English words: straddle to strangen

300 English words, part 186 of 245 of the words starting with S, A to Z. 27 have a page of their own.

English words straddle to strangen

straddle adverb, noun, verb /ˈstɹædəl/: To sit or stand with a leg on each side of something; to sit astride.
straddle carrier noun: A vehicle used in ports and yards for stacking and moving freight containers.
straddler noun: Someone who straddles.
straddleways adverb: Alternative form of straddlewise.
straddlewise adverb: So as to straddle something.
straddling bus noun: A bus with a passenger compartment raised above road level, allowing other traffic to pass underneath and hence helping to avoid traffic jams.
straddlingly adverb: So as to straddle something.
Strader proper noun: A surname.
stradiot noun: A mercenary unit from the Balkans, recruited mainly by states of southern and central Europe from the 15th century until the middle of the 18th century.
Stradivarian adjective: Of or relating to the Stradivari family who built stringed instruments in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Stradivarius noun /ˌstɹædɪˈvɛəɹi.əs/: A stringed instrument built by members of the Stradivari family, particularly Antonio Stradivari.
Stradley proper noun: A surname.
Stradling proper noun: A surname.
strafe noun, verb /ˈstɹeɪ̯f/: To attack (ground targets) with automatic gunfire from a low-flying aircraft.
strafer noun /ˈstɹeɪ̯fəː/: One who strafes.
Strafford proper noun /ˈstræfə(ɹ)d/: A city in Greene County, Missouri, United States.
Straffordian adjective, noun: Of or relating to the English statesman Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford (1593–1641).
strafing noun, verb: The act of one who strafes.
strafing run noun: A low pass by an aircraft to attack (ground targets) with machine guns, rockets, or light bombs.
straggle noun, verb /ˈstɹæɡl̩/: To stray, rove, or wander from a normal course and others of its kind.
straggler noun /ˈstɹæɡlə/: Someone who goes against the direct or proper course, or from the company to which they belong.
straggler daisy noun: Calyptocarpus vialis, a creeping plant native to the American tropics and introduced widely.
stragglesome adjective: Characterised or marked by straggling.
straggliness noun: The state or condition of being straggly.
straggling noun, verb: A movement or arrangement that straggles; disorder.
straggling money noun: Money paid for apprehending deserters and those absent without leave.
stragglingly adverb: In a straggling way.
straggly adjective: Spread around in a chaotic and disorganized manner.
stragular adjective: Relating to the stragulum.
stragulum noun: The mantle, or pallium, of a bird.
Strahan proper noun: A surname from Irish.
strahlstein noun: actinolite
Strahm proper noun: A surname from German.
straicht adjective, adverb: Straight.
straight adjective, adverb, noun, verb /stɹeɪt/: Not crooked, curly, or bent; having a constant direction throughout its length.
straight A adjective: Pertaining to one who makes straight A's.
straight A's noun: Grades or marks that are consistently A's.
straight-acting adjective: Having the appearance, mannerisms, etc., of a stereotypical heterosexual of the same gender rather than those stereotypically associated with gay men or...
straight ahead adverb: directly ahead, without deviation
straight-ahead jazz noun: A puristic form of jazz, as opposed to newer forms like free jazz and fusion, featuring swing rhythms and small ensembles.
straight and narrow noun: A path of honesty; a procedure according to rules and plans.
straight angle noun: An angle that is equal to 180° (pi radians or two right angles).
straight apostrophe noun: A typewriter apostrophe.
straight arch noun: A form of arch in which the intrados is straight, but with its joints drawn radially.
straight arm noun, verb: To ward off by holding the arms out straight.
straight arrow adjective, noun: Someone who behaves according to conventional standards; one noted for honesty and integrity.
straight As noun: Alternative spelling of straight A's.
straight as a circle adjective: Gay; homosexual.
straight as a die adjective: Completely or totally straight.
straight as a ramrod adjective: Synonym of ramrod straight.
straight as a soldier adjective: Perfectly straight (immobile).
straight as an arrow adverb: Very straight; travelling in a very straight trajectory.
straight away adverb: Very soon; quickly; immediately.
straight bat noun, verb: The bat when held vertically, or when swung through a vertical arc.
straight bridge noun: bridge whist
straight chain adjective, noun: Describing any aliphatic compound that contains a chain of carbon atoms all of which are connected to either one or two others.
straight cigarette noun: A ready-made cigarette, as opposed to a rollup.
straight condenser noun: Synonym of Liebig condenser.
straight cover noun: A cover version (a new performance of an existing song) which has none or very few differences from the original version.
straight-cut adjective: Of tobacco: cut lengthwise of the leaf.
straight dinkum adjective, adverb: Genuine, honest, fair and square.
straight dope noun: The true information; the whole story.
straight edge adjective, noun: A lifestyle and subculture that advocates abstinence from alcohol, tobacco and the usage of recreational drugs.
straight-edger noun: A person who follows the straight edge lifestyle.
straight eight noun: An engine with eight cylinders in one line or row.
straight engine noun: Synonym of in-line engine.
straight face noun /ˌstɹeɪt ˈfeɪs/: A face that is expressionless, especially not laughing.
straight face test noun: A tongue-in-cheek test of the merits of an argument which asks whether it can be made with a straight face (without laughing).
straight-faced adjective: Having a straight face, not revealing excessive emotion, especially amusement.
straight flush noun: A hand that is both straight (the cards are all in sequence) and flush (the cards are all of the same suit).
straight forward adjective: Alternative spelling of straightforward.
straight from the horse's mouth adjective, adverb: Directly from the source; firsthand.
straight from the shoulder adjective, adverb: Done in a direct manner; blunt.
straight goods noun: The truth; the facts.
straight-hearted adjective: good; morally upright and honest
straight hit noun: A fielding position close to the boundary directly behind the bowler; a fielder in this position.
straight jacket noun: Alternative form of straightjacket.
straight job noun: A nonarticulated heavy truck, especially a rather long box truck or stakebody.
straight-joint adjective: Whose boards are laid so that the joints form a continued line transverse to the length of the boards themselves.
straight lace noun: A form of lace in which the ground and figures are both formed by the same thread.
straight-laced adjective: Having narrow views on moral matters; prudish.
straight line noun: A line with no curvature; a line with constant direction. The path of shortest length between two points.
straight man noun /ˈstɹeɪtˌmæn/: A member (of any gender) of a team of comic performers who plays a supporting role by helping to set up jokes and punch lines through engaging in dialog...
straight, no chaser phrase: An alcoholic drink served in its pure form, without anything mixed in, and not followed by a non-alcoholic drink.
straight off adverb: at once; immediately
straight out adjective, adverb: Frankly, outspokenly.
straight out of the chute adverb: immediately, from the very outset.
straight out of the gate prepositional phrase: Alternative form of out of the gate.
straight peen hammer noun: a hammer with a blade-like peen parallel to the haft, used by carpenters.
straight piano noun: Synonym of upright piano.
straight-pipe verb: To modify (a vehicle) to be straight-piped.
straight-piped adjective, verb: Having a simple pipe from the engine to the exhaust, without muffler or catalytic converter.
straight play noun: A play that is not a musical
straight poker noun: The oldest form of the game of poker, in which a complete hand is dealt to each player, and players bet in one round, with raising and re-raising allowed.
straight pool noun: A form of pool involving fifteen numbered balls, whose value is added to the score of the player who pots them.
straight pride noun: A display of pride in one's heterosexuality, as a reactionary movement to gay pride.
straight pull noun: Alternative spelling of straight-pull.
straight quote noun: A vertical quotation mark, ", as distinguished from a curly quote.
straight r noun: The usual form of the letter r (which is r), as contrasted with r rotunda (ꝛ).
straight razor noun: A razor of a plain and traditional type with no feature that would limit the depth of exposure to the blade during use; often having a blade that can fold...
straight red noun: A straight red card.
straight red card noun: A red card, signifying a player's instant dismissal from the game for a single major foul or misconduct, distinct from and graver than a second yellow card,...
straight-sets adjective: Achieved in the minimal possible number of sets.
straight shirttail noun: A very hurried journey or movement, especially in return to a previous location; a dash.
straight shooter noun: A person who is honest and forthright.
straight-shooting adjective: Of person: honest and forthright.
straight sinus noun: A venous sinus of the brain that is located along the line of junction of the falx cerebri and tentorium cerebelli, is formed by the junction of the great...
straight-six noun: An internal combustion engine, with six cylinders mounted in a straight line along the crankcase with all the pistons driving a common crankshaft.
straight supremacy noun: An ideology or system that holds that straight sexual orientation is superior and privileges straight people.
straight talk noun: Simple, honest speaking.
straight talker noun: A person who speaks simply and honestly.
straight-thinking adjective: Thinking clearly and rationally.
straight-through adjective: Of an electrical cable, having connector pins at one end wired to the same pins at the other: pin 1 to pin 1, pin 2 to pin 2, and so on; contrasted with...
straight ticket noun: A ballot cast for all the candidates of a specific political party.
straight time noun: The regularly established working hours of an employee during a standard time period with the exclusion of hours lost through absence or gained through...
straight tip noun: A reliable hint in betting on sports, etc.
straight trade noun: A man who perceives himself as straight while still engaging in same-sex sexual behavior.
straight-tusked elephant noun: An elephant of extinct species †Palaeoloxodon antiquus, that lived across Europe and western Asia during the Pleistocene.
straight up adjective, adverb: Truthfully; honestly.
straight up and down adjective: Bowling at a medium or fast pace without swing or seam.
straight-wash verb: Alternative spelling of straightwash.
straight woman noun: A woman who plays the role of the straight man in comedy.
straightaway adjective, adverb, noun /ˈstɹeɪtəˌweɪ/: Alternative form of straightway (“A straight section of a racetrack.”).
straightbill noun: Any of the birds in the genus Timeliopsis, found in Australia.
straightbred adjective, noun: Produced by breeding from a single breed, variety or species.
straightdar noun: The ability to detect whether or not a person is heterosexual by observing that person.
straightedge adjective, noun: Alternative form of straight edge.
straighten verb /ˈstɹeɪtn̩/: To cause to become straight.
straighten one's face verb: To cease laughing or smiling, etc., and compose one's features.
straighten out verb: To make straight.
straighten up verb: To become straight, or straighter.
straighten up and fly right verb: To start behaving properly; get one's act together.
straightenable adjective: Capable of being straightened.
straightener noun /ˈstɹeɪt(ə)nə/: A pair of metal tongs with heated ceramic plates used for straightening hair.
straightening noun, verb: The act of making something straight.
straighter adjective, noun: Synonym of straight (“a cigarette, particularly one containing tobacco instead of marijuana”).
straightface noun /ˈstɹeɪtˌfeɪs/: An obvious, apparent, or stereotypical appearance of heterosexuality based on a person's countenance, often characterized by femininity in females and...
straightfaced adjective: Alternative spelling of straight-faced.
straightfacedly adverb: With a straight face.
straightfolk noun: Straight (heterosexual) people.
straightforth adverb: directly
straightforward adjective, adverb /ˌstɹeɪtˈfɔː(ɹ)wə(ɹ)d/: Proceeding in a straight course or manner; not deviating.
straightforwardly adverb: In a straightforward manner.
straightforwardness noun: The state or quality of being straightforward.
straighthead noun: A disease of the rice plant that causes sterility in the grain.
straighthood noun: The state or condition of being straight (morally, sexually, etc.)
straighthorn noun: An orthoceras.
straightie noun: Alternative form of straighty.
straightish adjective: Reasonably straight.
straightlaced adjective: Alternative form of straight-laced.
straightline verb: To answer a survey by selecting answers in a downwards straight line
straightliner noun: A person who answers a survey by straightlining
straightlining noun, verb: skiing or snowboarding downhill rapidly
straightly adverb: In a straight manner; so as to be straight or aligned; without curve or bend.
straightneck noun: A usually yellow variety of squash (vegetable).
straightness noun: The result or product of being straight.
straightphobic adjective: Synonym of heterophobic (“relating to, or exhibiting, heterophobia”)
straightup adjective: Alternative form of straight-up.
straightwash verb: To interpret or present a queer figure, relationship, or situation as exclusively heterosexual.
straightwashed adjective, verb: With references to nonstraight sexual orientations omitted or removed.
straightwashing noun, verb: The act of removing or omitting nonstraight sexual orientations from an account of a person, relationship, or situation.
straightway adverb, noun: A straight section of a racetrack.
straightways adverb, noun: Synonym of straightway.
straightwise adverb: straight; on an unerring course; directly
straighty noun: One who is straight (legally or morally abiding).
straik noun: Alternative form of strake.
strain noun, verb /stɹeɪn/: Race; lineage, pedigree.
strain a point verb: To make a special effort; especially, to do a degree of violence to some principle or to one's own feelings.
strain at a gnat verb: to make a mountain out of a molehill
strain at the leash verb: To be very eager to do or begin something.
strain burst noun: The sudden fracturing of a rock face (especially in a mine) due to increased pressure
strain courtesy verb: To go beyond what courtesy requires; to insist somewhat too much upon the precedence of others.
strain energy noun: The potential energy stored in a body due to elastic deformation
strain every nerve verb: To make every possible effort to do something; to do one's utmost.
strain gauge noun: A device that measures the strain in a structural element by measuring changes in electrical resistance of a sensor attached to the element under investigation.
strain hardening noun: Synonym of work hardening.
strain insulator noun: An electrical insulator designed to work under mechanical tension, to withstand the pull of a suspended wire or cable.
strain rate noun: The change in strain (deformation) of a material with respect to time.
strain relief noun: Extra casing on an electric cord that prevents it from bending at extreme angles and accruing damage.
strain the potatoes verb: To urinate.
strainability noun: The quality of being strainable.
strainable adjective: That can be strained or filtered
strainably adverb: violently
strained adjective, verb /stɹeɪ̯nd/: Forced through a strainer.
strained silicon noun: A layer of silicon atoms deposited onto a substrate of silicon germanium constrained to be wider apart than normal; this decreases resistance and increases...
strainedly adverb: In a strained manner.
strainedness noun: The quality of being strained.
straineous adjective: Causing strain; strenuous.
strainer noun /ˈstɹeɪnɚ/: A device through which a liquid is passed for purification, filtering or separation from solid matter; anything (including a screen or a cloth) used to...
strainer post noun: A sturdy post, situated at one end of a post-and-wire fence, that takes the major tension of the wires.
strainerless adjective: Without a strainer.
strainful adjective: Full of strain; requiring or exacting great effort; strenuous; stressful.
straining noun, verb: The act by which one strains. (muscles, etc)
straining beam noun: A horizontal truss joining the queen posts in rafters.
straining piece noun: Synonym of straining beam
strainingly adverb: So as to strain; with a straining action.
strainless adjective: Without strain.
strainlessly adverb: Without strain.
strainlessness noun: Lack of strain.
strainmeter noun: A scientific instrument used by geophysicists to measure the deformation of the Earth.
strainometer noun: An extensometer.
strainproof adjective: Resistant to physical strain.
strainrate noun: Alternative form of strain rate.
strainsome adjective: Characterised or marked by straining
straint noun: Strain (tension of overexertion).
straintronic adjective: Of or pertaining to straintronics.
straintronics noun: A situation, observed in graphene and elsewhere, in which an applied strain causes electrons to behave as if they were in a magnetic field.
strait adjective, adverb, noun, verb /stɹeɪt/: Narrow; restricted as to space or room; close.
strait and narrow noun: Alternative spelling of straight and narrow.
strait-handed adjective: parsimonious; sparing; niggardly
strait-handedness noun: The quality of being strait-handed; greed; stinginess.
strait jacket noun: Alternative form of straitjacket
strait-laced adjective: Bound with stays.
strait-waistcoat noun: Alternative form of straitwaistcoat.
straiten verb: To make strait; to narrow or confine to a smaller space.
straitened adjective, verb: Squeezed or confined.
straitened circumstances noun: Reduced (financial) circumstances; poverty, austerity.
straitened times noun: Periods of austerity or economic slowdown.
straithanded adjective: Alternative form of strait-handed.
straithandedness noun: Alternative form of strait-handedness.
straitjacket noun, verb /ˈstɹeɪtˌd͡ʒækɪt/: A jacketlike garment with very long sleeves which can be secured in place, thus preventing the wearer from moving their arms; often used in psychiatric...
straitjacketing noun, verb /ˈstɹeɪtd͡ʒækɪtɪŋ/: Constraints, restrictions.
straitlaced adjective: Alternative spelling of straight-laced.
straitlacedly adverb: In a straitlaced manner.
straitlacedness noun: The state of being straitlaced.
straitly adverb /ˈstɹeɪtli/: Strictly.
straitness noun: The state or quality of being strait.
Straits dollar noun: The currency of the Straits Settlements from 1898 until 1939, also used in the Federated Malay States, the Unfederated Malay States, Kingdom of Sarawak,...
straitwaistcoat noun: A straitjacket.
straitwaistcoated adjective: Confined in a straitwaistcoat; straitjacketed.
Straka proper noun: A surname.
strake noun, verb /ˈstɹeɪk/: An iron fitting of a traditional wooden wheel, such as a hub component or bearing (e.g., box, bushel), a cleat, or a rim covering.
straked adjective, verb: Fitted with a strake or strakes.
Straker proper noun: A surname.
strakhovite noun: An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing barium, hydrogen, manganese, oxygen, silicon, and sodium.
strale noun: pupil of the eye
Straley proper noun: A surname.
strally noun /ˈstɹæli/: Alternative form of strap (“firearm”).
Stralsund proper noun: A city in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.
stram verb: To slam; to beat or put down or close violently or noisily.
stramash noun, verb /stɹəˈmæʃ/: A tumult or disturbance.
stramazon noun: Alternative form of stramazoun.
stramazoun noun /stɹɑ.ma.zuːn/: A direct descending blow with the sword edge.
strambang adverb: In a noisy, violent manner; slambang.
stramenopile noun: A heterokont of the clade (sometimes a superphylum) Stramenopiles.
stramenopilic adjective: Relating to stramenopiles
stramineous adjective /stɹəˈmɪn.ɪəs/: Pertaining to or made of straw; having little value, insubstantial.
stramineously adverb: In a stramineous manner.
straminicolous adjective: That forages in leaf litter
straminicoly noun: That condition of being straminicolous
straminipilous adjective: strawlike
stramma noun: rope grass, Ampelodesmos mauritanicus
strammel noun: Alternative spelling of strommel (“straw”).
stramming adjective, verb: Big, monstrous; (of a lie) big, notorious.
stramonium noun: The jimsonweed or thornapple plant, Datura stramonium.
stramony noun: Stramonium; jimsonweed, thornapple.
Stranahan proper noun: A surname from Irish.
strand noun, verb /ˈstɹænd/: The shore or beach of the sea or ocean.
strand line noun: Alternative spelling of strandline.
strand tangantangan noun: A flowering plant of species Schleinitzia fosbergii, native to the Mariana Islands.
strandability noun: The ability to go without any complement while remaining grammatical.
strandable adjective: Able to be left without an expressed complement adjacent to it.
Strandberg proper noun: A surname.
stranded adjective, verb /ˈstɹændɪd/: Abandoned or marooned.
strandedness noun: The quality of having strands.
strandee noun: One who is stranded.
strander noun: a machine that combines thread (strands) into a cable
strandflat noun /ˈstɹænd.flæt/: A coastal landform consisting of a near-flat erosion surface typical of the Norwegian coast.
stranding noun, verb: The act or occasion by which somebody or something is stranded.
strandless adjective: Without strands.
strandlike adjective: Resembling or characteristic of a strand.
strandline noun: The linear mark left on a beach or coastal rocks by high water.
strandlooper noun: Alternative form of strandloper.
strandloper noun: beachcomber
strandplain noun: A belt of sand along a shoreline with long parallel sand ridges or dunes.
strandwolf noun: A brown hyena (Parahyaena brunnea).
strang adjective, verb: Alternative form of strong.
strange adjective, noun, verb /stɹeɪnd͡ʒ/: Not normal; odd, unusual, surprising, out of the ordinary, often with a negative connotation.
strange-ass adjective: very strange
strange attractor noun: An attractor that has a non-integer dimension or whose dynamics on it are chaotic.
strange bedfellows noun: An unusual combination or political alliance.
strange bird noun: An unusual person, especially one with an idiosyncratic personality or peculiar behavioral characteristics.
strange fish noun: Synonym of odd fish.
strange fruit noun: A person who has been lynched by hanging; such people collectively.
strange-horned toad noun: Any species of toad in the genus Xenophrys, which have a strange protuberance on their forehead.
strange loop noun: A situation where, by moving only upwards or downwards through a hierarchical system, one finds oneself back where one started. These loops often involve...
strange matter noun: A proposed form of matter that includes strange quarks in addition to the usual up and down quarks of nuclear matter. Equivalently, a proposed very stable...
strange quark noun: A quark having a fractional electric charge of -1/3 and a mass of about 80 to 130 MeV.
strange quark matter noun: Alternative form of strange matter.
strange quark star noun: Alternative form of strange star.
strange star noun: A hypothetical quark star made of strange matter.
strange to say adverb: Strangely; oddly; strange as it may seem; strange to relate.
strange woman noun: A harlot.
strangelet noun: A proposed fragment of strange matter, consisting of a bound state of roughly equal numbers of up, down, and strange quarks.
strangeling noun: One who is strange, foreign, or unusual; stranger.
Strangelovean adjective: Alternative form of Strangelovian.
Strangelovian adjective: Of or pertaining to nuclear apocalypse, especially through incompetence or shortsightedness.
strangely adverb /ˈstɹeɪnd͡ʒli/: In a strange or coincidental manner.
strangely warmed adjective: Experiencing a fervent spiritual experience.
strangen verb: To make or become strange.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0): each word's first meaning. A word with a page of its own links to it; for the rest, this line is PlainSpell's entry. Total under S: 73,223 words, in 245 parts.