Stresses is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for STRESSES in dictionary:

VERB:
• STRESS, 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
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

Words related to STRESSES

stress6 stressed9 stressing10

Words that contain STRESSES

destresses11 distresses11 fostresses13 instresses10 mistresses12 restresses10 unstresses10 eustresses10 prestresses13 tapstresses13 ancestresses14 cloistresses14 huckstresses21 hypostresses20 ministresses14 overstresses15 seamstresses14 sempstresses16 songstresses13 spinstresses14 hyperstresses21 surmistresses15 upholstresses18 headmistresses20 postmistresses18 taskmistresses20 technostresses19 workmistresses23 housemistresses20 toastmistresses17 whoremistresses23 schoolmistresses23

How to use STRESSES in a sentence

• They are under stresses now as harsh at least as the stresses of France.
• Now hitherto the utmost that any State, overtaken by social and economic stresses, has ever achieved in the way of adapting itself to them has been no more than patching.
• In the good old days, the pace was leisurely, stresses fewer and everything was rosy.
• These stresses rapidly replace one another as the satellite travels along.
• The relief of stresses, from whatever cause arising, in and beneath the crust must surely take place in these regions of disturbance and along these linear areas.
• The stresses set up are, in such cases, very difficult to estimate.
• The stresses in the web are greatest at the ends of the span.
• In bridges so erected the straining action during erection must be studied, and material must be added to resist erecting stresses.
• For all these reasons the stresses due to the live load are greater than those due to the same load resting quietly on the bridge.
• The stresses and risks of international travel in the early years of the century were the least of the obstacles to the realization of the objectives He had set Himself.
• He suffered from several maladies brought on by the strains and stresses of a tragic life spent almost wholly in exile and imprisonment.
• After all, she reminded herself, in the day by day stresses of life, it was this gift of understanding, of sympathy with the innate needs, that counted so tremendously.
• The Church stresses such facts, not only because they are facts, but because by their character they form a hedge about the truth of the Incarnation of our Lord.
• Or the one, say English, may be very sensitive to relative stresses, while in the other, say French, stress is a very minor consideration.
• The situation almost creaked under the complicated stresses to which it was subject.
• The relation of the stresses developed in different structural forms to those developed in the small clear specimens is given.
• An external force is always balanced by the internal stresses when the body is in equilibrium.
• The difficulties attending the measurement of the stresses beyond the elastic limit are so great that commonly they are not reckoned.
• In common practice nearly all external stresses are of the nature of impact.
• In the light of these facts it is not safe to base working stresses on results secured from any but green material.
• For a discussion of factors of safety and safe working stresses for structural timbers see the Manual of the American Railway Engineering Association, Chicago, 1911.
• It stresses this highly important factor, as it should, but merely as a physical necessity.
• He does not reach the point of proposing a call-number system but stresses the importance of shelf-location guides in the catalogue.
• They did not realize, until they got into the elections of 1921, that their party had disintegrated under the stresses of war.
• In this matter the very knowledge of classical Latin, of its stresses and its quantities, still more perhaps an acquaintance with Greek, is apt to mislead.
• Caughley stresses the point that it is not mere knowledge of physiology that will meet the case.

Similar words containing STRESSE without suffix s

stressed9 destressed12 destresses11 distressed12 distresser11 distresses11 fostresses13 instressed11 instresses10 mistressed13 mistresses12 restressed11 restresses10 unstressed11 unstresses10 eustresses10 distressers12 prestressed14 prestresses13 tapstresses13 ancestresses14 cloistresses14 huckstresses21 hypostresses20 ministresses14 overstressed16 overstresses15 seamstresses14 sempstresses16 songstresses13 spinstresses14 hyperstresses21 surmistresses15 upholstresses18 headmistresses20 postmistresses18 taskmistresses20 technostresses19 workmistresses23 housemistresses20 toastmistresses17 whoremistresses23 schoolmistresse22 schoolmistresses23

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