9-letter words containing a, c, u, s, n
- 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.
- suctorian — a suctorial animal.
- sugarcane — a tall grass, Saccharum officinarum, of tropical and warm regions, having a stout, jointed stalk, and constituting the chief source of sugar.
- sulcation — having long, narrow grooves or channels, as plant stems, or being furrowed or cleft, as hoofs.
- 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.
- surfacing — the outer face, outside, or exterior boundary of a thing; outermost or uppermost layer or area.
- synsacrum — a dorsal ridge of bone in the pelvic region of birds, formed by the fusion of certain thoracic, lumbar, sacral, and caudal vertebrae.
- tenacious — holding fast; characterized by keeping a firm hold (often followed by of): a tenacious grip on my arm; tenacious of old habits.
- trachinus — a weever fish
- transduce — to convert (energy) from one form into another.
- unaccused — not charged with wrongdoing
- unceasing — not ceasing or stopping; continuous: an unceasing flow of criticism.
- unclassed — a number of persons or things regarded as forming a group by reason of common attributes, characteristics, qualities, or traits; kind; sort: a class of objects used in daily living.
- 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.
- undercast — Mining. a crossing of two passages, as airways, dug at the same level so that one descends to pass beneath the other without any opening into it. Compare overcast (def 9).
- unescaped — to slip or get away, as from confinement or restraint; gain or regain liberty: to escape from jail. Synonyms: flee, abscond, decamp.
- unmusical — not musical; deficient in melody, harmony, rhythm, or tone.
- unscanned — to glance at or over or read hastily: to scan a page.
- unscarred — a mark left by a healed wound, sore, or burn.
- unscathed — not scathed; unharmed; uninjured: She survived the accident unscathed.
- unsecular — not secular
- unshackle — to free from shackles; unfetter.
- unsolaced — not comforted
- upscaling — located at, moving toward, or of or for the upper end of a social or economic scale: The boutique caters to upscale young career people.
- uraniscus — a starlike ornament, as in a coffer of a ceiling.
- usucapion — the acquisition of property through long, undisturbed possession.
- vinaceous — of, relating to, or resembling wine or grapes.
- vulcanise — to treat (rubber) with sulfur and heat, thereby imparting strength, greater elasticity, durability, etc.
- vulcanism — volcanism.
- zacynthus — Latin name of Zante.