Words beginning with S

In a strict manner.

To walk with long steps.

Someone who removes their clothing in a sexually provocative manner, especially as a form of paid entertainment.

To try to achieve a result; to make strenuous effort; to try earnestly and persistently.

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A cohesive whole built up of distinct parts.

A very toxic, colorless crystalline alkaloid, derived from nux vomica, used as a pesticide.

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An artist’s or photographer’s workshop or the room in which an artist works.

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A surname from Ukrainian.

Any of the marine or freshwater fish of the family Acipenseridae that are prized for their roe and are endemic to temperate seas and…

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A soil series formed in alluvium and primarily used for crops, most notably rice and also soybeans, small grains and corn, all of wh…

A surname from Dutch.

Pseudo-acronym of St Cross, i.e. St Cross College, Oxford.

A bacterial infection in the eyelash or eyelid.

Alternative form of Stygian (“of or relating to the river Styx”).

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simple past and past participle of stymie

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an unusual ceratopsian dinosaur having many large spikes around the edge of its bony frill and a long nose horn; late Cretaceous

An aromatic hydrocarbon; a colourless, oily liquid, used in the manufacture of polymers such as polystyrene.

The river, in Hades, over which the souls of the dead are ferried by Charon.