straight-arm | (American football) the act of warding off a tackler by holding the arm fully extended with the hand against the opponent |
straight ticket | a ballot cast by a voter who votes for all the candidates of one party |
straight and narrow strait and narrow | the way of proper and honest behavior, he taught his children to keep strictly to the straight and narrow |
straight hang | a hang performed on the rings or parallel bars with the body erect and the arms at the sides |
straight poker | poker in which each player gets cards face down and bets are made without drawing any further cards |
lunge straight thrust passado | (fencing) an attacking thrust made with one foot forward and the back leg straight and with the sword arm outstretched forward |
long-billed marsh wren Cistothorus palustris | American wren that inhabits tall reed beds |
sedge wren short-billed marsh wren Cistothorus platensis | small American wren inhabiting wet sedgy meadows |
lowland burrowing treefrog northern casque-headed frog Pternohyla fodiens | terrestrial burrowing nocturnal frog of grassy terrain and scrub forests having very hard upper surface of head, of the United States southwest |
hadrosaur hadrosaurus duck-billed dinosaur | any of numerous large bipedal ornithischian dinosaurs having a horny duck-like bill and webbed feet, may have been partly aquatic |
black-billed cuckoo Coccyzus erythropthalmus | North American cuckoo, builds a nest and rears its own young |
ivorybill ivory-billed woodpecker Campephilus principalis | large black-and-white woodpecker of southern United States and Cuba having an ivory bill, nearly extinct |
platypus duckbill duckbilled platypus duck-billed platypus Ornithorhynchus anatinus | small densely furred aquatic monotreme of Australia and Tasmania having a broad bill and tail and webbed feet, only species in the family Ornithorhynchidae |
boatbill boat-billed heron broadbill Cochlearius cochlearius | tropical American heron related to night herons |
razorbill razor-billed auk Alca torda | black-and-white northern Atlantic auk having a compressed sharp-edged bill |
thick-billed murre Uria lomvia | a variety of murre |
pied-billed grebe Podilymbus podiceps | American grebe having a black-banded whitish bill |
western lowland gorilla Gorilla gorilla gorilla | a kind of gorilla |
eastern lowland gorilla Gorilla gorilla grauri | a kind of gorilla |
flat arch straight arch | an arch with mutually supporting voussoirs that has a straight horizontal extrados and intrados |
straightaway straight | a straight segment of a roadway or racecourse |
straight chair side chair | a straight-backed chair without arms |
straight flute straight-fluted drill | a rock drill with flutes that are straight |
straight pin | pin consisting of a short straight stiff piece of wire with a pointed end, used to fasten pieces of cloth or paper together |
straight razor | a razor with a straight cutting edge enclosed in a case that forms a handle when the razor is opened for use |
straight sinus tentorial sinus sinus rectus | an unpaired sinus of the dura mater |
straight face | a serious facial expression giving no evidence of interest or amusement |
straight flush | a poker hand with consecutive cards in the same suit |
straight | a poker hand with consecutive cards (regardless of suit) |
lowland | low level country |
straight chain | an open chain of atoms with no side chains |
heterosexual heterosexual person straight person straight | a heterosexual person, someone having a sexual orientation to persons of the opposite sex |
Lowlander Scottish Lowlander Lowland Scot | a native of the Lowlands of Scotland |
square shooter straight shooter straight arrow | a frank and honest person |
straight man second banana | a performer who acts as stooge to a comedian |
lowland fir lowland white fir giant fir grand fir Abies grandis | lofty fir of the Pacific coast of northwestern America having long curving branches and deep green leaves |
straight-line method straight-line method of depreciation | (accounting) a method of calculating depreciation by taking an equal amount of the asset's cost as an expense for each year of the asset's useful life |
whole life insurance ordinary life insurance straight life insurance | insurance on the life of the insured for a fixed amount at a definite premium that is paid each year in the same amount during the entire lifetime of the insured |
straight angle | an angle ofdegrees |
straight line | a line traced by a point traveling in a constant direction, a line of zero curvature, the shortest distance between two points is a straight line |
straight | in keeping with the facts, set the record straight, made sure the facts were straight in the report |
straight-backed | having a straight back, a straight-backed wooden chair, a slim straight-backed dancer |
billed | having a beak or bill as specified, a thick-billed bird, a long-billed cap |
duckbill duck-billed | having a beak resembling that of a duck, a duck-billed dinosaur |
short-beaked short-billed | having a short beak |
stout-billed | having a strong beak |
straight-billed | having a straight beak |
thick-billed | having a thick beak |
straight consecutive | successive (without a break), sick for five straight days |
square straight | rigidly conventional or old-fashioned |