmixed; undiluted; as, to take liquor straight. | |
superlative (superl.) Making no exceptions or deviations in one's support of the organization and candidates of a political party; as, a straight Republican; a straight Democrat; also, containing the names of all the regularly nominated candidates of a party and no others; as, a straight ballot. | |
adverb (adv.) In a straight manner; directly; rightly; forthwith; immediately; as, the arrow went straight to the mark. | |
verb (v. t.) To straighten. |
straightedge | noun (n.) A board, or piece of wood or metal, having one edge perfectly straight, -- used to ascertain whether a line is straight or a surface even, and for drawing straight lines. |
straighting | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Straighten |
straightener | noun (n.) One who, or that which, straightens. |
straightforward | adjective (a.) Proceeding in a straight course or manner; not deviating; honest; frank. |
adverb (adv.) In a straightforward manner. |
straighthorn | noun (n.) An orthoceras. |
straightness | noun (n.) The quality, condition, or state, of being straight; as, the straightness of a path. |
noun (n.) A variant of Straitness. |
straik | noun (n.) A strake. |
strain | noun (n.) Race; stock; generation; descent; family. |
noun (n.) Hereditary character, quality, or disposition. | |
noun (n.) Rank; a sort. | |
noun (n.) The act of straining, or the state of being strained. | |
noun (n.) A violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles; as, he lifted the weight with a strain; the strain upon a ship's rigging in a gale; also, the hurt or injury resulting; a sprain. | |
noun (n.) A change of form or dimensions of a solid or liquid mass, produced by a stress. | |
noun (n.) A portion of music divided off by a double bar; a complete musical period or sentence; a movement, or any rounded subdivision of a movement. | |
noun (n.) Any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem; also, the pervading note, or burden, of a song, poem, oration, book, etc.; theme; motive; manner; style; also, a course of action or conduct; as, he spoke in a noble strain; there was a strain of woe in his story; a strain of trickery appears in his career. | |
noun (n.) Turn; tendency; inborn disposition. Cf. 1st Strain. | |
noun (n.) A cultural subvariety that is only slightly differentiated. | |
adjective (a.) To draw with force; to extend with great effort; to stretch; as, to strain a rope; to strain the shrouds of a ship; to strain the cords of a musical instrument. | |
adjective (a.) To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as forces on a beam to bend it. | |
adjective (a.) To exert to the utmost; to ply vigorously. | |
adjective (a.) To stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in the matter of intent or meaning; as, to strain the law in order to convict an accused person. | |
adjective (a.) To injure by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force; as, the gale strained the timbers of the ship. | |
adjective (a.) To injure in the muscles or joints by causing to make too strong an effort; to harm by overexertion; to sprain; as, to strain a horse by overloading; to strain the wrist; to strain a muscle. | |
adjective (a.) To squeeze; to press closely. | |
adjective (a.) To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain. | |
adjective (a.) To urge with importunity; to press; as, to strain a petition or invitation. | |
adjective (a.) To press, or cause to pass, through a strainer, as through a screen, a cloth, or some porous substance; to purify, or separate from extraneous or solid matter, by filtration; to filter; as, to strain milk through cloth. | |
verb (v. i.) To make violent efforts. | |
verb (v. i.) To percolate; to be filtered; as, water straining through a sandy soil. |
straining | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Strain |
() a. & n. from Strain. |
strainable | adjective (a.) Capable of being strained. |
adjective (a.) Violent in action. |
strained | adjective (a.) Subjected to great or excessive tension; wrenched; weakened; as, strained relations between old friends. |
adjective (a.) Done or produced with straining or excessive effort; as, his wit was strained. | |
(imp. & p. p.) of Strain |
strainer | noun (n.) One who strains. |
noun (n.) That through which any liquid is passed for purification or to separate it from solid matter; anything, as a screen or a cloth, used to strain a liquid; a device of the character of a sieve or of a filter; specifically, an openwork or perforated screen, as for the end of the suction pipe of a pump, to prevent large solid bodies from entering with a liquid. |
straint | noun (n.) Overexertion; excessive tension; strain. |
strait | adjective (a.) A variant of Straight. |
adjective (a.) A narrow pass or passage. | |
adjective (a.) A (comparatively) narrow passageway connecting two large bodies of water; -- often in the plural; as, the strait, or straits, of Gibraltar; the straits of Magellan; the strait, or straits, of Mackinaw. | |
adjective (a.) A neck of land; an isthmus. | |
adjective (a.) Fig.: A condition of narrowness or restriction; doubt; distress; difficulty; poverty; perplexity; -- sometimes in the plural; as, reduced to great straits. | |
superlative (superl.) Narrow; not broad. | |
superlative (superl.) Tight; close; closely fitting. | |
superlative (superl.) Close; intimate; near; familiar. | |
superlative (superl.) Strict; scrupulous; rigorous. | |
superlative (superl.) Difficult; distressful; straited. | |
superlative (superl.) Parsimonious; niggargly; mean. | |
adverb (adv.) Strictly; rigorously. | |
verb (v. t.) To put to difficulties. |
straitening | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Straiten |
straitness | noun (n.) The quality or condition of being strait; especially, a pinched condition or situation caused by poverty; as, the straitnessof their circumstances. |
strake | noun (n.) A streak. |
noun (n.) An iron band by which the fellies of a wheel are secured to each other, being not continuous, as the tire is, but made up of separate pieces. | |
noun (n.) One breadth of planks or plates forming a continuous range on the bottom or sides of a vessel, reaching from the stem to the stern; a streak. | |
noun (n.) A trough for washing broken ore, gravel, or sand; a launder. | |
() imp. of Strike. |
strale | noun (n.) Pupil of the eye. |
stramash | noun (n.) A turmoil; a broil; a fray; a fight. |
verb (v. t.) To strike, beat, or bang; to break; to destroy. |
stramazoun | noun (n.) A direct descending blow with the edge of a sword. |
stramineous | adjective (a.) Strawy; consisting of straw. |
adjective (a.) Chaffy; like straw; straw-colored. |
stramonium | noun (n.) A poisonous plant (Datura Stramonium); stinkweed. See Datura, and Jamestown weed. |
stramony | noun (n.) Stramonium. |
strand | noun (n.) One of the twists, or strings, as of fibers, wires, etc., of which a rope is composed. |
noun (n.) The shore, especially the beach of a sea, ocean, or large lake; rarely, the margin of a navigable river. | |
verb (v. t.) To break a strand of (a rope). | |
verb (v. t.) To drive on a strand; hence, to run aground; as, to strand a ship. | |
verb (v. i.) To drift, or be driven, on shore to run aground; as, the ship stranded at high water. |
stranding | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Strand |
strang | adjective (a.) Strong. |
strangeness | noun (n.) The state or quality of being strange (in any sense of the adjective). |
stranger | noun (n.) One who is strange, foreign, or unknown. |
noun (n.) One who comes from a foreign land; a foreigner. | |
noun (n.) One whose home is at a distance from the place where he is, but in the same country. | |
noun (n.) One who is unknown or unacquainted; as, the gentleman is a stranger to me; hence, one not admitted to communication, fellowship, or acquaintance. | |
noun (n.) One not belonging to the family or household; a guest; a visitor. | |
noun (n.) One not privy or party an act, contract, or title; a mere intruder or intermeddler; one who interferes without right; as, actual possession of land gives a good title against a stranger having no title; as to strangers, a mortgage is considered merely as a pledge; a mere stranger to the levy. | |
verb (v. t.) To estrange; to alienate. |
strangling | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Strangle |
strangleable | adjective (a.) Capable of being strangled. |
strangler | noun (n.) One who, or that which, strangles. |
strangles | noun (n.) A disease in horses and swine, in which the upper part of the throat, or groups of lymphatic glands elsewhere, swells. |
strangulate | adjective (a.) Strangulated. |
strangulated | adjective (a.) Having the circulation stopped by compression; attended with arrest or obstruction of circulation, caused by constriction or compression; as, a strangulated hernia. |
adjective (a.) Contracted at irregular intervals, if tied with a ligature; constricted. |