Words that start with S

Something is straight if it has no bends, curves or corners in it. The road in the picture is long and straight.

A strand is a single piece of some kind of fiber, like a strand of hair.
Strand also means to leave something or someone where they are helpless, as in "they were stranded on a desert island".

A stranger is someone that you do not know or have never met before.

The opposite of a stranger is a friend.

Straw is a waste product from growing grains like wheat. It is the dried stalks of the plants after the seed heads have been cut off at harvest time. Straw is used for animal bedding, mulching gardens, as thatched rooves, making hats, and as a poor-quality animal feed. Hay is similar to straw but is a better quality animal feed.

A stray animal is any domestic animal that is wandering around with no owner. In the city stray animals are usually cats or dog but larger animals like cows can also go astray.

A group of tigers is called a streak, or an ambush.

A street, or road in a city or town is a place that people live on, or that has shops on. There are buildings on either side of the street and people walk or drive on the street.
A very narrow street like the one in the picture is sometimes called a lane.

Stretch marks are small lines that appear on the skin of people whose bodies have gone through a rapid change, such as growth, pregnancy or weight gain. Stretch marks are usually pink or purple when they appear and fade to silver or white after time passes.

Strewn is a similar word to scattered. Things are strewn if they have been spread around with no particular pattern. The toys in the picture are strewn.

String is long, thin, flexible and is often used for tying things together, hanging things, or even stitching things together.