9-letter words containing a, b, u, r, s
- salubrity — favorable to or promoting health; healthful: salubrious air.
- san bruno — a city in W California, S of San Francisco.
- saturable — capable of being saturated.
- saver sub — A saver sub is a short piece of connecting pipe with threads on both ends, which is part of a drill string.
- scrub jay — a crestless jay, Aphelocoma coerulescens, of the western and southern U.S. and Mexico, having blue and grayish plumage.
- scrub oak — any of several oaks, as Quercus ilicifolia and Q. prinoides, characterized by a scrubby manner of growth, usually found in dry, rocky soil.
- scrubland — land on which the natural vegetation is chiefly scrub.
- scrutable — capable of being understood by careful study or investigation.
- scumboard — a board or strip of material partly immersed in flowing water to hold back scum.
- securable — free from or not exposed to danger or harm; safe.
- semiurban — of, relating to, or designating a city or town.
- shrubland — land covered by shrubs
- simarouba — any tropical American tree belonging to the genus Simaruba, of the quassia family, having pinnate leaves, a fleshy fruit, and a root whose bark contains an appetite stimulant.
- spar buoy — a buoy resembling a vertical log
- star ruby — a ruby that resembles a starlike figure in reflected light because of its crystalline structure
- starburst — a pattern of lines or rays radiating from a central point.
- stirabout — porridge.
- sub-frame — a border or case for enclosing a picture, mirror, etc.
- subaerial — located or occurring on the surface of the earth.
- subahdary — the position or office of subadar
- subaltern — lower in rank; subordinate: a subaltern employee.
- subarctic — of, pertaining to, similar to, or being the region immediately south of the Arctic Circle; subpolar.
- subastral — pertaining to or proceeding from the stars; stellar; star-shaped.
- subbranch — a subordinate branch or a branch of a branch, as of a bank, business, or the like.
- subbureau — a bureau subordinate to the main bureau
- subcantor — a deputy to a cantor
- subcellar — a cellar below the main cellar.
- subchaser — submarine chaser.
- subdealer — a dealer who buys from another dealer
- subdermal — situated or lying under the skin, as tissue.
- subdorsal — situated close to the back in humans or upper surface in animals
- subhedral — (of mineral grains comprising igneous rocks) having a partial or incomplete crystal face or form.
- sublinear — of, consisting of, or using lines: linear design.
- sublunary — situated beneath the moon or between the earth and the moon.
- submarine — a vessel that can be submerged and navigated under water, usually built for warfare and armed with torpedoes or guided missiles.
- submarket — an open place or a covered building where buyers and sellers convene for the sale of goods; a marketplace: a farmers' market.
- submatrix — a set of certain rows and columns of a given matrix.
- subneural — beneath or below a nerve
- subnormal — below the normal; less than or inferior to the normal: a subnormal amount of rain.
- subocular — below or under the eye
- subprimal — (of meat) being a cut of meat larger than a steak, roast, or other single cut but smaller than a side of beef: shipped by the packer to local markets for final cutting to reduce processing costs and to retard spoilage.
- subrogate — to put into the place of another; substitute for another.
- subsacral — below the sacrum or bone at the back of the pelvis
- substrate — a substratum.
- substylar — of or relating to a substyle
- subverbal — of or relating to words: verbal ability.
- subwarden — an assistant to a warden, a deputy or subordinate warden
- sugar bag — a small hessian bag occasionally still used, esp in rural areas, as a rough-and-ready measure for dry goods
- sugarbird — any of various honeycreepers that feed on nectar.
- sugarbush — an evergreen shrub, Rhus ovata, of the cashew family, native to the desert regions of the southwestern U.S., having light yellow flowers in short, dense spikes and hairy, dark-red fruit.