9-letter words containing a, c, u, s, b
- marshbuck — an antelope of the central African swamplands, Strepsiceros spekei, with spreading hoofs adapted to boggy ground; an important vector of the tsetse fly
- megabucks — one million dollars.
- obfuscate — to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
- obscurant — a person who strives to prevent the increase and spread of knowledge.
- osnabruck — a city in Lower Saxony, in NW Germany.
- push back — force to retreat
- 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.
- 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.
- scrutable — capable of being understood by careful study or investigation.
- scumboard — a board or strip of material partly immersed in flowing water to hold back scum.
- scuzzball — Also called scuzzball [skuhz-bawl] /ˈskʌzˌbɔl/ (Show IPA), scuzzbucket [skuhz-buhk-it] /ˈskʌzˌbʌk ɪt/ (Show IPA). a dirty, grimy, sordid, or repulsive person or thing.
- scybalous — of or relating to scybalum
- sebaceous — pertaining to, of the nature of, or resembling tallow or fat; fatty; greasy.
- securable — free from or not exposed to danger or harm; safe.
- subaction — an act of subduing
- subagency — an organization, company, or bureau that provides some service for another: a welfare agency.
- subapical — located below the apex.
- subarctic — of, pertaining to, similar to, or being the region immediately south of the Arctic Circle; subpolar.
- subatomic — of or relating to a process that occurs within an atom.
- subbranch — a subordinate branch or a branch of a branch, as of a bank, business, or the like.
- subcantor — a deputy to a cantor
- 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.
- suribachi — an extinct volcano on Iwo Jima island: World War II battle 1945.