| strikeout | (noun) an out resulting from the batter getting three strikes | - |
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| striker | (noun) the part of a mechanical device that strikes something | - |
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| (noun) an employee on strike against an employer | - |
| (noun) someone receiving intensive training for a naval technical rating | - |
| (noun) a forward on a soccer team | - |
| (noun) someone who hits | Synonyms: hitter |
| striking | (noun) the act of contacting one thing with another | Synonyms: hit, hitting |
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| (noun) the physical coming together of two or more things | Synonyms: contact, impinging |
| strikingness | (noun) the quality of standing out strongly and distinctly | Synonyms: boldness |
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| (noun) the state of being salient | Synonyms: salience, saliency |
| string | (noun) a lightweight cord | Synonyms: twine |
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| (noun) a tie consisting of a cord that goes through a seam around an opening | Synonyms: drawing string, drawstring |
| (noun) a necklace made by stringing objects together | Synonyms: chain, strand |
| (noun) a tightly stretched cord of wire or gut, as a part of an instrument or a tennis racket | - |
| (noun) a collection of things threaded on a single strand, or as if threaded on a single strand | - |
| (noun) stringed instruments that are played with a bow | Synonyms: bowed stringed instrument |
| (noun) a linear sequence (as of characters, words, proteins, etc.) | - |
| (noun) a sequentially ordered set of things or events or ideas in which each successive member is related to the preceding | Synonyms: train |
| (noun) (cosmology) a hypothetical one-dimensional subatomic particle having a concentration of energy and the dynamic properties of a flexible loop | Synonyms: cosmic string |
| (noun) a tough piece of fiber in vegetables, meat, or other food (especially the tough fibers connecting the two halves of a bean pod) | - |
| stringency | (noun) conscientious attention to rules and details | Synonyms: strictness |
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| (noun) a state occasioned by scarcity of money and a shortage of credit | Synonyms: tightness |
| stringer | (noun) a long horizontal timber to connect uprights | - |
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| (noun) brace consisting of a longitudinal member to strengthen a fuselage or hull | - |
| (noun) a worker who strings | - |
| (noun) a member of a squad on a team | - |
| strings | (noun) (usually plural) a statement of what is required as part of an agreement | Synonyms: condition, term |
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| (noun) the section of an orchestra that plays stringed instruments | Synonyms: string section |
| stringybark | (noun) any of several Australian eucalypts having fibrous inner bark | - |
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| strip | (noun) a form of erotic entertainment in which a dancer gradually undresses to music | Synonyms: strip show, striptease |
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| (noun) artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material | Synonyms: slip |
| (noun) an airfield without normal airport facilities | Synonyms: airstrip, flight strip, landing strip |
| (noun) thin piece of wood or metal | - |
| (noun) a sequence of drawings telling a story in a newspaper or comic book | Synonyms: cartoon strip, comic strip, funnies |
| (noun) a relatively long narrow piece of something | - |
| stripe | (noun) an adornment consisting of a strip of a contrasting color or material | Synonyms: band, banding |
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| (noun) a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background | Synonyms: bar, streak |
| (noun) a kind or category | - |
| (noun) V-shaped sleeve badge indicating military rank and service | Synonyms: chevron, grade insignia, stripes |
| (noun) a piece of braid, usually on the sleeve, indicating military rank or length of service | - |
| striper | (noun) marine food and game fish with dark longitudinal stripes; migrates upriver to spawn; sometimes placed in the genus Morone | Synonyms: Roccus saxatilis, rockfish, striped bass |
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| (noun) caught along the Atlantic coast of the United States | Synonyms: striped bass |
| (noun) a serviceman who wears stripes on the uniform to indicate rank or years of service | - |
| stripes | (noun) V-shaped sleeve badge indicating military rank and service | Synonyms: chevron, grade insignia, stripe |
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| striping | (noun) the act of marking with stripes | - |
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| stripling | (noun) a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity | Synonyms: adolescent, teen, teenager |
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| stripper | (noun) an oil well whose production has declined to less than ten barrels a day | Synonyms: stripper well |
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| (noun) a performer who provides erotic entertainment by undressing to music | Synonyms: ecdysiast, exotic dancer, peeler, striptease, striptease artist, stripteaser |
| (noun) a worker who strips the stems from moistened tobacco leaves and binds the leaves together into books | Synonyms: sprigger, stemmer |
| (noun) a chemical compound used to remove paint or varnish | - |
| stripping | (noun) the removal of covering | Synonyms: baring, denudation, husking, uncovering |
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| striptease | (noun) a form of erotic entertainment in which a dancer gradually undresses to music | Synonyms: strip, strip show |
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| (noun) a performer who provides erotic entertainment by undressing to music | Synonyms: ecdysiast, exotic dancer, peeler, stripper, striptease artist, stripteaser |
| stripteaser | (noun) a performer who provides erotic entertainment by undressing to music | Synonyms: ecdysiast, exotic dancer, peeler, stripper, striptease, striptease artist |
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| striver | (noun) someone who works as hard as a slave | Synonyms: hard worker, slave |
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| striving | (noun) an effortful attempt to attain a goal | Synonyms: nisus, pains, strain |
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| strobe | (noun) scientific instrument that provides a flashing light synchronized with the periodic movement of an object; can make moving object appear stationary | Synonyms: strobe light, stroboscope |
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| strobile | (noun) cone-shaped mass of ovule- or spore-bearing scales or bracts | Synonyms: cone, strobilus |
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| strobilus | (noun) cone-shaped mass of ovule- or spore-bearing scales or bracts | Synonyms: cone, strobile |
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| stroboscope | (noun) scientific instrument that provides a flashing light synchronized with the periodic movement of an object; can make moving object appear stationary | Synonyms: strobe, strobe light |
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| stroke | (noun) (sports) the act of swinging or striking at a ball with a club or racket or bat or cue or hand | Synonyms: shot |
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| (noun) a light touch with the hands | Synonyms: stroking |
| (noun) a single complete movement | - |
| (noun) any one of the repeated movements of the limbs and body used for locomotion in swimming or rowing | - |
| (noun) a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information | Synonyms: diagonal, separatrix, slash, solidus, virgule |
| (noun) a mark made on a surface by a pen, pencil, or paintbrush | - |
| (noun) the maximum movement available to a pivoted or reciprocating piece by a cam | Synonyms: cam stroke, throw |
| (noun) a light touch | - |
| (noun) anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an apparent cause | Synonyms: accident, chance event, fortuity |
| (noun) the oarsman nearest the stern of the shell who sets the pace for the rest of the crew | - |
| (noun) (golf) the unit of scoring in golf is the act of hitting the ball with a club | - |
| (noun) a sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain | Synonyms: apoplexy, cerebrovascular accident, CVA |
| stroking | (noun) a light touch with the hands | Synonyms: stroke |
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| stroll | (noun) a leisurely walk (usually in some public place) | Synonyms: amble, perambulation, promenade, saunter |
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| stroller | (noun) a small vehicle with four wheels in which a baby or child is pushed around | Synonyms: baby buggy, baby carriage, carriage, go-cart, perambulator, pram, pushchair, pusher |
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| (noun) someone who walks at a leisurely pace | Synonyms: ambler, saunterer |
| stroma | (noun) the supporting tissue of an organ (as opposed to parenchyma) | - |
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| (noun) the dense colorless framework of a chloroplast | - |
| (noun) a mass of fungal tissue that has spore-bearing structures embedded in it or on it | - |
| stromateid | (noun) small marine fish with a short compressed body and feeble spines | Synonyms: butterfish, stromateid fish |
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| strongbox | (noun) a strongly made box for holding money or valuables; can be locked | Synonyms: deedbox |
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| stronghold | (noun) a strongly fortified defensive structure | Synonyms: fastness |
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| strongman | (noun) a powerful political figure who rules by the exercise of force or violence | - |
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| (noun) a man who performs feats of strength at a fair or circus | - |
| strongroom | (noun) a burglarproof and fireproof room in which valuables are kept | - |
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| strontianite | (noun) a mineral consisting of strontium carbonate | - |
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| strontium | (noun) a soft silver-white or yellowish metallic element of the alkali metal group; turns yellow in air; occurs in celestite and strontianite | Synonyms: atomic number 38, Sr |
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| strop | (noun) a leather strap used to sharpen razors | - |
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| strophanthin | (noun) a bitter and very toxic glycoside derived from plants of the genus Strophanthus; in moderate doses it is a cardiac stimulant but in larger doses it is a powerful poison; used in Africa as an arrow poison | - |
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| strophanthus | (noun) any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Strophanthus having whorled leaves and showy flowers of various colors in dense and corymbose clusters; some have poisonous seeds | - |
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| strophe | (noun) one section of a lyric poem or choral ode in classical Greek drama | - |
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| structuralism | (noun) linguistics defined as the analysis of formal structures in a text or discourse | Synonyms: structural linguistics |
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| (noun) an anthropological theory that there are unobservable social structures that generate observable social phenomena | Synonyms: structural anthropology |
| (noun) a sociological theory based on the premise that society comes before individuals | Synonyms: structural sociology |
| structure | (noun) a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts | Synonyms: construction |
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| (noun) the manner of construction of something and the arrangement of its parts | - |
| (noun) a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing and its construction and arrangement | Synonyms: anatomical structure, bodily structure, body structure, complex body part |
| (noun) the complex composition of knowledge as elements and their combinations | - |
| (noun) the people in a society considered as a system organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships | Synonyms: social organisation, social organization, social structure, social system |
| strudel | (noun) thin sheet of filled dough rolled and baked | - |
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| struggle | (noun) strenuous effort | - |
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| (noun) an energetic attempt to achieve something | Synonyms: battle |
| (noun) an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals) | Synonyms: battle, conflict |
| struggler | (noun) a person who struggles with difficulties or with great effort | - |
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| strum | (noun) sound of strumming | - |
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| struma | (noun) abnormally enlarged thyroid gland; can result from underproduction or overproduction of hormone or from a deficiency of iodine in the diet | Synonyms: goiter, goitre, thyromegaly |
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| (noun) a form of tuberculosis characterized by swellings of the lymphatic glands | Synonyms: king's evil, scrofula |
| strumpet | (noun) a woman adulterer | Synonyms: adulteress, fornicatress, hussy, jade, loose woman, slut, trollop |
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| strut | (noun) a proud stiff pompous gait | Synonyms: prance, swagger |
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| (noun) brace consisting of a bar or rod used to resist longitudinal compression | - |
| struthiomimus | (noun) small light-boned toothless dinosaur resembling an ostrich in size and proportions | - |
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| strychnine | (noun) an alkaloid plant toxin extracted chiefly from nux vomica; formerly used as a stimulant | - |
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| stub | (noun) the small unused part of something (especially the end of a cigarette that is left after smoking) | Synonyms: butt |
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| (noun) a torn part of a ticket returned to the holder as a receipt | Synonyms: ticket stub |
| (noun) the part of a check that is retained as a record | Synonyms: check stub, counterfoil |
| (noun) a short piece remaining on a trunk or stem where a branch is lost | - |
| (noun) a small piece | Synonyms: nub |
| stubbiness | (noun) the property of being short and broad | Synonyms: squatness |
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| stubble | (noun) short stiff hairs growing on a man's face when he has not shaved for a few days | - |
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| (noun) material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds | Synonyms: chaff, husk, shuck, stalk, straw |
| stubbornness | (noun) the trait of being difficult to handle or overcome | Synonyms: mulishness, obstinacy, obstinance |
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| (noun) resolute adherence to your own ideas or desires | Synonyms: bullheadedness, obstinacy, obstinance, pigheadedness, self-will |
| stucco | (noun) a plaster now made mostly from Portland cement and sand and lime; applied while soft to cover exterior walls or surfaces | - |
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| stud | (noun) poker in which each player receives hole cards and the remainder are dealt face up; bets are placed after each card is dealt | Synonyms: stud poker |
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| (noun) adult male horse kept for breeding | Synonyms: studhorse |
| (noun) an upright in house framing | Synonyms: scantling |
| (noun) ornament consisting of a circular rounded protuberance (as on a vault or shield or belt) | Synonyms: rivet |
| (noun) a man who is virile and sexually active | Synonyms: he-man, macho-man |
| studbook | (noun) official record of the pedigree of purebred animals especially horses | - |
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| student | (noun) a learner who is enrolled in an educational institution | Synonyms: educatee, pupil |
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| (noun) someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs | Synonyms: assimilator, learner, scholar |
| studentship | (noun) the position of student | - |
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| studhorse | (noun) adult male horse kept for breeding | Synonyms: stud |
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| studio | (noun) workplace for the teaching or practice of an art | - |
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| (noun) an apartment with a living space and a bathroom and a small kitchen | Synonyms: studio apartment |
| (noun) workplace consisting of a room or building where movies or television shows or radio programs are produced and recorded | - |
| studiousness | (noun) diligent study | - |
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| study | (noun) a detailed critical inspection | Synonyms: survey |
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| (noun) a room used for reading and writing and studying | - |
| (noun) preliminary drawing for later elaboration | Synonyms: sketch |
| (noun) attentive consideration and meditation | Synonyms: cogitation |
| (noun) a branch of knowledge | Synonyms: bailiwick, discipline, field, field of study, subject, subject area, subject field |
| (noun) applying the mind to learning and understanding a subject (especially by reading) | Synonyms: work |
| (noun) a state of deep mental absorption | - |
| (noun) a written document describing the findings of some individual or group | Synonyms: report, written report |
| (noun) a composition intended to develop one aspect of the performer's technique | - |
| (noun) someone who memorizes quickly and easily (as the lines for a part in a play) | - |
| studying | (noun) reading carefully with intent to remember | Synonyms: perusal, perusing, poring over |
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| stuff | (noun) miscellaneous unspecified objects | - |
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| (noun) unspecified qualities required to do or be something | - |
| (noun) a critically important or characteristic component | - |
| (noun) senseless talk | Synonyms: hooey, poppycock, stuff and nonsense |
| (noun) information in some unspecified form | - |
| (noun) informal terms for personal possessions | Synonyms: clobber |
| (noun) the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object | Synonyms: material |
| stuffer | (noun) an advertising circular that is enclosed with other material and (usually) sent by mail | - |
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| (noun) a craftsman who stuffs and mounts the skins of animals for display | Synonyms: animal stuffer, taxidermist |
| stuffiness | (noun) dull and pompous gravity | Synonyms: stodginess |
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| (noun) the quality of being close and poorly ventilated | Synonyms: closeness |
| (noun) state of obstruction or stoppage or air in the nose or throat | - |
| stuffing | (noun) padding put in mattresses and cushions and upholstered furniture | - |
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| (noun) a mixture of seasoned ingredients used to stuff meats and vegetables | Synonyms: dressing |
| stultification | (noun) the act of making something futile and useless (as by routine) | Synonyms: constipation, deadening, impairment |
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| (noun) derision of someone or something as foolish or absurd or inconsistent | Synonyms: befooling |
| stumble | (noun) an unsteady uneven gait | Synonyms: lurch, stagger |
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| (noun) an unintentional but embarrassing blunder | Synonyms: misstep, trip-up, trip |
| stumblebum | (noun) an awkward stupid person | Synonyms: clod, gawk, goon, lout, lubber, lummox, lump, oaf |
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| (noun) a second-rate prize fighter | Synonyms: palooka |
| stumbler | (noun) a walker or runner who trips and almost falls | Synonyms: tripper |
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| (noun) someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence | Synonyms: blunderer, botcher, bumbler, bungler, butcher, fuckup, fumbler, sad sack |
| stump | (noun) (cricket) any of three upright wooden posts that form the wicket | - |
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| (noun) a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it | Synonyms: ambo, dais, podium, pulpit, rostrum, soapbox |
| (noun) the part of a limb or tooth that remains after the rest is removed | - |
| (noun) the base part of a tree that remains standing after the tree has been felled | Synonyms: tree stump |
| stumper | (noun) a particularly difficult or baffling question or problem | Synonyms: poser, sticker, toughie |
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| stumping | (noun) campaigning for something by making political speeches (stump speeches) | - |
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| stumpknocker | (noun) inhabits streams from South Carolina to Florida; esteemed panfish | Synonyms: Lepomis punctatus, spotted sunfish |
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| stunner | (noun) an unexpected and amazing event | - |
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| (noun) a very attractive or seductive looking woman | Synonyms: beauty, dish, knockout, looker, lulu, mantrap, peach, ravisher, smasher, sweetheart |
| stunt | (noun) a difficult or unusual or dangerous feat; usually done to gain attention | - |
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| (noun) a creature (especially a whale) that has been prevented from attaining full growth | - |
| stuntedness | (noun) smallness of stature | Synonyms: puniness, runtiness |
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| stunting | (noun) the performance of stunts while in flight in an aircraft | Synonyms: acrobatics, aerobatics, stunt flying |
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| stupa | (noun) a dome-shaped shrine erected by Buddhists | Synonyms: tope |
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| stupe | (noun) a person who is not very bright | Synonyms: dolt, dullard, pillock, poor fish, pudden-head, pudding head, stupid, stupid person |
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| stupefaction | (noun) the action of stupefying; making dull or lethargic | - |
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| (noun) marginal consciousness | Synonyms: grogginess, semiconsciousness, stupor |
| (noun) a feeling of stupefied astonishment | - |
| stupid | (noun) a person who is not very bright | Synonyms: dolt, dullard, pillock, poor fish, pudden-head, pudding head, stupe, stupid person |
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| stupidity | (noun) a stupid mistake | Synonyms: betise, folly, foolishness, imbecility |
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| (noun) a poor ability to understand or to profit from experience | - |
| stupor | (noun) marginal consciousness | Synonyms: grogginess, semiconsciousness, stupefaction |
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| (noun) the feeling of distress and disbelief that you have when something bad happens accidentally | Synonyms: daze, shock |
| sturdiness | (noun) the property of something that is strongly built | - |
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| (noun) resoluteness evidenced by strength of character | - |
| (noun) the state of being vigorous and robust | - |
| sturgeon | (noun) large primitive fishes valued for their flesh and roe; widely distributed in the North Temperate Zone | - |
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| stutter | (noun) a speech disorder involving hesitations and involuntary repetitions of certain sounds | Synonyms: stammer |
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| stutterer | (noun) someone who speaks with involuntary pauses and repetitions | Synonyms: stammerer |
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| sty | (noun) a pen for swine | Synonyms: pigpen, pigsty |
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| (noun) an infection of the sebaceous gland of the eyelid | Synonyms: eye infection, hordeolum, stye |
| stye | (noun) an infection of the sebaceous gland of the eyelid | Synonyms: eye infection, hordeolum, sty |
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| style | (noun) a slender bristlelike or tubular process | - |
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| (noun) a pointed tool for writing or drawing or engraving | Synonyms: stylus |
| (noun) how something is done or how it happens | Synonyms: fashion, manner, mode, way |
| (noun) distinctive and stylish elegance | Synonyms: dash, elan, flair, panache |
| (noun) the popular taste at a given time | Synonyms: trend, vogue |
| (noun) a particular kind (as to appearance) | - |
| (noun) a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period | Synonyms: expressive style |
| (noun) editorial directions to be followed in spelling and punctuation and capitalization and typographical display | - |
| (noun) (botany) the narrow elongated part of the pistil between the ovary and the stigma | - |
| stylemark | (noun) a distinctive characteristic or attribute of someone or something | Synonyms: earmark, hallmark, trademark |
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| styler | (noun) someone who cuts or beautifies hair | Synonyms: hairdresser, hairstylist, stylist |
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| stylet | (noun) small needlelike appendage; especially the feeding organ of a tardigrade | - |
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| stylisation | (noun) the act of stylizing; causing to conform to a particular style | Synonyms: stylization |
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| stylishness | (noun) elegance by virtue of being fashionable | Synonyms: chic, chichi, chicness, last word, modishness, smartness, swank |
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