Yes, strike is a Scrabble word!

Verb

1. Deliver a sharp blow, as with the hand, fist, or weapon

2. Have an emotional or cognitive impact upon

3. Hit against; come into sudden contact with

4. Make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target

5. Indicate (a certain time) by striking

6. Affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely

7. Stop work in order to press demands

8. Touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly

9. Attain

10. Produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments, also metaphorically

11. Cause to form (an electric arc) between electrodes of an arc lamp

12. Find unexpectedly

13. Produce by ignition or a blow

14. Remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line

15. Cause to experience suddenly

16. Drive something violently into a location

17. Occupy or take on

18. Form by stamping, punching, or printing

19. Smooth with a strickle

20. Pierce with force

21. Arrive at after reckoning, deliberating, and weighing

Noun

1. A group's refusal to work in protest against low pay or bad work conditions

2. An attack that is intended to seize or inflict damage on or destroy an objective

3. A gentle blow

4. A score in tenpins: knocking down all ten with the first ball

5. (baseball) a pitch that the batter swings at and misses, or that the batter hits into foul territory, or that the batter does not swing at but the umpire judges to be in the area over home plate and between the batter's knees and shoulders

6. A conspicuous success