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)