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9-letter words containing a, c, s, u

  • subcasing — a rough casing for a doorway or window.
  • subcaudal — below a tail
  • subcavity — a cavity within a larger cavity
  • subcellar — a cellar below the main cellar.
  • subchaser — submarine chaser.
  • subclause — Grammar. a syntactic construction containing a subject and predicate and forming part of a sentence or constituting a whole simple sentence.
  • subclimax — the development of an ecological community to a stage short of the expected climax because of some factor, as repeated fires in a forest, that arrests the normal succession.
  • subcostal — below the rib
  • subdeacon — a member of the clerical order next below that of deacon.
  • subic bay — a bay in the South China Sea, near the Bataan Peninsula in W Luzon, in the Philippines: former U.S. naval base.
  • subjacent — situated or occurring underneath or below; underlying.
  • submucosa — the layer of connective tissue located beneath the mucous membrane.
  • suboctave — an octave below another octave
  • subocular — below or under the eye
  • subsacral — below the sacrum or bone at the back of the pelvis
  • 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.
  • succinate — a salt or ester of succinic acid.
  • succorant — the act of seeking out affectionate care and social support.
  • succotash — a cooked dish of kernels of corn mixed with shell beans, especially lima beans, and, often, with green and sweet red peppers.
  • succursal — subsidiary, especially noting a religious establishment that is dependent upon a principal one.
  • such that — so that: used to express purpose or result
  • suck face — to draw into the mouth by producing a partial vacuum by action of the lips and tongue: to suck lemonade through a straw.
  • sucralose — a white, crystalline powder, C 12 H 19 Cl 3 O 8 , produced synthetically from sucrose, about 600 times as sweet as sucrose but having no calories.
  • suctorial — adapted for sucking or suction, as an organ; functioning as a sucker for imbibing or adhering.
  • suctorian — a suctorial animal.
  • suffocate — to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle.
  • sugar act — a law passed by the British Parliament in 1764 raising duties on foreign refined sugar imported by the colonies so as to give British sugar growers in the West Indies a monopoly on the colonial market.
  • sugarcane — a tall grass, Saccharum officinarum, of tropical and warm regions, having a stout, jointed stalk, and constituting the chief source of sugar.
  • sugarcoat — to cover with sugar: to sugarcoat a pill.
  • sulcalize — to furrow, make a furrow in; predominantly, to make a furrow in (the tongue), make the surface of (the tongue) concave in order to produce certain phonemes
  • sulcation — having long, narrow grooves or channels, as plant stems, or being furrowed or cleft, as hoofs.
  • 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.
  • sun cream — a chemical, usually in the form of a cream, applied to exposed skin to block out all or almost all of the ultraviolet rays of the sun
  • sun dance — a religious ceremony associated with the sun, practiced by North American Indians of the Plains, consisting of dancing attended with various symbolic rites and commonly including self-torture.
  • 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.
  • surcharge — an additional charge, tax, or cost.
  • surf clam — any of several typically large common clams of the family Mactridae, inhabiting the zone of breaking surf in coastal waters.
  • surf-cast — to fish by casting into the surf from or near the shore
  • surfacing — the outer face, outside, or exterior boundary of a thing; outermost or uppermost layer or area.
  • surficial — of or relating to a surface, especially the land surface: a surficial geologic deposit.
  • suribachi — an extinct volcano on Iwo Jima island: World War II battle 1945.
  • surrogacy — the state of being a surrogate or surrogate mother.
  • suscitate — to excite (a feeling)
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