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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
Striation
- noun - a stripe or stripes of contrasting color; "chromosomes exhibit characteristic bands"; "the black and yellow banding of bees and wasps"
- any of a number of tiny parallel grooves such as: the scratches left by a glacier on rocks or the streaks or ridges in muscle tissue
Striction
- - The act of constricting, or the state of being constricted.
Strongbox
- noun - a strongly made box for holding money or valuables; can be locked
Strychnos
- - A genus of tropical trees and shrubs of the family Loganiaceae. See Nux vomica.
Stylebook
- unknown - Manual of typographical rules
Subaction
- - The act of reducing to any state, as of mixing two bodies combletely.
Subdeacon
- noun - a clergyman an order below deacon; one of the Holy Orders in the unreformed western Christian church and the eastern Catholic Churches but now suppressed in the Roman Catholic Church
Subeditor
- noun - an assistant editor
Sublation
- - The act of taking or carrying away; removal.