9-letter words containing a, c, u, m
- scumboard — a board or strip of material partly immersed in flowing water to hold back scum.
- semuncial — of or pertaining to a semuncia or to half an ounce
- simulacra — a slight, unreal, or superficial likeness or semblance.
- simulacre — simulacrum.
- simulcast — a program broadcast simultaneously on radio and television, or on more than one station, or in several languages, etc.
- subatomic — of or relating to a process that occurs within an atom.
- 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.
- submucosa — the layer of connective tissue located beneath the mucous membrane.
- subschema — a part of a computer database which is used by an individual
- 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
- supremacy — the state of being supreme.
- surf clam — any of several typically large common clams of the family Mactridae, inhabiting the zone of breaking surf in coastal waters.
- symmachus — Saint, died a.d. 514, pope 498–514.
- synsacrum — a dorsal ridge of bone in the pelvic region of birds, formed by the fusion of certain thoracic, lumbar, sacral, and caudal vertebrae.
- taraxacum — the dried roots of any of several composite plants of the genus Taraxacum, as the dandelion, T. officinale or T. laevigatum, used in medicine in powdered or fluidextract form chiefly as a tonic and aperient.
- tchambuli — a member of an indigenous people of Papua New Guinea.
- tenaculum — Surgery. a small sharp-pointed hook set in a handle, used for seizing and picking up parts in operations and dissections.
- 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.
- touchmark — touch (def 55a, c).
- traumatic — of, relating to, or produced by a trauma or wound.
- ulmaceous — belonging to the Ulmaceae, the elm family of plants.
- umbilical — of, relating to, or characteristic of an umbilicus or umbilical cord.
- umbracula — umbrella-like structures
- unamerced — not amerced or punished
- uncharmed — marked by good fortune or privilege: a charmed life.
- unclaimed — to demand by or as by virtue of a right; demand as a right or as due: to claim an estate by inheritance.
- unclamped — to fasten with or fix in a clamp.
- uncle sam — a personification of the government or people of the U.S.: represented as a tall, lean man with white chin whiskers, wearing a blue tailcoat, red-and-white-striped trousers, and a top hat with a band of stars.
- undecimal — related to the number 11
- undynamic — pertaining to or characterized by energy or effective action; vigorously active or forceful; energetic: the dynamic president of the firm.
- unmanacle — to release (a prisoner) from manacles
- unmatched — a person or thing that equals or resembles another in some respect.
- unmusical — not musical; deficient in melody, harmony, rhythm, or tone.
- vaccinium — a member of a shrub genus including blueberries and cranberries
- vacuuming — a space entirely devoid of matter.
- vacuumize — to create a vacuum in.
- vulcanism — volcanism.
- zeugmatic — the use of a word to modify or govern two or more words when it is appropriate to only one of them or is appropriate to each but in a different way, as in to wage war and peace or On his fishing trip, he caught three trout and a cold.
- zuckerman — Solly (ˈsɒlɪ), Baron. 1904–93, British zoologist, born in South Africa; chief scientific adviser (1964–71) to the British Government. His books include The Social Life of Monkeys (1932) and the autobiography From Apes to Warlords (1978)