8-letter words containing a, c, u, s
- pushcart — any of various types of wheeled light cart to be pushed by hand, as one used by street vendors.
- pussycat — a cat; pussy.
- quackish — a fraudulent or ignorant pretender to medical skill.
- quadrics — Plural form of quadric.
- quantics — Plural form of quantic.
- racemous — racemose.
- racquets — Plural form of racquet.
- reaccuse — to accuse (a person, organization, etc) again
- recusant — refusing to submit, comply, etc.
- rucksack — a type of knapsack carried by hikers, bicyclists, etc.
- ruckseat — a seat fixed to or forming part of a rucksack
- rustical — of, relating to, or living in the country, as distinguished from towns or cities; rural.
- saccular — having the form of a sac.
- sacculus — a saccule.
- sacellum — a small chapel, as a monument within a church.
- sack out — a large bag of strong, coarsely woven material, as for grain, potatoes, or coal.
- sadducee — a member of a Palestinian sect, consisting mainly of priests and aristocrats, that flourished from the 1st century b.c. to the 1st century a.d. and differed from the Pharisees chiefly in its literal interpretation of the Bible, rejection of oral laws and traditions, and denial of an afterlife and the coming of the Messiah.
- saeculum — an age in astronomy
- saguache — Sawatch.
- sapucaia — a Brazilian tree of the genus Lecythis
- saturnic — having or affected with lead-poisoning
- saucebox — a saucy person.
- saucepan — a metal container of moderate depth, usually having a long handle and sometimes a cover, for stewing, boiling, etc.
- saucepot — a cooking pot having a handle on each side and a close-fitting lid, used especially for stewing and simmering.
- saucisse — a small sausage
- scabious — covered with or consisting of scabs; scabby.
- scabrous — having a rough surface because of minute points or projections.
- scale up — increase in size
- scalenus — any of three muscles on each side of the neck, the action of which raises the first and second ribs in respiration and assists in bending the neck to one side.
- scalprum — a large scalpel
- scandium — a rare, trivalent, metallic element obtained from thortveitite. Symbol: Sc; atomic weight: 44.956; atomic number: 21; specific gravity: 3.0.
- scapular — of or relating to the shoulders or the scapula or scapulae.
- scare up — to fill, especially suddenly, with fear or terror; frighten; alarm.
- scarious — thin, dry, and membranous, as certain bracts; chaffy.
- schumann — Clara (Clara Wieck) 1819–96, German pianist and composer (wife of Robert Schumann).
- scituate — a town in E Massachusetts.
- scrofula — primary tuberculosis of the lymphatic glands, especially those of the neck.
- scuzzbag — a despicable or unethical person
- scybalum — hard faeces in the intestine
- sea duck — any of various diving ducks, as the scaups, goldeneyes, scoters, and eiders, found principally on seas.
- seacunny — a steersman or quartermaster in a ship manned by lascars
- secaucus — a town in NE New Jersey.
- seleucia — an ancient city in Iraq, on the Tigris River: capital of the Seleucid empire.
- semuncia — a bronze coin produced during the period of the Roman Republic, weighing half an ounce, and equivalent in value to a twenty-fourth of an as at the time
- shack up — a rough cabin; shanty.
- shauchle — to distort the shape of (something)
- shauchly — (of a person) unsteady or awkward on the feet
- silicula — a short broad siliqua, occurring in such cruciferous plants as honesty and shepherd's-purse
- siracusa — Syracuse (def 2).
- skullcap — a small, brimless close-fitting cap, often made of silk or velvet, worn on the crown of the head, as for religious functions.