8-letter words containing a, s, u
- sabulous — sandy; gritty.
- saburral — relating to saburra
- 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.
- saguenay — a river in SE Canada, in Quebec, flowing SE from Lake St. John to the St. Lawrence. 125 miles (200 km) long.
- salt out — a crystalline compound, sodium chloride, NaCl, occurring as a mineral, a constituent of seawater, etc., and used for seasoning food, as a preservative, etc.
- saltbush — any of various plants or shrubs of the genus Atriplex, having mostly alternate leaves and clusters of inconspicuous flowers, often growing in saline or alkaline soil.
- salteaux — a member of a Native Canadian people of Manitoba
- salutary — favorable to or promoting health; healthful.
- salzburg — a city in W Austria: the birthplace of Mozart.
- samarium — a rare-earth metallic element discovered in samarskite. Symbol: Sm; atomic weight: 150.35; atomic number: 62; specific gravity: 7.49.
- san juan — an island in the central West Indies: a commonwealth associated with the U.S. 3435 sq. mi. (8895 sq. km). Capital: San Juan. Abbreviation: P.R., PR.
- sandburg — Carl, 1878–1967, U.S. poet and biographer.
- sandburr — a variety of wild grass
- sandpump — a pump for wet sand
- sandspur — an American wild grass
- sandusky — a port in N Ohio, on Lake Erie.
- sanguify — to generate or turn into blood
- sanguine — cheerfully optimistic, hopeful, or confident: a sanguine disposition; sanguine expectations.
- sao luis — a seaport on an island off the NE coast of Brazil: capital of Maranhão.
- sap bush — sugarbush (def 2).
- saporous — full of flavor or taste; flavorful.
- sapucaia — a Brazilian tree of the genus Lecythis
- sarraute — Nathalie [na-ta-lee] /na taˈli/ (Show IPA), (Nathalie Ilyanova Tcherniak) 1900–1999, French novelist, born in Russia.
- sastruga — Usually, sastrugi. ridges of snow formed on a snowfield by the action of the wind.
- sastrugi — Usually, sastrugi. ridges of snow formed on a snowfield by the action of the wind.
- saturant — something that causes saturation.
- saturate — to cause (a substance) to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance, through solution, chemical combination, or the like.
- saturday — the seventh day of the week, following Friday.
- 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
- saunders — Dame Cicely. 1918–2005, British philanthropist: founded St Christopher's Hospice in 1967 for the care of the terminally ill, upon which the modern hospice movement is modelled. Her books include Living with Dying (1983)
- sauropod — any herbivorous dinosaur of the suborder Sauropoda, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, having a small head, long neck and tail, and five-toed limbs: the largest known land animal.
- saussure — Ferdinand de [French fer-dee-nahn duh] /French fɛr diˈnɑ̃ də/ (Show IPA), 1857–1913, Swiss linguist.
- sauteing — cooked or browned in a pan containing a small quantity of butter, oil, or other fat.
- sauterne — a semisweet white wine of California, commonly sold as a jug wine.
- savorous — the quality in a substance that affects the sense of taste or of smell.
- savourer — a person who savours or seasons food
- savourly — in a savouring or enjoyable manner; passionately
- sawdusty — filled with or suggesting sawdust.
- scabious — covered with or consisting of scabs; scabby.
- scabrous — having a rough surface because of minute points or projections.