8-letter words containing a, s, u
- sun lamp — a lamp that generates ultraviolet rays, used as a therapeutic device, for obtaining an artificial suntan, etc.
- sun star — any starfish of the genus Solaster, inhabiting cold and temperate waters off both U.S. coasts.
- sunbaked — baked by exposure to the sun, as bricks.
- sunbathe — to take a sunbath.
- sunbreak — a projection from the side of a building for intercepting part of the sunlight falling upon the adjacent surface.
- sunglass — burning glass.
- sunscald — injury to the leaves, bark, or underlying tissues of woody plants due to the combined effects of heat, humidity, and intense sunshine.
- sunshade — something used as a protection from the rays of the sun, as an awning or a parasol.
- sunspace — sunroom.
- sunwards — Also, sunwards. toward the sun.
- superadd — to add over and above; join as a further addition; add besides.
- superate — overcome; surmounted; surpassed
- superbad — exceptionally bad
- supercar — a very expensive fast or powerful car with a centrally located engine
- superfan — a very or extremely devoted fan
- supermac — A general-purpose macro language, embeddable in existing languages as a run-time library.
- superman — a person of extraordinary or superhuman powers.
- supermax — having or relating to the very highest levels of security
- supernal — being in or belonging to the heaven of divine beings; heavenly, celestial, or divine.
- supertax — Chiefly British. a tax in addition to a normal tax, as one upon income above a certain amount.
- superzap — (tool, IBM) An IBM utility program used to quickly patch operating system or application program executable code in preference to editing the source code and recompiling. The SuperZAP program was a quick hack written by one IBM Engineer, possibly from IBM UK, in the late 1960s to directly fix executable files. He needed to fix a bug but it would have taken hours to rebuild the vast OS/360 executables. The S/360 architecture has an instruction ZAP (Zero and Add Packed) for packed decmial arithmetic, that sets the byte at a given address to a given value. Superzap used this to write data given as a string of hex digits to a given location in an executable file in a matter of seconds. Soon the IBM development labs were releasing all Programming Temporary Fixes (PTFs) to OS/360 in this form. OS/360 included a version called IMASPZAP or AMASPZAP which persisted through MVS, MVS/SP, MVS/XA, OS/390 and probably still remains in z/OS, the distant descendent of OS/360.
- supinate — to turn to a supine position; rotate (the hand or foot) so that the palm or sole is upward.
- supplant — to take the place of (another), as through force, scheming, strategy, or the like.
- supplial — the act or an instance of supplying
- supposal — the act of supposing.
- surabaja — seaport in NE Java, Indonesia, opposite Madura: pop. 2,028,000
- surabaya — a seaport on NE Java: second largest city in Indonesia; naval base.
- surbahar — an Indian stringed instrument, larger than a sitar
- surbased — having a surbase.
- surcease — to cease from some action; desist.
- surf mat — a small inflatable rubber mattress used to ride on waves
- surfaced — the outer face, outside, or exterior boundary of a thing; outermost or uppermost layer or area.
- surfboat — a strong, buoyant rowboat with high ends, adapted for beaching and passing through surf.
- surgical — pertaining to or involving surgery or surgeons.
- suricate — a small, burrowing South African carnivore, Suricata suricatta, of a grayish color with dark bands across the back, related to the mongooses and having social behavior similar to that of prairie dogs.
- suriname — a republic on the NE coast of South America: formerly a territory of the Netherlands; gained independence 1975. 60,230 sq. mi. (155,995 sq. km). Capital: Paramaribo.
- surnames — the name that a person has in common with other family members, as distinguished from a Christian name or given name; family name.
- surroyal — the terminal section of a stag's horns, above the section known as the 'royal'
- surveyal — the action of surveying
- survival — the act or fact of surviving, especially under adverse or unusual circumstances.
- sus laws — laws authorizing the arrest and punishment of suspected persons frequenting, or loitering in, public places with criminal intent. In England, the sus law formed part of the Vagrancy Act of 1824, repealed in 1981
- susannah — a feminine name
- sutorial — relating to sewing or cobbling
- suwannee — a river in SE Georgia and N Florida, flowing SW to the Gulf of Mexico. 240 miles (386 km) long.
- suzerain — a sovereign or a state exercising political control over a dependent state.
- syllabub — a drink of milk or cream sweetened, flavored, and mixed with wine or cider.
- syllabus — an outline or other brief statement of the main points of a discourse, the subjects of a course of lectures, the contents of a curriculum, etc.
- sylvanus — Silvanus.
- syracuse — a city in central New York.
- szechuan — Sichuan.