Words Containing: STRU

• hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases; once sought by the alchemists

• patent medicine whose efficacy is questionable

• a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it

• beaklike projection of the anterior part of the head of certain insects such as e.g. weevils

• a period lasting five years

• a ceremonial purification of the Roman population every five years following the census

• A biting fly of the genus Oestrus; a botfly.

• A bite or sting.

• A passion or frenzy.

• A female animal's readiness to mate; heat, rut.

• Scrofula.

• A scrofulous swelling; a tumour or goitre.

• An ancient Egyptian musical instrument, to be shaken, consisting of a metal frame holding percussive metal beads.

• abnormally enlarged thyroid gland; can result from underproduction or overproduction of hormone or from a deficiency of iodine in the diet

• a form of tuberculosis characterized by swellings of the lymphatic glands

• thin sheet of filled dough rolled and baked