9-letter words containing a, c, s, u
- 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.
- quicksand — a bed of soft or loose sand saturated with water and having considerable depth, yielding under weight and therefore tending to suck down any object resting on its surface.
- rancorous — full of or showing rancor.
- 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.
- raucously — harsh; strident; grating: raucous voices; raucous laughter.
- recusancy — the state of being recusant.
- reductase — any enzyme acting as a reducing agent.
- resurface — to give a new surface to.
- rosaceous — belonging to the plant family Rosaceae. Compare rose family.
- roughcast — Also called spatter dash. an exterior wall finish composed of mortar and fine pebbles mixed together and dashed against the wall. Compare pebble dash.
- rudaceous — (of conglomerate, breccia, and similar rocks) composed of coarse-grained material
- rusticana — objects, such as agricultural implements, garden furniture, etc, relating to the countryside or made in imitation of rustic styles
- rusticate — to go to the country.
- rutaceous — of or like rue.
- saccharum — a brewing sugar derived from cane sugar
- sacculate — formed into or having a saccule, sac, or saclike dilation.
- sack suit — a man's suit that has a loose-fitting jacket.
- sacrarium — Roman Catholic Church. a piscina.
- sagacious — having or showing acute mental discernment and keen practical sense; shrewd: a sagacious lawyer.
- salacious — lustful or lecherous.
- saliaunce — an onslaught
- salicetum — a plantation of willows
- saltchuck — the ocean.
- saluretic — of or relating to a substance that promotes renal excretion of sodium and chloride ions.
- san lucas — Cape, a cape extending into the Pacific Ocean at the S tip of the Baja California peninsula, W Mexico, at the entrance to the Gulf of California.
- sanctuary — a sacred or holy place.
- 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.
- sasquatch — Big Foot.
- sauceboat — a low, boat-shaped container for serving sauce or gravy, typically having a handle at one end and a long, wide lip at the other end.
- sauciness — impertinent; insolent: a saucy remark; a saucy child.
- saucisson — a large and thick sausage
- say uncle — a brother of one's father or mother.
- scamillus — a slight bevel at an arris of a stone, as in the necking of a Greek Doric column.
- scapulary — scapular1 .
- scatheful — causing harm or injury
- schaudinn — Fritz [frits] /frɪts/ (Show IPA), 1871–1906, German zoologist.
- schedular — a plan of procedure, usually written, for a proposed objective, especially with reference to the sequence of and time allotted for each item or operation necessary to its completion: The schedule allows three weeks for this stage.
- schnauzer — one of a German breed of sturdy medium-sized dogs having a tight, wiry, pepper-and-salt or pure black coat, bristly eyebrows and beardlike whiskers, and a docked tail, used originally as a ratter and a guard dog and later used in police work.
- scopulate — broom-shaped; brushlike.
- scout car — a fast, lightly-armored military vehicle equipped with guns and used chiefly for reconnaissance.
- 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
- 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.
- scrummage — scrum (defs 1, 3).