| 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 |
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 |
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) |
| 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 |
square shooter
straight shooter
straight arrow | a frank and honest person |
straight man
second banana | a performer who acts as stooge to a comedian |
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 |
| straight | following a correct or logical method, straight reasoning |
neat
straight
full-strength | without water, took his whiskey neat |
blunt
candid
forthright frank
free-spoken
outspoken
plainspoken
point-blank
straight-from-the-shoulder | characterized by directness in manner or speech, without subtlety or evasion, blunt talking and straight shooting, a blunt New England farmer, I gave them my candid opinion, forthright criticism, a forthright approach to the problem, tell me what you think--and you may just as well be frank, it is possible to be outspoken without being rude, plainspoken and to the point, a point-blank accusation |
square(a)
straightforward
straight | without evasion or compromise, a square contradiction, he is not being as straightforward as it appears |
| straight-grained | of timber, having fibers that run in parallel |
true
straight | accurately fitted, level, the window frame isn't quite true |