8 Letter Words for Strident
strident, tridents
7 Letter Words for Strident
dentist, distent, entrist, retints, stinted, stinter, tinders, tinters, trident
6 Letter Words for Strident
destin, diners, direst, dirten, disert, dister, dreint, driest, estrin, ettins, inerts, insert, inters, niters, nitred, nitter, retint, rident, rinsed, ritted, sinder, sinter, sitten, sitter, snider, sterid, sterin, stired, streit, strent, stride, strind, strine, teinds, tinder, tinted, tinter, titers, trends, tretis, triens, trined, trines, triste, trites
5 Letter Words for Strident
deist, dents, derns, detin, diets, diner, dines, dints, dirts, distn, distr, diter, dites, ditts, drent, drest, dries, dtset, edits, entsi, ettin, ident, idest, inert, inset, instr, inter, iters, neist, nerds, nerts, nides, niter, reins, reist, rends, rents, resid, resin, resit, retin, riden, rides, rinds, rines, rinse, risen, rites, ritts, sdein, senit, senti, serin, sider, sient, sined, sired, siren, sited, snide, snirt, snite, steid, stein, stend, stent, steri, stern, stert, stied, stine, stint, stire, stite, strid, strit, teind, tends, tents, terns, terts, tetri, tides, tiens, tiers, tinds, tined, tines, tints, tired, tires, titer, trend, trest, tride, tried, tries, trine, trins, trist, trite, tsine
4 Letter Words for Strident
deis, deni, dens, dent, dern, desi, deti, detn, dier, dies, diet, dine, dins, dint, dire, dirt, dist, dite, dits, ditt, drie, dsri, edit, ends, entr, erin, eris, erns, erst, ides, inde, inst, intr, ired, ires, isdn, ised, isnt, iter, neds, nerd, nest, neti, nets, nide, nids, nied, nies, nist, nits, reds, rein, reit, rend, rent, rest, retd, rets, ride, rids, ries, rind, rine, rins, rise, rist, rite, rits, ritt, seir, seit, send, sent, sert, sett, side, sien, sier, sind, sine, sire, site, sned, snit, sted, sten, ster, stet, stid, stie, stir, stre, teds, tend, tens, tent, tern, test, tets, tide, tids, tied, tien, tier, ties, tind, tine, tins, tint, tire, tite, tits, tres, tret, trid, trie, trin, trit
3 Letter Words for Strident
dei, den, der, des, det, die, din, dir, dis, dit, dsr, eds, eir, end, ens, erd, ern, ers, ert, esd, esr, est, ide, ids, ind, ins, int, ire, irs, ise, isn, ist, itd, its, ned, nei, net, nid, nie, nis, nit, red, rei, res, rid, rie, rin, rit, rnd, rte, rti, sed, sei, sen, ser, set, sie, sin, sir, sit, sri, std, str, tdr, tdt, ted, ten, ter, tes, tet, tid, tie, tin, tis, tit, tnt, tri, trs, trt, tsi, tst
Definitions for Strident
[1] making or having a harsh sound; grating; creaking: strident insects; strident hinges.
[2] having a shrill, irritating quality or character: a strident tone in his writings.
[3] Linguistics . (in distinctive feature analysis) characterized acoustically by noise of relatively high intensity, as sibilants, labiodental and uvular fricatives, and most affricates.
[4] (of a shout, voice, etc) having or making a loud or harsh sound
[5] urgent, clamorous, or vociferous strident demands
Words related to Strident
vociferous, blatant, loud, jarring, raucous, boisterous, clamorous, clashing, discordant, grating, hoarse, noisy, obstreperous, rasping, squeaky, stentorian, squawky, unmusical, screeching
Words nearby Strident
strictly increasing function, stricture, stricturotomy, stride, stride piano, strident, stridor, stridulate, stridulous, strife, strigiform
Origin of Strident
1650–60; < Latin strīdent- (stem of strīdēns ), present participle of strīdēre to make a harsh noise; see -ent
Other words from Strident
stri·dence , stri·den·cy , noun
stri·dent·ly , adverb
non·stri·dent , adjective
o·ver·stri·dence , noun
o·ver·stri·den·cy , noun
o·ver·stri·dent , adjective
o·ver·stri·dent·ly , adverb
un·stri·dent , adjective
un·stri·dent·ly , adverb
Word origin for Strident
C17: from Latin strīdēns, from strīdēre to make a grating sound
Synonyms for Strident
blatant, jarring, loud, raucous, vociferous, boisterous, clamorous, clashing, discordant, grating, hoarse, jangling, noisy, obstreperous, rasping, screeching, squawky, squeaky, stentorian, stertorous, stridulant, stridulous, unmusical, vociferant
