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Stearate
- - A salt of stearic acid; as, ordinary soap consists largely of sodium or potassium stearates.
Stearone
- - The ketone of stearic acid, obtained as a white crystalline substance, (C17H35)2.CO, by the distillation of calcium stearate.
Steatite
- noun - a soft heavy compact variety of talc having a soapy feel; used to make hearths and tabletops and ornaments
Strabane
- unknown - Town in county Tyrone
Straddle
- 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
Straggle
- 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
Strangle
- verb - 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"
Strapple
- - To hold or bind with, or as with, a strap; to entangle.
Subacute
- adjective - less than acute; relating to a disease present in a person with no symptoms of it