9-letter words containing b, e, s, u
- sobriquet — a nickname.
- sodbuster — a farmer who works the soil.
- soubrette — a maidservant or lady's maid in a play, opera, or the like, especially one displaying coquetry, pertness, and a tendency to engage in intrigue.
- soundbite — short statement, quotation
- sourberry — lemonade berry.
- spicebush — Also called spice-wood. a yellow-flowered, North American shrub, Lindera benzoin, of the laurel family, whose bark and leaves have a spicy odor.
- squabbled — to engage in a petty quarrel.
- squeak by — a short, sharp, shrill cry; a sharp, high-pitched sound.
- stub axle — a short axle that carries one of the front steered wheels of a motor vehicle and is capable of limited angular movement about a kingpin
- studiable — application of the mind to the acquisition of knowledge, as by reading, investigation, or reflection: long hours of study.
- stump bed — a bed without posts.
- sub verbo — (used as a direction to a reference) under the word or heading. Abbreviation: s.v.
- sub-chief — the head or leader of an organized body of people; the person highest in authority: the chief of police.
- sub-frame — a border or case for enclosing a picture, mirror, etc.
- sub-ideal — a conception of something in its perfection.
- sub-level — a drift, dug through ore, into which overlying material, especially from an upper layer of ore, is caved.
- sub-phase — any of the major appearances or aspects in which a thing of varying modes or conditions manifests itself to the eye or mind.
- sub-tribe — any aggregate of people united by ties of descent from a common ancestor, community of customs and traditions, adherence to the same leaders, etc.
- subaerial — located or occurring on the surface of the earth.
- subagency — an organization, company, or bureau that provides some service for another: a welfare agency.
- subalpine — pertaining to the regions at the foot of the Alps.
- subaltern — lower in rank; subordinate: a subaltern employee.
- subbureau — a bureau subordinate to the main bureau
- subcellar — a cellar below the main cellar.
- subcenter — a secondary or subordinate center, as in the location of a business.
- subcentre — a secondary centre
- subchaser — submarine chaser.
- subclause — Grammar. a syntactic construction containing a subject and predicate and forming part of a sentence or constituting a whole simple sentence.
- subcortex — Anatomy, Zoology. the outer region of an organ or structure, as the outer portion of the kidney. the cerebral cortex.
- subdeacon — a member of the clerical order next below that of deacon.
- subdealer — a dealer who buys from another dealer
- subdeputy — an assistant to a deputy
- subdermal — situated or lying under the skin, as tissue.
- subdivide — to divide (that which has already been divided) into smaller parts; divide again after a first division.
- subducted — to take away; subtract.
- subduedly — quiet; inhibited; repressed; controlled: After the argument he was much more subdued.
- subeditor — a subordinate or junior editor.
- subentire — (of parts of plants) slightly indented
- subereous — of the nature of or resembling cork; suberose.
- subgenres — a lesser or subordinate genre: a subgenre of popular fiction.
- 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.
- subincise — to perform a subincision
- subinfeud — a grant by a feudal tenant of land to a further tenant
- subjacent — situated or occurring underneath or below; underlying.
- subjected — that which forms a basic matter of thought, discussion, investigation, etc.: a subject of conversation.
- subjugate — to bring under complete control or subjection; conquer; master.
- sublessee — a lease granted by one who is already a lessee of a property, as an apartment.
- sublessor — a lease granted by one who is already a lessee of a property, as an apartment.
- sublethal — almost lethal or fatal: a sublethal dose of poison.