9-letter words containing a, b, u
- subpoenas — the usual writ for the summoning of witnesses or the submission of evidence, as records or documents, before a court or other deliberative body.
- 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
- subsample — a specimen from or a small part of a sample.
- subschema — a part of a computer database which is used by an individual
- subsocial — without a definite social structure.
- substance — that of which a thing consists; physical matter or material: form and substance.
- substrate — a substratum.
- substylar — of or relating to a substyle
- subtenant — a person who rents land, a house, or the like, from a tenant.
- subungual — of, pertaining to, bearing, or shaped like a nail, claw, or hoof.
- subvassal — a vassal of a vassal
- 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.
- sun-baked — Sun-baked land or earth has been made hard and dry by the sun shining on it.
- superable — capable of being overcome; surmountable.
- superably — capable of being overcome; surmountable.
- superbaby — an infant whose mental development and language acquisition are stimulated and presumably accelerated by certain teaching methods.
- superbank — a bank that owns other banks; an overarching banking organization
- superbrat — an exceptionally unpleasant or bratty person, someone who is very much a brat
- surf boat — a strong, buoyant rowboat with high ends, adapted for beaching and passing through surf.
- surfboard — a long, narrow board on which a person stands or lies prone in surfboarding.
- suribachi — an extinct volcano on Iwo Jima island: World War II battle 1945.
- sushi bar — restaurant serving Japanese rice dishes
- tabbouleh — a salad of fine-ground bulgur, parsley, tomatoes, green onions, mint, olive oil, and lemon juice.
- tablature — Music. any of various systems of music notation using letters, numbers, or other signs to indicate the strings, frets, keys, etc., to be played.
- table cut — a variety of step cut in which a very large table is joined to the girdle with a bevel.
- tabularly — of, relating to, or arranged in a table or systematic arrangement by columns, rows, etc., as statistics.
- tabulated — to put or arrange in a tabular, systematic, or condensed form; formulate tabularly.
- tabulator — a person or thing that tabulates.
- tambourer — someone who embroiders on a tambour
- tambourin — a long narrow drum of Provence.
- taste bud — one of numerous small, flask-shaped bodies, chiefly in the epithelium of the tongue, which are the end organs for the sense of taste.
- tchambuli — a member of an indigenous people of Papua New Guinea.
- tenurable — related to an academic post carrying tenure
- thenabout — around then or around that time
- thibodaux — a city in SE Louisiana.
- thumbnail — the nail of the thumb.
- thumbtack — a tack with a large, flat head, designed to be thrust into a board or other fairly soft object or surface by the pressure of the thumb.
- titubancy — staggering or stumbling
- touchable — to put the hand, finger, etc., on or into contact with (something) to feel it: He touched the iron cautiously.
- touchback — a play in which the ball is downed after having been kicked into the end zone by the opposing team or having been recovered or intercepted there, or in which it has been kicked beyond the end zone. Compare safety (def 6a).
- trabecula — Anatomy, Botany. a structural part resembling a small beam or crossbar.
- tribulate — to trouble or oppress
- tribunate — the office of tribune.
- tributary — a stream that flows to a larger stream or other body of water.