English words: S

2316 words under S; 1801–1900 on this page.

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• store noun, verb (store, stores, stored, storing)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A store is a shop where people buy things (the usual word in American English).
• storehouse noun (a storehouse, storehouses)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A storehouse is a building where food, goods or supplies are kept.
• storeroom noun (a storeroom, storerooms)
  A room where things are kept until they are needed, such as supplies, equipment or food.
• storey noun (a storey, storeys)
  A storey is one floor or level of a building.
• stork noun (a stork, storks)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A stork is a large bird with long legs, a long neck and a long straight beak, that wades in wet places and eats fish, frogs and insects.
• storm noun (a storm, storms); verb…everyday · Jewish tradition
  Very bad weather with strong winds and often heavy rain, snow, hail, thunder and lightning.
• stormy adjective (stormy, stormier, stormiest)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Stormy weather has strong winds, heavy rain, thunder or big waves.
• story noun (story, stories)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A story tells about things that happen, true or made up.
• storybook noun (a storybook, storybooks); adjective…
  A storybook is a book of stories for children, often with pictures.
• storyteller noun (a storyteller, storytellers)
  A storyteller is a person who tells stories, often out loud to an audience.
• stout adjective (stout, stouter, stoutest); noun…everyday · Jewish tradition
  Rather fat or heavy in body (a polite word).
• stoutly adverb
  Stoutly means bravely, firmly and strongly, without giving in.
• stove noun (a stove, stoves)
  A piece of kitchen equipment for cooking, with hot rings or burners on top and often an oven.
• stow verb (stows, stowed, stowing)
  To stow is to pack things away neatly in a safe place, often on a ship or in a bag.
• stowaway noun (a stowaway, stowaways); verb…
  A stowaway is a person who hides on a ship, plane, train or lorry to travel without paying or without being allowed.
• strabismus noun (strabismus — uncountable)
  Strabismus is the medical name for a squint: when a person's two eyes do not point in the same direction at the same time, so one eye may…
• straddle verb (straddles, straddled, straddling)
  To straddle is to stand or sit with one leg on each side of something.
• straggler noun (stragglers)Jewish tradition
  A straggler is a person or animal that falls behind the others on a march, walk or journey.
• straight adjective (straight, straighter, straightest); adverb…everyday · Jewish tradition
  Straight means not bent or curved; going in one direction.
• straighten verb (straighten, straightens, straightened, straightening)
  To make something straight, or to become straight.
• straightener noun (a straightener, straighteners)
  A straightener is a thing that makes something straight.
• straightforward adjective…everyday · Jewish tradition
  Straightforward means easy to understand or do, with no hidden difficulties: a straightforward question.
• straightway adverb (old use, in fairy tales)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Straightway means at once, without any delay; it is the same as «straight away».
• strain verb (strain, strains, strained, straining); noun…everyday · Jewish tradition
  To strain is to try very hard or push your body or mind to its limit.
• strait noun (a strait, straits; often plural «the Straits of …»)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A strait is a narrow passage of sea between two pieces of land that joins two larger seas.
• straiten verb (straiten, straitens, straitened, straitening)…everyday · Jewish tradition
  To straiten is to make someone poorer or to limit what they have.
• straitly adverb
  Strictly, firmly, or solemnly, so that something must be done.
• strand noun (a strand, strands); verb…
  A strand is a single thin thread, hair or wire, or one of several twisted together.
• stranded adjective (stranded); also past form of the verb strand…
  If you are stranded, you are stuck in a place and cannot leave, for example because your car broke down or there are no trains.
• strange adjective (strange, stranger, strangest); adverb strangely…everyday · Jewish tradition
  Strange means unusual or surprising in a way that is hard to explain: a strange noise.
• strangely adverb (strangely, more strangely)
  In an unusual or surprising way.
• strangeness noun (no plural)
  Strangeness is the quality of being odd, unusual or unlike what is normal.
• stranger noun (a stranger, strangers); also the comparative of…everyday · Jewish tradition
  A person you do not know.
• strangle verb (strangle, strangles, strangled, strangling)everyday · Jewish tradition
  To strangle means to squeeze someone's neck so hard that they cannot breathe; it can kill.
• strangler noun (a strangler, stranglers); related: strangle…
  A strangler is a person who kills or hurts someone by squeezing their throat so they cannot breathe; it is a word from crime news and…
• strangulation noun (strangulation — uncountable)
  Killing or hurting someone by squeezing their neck so they cannot breathe.
• strap noun (a strap, straps); verb…
  A strap is a strip of leather, cloth or plastic used to fasten, carry or hold something.
• strapping adjective (strapping; used before a noun)
  Strapping means big, strong and healthy-looking, usually of a tall young person.
• stratagem noun (a stratagem, stratagems)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A clever plan or trick to get what you want or to fool an enemy.
• strategic adjective (strategic, more strategic, most strategic)
  Strategic means carefully planned to reach a goal.
• strategy noun (a strategy, strategies)
  A strategy is a plan for reaching a goal, especially a clever plan made carefully ahead.
• stratosphere noun (the stratosphere; stratospheres — rare)
  The stratosphere is the layer of air above the lowest layer of the atmosphere, roughly between ten and fifty kilometres above the ground.
• stratum noun (a stratum, strata)
  A stratum is one layer of rock or soil lying on top of another.
• stratus noun…
  Stratus is a type of low, flat, grey cloud that covers the sky like a blanket.
• straw noun (straw, straws)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Straw is the dry yellow stalks of plants like wheat, used for animal beds or to make hats and baskets.
• strawberry noun (strawberry, strawberries)
  A strawberry is a small red sweet fruit with tiny seeds on its outside and green leaves on top.
• strawman noun (a strawman or straw man, strawmen / straw men); verb…
  A strawman is an unfair trick in an argument: you change the other person's idea into a weaker or sillier version and then attack that…
• stray adjective (a stray dog); noun (a stray, strays); verb…everyday · Jewish tradition
  A stray animal is a pet like a dog or cat that is lost or has no home.
• straying nounJewish tradition
  Wandering off the right way, or the act of going astray.
• streak noun (a streak, streaks); verb…everyday · Jewish tradition
  A streak is a long, thin line or mark of a different colour, like a streak of paint or a streak of lightning.
• streaky adjective (streaky, streakier, streakiest)
  Streaky means having streaks: long thin lines or marks of a different colour, often uneven: streaky windows, streaky hair dye.
• stream noun (a stream, streams); verb…everyday · Jewish tradition
  A stream is a small, narrow river.
• streamer noun (a streamer, streamers)
  A streamer is a long, narrow strip of coloured paper or ribbon used to decorate for parties and celebrations.
• streamline verb (streamline, streamlines, streamlined, streamlining)…
  To streamline something is to give it a smooth, slim shape so it moves easily through air or water.
• streamlining noun (uncountable); verb…
  making something simpler and more efficient.
• street noun (street, streets)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A street is a road in a town or city with houses, shops or buildings on its sides.
• streetlight noun (a streetlight, streetlights)
  A tall lamp on a pole beside a road that lights up the street at night.
• strength noun (strength, strengths)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Strength is how strong someone or something is: the power of muscles to lift and push.
• strengthen verb (strengthen, strengthens, strengthened, strengthening)everyday · Jewish tradition
  To strengthen something is to make it stronger.
• strenuous adjective (strenuous, more strenuous, most strenuous)
  Strenuous means needing a lot of effort, energy or strength: a strenuous climb.
• strep noun (strep — uncountable, informal); short for…
  Strep is short for streptococcus, a kind of bacteria that can cause illness.
• streptococcus noun (a streptococcus; plural streptococci)
  Streptococcus is a type of round bacteria that grow in chains.
• stress noun (stress); verb (stress, stresses, stressed, stressing)
  Stress is a feeling of worry and pressure when you have too much to do or something is hard.
• stressed adjective (stressed, more stressed); verb form…
  Stressed means feeling worried, tense and under pressure, like before a big test.
• stressful adjective (stressful, more stressful, most stressful)
  Stressful describes something that makes you feel worried, tense or under pressure.
• stretch verb (stretch, stretches, stretched, stretching); noun…everyday · Jewish tradition
  To make something longer or wider by pulling it.
• stretchedst verb, old form used with thou
  «stretchedst» means «you stretched», a form of «stretch»: To make something longer or wider by pulling it.
• stretching verb form…everyday · Jewish tradition
  Stretching means making your body or a part of it longer by reaching out arms and legs or pulling muscles gently.
• stretchy adjective (stretchy, stretchier, stretchiest)
  Stretchy means able to stretch, to become longer or wider when you pull it, and often to go back to its shape after.
• strew verb (strew, strews, strewed, strewn or strewed, strewing)everyday · Jewish tradition
  To scatter things untidily over a surface.
• strewth exclamation (also struth)
  a mild exclamation of surprise, shock or annoyance, from "God's truth".
• stricken adjective (stricken); old past participle of the verb strikeeveryday · Jewish tradition
  Badly affected by something bad, such as illness, sadness or disaster: a stricken ship, a grief-stricken family.
• strict adjective (strict, stricter, strictest)
  A strict person makes people obey rules and does not allow bad behaviour.
• strictly adverb
  Strictly means in a firm way that makes sure rules are followed exactly.
• strictness noun (strictness — uncountable)
  Strictness is being strict: making people follow rules exactly and not allowing bad behaviour.
• stride noun (a stride, strides); verb…
  To stride is to walk with long, quick, confident steps.
• strife noun (no plural)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Strife is angry fighting, quarrelling or struggle between people or groups.
• strike verb (strike, strikes, struck, striking); noun…everyday · Jewish tradition
  To strike is to hit something hard: «lightning struck the tree».
• striker noun (a striker, strikers)
  In football (soccer), a striker is a player whose main job is to score goals.
• striking adjective (striking); verb form of strike…
  Striking means hitting something hard: the ball striking the window.
• string noun, verb (string, strings, strung, stringing)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A string is a thin cord used for tying things.
• stringy adjective (stringy, stringier, stringiest)
  Stringy food is full of tough fibres like strings and is hard to chew: stringy meat, stringy celery.
• strip noun, verb (strip, strips, stripped, stripping)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A strip is a long, narrow piece of something, like paper, cloth or land.
• stripe noun (stripe, stripes)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A stripe is a long thin line of colour on something, like on a zebra or a flag.
• stripling nounJewish tradition
  An old word for a boy or young man who is no longer a child but not yet fully grown.
• stripped verb (strip, strips, stripped, stripping — past form)…everyday · Jewish tradition
  Stripped is the past of «strip»: took off a covering or layer, such as paint, bark or sheets.
• stripping verb form (stripping — the -ing form of strip); noun…
  Taking off a covering or layer: stripping wallpaper, stripping paint, stripping a bed.
• stripy adjective (stripy, stripier, stripiest)
  Stripy means having stripes — long thin lines or bands of different colours.
• strive verb…everyday · Jewish tradition
  To try very hard to do or get something, over a long time: strive to do your best.
• striving verb…everyday · Jewish tradition
  Striving means trying very hard for a long time to get or reach something: «She is striving to improve».
• stroke verb (stroke, strokes, stroked, stroking); noun…everyday · Jewish tradition
  To stroke an animal or person is to move your hand gently over it, usually again and again.
• stroll verb (stroll, strolls, strolled, strolling); noun…
  To walk slowly and in a relaxed way, for pleasure, not in a hurry.
• strong adjective (strong, stronger, strongest)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Having a lot of power in your body: "a strong man".
• stronghold noun (a stronghold, strongholds)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A stronghold is a strong, well-defended place such as a castle or fort that is hard to attack.
• strongly adverb (strongly, more strongly, most strongly)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Strongly means with a lot of strength or force.
• strontium noun (strontium, uncountable)
  Strontium is a soft, silvery metal, a chemical element with the symbol Sr and atomic number 38.
• struck verb, past and past participle of «strike»…everyday · Jewish tradition
  Hit someone or something hard.
• structural adjective (structural)
  Structural means to do with the structure of something: how its parts are built, joined or organised.
• structuralism nounJewish tradition
  An approach to a subject that looks at the basic patterns and structure that hold its parts together.
• structure noun (a structure, structures; also uncountable); verb…everyday · Jewish tradition
  A structure is something that has been built, like a bridge, tower or building.

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