straits (n.)

• arm
• armlet
• bay
• bayou
• belt
• bight
• bind
• clutch
• complication
• cove
• creek
• crunch
• distress
• embarrassment
• estuary
• fjord
• frith
• gulf
• gut
• harbor
• hardship
• hobble
• how-do-you-do
• imbroglio
• impecuniousness
• inlet
• insolvency
• jam
• loch
• mess
• mix
• morass
• mouth
• narrow
• narrows
• pass
• pickle
• pinch
• plight
• poorness
• poverty
• predicament
• quagmire
• quicksand
• reach
• road
• roads
• roadstead
• scrape
• slough
• sound
• spot
• squeeze
• stew
• strait
• swamp
• tightrope