9-letter words containing a, c, p, s, u
- on-campus — on the area of land that contains the main buildings of a university or college
- pachomius — Saint, a.d. 292?–348? Egyptian ascetic: founder of the cenobitical form of monasticism.
- paracusia — defective hearing.
- paracusis — defective hearing.
- parcourse — an outdoor exercise track or course, especially for joggers, equipped with a series of stations along the way where one is to stop and perform a specific exercise.
- parecious — paroicous.
- paroicous — (of certain mosses) having the male and female reproductive organs beside or near each other.
- patroclus — Classical Mythology. a friend of Achilles, who was slain by Hector at Troy.
- pinaceous — belonging to the plant family Pinaceae.
- pomaceous — of, relating to, or of the nature of pomes.
- preaccuse — to accuse (someone of something) prior to the specified wrongdoing being committed or prior to having evidence of wrongdoing
- proseucha — a place of prayer, esp for Jewish worship
- puissance — power, might, or force.
- purchased — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
- purchaser — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
- pursuance — the following or carrying out of some plan, course, injunction, or the like.
- push back — force to retreat
- push-card — punchboard.
- pushchair — A pushchair is a small chair on wheels, in which a baby or small child can sit and be wheeled around.
- rap music — a style of popular music, developed by disc jockeys and urban blacks in the late 1970s, in which an insistent, recurring beat pattern provides the background and counterpoint for rapid, slangy, and often boastful rhyming patter glibly intoned by a vocalist or vocalists.
- rapacious — given to seizing for plunder or the satisfaction of greed.
- sapsucker — any of several American woodpeckers of the genus Sphyrapicus that drill holes in maple, apple, hemlock, etc., drinking the sap and eating the insects that gather there.
- scapulary — scapular1 .
- scopulate — broom-shaped; brushlike.
- scrape up — to deprive of or free from an outer layer, adhering matter, etc., or to smooth by drawing or rubbing something, especially a sharp or rough instrument, over the surface: to scrape a table to remove paint and varnish.
- scrapegut — a fiddle player
- sharp-cut — cut so as to have a sharp edge: a tool with a sharp-cut blade.
- skull cap — A skull cap is a small close-fitting cap.
- skull-cap — a small, brimless close-fitting cap, often made of silk or velvet, worn on the crown of the head, as for religious functions.
- space out — the unlimited or incalculably great three-dimensional realm or expanse in which all material objects are located and all events occur.
- spacesuit — a sealed and pressurized suit designed to allow the wearer to leave a pressurized cabin in outer space or at extremely high altitudes within the atmosphere.
- spartacus — died 71 b.c, Thracian slave, gladiator, and insurrectionist.
- speculate — to engage in thought or reflection; meditate (often followed by on, upon, or a clause).
- sphacelus — the death of living tissue
- spiculate — having the form of a spicule.
- spleuchan — a small pouch, especially for carrying tobacco or money.
- stroupach — a cup of tea
- subapical — located below the apex.
- sulphatic — sulphuric, of or pertaining to a sulphate
- sulpician — a member of a society of secular priests founded in France in 1642, engaged chiefly in training men to teach in seminaries.
- super pac — a type of PAC that has no limitations on the amount or source of donations, though it cannot contribute directly to a political campaign or party. See also PAC.
- supercrat — a high-ranking bureaucrat, especially one of cabinet rank.
- superrace — a race, class, or people considered superior to others.
- supplicat — a petition (to a university) for a degree
- supremacy — the state of being supreme.
- unescaped — to slip or get away, as from confinement or restraint; gain or regain liberty: to escape from jail. Synonyms: flee, abscond, decamp.
- uppercase — (of an alphabetical character) capital.
- upscaling — located at, moving toward, or of or for the upper end of a social or economic scale: The boutique caters to upscale young career people.
- ursprache — a hypothetically reconstructed parent language, as Proto-Germanic, the ancestor of the Germanic languages.
- usucapion — the acquisition of property through long, undisturbed possession.