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Straightlaced
- adjective - exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts"
Strainer Vine
- noun - any of several tropical annual climbers having large yellow flowers and edible young fruits; grown commercially for the mature fruit''s dried fibrous interior that is used as a sponge
- any of several tropical annual climbers having large yellow flowers and edible young fruits; grown commercially for the mature fruit's dried fibrous interior that is used as a sponge
Strait-Handed
- - Parsimonious; sparing; niggardly.
Strait-Jacket
- - A dress of strong materials for restraining maniacs or those who are violently delirious. It has long sleeves, which are closed at the ends, confining the hands, and may be tied behind the back.
Straitjackets
- noun - a garment similar to a jacket that is used to bind the arms tightly against the body as a means of restraining a violent person
- anything immaterial that severely hinders or confines; "they defected because Russian dance was in a straitjacket"; "the government is operating in an economic straitjacket"
Strange Quark
- noun - a quark with an electric charge of -1/3 and a mass 988 times that of an electron and a strangeness of -1
Strangenesses
- noun - (physics) one of the six flavors of quark
- the quality of being alien or not native; "the strangeness of a foreigner"
- unusualness as a consequence of not being well known
Strangle Hold
- - a hold by which one's opponent is choked. It is usually not allowed.
Strangleholds
- noun - a wrestling hold in which the arms are pressed against the opponent's windpipe
- complete power over a person or situation; "corporations have a stranglehold on the media"; "the president applied a chokehold to labor disputes that inconvenienced the public"
Strangler Fig
- noun - a common tropical American clusia having solitary white or rose flowers
- a strangler tree native to southern Florida and West Indies; begins as an epiphyte eventually developing many thick aerial roots and covering enormous areas