Name Report For First Name STRE:
STRE
First name STRE's origin is Other. STRE means "one who turns". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with STRE below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of stre.(Brown names are of the same origin (Other) with STRE and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with STRE - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming STRE
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES STRE AS A WHOLE:
strephon eastre eostre estrela estrella estrellita kestrel silvestre webbestre strephonn astrea destreyNAMES RHYMING WITH STRE (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (tre) - Names That Ends with tre:
petre cotovatreRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (re) - Names That Ends with re:
ebiere balere deirdre hannelore aure kore magaere pleasure terpsichore amare nyasore zere alexandre bedivere bellangere brangore saffire elidure moore gaothaire giollamhuire cesare isidore macaire imre gilmore baldassare aedre aefre allaire amalure andere andsware asthore audre aurore azzure baibre blaire ceire chere claire clare conchobarre dechtire dedre deidre desire desyre diandre diedre dierdre dore eleonore ettare genevre guenevere guinevere gwenevere hilaire honore idurre izarre kesare laire legarre lenore lore maire mare muire niaire pipere quinevere richere sapphire valere adare aegelmaere aethelmaere aghamore ainmire alistaire alixandre andre archere are atmore attmore aundre avonmore azhaire backstere baldhere balgaire ballinamore barre beceereNAMES RHYMING WITH STRE (According to first letters):
Rhyming 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 stevenson stevie stevonNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH STRE:
First Names which starts with 's' and ends with 'e':
sadie sae sage sahale saidie saige salbatore salhdene sallie salome salvadore salvatore sanbourne sandrine sanersone sanuye sarajane sauville saveage saville sawyere sce scirwode scolaighe scottie scoville seamere searle sebastene sebastiene sebastienne sebe sebille sedge selassie selassiee sele selene selwine semele sente seoirse serafine seraphine serihilde severne seyane shace shadoe shae shaine shalene shanaye shane shantae sharlene shaundre shawe shawnette shayde shaye shaylee shayne sherborne sherbourne sherburne sherise shermarke shiye shizhe'e siddalee sidonie sifiye sigehere sigfriede sighle sigune sike sile simone sinclaire sine sive skene skete skippere skye slade slaine slainie slanie sloane smythe sofie solaine solange solonie somerville somhairle sonnieEnglish Words Rhyming STRE
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES STRE AS A WHOLE:
| ancestress | noun (n.) A female ancestor. |
| aplustre | noun (n.) An ornamental appendage of wood at the ship's stern, usually spreading like a fan and curved like a bird's feather. |
| arrastre | noun (n.) A rude apparatus for pulverizing ores, esp. those containing free gold. |
| backstress | noun (n.) A female baker. |
| bakistre | noun (n.) A baker. |
| bestrewing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bestrew |
| bistre | noun (n.) A dark brown pigment extracted from the soot of wood. |
| noun (n.) See Bister. |
| cadastre | noun (n.) Alt. of Cadaster |
| castrel | noun (n.) See Kestrel. |
| castrensial | adjective (a.) Belonging to a camp. |
| castrensian | adjective (a.) Castrensial. |
| chesstree | noun (n.) A piece of oak bolted perpendicularly on the side of a vessel, to aid in drawing down and securing the clew of the mainsail. |
| cloistress | noun (n.) A nun. |
| conirostres | noun (n. pl.) A tribe of perching birds, including those which have a strong conical bill, as the finches. |
| costrel | noun (n.) A bottle of leather, earthenware, or wood, having ears by which it was suspended at the side. |
| coystrel | noun (n.) Same as Coistril. |
| crosstrees | noun (n. pl.) Pieces of timber at a masthead, to which are attached the upper shrouds. At the head of lower masts in large vessels, they support a semicircular platform called the "top." |
| cultirostres | noun (n. pl.) A tribe of wading birds including the stork, heron, crane, etc. |
| curvirostres | noun (n. pl.) A group of passerine birds, including the creepers and nuthatches. |
| custrel | noun (n.) An armor-bearer to a knight. |
| noun (n.) See Costrel. |
| destrer | noun (n.) Alt. of Dextrer |
| distress | noun (n.) Extreme pain or suffering; anguish of body or mind; as, to suffer distress from the gout, or from the loss of friends. |
| noun (n.) That which occasions suffering; painful situation; misfortune; affliction; misery. | |
| noun (n.) A state of danger or necessity; as, a ship in distress, from leaking, loss of spars, want of provisions or water, etc. | |
| noun (n.) The act of distraining; the taking of a personal chattel out of the possession of a wrongdoer, by way of pledge for redress of an injury, or for the performance of a duty, as for nonpayment of rent or taxes, or for injury done by cattle, etc. | |
| noun (n.) The thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction. | |
| noun (n.) To cause pain or anguish to; to pain; to oppress with calamity; to afflict; to harass; to make miserable. | |
| noun (n.) To compel by pain or suffering. | |
| noun (n.) To seize for debt; to distrain. |
| distressing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Distress |
| adjective (a.) Causing distress; painful; unpleasant. | |
| adverb (adv.) In a distressing manner. |
| distressedness | noun (n.) A state of being distressed or greatly pained. |
| distressful | adjective (a.) Full of distress; causing, indicating, or attended with, distress; as, a distressful situation. |
| divinistre | noun (n.) A diviner. |
| estre | noun (n.) The inward part of a building; the interior. |
| estreat | noun (n.) A true copy, duplicate, or extract of an original writing or record, esp. of amercements or penalties set down in the rolls of court to be levied by the bailiff, or other officer. |
| verb (v. t.) To extract or take out from the records of a court, and send up to the court of exchequer to be enforced; -- said of a forfeited recognizance. | |
| verb (v. t.) To bring in to the exchequer, as a fine. |
| estreating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Estreat |
| estrepement | noun (n.) A destructive kind of waste, committed by a tenant for life, in lands, woods, or houses. |
| farstretched | adjective (a.) Streatched beyond ordinary limits. |
| fissirostres | noun (n. pl.) A group of birds having the bill deeply cleft. |
| fostress | noun (n.) A woman who feeds and cherishes; a nurse. |
| hairstreak | noun (n.) A butterfly of the genus Thecla; as, the green hairstreak (T. rubi). |
| huckstress | noun (n.) A female huckster. |
| idolastre | noun (n.) An idolater. |
| impostress | noun (n.) Alt. of Impostrix |
| kestrel | noun (n.) A small, slender European hawk (Falco alaudarius), allied to the sparrow hawk. Its color is reddish fawn, streaked and spotted with white and black. Also called windhover and stannel. The name is also applied to other allied species. |
| lacklustre | noun (n.) A want of luster. |
| adjective (a.) Wanting luster or brightness. |
| lamellirostres | noun (n. pl.) A group of birds embracing the Anseres and flamingoes, in which the bill is lamellate. |
| landstreight | noun (n.) A narrow strip of land. |
| lapstreak | adjective (a.) Alt. of Lapstrake |
| latirostres | noun (n. pl.) The broad-billed singing birds, such as the swallows, and their allies. |
| levirostres | noun (n. pl.) A group of birds, including the hornbills, kingfishers, and related forms. |
| longirostres | noun (n. pl.) A group of birds characterized by having long slender bills, as the sandpipers, curlews, and ibises. It is now regarded as an artificial division. |
| (pl. ) of Longiroster |
| luster lustre | noun (n.) A period of five years; a lustrum. |
| lustre | noun (n.) Brilliancy; splendor; brightness; glitter. |
| noun (n.) Renown; splendor; distinction; glory. | |
| noun (n.) A candlestick, chandelier, girandole, or the like, generally of an ornamental character. | |
| noun (n.) The appearance of the surface of a mineral as affected by, or dependent upon, peculiarities of its reflecting qualities. | |
| noun (n.) A substance which imparts luster to a surface, as plumbago and some of the glazes. | |
| noun (n.) A fabric of wool and cotton with a lustrous surface, -- used for women's dresses. | |
| noun (n.) Same as Luster. | |
| verb (v. t.) To make lustrous. |
| lustreless | adjective (a.) Destitute of luster; dim; dull. |
| maistre | noun (n.) Alt. of Maistry |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH STRE (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (tre) - English Words That Ends with tre:
| amphitheatre | noun (n.) An oval or circular building with rising tiers of seats about an open space called the arena. |
| noun (n.) Anything resembling an amphitheater in form; as, a level surrounded by rising slopes or hills, or a rising gallery in a theater. |
| antre | noun (n.) A cavern. |
| centilitre | noun (n.) The hundredth part of a liter; a measure of volume or capacity equal to a little more than six tenths (0.6102) of a cubic inch, or one third (0.338) of a fluid ounce. |
| centimetre | noun (n.) The hundredth part of a meter; a measure of length equal to rather more than thirty-nine hundredths (0.3937) of an inch. See Meter. |
| centre | noun (n. & v.) See Center. |
| verb (v. i.) To be placed in a center; to be central. | |
| verb (v. i.) To be collected to a point; to be concentrated; to rest on, or gather about, as a center. | |
| verb (v. t.) To place or fix in the center or on a central point. | |
| verb (v. t.) To collect to a point; to concentrate. | |
| verb (v. t.) To form a recess or indentation for the reception of a center. | |
| () Alt. of seal | |
| () Alt. of punch |
| decalitre | noun (n.) A measure of capacity in the metric system; a cubic volume of ten liters, equal to about 610.24 cubic inches, that is, 2.642 wine gallons. |
| decametre | noun (n.) A measure of length in the metric system; ten meters, equal to about 393.7 inches. |
| decilitre | noun (n.) A measure of capacity or volume in the metric system; one tenth of a liter, equal to 6.1022 cubic inches, or 3.38 fluid ounces. |
| decimetre | noun (n.) A measure of length in the metric system; one tenth of a meter, equal to 3.937 inches. |
| dioptre | noun (n.) A unit employed by oculists in numbering glasses according to the metric system; a refractive power equal to that of a glass whose principal focal distance is one meter. |
| electre | noun (n.) Alt. of Electer |
| gaitre | noun (n.) Alt. of Gaytre |
| gaytre | noun (n.) The dogwood tree. |
| noun (n.) The dogwood tree. |
| goitre | noun (n.) An enlargement of the thyroid gland, on the anterior part of the neck; bronchocele. It is frequently associated with cretinism, and is most common in mountainous regions, especially in certain parts of Switzerland. |
| hectolitre | noun (n.) A measure of liquids, containing a hundred liters; equal to a tenth of a cubic meter, nearly 26/ gallons of wine measure, or 22.0097 imperial gallons. As a dry measure, it contains ten decaliters, or about 2/ Winchester bushels. |
| hectometre | noun (n.) A measure of length, equal to a hundred meters. It is equivalent to 328.09 feet. |
| kilogrammetre | noun (n.) A measure of energy or work done, being the amount expended in raising one kilogram through the height of one meter, in the latitude of Paris. |
| kilolitre | noun (n.) A measure of capacity equal to a cubic meter, or a thousand liters. It is equivalent to 35.315 cubic feet, and to 220.04 imperial gallons, or 264.18 American gallons of 321 cubic inches. |
| kilometre | noun (n.) A measure of length, being a thousand meters. It is equal to 3,280.8 feet, or 62137 of a mile. |
| litre | noun (n.) A measure of capacity in the metric system, being a cubic decimeter, equal to 61.022 cubic inches, or 2.113 American pints, or 1.76 English pints. |
| noun (n.) Same as Liter. |
| megametre | noun (n.) In the metric system, one million meters, or one thousand kilometers. |
| metre | noun (n.) Rhythmical arrangement of syllables or words into verses, stanzas, strophes, etc.; poetical measure, depending on number, quantity, and accent of syllables; rhythm; measure; verse; also, any specific rhythmical arrangements; as, the Horatian meters; a dactylic meter. |
| noun (n.) A poem. | |
| noun (n.) A measure of length, equal to 39.37 English inches, the standard of linear measure in the metric system of weights and measures. It was intended to be, and is very nearly, the ten millionth part of the distance from the equator to the north pole, as ascertained by actual measurement of an arc of a meridian. See Metric system, under Metric. | |
| noun (n.) See Meter. |
| millilitre | noun (n.) A measure of capacity in the metric system, containing the thousandth part of a liter. It is a cubic centimeter, and is equal to .061 of an English cubic inch, or to .0338 of an American fluid ounce. |
| millimetre | noun (n.) A lineal measure in the metric system, containing the thousandth part of a meter; equal to .03937 of an inch. See 3d Meter. |
| mitre | noun (n.) A covering for the head, worn on solemn occasions by church dignitaries. It has been made in many forms, the present form being a lofty cap with two points or peaks. |
| noun (n.) The surface forming the beveled end or edge of a piece where a miter joint is made; also, a joint formed or a junction effected by two beveled ends or edges; a miter joint. | |
| noun (n.) A sort of base money or coin. | |
| noun (n. & v.) See Miter. | |
| verb (v. t.) To place a miter upon; to adorn with a miter. | |
| verb (v. t.) To match together, as two pieces of molding or brass rule on a line bisecting the angle of junction; to bevel the ends or edges of, for the purpose of matching together at an angle. | |
| verb (v. i.) To meet and match together, as two pieces of molding, on a line bisecting the angle of junction. |
| myrialitre | noun (n.) A metric measure of capacity, containing ten thousand liters. It is equal to 2641.7 wine gallons. |
| myriametre | noun (n.) A metric measure of length, containing ten thousand meters. It is equal to 6.2137 miles. |
| montre | noun (n.) A stop, usually the open diapason, having its pipes "shown" as part of the organ case, or otherwise specially mounted. |
| noun (n.) A hole in the wall of a pottery kiln, by which the state of the pieces within can be judged. |
| nitre | noun (n.) A white crystalline semitransparent salt; potassium nitrate; saltpeter. See Saltpeter. |
| noun (n.) Native sodium carbonate; natron. | |
| noun (n.) See Niter. |
| opiniatre | noun (n.) One who is opinionated. |
| adjective (a.) Opinionated. | |
| adjective (a.) See Opiniaster. |
| orchestre | noun (n.) See Orchestra. |
| outre | adjective (a.) Being out of the common course or limits; extravagant; bizarre. |
| adjective (a.) Out of the common course or limits; extravagant; bizarre; as, an outre costume. |
| quatre | noun (n.) A card, die. or domino, having four spots, or pips |
| noun (n.) A card, die. or domino, having four spots, or pips |
| petre | noun (n.) See Saltpeter. |
| piastre | noun (n.) See Piaster. |
| rencontre | noun (n.) Same as Rencounter, n. |
| saltpetre | noun (n.) Potassium nitrate; niter; a white crystalline substance, KNO3, having a cooling saline taste, obtained by leaching from certain soils in which it is produced by the process of nitrification (see Nitrification, 2). It is a strong oxidizer, is the chief constituent of gunpowder, and is also used as an antiseptic in curing meat, and in medicine as a diuretic, diaphoretic, and refrigerant. |
| sceptre | noun (n.) A staff or baton borne by a sovereign, as a ceremonial badge or emblem of authority; a royal mace. |
| noun (n.) Hence, royal or imperial power or authority; sovereignty; as, to assume the scepter. | |
| verb (v. t.) To endow with the scepter, or emblem of authority; to invest with royal authority. |
| spectre | noun (n.) Something preternaturally visible; an apparition; a ghost; a phantom. |
| noun (n.) The tarsius. | |
| noun (n.) A stick insect. | |
| noun (n.) See Specter. | |
| () A mountain specter (which see), esp. that observed on the Brocken, in the Harz Mountains. |
| stre | noun (n.) Straw. |
| sustre | noun (n.) Sister. |
| tenthmetre | noun (n.) A unit for the measurement of many small lengths, such that 1010 of these units make one meter; the ten millionth part of a millimeter. |
| terrestre | adjective (a.) Terrestrial; earthly. |
| theatre | noun (n.) An edifice in which dramatic performances or spectacles are exhibited for the amusement of spectators; anciently uncovered, except the stage, but in modern times roofed. |
| noun (n.) Any room adapted to the exhibition of any performances before an assembly, as public lectures, scholastic exercises, anatomical demonstrations, surgical operations, etc. | |
| noun (n.) That which resembles a theater in form, use, or the like; a place rising by steps or gradations, like the seats of a theater. | |
| noun (n.) A sphere or scheme of operation. | |
| noun (n.) A place or region where great events are enacted; as, the theater of war. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH STRE (According to first letters):
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. |
| strangulation | noun (n.) The act of strangling, or the state of being strangled. |
| noun (n.) Inordinate compression or constriction of a tube or part, as of the throat; especially, such as causes a suspension of breathing, of the passage of contents, or of the circulation, as in cases of hernia. |
| strangurious | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to strangury. |
| strangury | noun (n.) A painful discharge of urine, drop by drop, produced by spasmodic muscular contraction. |
| noun (n.) A swelling or other disease in a plant, occasioned by a ligature fastened tightly about it. |
| strany | noun (n.) The guillemot. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH STRE:
English Words which starts with 's' and ends with 'e':
| sabre | noun (n.) A sword with a broad and heavy blade, thick at the back, and usually more or less curved like a scimiter; a cavalry sword. |
| noun (n. & v.) See Saber. | |
| verb (v. t.) To strike, cut, or kill with a saber; to cut down, as with a saber. |
| sabine | noun (n.) One of the Sabine people. |
| noun (n.) See Savin. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the ancient Sabines, a people of Italy. |
| sable | noun (n.) A carnivorous animal of the Weasel family (Mustela zibellina) native of the northern latitudes of Europe, Asia, and America, -- noted for its fine, soft, and valuable fur. |
| noun (n.) The fur of the sable. | |
| noun (n.) A mourning garment; a funeral robe; -- generally in the plural. | |
| noun (n.) The tincture black; -- represented by vertical and horizontal lines crossing each other. | |
| adjective (a.) Of the color of the sable's fur; dark; black; -- used chiefly in poetry. | |
| verb (v. t.) To render sable or dark; to drape darkly or in black. |
| sabotiere | noun (n.) A kind of freezer for ices. |
| sabretasche | noun (n.) A leather case or pocket worn by cavalry at the left side, suspended from the sword belt. |
| sabulose | adjective (a.) Growing in sandy places. |
| saccade | noun (n.) A sudden, violent check of a horse by drawing or twitching the reins on a sudden and with one pull. |
| saccate | adjective (a.) Having the form of a sack or pouch; furnished with a sack or pouch, as a petal. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Saccata, a suborder of ctenophores having two pouches into which the long tentacles can be retracted. |
| saccharate | noun (n.) A salt of saccharic acid. |
| noun (n.) In a wider sense, a compound of saccharose, or any similar carbohydrate, with such bases as the oxides of calcium, barium, or lead; a sucrate. |
| saccharinate | noun (n.) A salt of saccharinic acid. |
| noun (n.) A salt of saccharine. |
| saccharine | noun (n.) A trade name for benzoic sulphinide. |
| adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to sugar; having the qualities of sugar; producing sugar; sweet; as, a saccharine taste; saccharine matter. |
| saccharonate | noun (n.) A salt of saccharonic acid. |
| saccharone | noun (n.) A white crystalline substance, C6H8O6, obtained by the oxidation of saccharin, and regarded as the lactone of saccharonic acid. |
| noun (n.) An oily liquid, C6H10O2, obtained by the reduction of saccharin. |
| saccharose | noun (n.) Cane sugar; sucrose; also, in general, any one of the group of which saccharose, or sucrose proper, is the type. See Sucrose. |
| saccholactate | noun (n.) A salt of saccholactic acid; -- formerly called also saccholate. |
| sacchulmate | noun (n.) A salt of sacchulmic acid. |
| saccule | noun (n.) A little sac; specifically, the sacculus of the ear. |
| sackage | noun (n.) The act of taking by storm and pillaging; sack. |
| sacque | noun (n.) Same as 2d Sack, 3. |
| sacre | noun (n.) See Saker. |
| verb (v. t.) To consecrate; to make sacred. |
| sacrificable | adjective (a.) Capable of being offered in sacrifice. |
| sacrifice | noun (n.) The offering of anything to God, or to a god; consecratory rite. |
| noun (n.) Anything consecrated and offered to God, or to a divinity; an immolated victim, or an offering of any kind, laid upon an altar, or otherwise presented in the way of religious thanksgiving, atonement, or conciliation. | |
| noun (n.) Destruction or surrender of anything for the sake of something else; devotion of some desirable object in behalf of a higher object, or to a claim deemed more pressing; hence, also, the thing so devoted or given up; as, the sacrifice of interest to pleasure, or of pleasure to interest. | |
| noun (n.) A sale at a price less than the cost or the actual value. | |
| noun (n.) To make an offering of; to consecrate or present to a divinity by way of expiation or propitiation, or as a token acknowledgment or thanksgiving; to immolate on the altar of God, in order to atone for sin, to procure favor, or to express thankfulness; as, to sacrifice an ox or a sheep. | |
| noun (n.) Hence, to destroy, surrender, or suffer to be lost, for the sake of obtaining something; to give up in favor of a higher or more imperative object or duty; to devote, with loss or suffering. | |
| noun (n.) To destroy; to kill. | |
| noun (n.) To sell at a price less than the cost or the actual value. | |
| verb (v. i.) To make offerings to God, or to a deity, of things consumed on the altar; to offer sacrifice. |
| sacrilege | noun (n.) The sin or crime of violating or profaning sacred things; the alienating to laymen, or to common purposes, what has been appropriated or consecrated to religious persons or uses. |
| saddle | noun (n.) A seat for a rider, -- usually made of leather, padded to span comfortably a horse's back, furnished with stirrups for the rider's feet to rest in, and fastened in place with a girth; also, a seat for the rider on a bicycle or tricycle. |
| noun (n.) A padded part of a harness which is worn on a horse's back, being fastened in place with a girth. It serves various purposes, as to keep the breeching in place, carry guides for the reins, etc. | |
| noun (n.) A piece of meat containing a part of the backbone of an animal with the ribs on each side; as, a saddle of mutton, of venison, etc. | |
| noun (n.) A block of wood, usually fastened to some spar, and shaped to receive the end of another spar. | |
| noun (n.) A part, as a flange, which is hollowed out to fit upon a convex surface and serve as a means of attachment or support. | |
| noun (n.) The clitellus of an earthworm. | |
| noun (n.) The threshold of a door, when a separate piece from the floor or landing; -- so called because it spans and covers the joint between two floors. | |
| noun (n.) A ridge connected two higher elevations; a low point in the crest line of a ridge; a col. | |
| noun (n.) A formation of gold-bearing quartz occurring along the crest of an anticlinal fold, esp. in Australia. | |
| verb (v. t.) To put a saddle upon; to equip (a beast) for riding. | |
| verb (v. t.) Hence: To fix as a charge or burden upon; to load; to encumber; as, to saddle a town with the expense of bridges and highways. |
| saddletree | noun (n.) The frame of a saddle. |
| sadducee | noun (n.) One of a sect among the ancient Jews, who denied the resurrection, a future state, and the existence of angels. |
| safe | noun (n.) A place for keeping things in safety. |
| noun (n.) A strong and fireproof receptacle (as a movable chest of steel, etc., or a closet or vault of brickwork) for containing money, valuable papers, or the like. | |
| noun (n.) A ventilated or refrigerated chest or closet for securing provisions from noxious animals or insects. | |
| superlative (superl.) Free from harm, injury, or risk; untouched or unthreatened by danger or injury; unharmed; unhurt; secure; whole; as, safe from disease; safe from storms; safe from foes. | |
| superlative (superl.) Conferring safety; securing from harm; not exposing to danger; confining securely; to be relied upon; not dangerous; as, a safe harbor; a safe bridge, etc. | |
| superlative (superl.) Incapable of doing harm; no longer dangerous; in secure care or custody; as, the prisoner is safe. | |
| verb (v. t.) To render safe; to make right. |
| safranine | noun (n.) An orange-red nitrogenous dyestuff produced artificially by oxidizing certain aniline derivatives, and used in dyeing silk and wool; also, any one of the series of which safranine proper is the type. |
| sagamore | noun (n.) The head of a tribe among the American Indians; a chief; -- generally used as synonymous with sachem, but some writters distinguished between them, making the sachem a chief of the first rank, and a sagamore one of the second rank. |
| noun (n.) A juice used in medicine. |
| sage | noun (n.) A suffruticose labiate plant (Salvia officinalis) with grayish green foliage, much used in flavoring meats, etc. The name is often extended to the whole genus, of which many species are cultivated for ornament, as the scarlet sage, and Mexican red and blue sage. |
| noun (n.) The sagebrush. | |
| noun (n.) A wise man; a man of gravity and wisdom; especially, a man venerable for years, and of sound judgment and prudence; a grave philosopher. | |
| superlative (superl.) Having nice discernment and powers of judging; prudent; grave; sagacious. | |
| superlative (superl.) Proceeding from wisdom; well judged; shrewd; well adapted to the purpose. | |
| superlative (superl.) Grave; serious; solemn. |
| sagene | noun (n.) A Russian measure of length equal to about seven English feet. |
| sagenite | noun (n.) Acicular rutile occurring in reticulated forms imbedded in quartz. |
| sagittate | adjective (a.) Shaped like an arrowhead; triangular, with the two basal angles prolonged downward. |
| sahlite | noun (n.) See Salite. |
| sailable | adjective (a.) Capable of being sailed over; navigable; as, a sailable river. |
| saintlike | adjective (a.) Resembling a saint; suiting a saint; becoming a saint; saintly. |
| saithe | noun (n.) The pollock, or coalfish; -- called also sillock. |
| sajene | noun (n.) Same as Sagene. |
| sake | noun (n.) Final cause; end; purpose of obtaining; cause; motive; reason; interest; concern; account; regard or respect; -- used chiefly in such phrases as, for the sake of, for his sake, for man's sake, for mercy's sake, and the like; as, to commit crime for the sake of gain; to go abroad for the sake of one's health. |
| salable | adjective (a.) Capable of being sold; fit to be sold; finding a ready market. |
| salade | noun (n.) A helmet. See Sallet. |
| salagane | noun (n.) The esculent swallow. See under Esculent. |
| salamandrine | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a salamander; enduring fire. |
| salamstone | noun (n.) A kind of blue sapphire brought from Ceylon. |
| sale | noun (n.) See 1st Sallow. |
| verb (v. t.) The act of selling; the transfer of property, or a contract to transfer the ownership of property, from one person to another for a valuable consideration, or for a price in money. | |
| verb (v. t.) Opportunity of selling; demand; market. | |
| verb (v. t.) Public disposal to the highest bidder, or exposure of goods in market; auction. |
| saliaunce | adjective (a.) Salience; onslaught. |
| salicylate | noun (n.) A salt of salicylic acid. |
| salicylide | noun (n.) A white crystalline substance obtained by dehydration of salicylic acid. |
| salicylite | noun (n.) A compound of salicylal; -- named after the analogy of a salt. |
| salience | noun (n.) The quality or condition of being salient; a leaping; a springing forward; an assaulting. |
| noun (n.) The quality or state of projecting, or being projected; projection; protrusion. |
| salifiable | adjective (a.) Capable of neutralizing an acid to form a salt; -- said of bases; thus, ammonia is salifiable. |
| saline | noun (n.) A crude potash obtained from beet-root residues and other similar sources. |
| noun (n.) A metallic salt; esp., a salt of potassium, sodium, lithium, or magnesium, used in medicine. | |
| adjective (a.) Consisting of salt, or containing salt; as, saline particles; saline substances; a saline cathartic. | |
| adjective (a.) Of the quality of salt; salty; as, a saline taste. | |
| adjective (a.) A salt spring; a place where salt water is collected in the earth. |
| salique | adjective (a.) Salic. |
| salite | noun (n.) A massive lamellar variety of pyroxene, of a dingy green color. |
| verb (v. t.) To season with salt; to salt. |
| salliance | noun (n.) Salience. |
| salse | noun (n.) A mud volcano, the water of which is often impregnated with salts, whence the name. |
| saltle | noun (n.) The European dab. |
| saltigradae | noun (n. pl.) A tribe of spiders including those which lie in wait and leap upon their prey; the leaping spiders. |
| saltigrade | noun (n.) One of the Saltigradae, a tribe of spiders which leap to seize their prey. |
| adjective (a.) Having feet or legs formed for leaping. |
| salvable | adjective (a.) Capable of being saved; admitting of salvation. |
| salvage | noun (n.) The act of saving a vessel, goods, or life, from perils of the sea. |
| noun (n.) The compensation allowed to persons who voluntarily assist in saving a ship or her cargo from peril. | |
| noun (n.) That part of the property that survives the peril and is saved. | |
| noun (a. & n.) Savage. |
| salve | noun (n.) An adhesive composition or substance to be applied to wounds or sores; a healing ointment. |
| noun (n.) A soothing remedy or antidote. | |
| noun (n.) To heal by applications or medicaments; to cure by remedial treatment; to apply salve to; as, to salve a wound. | |
| noun (n.) To heal; to remedy; to cure; to make good; to soothe, as with an ointment, especially by some device, trick, or quibble; to gloss over. | |
| verb (v. t.) To say "Salve" to; to greet; to salute. | |
| verb (v. t. & i.) To save, as a ship or goods, from the perils of the sea. | |
| (interj.) Hail! |
| samare | noun (n.) See Simar. |
| samarskite | adjective (a.) A rare mineral having a velvet-black color and submetallic luster. It is a niobate of uranium, iron, and the yttrium and cerium metals. |
| sambuke | noun (n.) An ancient stringed instrument used by the Greeks, the particular construction of which is unknown. |
| samette | noun (n.) See Samite. |
| samite | adjective (a.) A species of silk stuff, or taffeta, generally interwoven with gold. |
| samphire | noun (n.) A fleshy, suffrutescent, umbelliferous European plant (Crithmum maritimum). It grows among rocks and on cliffs along the seacoast, and is used for pickles. |
| noun (n.) The species of glasswort (Salicornia herbacea); -- called in England marsh samphire. | |
| noun (n.) A seashore shrub (Borrichia arborescens) of the West Indies. |
| sample | noun (n.) Example; pattern. |
| noun (n.) A part of anything presented for inspection, or shown as evidence of the quality of the whole; a specimen; as, goods are often purchased by samples. | |
| verb (v. t.) To make or show something similar to; to match. | |
| verb (v. t.) To take or to test a sample or samples of; as, to sample sugar, teas, wools, cloths. |
| sanable | adjective (a.) Capable of being healed or cured; susceptible of remedy. |
| sanative | adjective (a.) Having the power to cure or heal; healing; tending to heal; sanatory. |
| sanctitude | noun (n.) Holiness; sacredness; sanctity. |
| sandre | noun (n.) A Russian fish (Lucioperca sandre) which yields a valuable oil, called sandre oil, used in the preparation of caviare. |
| sandstone | noun (n.) A rock made of sand more or less firmly united. Common or siliceous sandstone consists mainly of quartz sand. |
| sane | adjective (a.) Being in a healthy condition; not deranged; acting rationally; -- said of the mind. |
| adjective (a.) Mentally sound; possessing a rational mind; having the mental faculties in such condition as to be able to anticipate and judge of the effect of one's actions in an ordinary maner; -- said of persons. |
| sangaree | noun (n.) Wine and water sweetened and spiced, -- a favorite West Indian drink. |
| sanguine | noun (n.) Blood color; red. |
| noun (n.) Anything of a blood-red color, as cloth. | |
| noun (n.) Bloodstone. | |
| noun (n.) Red crayon. See the Note under Crayon, 1. | |
| adjective (a.) Having the color of blood; red. | |
| adjective (a.) Characterized by abundance and active circulation of blood; as, a sanguine bodily temperament. | |
| adjective (a.) Warm; ardent; as, a sanguine temper. | |
| adjective (a.) Anticipating the best; not desponding; confident; full of hope; as, sanguine of success. | |
| verb (v. t.) To stain with blood; to impart the color of blood to; to ensanguine. |
| sanguisuge | noun (n.) A bloodsucker, or leech. |
| sanicle | noun (n.) Any plant of the umbelliferous genus Sanicula, reputed to have healing powers. |
| sanidine | noun (n.) A variety of orthoclase feldspar common in certain eruptive rocks, as trachyte; -- called also glassy feldspar. |
| santonate | noun (n.) A salt of santonic acid. |
| santoninate | noun (n.) A salt of santoninic acid. |
| sapience | noun (n.) The quality of being sapient; wisdom; sageness; knowledge. |
| saponifiable | adjective (a.) Capable of conversion into soap; as, a saponifiable substance. |
| saponite | noun (n.) A hydrous silicate of magnesia and alumina. It occurs in soft, soapy, amorphous masses, filling veins in serpentine and cavities in trap rock. |
| sappare | noun (n.) Kyanite. |
| sapphire | noun (n.) Native alumina or aluminium sesquioxide, Al2O3; corundum; esp., the blue transparent variety of corundum, highly prized as a gem. |
| noun (n.) The color of the gem; bright blue. | |
| noun (n.) Any humming bird of the genus Hylocharis, native of South America. The throat and breast are usually bright blue. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or resembling sapphire; sapphirine; blue. |
| sapphirine | noun (n.) Resembling sapphire; made of sapphire; having the color, or any quality of sapphire. |
| saprophyte | noun (n.) Any plant growing on decayed animal or vegetable matter, as most fungi and some flowering plants with no green color, as the Indian pipe. |
| sarabaite | noun (n.) One of certain vagrant or heretical Oriental monks in the early church. |
| sarcelle | noun (n.) The old squaw, or long-tailed duck. |
| sarcocele | noun (n.) Any solid tumor of the testicle. |
| sarcode | noun (n.) A name applied by Dujardin in 1835 to the gelatinous material forming the bodies of the lowest animals; protoplasm. |
| sarcoline | adjective (a.) Flesh-colored. |
| sarcophile | noun (n.) A flesh-eating animal, especially any one of the carnivorous marsupials. |
| sardachate | noun (n.) A variety of agate containing sard. |
| sardine | noun (n.) Any one of several small species of herring which are commonly preserved in olive oil for food, especially the pilchard, or European sardine (Clupea pilchardus). The California sardine (Clupea sagax) is similar. The American sardines of the Atlantic coast are mostly the young of the common herring and of the menhaden. |
| noun (n.) See Sardius. |
| saree | noun (n.) The principal garment of a Hindoo woman. It consists of a long piece of cloth, which is wrapped round the middle of the body, a portion being arranged to hang down in front, and the remainder passed across the bosom over the left shoulder. |
| sarigue | noun (n.) A small South American opossum (Didelphys opossum), having four white spots on the face. |
| sarmentose | adjective (a.) Long and filiform, and almost naked, or having only leaves at the joints where it strikes root; as, a sarmentose stem. |
| adjective (a.) Bearing sarments; sarmentaceous. |
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