Stress is valid Scrabble Word

Is stress a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is stress valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

6 letters word
6 points in Scrabble
6 points in WWF

Definitions for STRESS in dictionary:

VERB:

to place emphasis on
give particular emphasis or importance to (a point, statement, or idea) made in speech or writing
give emphasis to (a syllable or word) when pronouncing it
subject to pressure or tension
cause mental or emotional strain or tension in
become tense or anxious; worry
To press; to urge; to distress; to put to difficulties.
To subject to stress, pressure, or strain.
to stress, single out as important
put stress on; utter with an accent

test the limits of
emphasize

NOUN:

pressure or tension exerted on a material object
the degree of stress measured in units of force per unit area.
a state of mental or emotional strain or tension resulting from adverse or demanding circumstances
something that causes a state of strain or tension
particular emphasis or importance
emphasis given to a particular syllable or word in speech, typically through a combination of relatively greater loudness, higher pitch, and longer duration
tension or strain
Distress.
Pressure, strain; -- used chiefly of immaterial things; except in mechanics; hence, urgency; importance; weight; significance.
The force, or combination of forces, which produces a strain; force exerted in any direction or manner between contiguous bodies, or parts of bodies, and taking specific names according to its direction, or mode of action, as thrust or pressure, pull or tension, shear or tangential stress.
Force of utterance expended upon words or syllables. Stress is in English the chief element in accent and is one of the most important in emphasis. See Guide to pronunciation, // 31-35.
Distress; the act of distraining; also, the thing distrained.
the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch)
(psychology) a state of mental or emotional strain or suspense
special emphasis attached to something
difficulty that causes worry or emotional tension
(physics) force that produces strain on a physical body

Words related to STRESS

stressed9 stresses8 stressful12 stressfully17 stressfulness16 stressing10 stressless10

Words that contain STRESS

stressy10 destress9 distress9 fostress11 instress8 mistress10 restress8 stressed9 stresses8 stressor8 unstress8 eustress8 prestress11 stressful12 stressier9 stressing10 stressors9 tapstress11 ancestress12 antistress10 cloistress12 destressed12 destresses11 distressed12 distresser11 distresses11 fostresses13 huckstress19 hypostress18 instressed11 instresses10 ministress12 mistressed13 mistresses12 mistressly15 overstress13 restressed11 restresses10 seamstress12 sempstress14 songstress11 spinstress12 stressiest10 stressless10 unstressed11 unstresses10 eustresses10 destressing13 distressers12 distressful15 distressing13 hyperstress19 instressing12 mistressing14 prestressed14 prestresses13 restressing12 seamstressy16 stressfully17 surmistress13 tapstresses13 unstressing12 upholstress16 ancestresses14 cloistresses14 distressings14 headmistress18 huckstresses21 hypostresses20 ministresses14 mistressless14 overstressed16 overstresses15 postmistress16 prestressing15 seamstresses14 sempstresses16 songstresses13 spinstresses14 stressbuster14 taskmistress18 technostress17 workmistress21 mistresslier14 distressfully20 distressingly18 headmistressy22 housemistress18 hyperstresses21 overstressing17 seamstressies15 sempstressing18 stressbusters15 stressbusting16 stressfulness16 surmistresses15 toastmistress15 upholstresses18 whoremistress21 mistressliest15 Show more ...

How to use STRESS in a sentence

Too much stress cannot be laid on the importance of the head being well filled up before the eyes.
These two years of unwilling retirement worked mightily upon the soul of Pushkin so filled with storm and stress.
And then, just at that time, political affairs were claiming his first attention, for that was a period of intense public stress.
He knew more of the mind than he had before, and he knew that not physical hardship, but mental stress, caused such lapses as his.
But perhaps, in these years of storm, and stress, and heartache, we envy more than a little.
His face as he went was the face of a man suddenly awakened to the stress and the turmoil of life.
From the stress of the last year he had found security in acceptance.
On joining the admiral, Pinzon made many excuses and endeavoured to account for his desertion, saying he had been separated by stress of weather.
In naming these he lays what seems like undue stress on the teaching of history by the drama, in language that might quite as well be applied to historical novels.
Water put into the shaft helped somewhat, but the great stress to be exerted had to be effected by means of powerful jack screws.

She gave it, felt the hard stress of his grip, and conquered her desire to draw the hand away.
It was only the stress and excitement of the shipwreck last week that he ventured to steal the chart which I had so carefully prepared for him.
And I must, at whatever risk of over-dwelling, stress the fact that we can only attain this point of view by dwelling on God and not on self.
It is well to stress the fact that the assumption is not only a fact but a doctrine.
When they reached the bank there stood Thomasin, in a stress of grief, bending over the two unconscious ones who already lay there.
She kept her face still hid, and only her heaving breast bore witness to her stress of feeling.
He had no faith in a conviction brought about under the stress of emotional excitement.
After the storm and stress of twenty years, life in this Indian summer of the emotions was like an enclosed garden of sweetness and bloom.
His eyes were dull with the stress of some burden of physical or mental woe.
The birth of new ideas, the reaching of convictions, the arriving at decisions all come in moments of mental stress and tension.
We are living in a democratic age, and must be able to stand against its stress.
The rule of Latin stress was observed as it obtained in the time of Quintilian.
In the earliest Latin the usage had been other, the stress coming as early in the word as was possible.

Similar words containing STRES without suffix s

bistres9 lustres7 rustres7 stressy10 destress9 distress9 fostress11 instress8 mistress10 piastres10 restress8 stressed9 stresses8 stressor8 unstress8 eustress8 aplustres11 cadastres12 delustres10 prestress11 stressful12 stressier9 stressing10 stressors9 tapstress11 ancestress12 antistress10 cloistress12 destressed12 destresses11 dislustres11 distressed12 distresser11 distresses11 fostresses13 huckstress19 hypostress18 instressed11 instresses10 ministress12 mistressed13 mistresses12 mistressly15 outlustres10 overstress13 restressed11 restresses10 seamstress12 sempstress14 songstress11 spinstress12 stressiest10 stressless10 unstressed11 unstresses10 eustresses10 destressing13 distressers12 distressful15 distressing13 hyperstress19 instressing12 lacklustres17 mistressing14 prestressed14 prestresses13 restressing12 seamstressy16 stressfully17 surmistress13 tapstresses13 unstressing12 upholstress16 ancestresses14 cloistresses14 distressings14 headmistress18 huckstresses21 hypostresses20 ministresses14 mistressless14 overstressed16 overstresses15 postmistress16 prestressing15 seamstresses14 sempstresses16 songstresses13 spinstresses14 stressbuster14 taskmistress18 technostress17 workmistress21 mistresslier14 distressfully20 distressingly18 headmistressy22 housemistress18 hyperstresses21 overstressing17 Show more ...

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