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Stoutness
- noun - the property of being strong and resolute
- the property of excessive fatness
Stowaways
- noun - a person who hides aboard a ship or plane in the hope of getting free passage
Straddles
- noun - a gymnastic exercise performed with a leg on either side of the parallel bars
- a noncommittal or equivocal position
- be noncommittal
- range or extend over; occupy a certain area; "The plants straddle the entire state"
- sit or stand astride of
- the act of sitting or standing astride
- the option to buy or sell a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date; consists of an equal number of put and call options
Straggles
- noun - a wandering or disorderly grouping (of things or persons); "a straggle of outbuildings"; "a straggle of followers"
- go, come, or spread in a rambling or irregular way; "Branches straggling out quite far"
- wander from a direct or straight course
Straights
- noun - a heterosexual person; someone having a sexual orientation to persons of the opposite sex
- a poker hand with 5 consecutive cards (regardless of suit)
- a straight segment of a roadway or racecourse
Strainers
- noun - a filter to retain larger pieces while smaller pieces and liquids pass through
Straitens
- verb - bring into difficulties or distress, especially financial hardship
- squeeze together
Strangers
- noun - an individual that one is not acquainted with
- anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found
Strangles
- verb - an acute bacterial disease of horses characterized by inflammation of the mucous membranes
- conceal or hide; "smother a yawn"; "muffle one's anger"; "strangle a yawn"
- constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing
- die from strangulation
- kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air; "he tried to strangle his opponent"; "A man in Boston has been strangling several dozen prostitutes"
- prevent the progress or free movement of; "He was hampered in his efforts by the bad weather"; "the imperialist nation wanted to strangle the free trade between the two small countries"
- struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake; "he swallowed a fishbone and gagged"
Strapados
- 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