9-letter words containing a, c, u, r, s
- scrubland — land on which the natural vegetation is chiefly scrub.
- scrummage — scrum (defs 1, 3).
- scrutable — capable of being understood by careful study or investigation.
- scrutator — a person who investigates.
- scuddaler — a leader of festivities
- scumboard — a board or strip of material partly immersed in flowing water to hold back scum.
- secateurs — scissors or shears, especially pruning shears.
- secularly — of or relating to worldly things or to things that are not regarded as religious, spiritual, or sacred; temporal: secular interests.
- securable — free from or not exposed to danger or harm; safe.
- securance — the act or process of securing
- securitan — a person believing they are secure
- sharp-cut — cut so as to have a sharp edge: a tool with a sharp-cut blade.
- simulacra — a slight, unreal, or superficial likeness or semblance.
- simulacre — simulacrum.
- soundcard — A soundcard is a piece of equipment which can be put into a computer so that the computer can produce music or other sounds.
- spartacus — died 71 b.c, Thracian slave, gladiator, and insurrectionist.
- squad car — police vehicle
- squirarch — a person who believes in government by squires
- stauncher — firm or steadfast in principle, adherence, loyalty, etc., as a person: a staunch Republican; a staunch friend.
- sterculia — any of various tropical trees of the genus Sterculia, of which some species are grown as ornamentals and some are the source of commercially valuable wood.
- stroupach — a cup of tea
- subarctic — of, pertaining to, similar to, or being the region immediately south of the Arctic Circle; subpolar.
- subbranch — a subordinate branch or a branch of a branch, as of a bank, business, or the like.
- subcantor — a deputy to a cantor
- subcellar — a cellar below the main cellar.
- subchaser — submarine chaser.
- subocular — below or under the eye
- subsacral — below the sacrum or bone at the back of the pelvis
- succorant — the act of seeking out affectionate care and social support.
- succursal — subsidiary, especially noting a religious establishment that is dependent upon a principal one.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- synsacrum — a dorsal ridge of bone in the pelvic region of birds, formed by the fusion of certain thoracic, lumbar, sacral, and caudal vertebrae.
- tau cross — a T -shaped cross.