| strappado | (noun) a form of torture in which the hands are tied behind a person's back and they are lifted off the ground by a rope tied to their wrists, then allowed to drop until their fall is checked with a jerk by the rope | Synonyms: strapado |
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| strapper | (noun) a large and strong and heavyset man | Synonyms: bruiser, bull, Samson |
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| strapping | (adjective) muscular and heavily built | Synonyms: beefy, buirdly, burly, husky |
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| stratagem | (noun) a maneuver in a game or conversation | Synonyms: gambit, ploy |
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| (noun) an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade | Synonyms: contrivance, dodge |
| strategian | (noun) an expert in strategy (especially in warfare) | Synonyms: strategist |
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| strategic | (adjective) relating to or concerned with strategy | Synonyms: strategical |
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| (adjective) highly important to or an integral part of a strategy or plan of action especially in war | - |
| strategical | (adjective) relating to or concerned with strategy | Synonyms: strategic |
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| strategically | (adverb) with regard to strategy | - |
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| strategics | (noun) the science or art of strategy | - |
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| strategist | (noun) an expert in strategy (especially in warfare) | Synonyms: strategian |
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| strategy | (noun) an elaborate and systematic plan of action | Synonyms: scheme |
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| (noun) the branch of military science dealing with military command and the planning and conduct of a war | - |
| stratification | (noun) the act or process or arranging persons into classes or social strata | - |
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| (noun) the placing of seeds in damp sand or sawdust or peat moss in order to preserve them or promote germination | - |
| (noun) a layered configuration | - |
| (noun) forming or depositing in layers | - |
| (noun) the condition of being arranged in social strata or classes within a group | Synonyms: social stratification |
| stratified | (adjective) deposited or arranged in horizontal layers | Synonyms: bedded |
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| (adjective) (used of society) socially hierarchical | Synonyms: class-conscious |
| (adjective) arranged in a sequence of grades or ranks | Synonyms: graded, ranked |
| stratify | (verb) render fertile and preserve by placing between layers of earth or sand | - |
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| (verb) form layers or strata | - |
| (verb) form, arrange, or deposit in layers | - |
| (verb) divide society into social classes or castes | - |
| (verb) develop different social levels, classes, or castes | - |
| stratigraphy | (noun) the branch of geology that studies the arrangement and succession of strata | - |
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| stratocracy | (noun) government by the military and an army | Synonyms: military government |
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| stratosphere | (noun) the atmospheric layer between the troposphere and the mesosphere | - |
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| stratum | (noun) an abstract place usually conceived as having depth | Synonyms: layer, level |
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| (noun) a subpopulation divided into a stratified sampling | - |
| (noun) people having the same social, economic, or educational status | Synonyms: class, social class, socio-economic class |
| (noun) one of several parallel layers of material arranged one on top of another (such as a layer of tissue or cells in an organism or a layer of sedimentary rock) | - |
| stratus | (noun) a large dark low cloud | Synonyms: stratus cloud |
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| straw | (adjective) of a pale yellow color like straw; straw-colored | - |
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| (noun) a thin paper or plastic tube used to suck liquids into the mouth | Synonyms: drinking straw |
| (noun) a variable yellow tint; dull yellow, often diluted with white | Synonyms: pale yellow, wheat |
| (noun) plant fiber used e.g. for making baskets and hats or as fodder | - |
| (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, stubble |
| (verb) spread by scattering ("straw" is archaic) | Synonyms: strew |
| (verb) cover or provide with or as if with straw | - |
| strawberry | (noun) a soft red birthmark | Synonyms: hemangioma simplex, strawberry mark |
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| (noun) sweet fleshy red fruit | - |
| (noun) any of various low perennial herbs with many runners and bearing white flowers followed by edible fruits having many small achenes scattered on the surface of an enlarged red pulpy berry | - |
| strawboard | (noun) a coarse yellow cardboard made of straw pulp | - |
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| strawflower | (noun) Australian plant naturalized in Spain having flowers of lemon yellow to deep gold; the frequent choice of those who love dried flowers | Synonyms: golden everlasting, Helichrysum bracteatum, yellow paper daisy |
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| (noun) any of various plants of the genus Helipterum | - |
| (noun) plant of southern and southeastern United States grown for its yellow flowers that can be dried | Synonyms: cornflower, Uvularia grandiflora |
| strawman | (noun) an effigy in the shape of a man to frighten birds away from seeds | Synonyms: bird-scarer, scarecrow, scarer, straw man |
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| (noun) a weak or sham argument set up to be easily refuted | Synonyms: straw man |
| (noun) a person used as a cover for some questionable activity | Synonyms: figurehead, front, front man, nominal head, straw man |
| strawworm | (noun) larva of chalcid flies injurious to the straw of wheat and other grains | Synonyms: jointworm |
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| (noun) larva of the caddis fly; constructs a case of silk covered with sand or plant debris | Synonyms: caddisworm |
| stray | (adjective) (of an animal) having no home or having wandered away from home | - |
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| (adjective) not close together in time | Synonyms: isolated |
| (noun) an animal that has strayed (especially a domestic animal) | - |
| (verb) lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking | Synonyms: digress, divagate, wander |
| (verb) wander from a direct course or at random | Synonyms: drift, err |
| (verb) move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment | Synonyms: cast, drift, ramble, range, roam, roll, rove, swan, tramp, vagabond, wander |
| strayer | (noun) someone who strays or falls behind | Synonyms: straggler |
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| straying | (adjective) unable to find your way | - |
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| substrate | (noun) an indigenous language that contributes features to the language of an invading people who impose their language on the indigenous population | Synonyms: substratum |
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| (noun) any stratum or layer lying underneath another | Synonyms: substratum |
| (noun) a surface on which an organism grows or is attached | Synonyms: substratum |
| (noun) the substance that is acted upon by an enzyme or ferment | - |
| substratum | (noun) an indigenous language that contributes features to the language of an invading people who impose their language on the indigenous population | Synonyms: substrate |
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| (noun) any stratum or layer lying underneath another | Synonyms: substrate |
| (noun) a surface on which an organism grows or is attached | Synonyms: substrate |
| superstrate | (noun) the language of a later invading people that is imposed on an indigenous population and contributes features to their language | Synonyms: superstratum |
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| (noun) any stratum or layer superimposed on another | Synonyms: superstratum |
| superstratum | (noun) the language of a later invading people that is imposed on an indigenous population and contributes features to their language | Synonyms: superstrate |
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| (noun) any stratum or layer superimposed on another | Synonyms: superstrate |
| toastrack | (noun) a rack for holding slices of toast | - |
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| uncastrated | (adjective) not castrated | - |
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| unconstrained | (adjective) free from constraint | - |
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| unconstraint | (noun) the trait of lacking restraint or control; reckless freedom from inhibition or worry | Synonyms: abandon, wantonness |
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| undemonstrative | (adjective) not given to open expression of emotion | - |
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| unrestrained | (adjective) not subject to restraint | - |
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| (adjective) marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion | Synonyms: delirious, excited, frantic, mad |
| unrestrainedly | (adverb) in an unrestrained manner | - |
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| unrestraint | (noun) the quality of lacking restraint | - |
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| unstrain | (verb) cause to feel relaxed | Synonyms: loosen up, make relaxed, relax, unlax, unwind |
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| unstrained | (adjective) not resulting from undue effort; not forced | Synonyms: unforced |
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| (adjective) not placed under psychological stress | - |
| unstrap | (verb) remove the strap or straps from | - |
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| unstratified | (adjective) not deposited in layers | - |
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| watchstrap | (noun) a band of cloth or leather or metal links attached to a wristwatch and wrapped around the wrist | Synonyms: bracelet, watch bracelet, watchband, wristband |
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