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Stearyl
- - The hypothetical radical characteristic of stearic acid.
Strafed
- verb - attack with machine guns or cannon fire from a low-flying plane; "civilians were strafed in an effort to force the country's surrender"
Strafer
- noun - a combat pilot who strafes the enemy
Strafes
- verb - attack with machine guns or cannon fire from a low-flying plane; "civilians were strafed in an effort to force the country's surrender"
Strains
- noun - A group of bacteria or viruses that are genetically distinct from other groups of the same species.
- (biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups;
- (physics) deformation of a physical body under the action of applied forces
- (psychology) nervousness resulting from mental stress;
- a special variety of domesticated animals within a species;
- a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence;
- alter the shape of (something) by stress; "His body was deformed by leprosy"
- an effortful attempt to attain a goal
- an intense or violent exertion
- become stretched or tense or taut;
- cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious;
- difficulty that causes worry or emotional tension;
- injury to a muscle (often caused by overuse); results in swelling and pain
- remove by passing through a filter;
- rub through a strainer or proce
Straint
- - Overexertion; excessive tension; strain.
Straits
- noun - a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs
- a difficult juncture; "a pretty pass"; "matters came to a head yesterday"
- a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water
Strakes
- noun - thick plank forming a ridge along the side of a wooden ship
Strands
- noun -
- a necklace made by a stringing objects together; "a string of beads"; "a strand of pearls";
- a pattern forming a unity within a larger structural whole; "he tried to pick up the strands of his former life"; "I could hear several melodic strands simultaneously"
- a poetic term for a shore (as the area periodically covered and uncovered by the tides)
- a street in west central London famous for its theaters and hotels
- a very slender natural or synthetic fiber
- bring to the ground; "the storm grounded the ship"
- drive (a vessel) ashore
- leaves without transport.
- line consisting of a complex of fibers or filaments that are twisted together to form a thread or a rope or a cable
Strange
- adjective - being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected; slightly odd or even a bit weird; "a strange exaltation that was indefinable"; "a strange fantastical mind"; "what a strange sense of humor she has"
- Chief Superintendent Strange, fictional detective from Colin Dexter's novels, Chief Inspector Morse's boss.
- not known before; "used many strange words"; "saw many strange faces in the crowd"; "don't let anyone unknown into the house"
- Peculiar
- relating to or originating in or characteristic of another place or part of the world; "foreign nations"; "a foreign accent"; "on business in a foreign city"
- Unfamiliar
- Unusual