9-letter words containing a, s, l, u, c
- subapical — located below the apex.
- subcaudal — below a tail
- subcellar — a cellar below the main cellar.
- 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
- subocular — below or under the eye
- subsacral — below the sacrum or bone at the back of the pelvis
- subsocial — without a definite social structure.
- 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.
- sulcalize — to furrow, make a furrow in; predominantly, to make a furrow in (the tongue), make the surface of (the tongue) concave in order to produce certain phonemes
- sulcation — having long, narrow grooves or channels, as plant stems, or being furrowed or cleft, as hoofs.
- sulphatic — sulphuric, of or pertaining to a sulphate
- sulpician — a member of a society of secular priests founded in France in 1642, engaged chiefly in training men to teach in seminaries.
- supplicat — a petition (to a university) for a degree
- surf clam — any of several typically large common clams of the family Mactridae, inhabiting the zone of breaking surf in coastal waters.
- surficial — of or relating to a surface, especially the land surface: a surficial geologic deposit.
- sylacauga — a city in central Alabama.
- ulmaceous — belonging to the Ulmaceae, the elm family of plants.
- 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.
- unmusical — not musical; deficient in melody, harmony, rhythm, or tone.
- 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.
- vesicular — of or relating to a vesicle or vesicles.
- volacious — able or fit to fly.
- vulcanise — to treat (rubber) with sulfur and heat, thereby imparting strength, greater elasticity, durability, etc.
- vulcanism — volcanism.