| airstream | (noun) a relatively well-defined prevailing wind | - |
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| (noun) the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller | Synonyms: backwash, race, slipstream, wash |
| ancestress | (noun) a woman ancestor | - |
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| bestrew | (verb) cover by strewing | - |
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| bistre | (noun) a water-soluble brownish-yellow pigment made by boiling wood soot | Synonyms: bister |
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| bistred | (adjective) colored with or as if with bister | Synonyms: bistered |
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| bloodstream | (noun) the blood flowing through the circulatory system | Synonyms: blood stream |
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| cadastre | (noun) a public register showing the details of ownership and value of land; made for the purpose of taxation | Synonyms: cadaster |
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| destress | (verb) reduce the emphasis | Synonyms: de-emphasise, de-emphasize |
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| dihydrostreptomycin | (noun) antibiotic consisting of a hydrogenated form of streptomycin; used against tuberculosis and tularemia and Gram-negative organisms | - |
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| distress | (noun) the seizure and holding of property as security for payment of a debt or satisfaction of a claim | Synonyms: distraint |
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| (noun) psychological suffering | Synonyms: hurt, suffering |
| (noun) extreme physical pain | - |
| (noun) a state of adversity (danger or affliction or need) | - |
| (verb) cause mental pain to | - |
| (verb) bring into difficulties or distress, especially financial hardship | Synonyms: straiten |
| distressed | (adjective) generalized feeling of distress | Synonyms: dysphoric, unhappy |
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| (adjective) facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty | Synonyms: hard-pressed, hard put, in a bad way |
| (adjective) afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief | Synonyms: disquieted, disturbed, upset, worried |
| (adjective) suffering severe physical strain or distress | Synonyms: stressed |
| distressful | (adjective) causing distress or worry or anxiety | Synonyms: distressing, disturbing, perturbing, troubling, worrisome, worrying |
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| distressfully | (adverb) with distress | - |
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| distressfulness | (noun) the quality of arousing fear or distress | Synonyms: seriousness |
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| distressing | (adjective) bad; unfortunate | Synonyms: deplorable, lamentable, pitiful, sad, sorry |
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| (adjective) causing distress or worry or anxiety | Synonyms: distressful, disturbing, perturbing, troubling, worrisome, worrying |
| distressingly | (adverb) unpleasantly | Synonyms: painfully |
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| distressingness | (noun) the quality of being painful | Synonyms: painfulness |
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| downstream | (adjective) in the direction of a stream's current | - |
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| (adverb) away from the source or with the current | Synonyms: downriver |
| gastrectomy | (noun) surgical removal of all or part of the stomach | - |
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| hairstreak | (noun) small butterflies having striped markings under the wings | Synonyms: hairstreak butterfly |
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| headmistress | (noun) a woman headmaster | - |
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| headmistressship | (noun) the position of headmistress | - |
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| headstream | (noun) a stream that forms the source of a river | - |
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| homestretch | (noun) the straight stretch of a racetrack leading to the finish line | - |
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| (noun) the end of an enterprise | - |
| kestrel | (noun) small Old World falcon that hovers in the air against a wind | Synonyms: Falco tinnunculus |
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| (noun) small North American falcon | Synonyms: American kestrel, Falco sparverius, sparrow hawk |
| lacklustre | (adjective) lacking luster or shine | Synonyms: lackluster, lusterless, lustreless |
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| (adjective) lacking brilliance or vitality | Synonyms: lackluster, lusterless, lustreless |
| lustre | (noun) a surface coating for ceramics or porcelain | Synonyms: luster |
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| (noun) a quality that outshines the usual | Synonyms: brilliancy, luster, splendor, splendour |
| (noun) the visual property of something that shines with reflected light | Synonyms: luster, sheen, shininess |
| lustreless | (adjective) lacking luster or shine | Synonyms: lackluster, lacklustre, lusterless |
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| (adjective) lacking brilliance or vitality | Synonyms: lackluster, lacklustre, lusterless |
| lustrelessness | (noun) the property of having little or no contrast; lacking highlights or gloss | Synonyms: flatness, lusterlessness, mat, matt, matte |
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| mainstream | (noun) the prevailing current of thought | - |
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| mainstreamed | (adjective) (of the handicapped) placed in regular school classes | - |
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| midstream | (noun) the middle of a stream | - |
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| minstrel | (noun) a singer of folk songs | Synonyms: folk singer, jongleur, poet-singer, troubadour |
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| (noun) a performer in a minstrel show | - |
| (verb) celebrate by singing, in the style of minstrels | - |
| minstrelsy | (noun) the art of a minstrel | - |
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| (noun) ballads sung by minstrels | - |
| (noun) a troupe of minstrels | - |
| mistreat | (verb) treat badly | Synonyms: abuse, ill-treat, ill-use, maltreat, step |
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| mistreated | (adjective) subjected to cruel treatment | Synonyms: abused, ill-treated, maltreated |
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| mistreatment | (noun) the practice of treating (someone or something) badly | - |
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| mistress | (noun) a woman master who directs the work of others | - |
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| (noun) an adulterous woman; a woman who has an ongoing extramarital sexual relationship with a man | Synonyms: fancy woman, kept woman |
| (noun) a woman schoolteacher (especially one regarded as strict) | Synonyms: schoolma'am, schoolmarm, schoolmistress |
| norgestrel | (noun) synthetic progestin used in oral contraceptives | - |
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| obstreperous | (adjective) boisterously and noisily aggressive | - |
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| (adjective) noisily and stubbornly defiant | - |
| obstreperously | (adverb) in manner that attracts attention | Synonyms: clamorously, loudly |
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| obstreperousness | (noun) noisy defiance | - |
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| ommastrephes | (noun) extremely active cylindrical squid with short strong arms and large rhombic terminal fins | - |
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| outstretched | (adjective) fully extended especially in length | - |
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| overstress | (verb) place special or excessive emphasis on | Synonyms: overemphasise, overemphasize |
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| overstretch | (verb) strain abnormally | Synonyms: pull |
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| piastre | (noun) a fractional monetary unit in Egypt and Lebanon and Sudan and Syria | Synonyms: piaster |
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| (noun) 100 kurus equal 1 lira in Turkey | Synonyms: kurus, piaster |
| pipistrel | (noun) small European brown bat | Synonyms: pipistrelle, Pipistrellus pipistrellus |
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| pipistrelle | (noun) small European brown bat | Synonyms: pipistrel, Pipistrellus pipistrellus |
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| postmistress | (noun) a woman postmaster | - |
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| restrengthen | (verb) make strong again | - |
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| schoolmistress | (noun) a woman schoolteacher (especially one regarded as strict) | Synonyms: mistress, schoolma'am, schoolmarm |
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| seamstress | (noun) a woman who makes or mends dresses | Synonyms: modiste, needlewoman, sempstress |
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| sempstress | (noun) a woman who makes or mends dresses | Synonyms: modiste, needlewoman, seamstress |
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| slipstream | (noun) the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller | Synonyms: airstream, backwash, race, wash |
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| songstress | (noun) a woman songster (especially of popular songs) | - |
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| streak | (noun) a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background | Synonyms: bar, stripe |
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| (noun) a distinctive characteristic | - |
| (noun) a sudden flash (as of lightning) | - |
| (noun) an unbroken series of events | Synonyms: run |
| (verb) mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of color as if stained | Synonyms: blotch, mottle |
| (verb) move quickly in a straight line | - |
| (verb) run naked in a public place | - |
| streaked | (adjective) marked with or as if with stripes or linear discolorations | Synonyms: streaky |
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| streaker | (noun) someone who takes off all their clothes and runs naked through a public place | - |
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| streaky | (adjective) marked with or as if with stripes or linear discolorations | Synonyms: streaked |
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| stream | (noun) the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression | Synonyms: flow |
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| (noun) a steady flow of a fluid (usually from natural causes) | Synonyms: current |
| (noun) dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas | Synonyms: current, flow |
| (noun) a natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth | Synonyms: watercourse |
| (noun) something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously | Synonyms: flow |
| (verb) exude profusely | - |
| (verb) flow freely and abundantly | Synonyms: well out |
| (verb) to extend, wave or float outward, as if in the wind | - |
| (verb) move in large numbers | Synonyms: pour, pullulate, swarm, teem |
| (verb) rain heavily | Synonyms: pelt, pour, rain buckets, rain cats and dogs |
| streambed | (noun) a channel occupied (or formerly occupied) by a stream | Synonyms: creek bed |
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| streamer | (noun) long strip of cloth or paper used for decoration or advertising | Synonyms: banner |
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| (noun) a long flag; often tapering | Synonyms: pennant, pennon, waft |
| (noun) a newspaper headline that runs across the full page | Synonyms: banner |
| (noun) light that streams | - |
| streaming | (adjective) exuding a bodily fluid in profuse amounts | - |
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| (adjective) (computer science) using or relating to a form of continuous tape transport; used mainly to provide backup storage of unedited data; data that is transmitted and loaded continuously as earlier parts are being accessed/processed/displayed | - |
| (noun) the circulation of cytoplasm within a cell | Synonyms: cyclosis |
| streamlet | (noun) a small stream | Synonyms: rill, rivulet, run, runnel |
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| streamline | (verb) contour economically or efficiently | - |
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| streamlined | (adjective) made efficient by stripping off nonessentials | - |
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| (adjective) designed or arranged to offer the least resistance to fluid flow | Synonyms: aerodynamic, flowing, sleek |
| streamliner | (noun) a streamlined train | - |
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| street | (noun) a thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings | - |
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| (noun) the part of a thoroughfare between the sidewalks; the part of the thoroughfare on which vehicles travel | - |
| (noun) people living or working on the same street | - |
| (noun) the streets of a city viewed as a depressed environment in which there is poverty and crime and prostitution and dereliction | - |
| (noun) a situation offering opportunities | - |
| streetcar | (noun) a wheeled vehicle that runs on rails and is propelled by electricity | Synonyms: tram, tramcar, trolley, trolley car |
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| streetlight | (noun) a lamp supported on a lamppost; for illuminating a street | Synonyms: street lamp |
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| streetwalk | (verb) walk the streets in search of customers | Synonyms: street-walk |
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| streetwalker | (noun) a prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets | Synonyms: floozie, floozy, hooker, hustler, slattern, street girl |
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| streetwise | (adjective) having the shrewd resourcefulness needed to survive in an urban environment | Synonyms: street smart, with-it |
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| strength | (noun) the property of being physically or mentally strong | - |
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| (noun) an asset of special worth or utility | Synonyms: forte, long suit, metier, speciality, specialty, strong point, strong suit |
| (noun) permanence by virtue of the power to resist stress or force | Synonyms: durability, enduringness, lastingness |
| (noun) the amount of energy transmitted (as by acoustic or electromagnetic radiation) | Synonyms: intensity, intensity level |
| (noun) capability in terms of personnel and materiel that affect the capacity to fight a war | Synonyms: military capability, military posture, military strength, posture |
| (noun) physical energy or intensity | Synonyms: force, forcefulness |
| (noun) capacity to produce strong physiological or chemical effects | Synonyms: effectiveness, potency |
| (noun) the power to induce the taking of a course of action or the embracing of a point of view by means of argument or entreaty | Synonyms: persuasiveness |
| (noun) the condition of financial success | - |
| strengthen | (verb) give a healthy elasticity to | Synonyms: tone, tone up |
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| (verb) gain strength | - |
| (verb) make strong or stronger | Synonyms: beef up, fortify |
| strengthened | (adjective) given added strength or support | Synonyms: reinforced |
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| strengthener | (noun) a device designed to provide additional strength | Synonyms: reinforcement |
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| strengthening | (noun) the act of increasing the strength of something | - |
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| (noun) becoming stronger | - |
| strenuosity | (noun) intense energy | Synonyms: athleticism |
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| strenuous | (adjective) taxing to the utmost; testing powers of endurance | Synonyms: arduous, straining |
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| (adjective) characterized by or performed with much energy or force | - |
| strenuously | (adverb) in a strenuous manner; strongly or vigorously | - |
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| strenuousness | (noun) extreme effortfulness | Synonyms: arduousness |
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| strep | (adjective) of or relating to or caused by streptococci | Synonyms: streptococcal, streptococcic |
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| (noun) spherical Gram-positive bacteria occurring in pairs or chains; cause e.g. scarlet fever and tonsillitis | Synonyms: streptococci, streptococcus |
| streptobacillus | (noun) any of various rod-shaped Gram-negative bacteria | - |
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| streptocarpus | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Streptocarpus having leaves in a basal rosette and flowers like primroses | - |
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| streptococcal | (adjective) of or relating to or caused by streptococci | Synonyms: strep, streptococcic |
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| streptococci | (noun) spherical Gram-positive bacteria occurring in pairs or chains; cause e.g. scarlet fever and tonsillitis | Synonyms: strep, streptococcus |
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| streptococcic | (adjective) of or relating to or caused by streptococci | Synonyms: strep, streptococcal |
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| streptococcus | (noun) spherical Gram-positive bacteria occurring in pairs or chains; cause e.g. scarlet fever and tonsillitis | Synonyms: strep, streptococci |
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| streptodornase | (noun) an enzyme produced by some hemolytic strains of streptococcus that dissolves fibrinous secretions from infections; used medicinally (often in combination with streptokinase) | - |
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| streptokinase | (noun) an enzyme produced by some strains of streptococcus that can liquefy blood clots by converting plasminogen to plasmin; used medicinally in some cases of myocardial infarction and pulmonary embolism | - |
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| streptolysin | (noun) any of several hemolysins derived from strains of streptococcus | - |
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| streptomyces | (noun) aerobic bacteria (some of which produce the antibiotic streptomycin) | - |
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| streptomycin | (noun) an antibiotic produced by the actinomycete Streptomyces griseus and used to treat tuberculosis | - |
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| streptothricin | (noun) a basic antibiotic derived from a soil actinomycete | - |
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| stress | (noun) the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch) | Synonyms: accent, emphasis |
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| (noun) (physics) force that produces strain on a physical body | - |
| (noun) (psychology) a state of mental or emotional strain or suspense | Synonyms: tenseness, tension |
| (noun) difficulty that causes worry or emotional tension | Synonyms: strain |
| (noun) special emphasis attached to something | Synonyms: focus |
| (verb) to suffer from stress | - |
| (verb) to stress, single out as important | Synonyms: accent, accentuate, emphasise, emphasize, punctuate |
| (verb) put stress on; utter with an accent | Synonyms: accent, accentuate |
| (verb) test the limits of | Synonyms: strain, try |
| stressed | (adjective) bearing a stress or accent | Synonyms: accented |
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| (adjective) suffering severe physical strain or distress | Synonyms: distressed |
| stressful | (adjective) extremely irritating to the nerves | Synonyms: nerve-racking, nerve-wracking, trying |
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| stressor | (noun) any agent that causes stress to an organism | - |
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