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Showing words for STRAITS using the English dictionary

7 Letter Words for Straits

artists, sittars, straits

6 Letter Words for Straits

artist, sistra, sitars, sittar, stairs, starts, strait, strati, traist, traits

5 Letter Words for Straits

airts, arist, arsis, astir, raits, ratti, rissa, ritts, sairs, saist, saris, satis, sitar, sitta, stair, stars, start, stats, stirs, stria, strit, taits, tarsi, tarts, tiars, tisar, titar, trait, trass, trats, trias, trist

4 Letter Words for Straits

airs, airt, aits, aris, arts, assi, asst, astr, atis, itas, rais, rait, rast, rats, rias, rist, rita, rits, ritt, sair, sais, sari, sars, sart, sati, sirs, sist, sita, sits, sris, star, stat, stir, stra, tais, tait, tari, tars, tart, tass, tats, tiar, tits, trat, trit, tsia

3 Letter Words for Straits

air, ais, ait, ars, art, ass, ast, att, ira, irs, ist, ita, its, rai, ras, rat, ria, rit, rti, sai, sar, sat, sir, sis, sit, sri, sta, str, tai, tar, tas, tat, tis, tit, tra, tri, trs, trt, tsi, tss, tst

Definitions for Straits

[1] Often straits. (used with a singular verb ) a narrow passage of water connecting two large bodies of water.
[2] Often straits. a position of difficulty, distress, or need: Ill and penniless, he was in sad straits indeed.
[3] Archaic . a narrow passage or area.
[4] an isthmus.
[5] narrow: Strait is the gate.
[6] affording little space; confined in area.
[7] strict, as in requirements or principles.
[8] (often plural) a narrow channel of the sea linking two larger areas of sea (capital as part of a name ) the Strait of Gibraltar
[9] (often plural) a position of acute difficulty (often in the phrase in dire or desperate straits )
[10] archaic a narrow place or passage
[11] (of spaces, etc) affording little room
[12] (of circumstances, etc) limiting or difficult
[13] severe, strict, or scrupulous

Words related to Straits

straitpredicament, dilemma, distress, mystification, pass, perplexity, plight, squeeze, emergency, vicissitude, crossroad, hardship, exigency, mess, embarrassment, rigor, hole, bottleneck, bewilderment, extremity

Words nearby Straits

trained, strainer, straining arch, straining piece, straining sill, strait, strait-lace, strait-laced, straiten, straitjacket, straits dollar

Origin of Straits

1150–1200; Middle English streit < Old French estreit < Latin strictus past participle of stringere to bind; see strain1

Words that may be confused with Straits

traight, strait

Other words from Straits

strait·ly , adverb
strait·ness , noun

Word origin for Straits

C13: from Old French estreit narrow, from Latin strictus constricted, from stringere to bind tightly

Synonyms for Straits

predicament, bewilderment, bind, bottleneck, contingency, crossroad, dilemma, distress, embarrassment, emergency, exigency, extremity, hardship, hole, mess, mystification, pass, perplexity, pinch, plight, rigor, squeeze, vicissitude, choke point, turning point, zero hour