9-letter words containing a, d, s, u
- skean dhu — a small knife tucked into or worn against the top of a stocking in the full dress of Highland Scottish males.
- skean-dhu — a small knife tucked into or worn against the top of a stocking in the full dress of Highland Scottish males.
- slam dunk — basketball: score from above rim
- slam-dunk — Basketball. to dunk (the ball) with great force.
- sound law — phonetic law.
- sound man — a technician who produces sound effects.
- 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.
- southland — a southern area.
- southward — moving, bearing, facing, or situated toward the south.
- squabbled — to engage in a petty quarrel.
- squad car — police vehicle
- squadoosh — nothing
- squadrone — a former Scottish political party, active in the last parliament of Scotland before the Act of Union, in the early 18th century
- squadsman — a member of a squad or team.
- staghound — a hound trained to hunt stags and other large animals.
- stand out — something or someone, as a person, performance, etc., remarkably superior to others: Evans was a standout in the mixed doubles.
- stand-out — something or someone, as a person, performance, etc., remarkably superior to others: Evans was a standout in the mixed doubles.
- stapedius — the small muscle in the inner ear attached to and controlling the stapes
- stavudine — an antiviral drug used to treat HIV infections
- stourhead — a Palladian mansion near Mere in Wiltshire: built (1722) for Henry Hoare; famous for its landscaped gardens laid out (1741) by Flitcroft
- stralsund — a seaport in NE Germany: a member of the medieval Hanseatic League; besieged by Wallenstein 1628.
- stud farm — place where horses are bred
- stud mare — a female horse kept for breeding
- studiable — application of the mind to the acquisition of knowledge, as by reading, investigation, or reflection: long hours of study.
- sub-ideal — a conception of something in its perfection.
- subahdary — the position or office of subadar
- subcaudal — below a tail
- subdeacon — a member of the clerical order next below that of deacon.
- subdealer — a dealer who buys from another dealer
- subdermal — situated or lying under the skin, as tissue.
- subdorsal — situated close to the back in humans or upper surface in animals
- subhalide — a halide containing a relatively small proportion of the halogen, as mercurous chloride.
- subhedral — (of mineral grains comprising igneous rocks) having a partial or incomplete crystal face or form.
- subwarden — an assistant to a warden, a deputy or subordinate warden
- sudaminal — pertaining to a sudamen or sudamina; comprising sudamina
- sudermann — Hermann [her-mahn] /ˈhɛr mɑn/ (Show IPA), 1857–1928, German dramatist and novelist.
- sugarbird — any of various honeycreepers that feed on nectar.
- 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.
- sun-baked — Sun-baked land or earth has been made hard and dry by the sun shining on it.
- sundanese — a member of a people of western Java.
- sundsvall — a seaport in E Sweden, on the Gulf of Bothnia.
- sunshades — something used as a protection from the rays of the sun, as an awning or a parasol.
- suntanned — having a suntan: suntanned strollers on the boardwalk.
- superroad — an extremely large road
- surfboard — a long, narrow board on which a person stands or lies prone in surfboarding.
- surpassed — to go beyond in amount, extent, or degree; be greater than; exceed.
- sustained — to support, hold, or bear up from below; bear the weight of, as a structure.
- talmudist — a person versed in the Talmud.
- taste bud — one of numerous small, flask-shaped bodies, chiefly in the epithelium of the tongue, which are the end organs for the sense of taste.
- the sudan — a region stretching across Africa south of the Sahara and north of the tropical zone: inhabited chiefly by Negroid tribes rather than Arabs