8-letter words containing b, u, s, t
- sublimit — a limit on a subcategory
- suboptic — below the eye
- subotica — a city in the autonomous province of Vojvodina, in N Serbia.
- subovate — almost egg-shaped
- subplant — any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
- subright — Usually, subrights. subsidiary rights, as for a literary or dramatic property.
- subshaft — a secondary shaft in a mine
- substage — the component part of a microscope below the stage, for supporting a condenser, mirror, or other accessories.
- substate — the condition of a person or thing, as with respect to circumstances or attributes: a state of health.
- substyle — a straight line on a dial on which the style (the object that creates the shadow, on, for example, a sundial) is erected
- subtalar — beneath the ankle bone
- subtaxon — a supplementary piece of identifying information in a plant's or animal's scientific name
- subtense — a line that subtends
- subtheme — a subject of discourse, discussion, meditation, or composition; topic: The need for world peace was the theme of the meeting.
- subtidal — of or relating to, inhabiting or existing in the region below the level of low tide, that is always underwater
- subtilin — an antibiotic peptide drug derived from Bacillus subtilis, predominantly used to combat various pathogenic fungi as well as Gram-positive bacteria
- subtilty — subtlety.
- subtitle — a secondary or subordinate title of a literary work, usually of explanatory character.
- subtlest — thin, tenuous, or rarefied, as a fluid or an odor.
- subtlety — the state or quality of being subtle.
- subtonic — the seventh tone of a scale, being the next below the upper tonic.
- subtopia — suburban development that encroaches on rural areas yet appears to offer the attractions of country life to suburban dwellers
- subtopic — a topic that is included within another topic.
- subtotal — the sum or total of a part of a group or column of figures, as in an accounting statement.
- subtract — to withdraw or take away, as a part from a whole.
- subtrend — the general course or prevailing tendency; drift: trends in the teaching of foreign languages; the trend of events.
- subtribe — tribe within a larger tribe
- subtrist — slightly sad; not completely sad
- subtrude — to intrude stealthily
- subtunic — a garment worn under a tunic
- subtweet — (on the Twitter website) a hostile or otherwise negative post that is addressed to or about a particular person but does not mention the person’s username or does not name the person at all.
- subulate — slender, somewhat cylindrical, and tapering to a point; awl-shaped.
- suitable — such as to suit; appropriate; fitting; becoming.
- suitably — such as to suit; appropriate; fitting; becoming.
- sun bath — deliberate exposure of the body to the direct rays of the sun or a sunlamp.
- sun belt — the southern and southwestern region of the U.S.
- sunbathe — to take a sunbath.
- sunburnt — inflammation of the skin caused by overexposure to the sun or a sunlamp.
- sunburst — a burst of sunlight; a sudden shining of the sun through rifted clouds.
- surfboat — a strong, buoyant rowboat with high ends, adapted for beaching and passing through surf.
- surrebut — to give evidence to support a surrebutter
- tarbrush — a brush for applying tar.
- the bush — an uncultivated or sparsely settled area, esp in Africa, Australia, New Zealand, or Canada: usually covered with trees or shrubs, varying from open shrubby country to dense rainforest
- thrombus — a fibrinous clot that forms in and obstructs a blood vessel, or that forms in one of the chambers of the heart.
- tiberius — (Tiberius Claudius Nero Caesar) 42 b.c.–a.d. 37, Roman emperor 14–37.
- tibullus — Albius [al-bee-uh s] /ˈæl bi əs/ (Show IPA), c54–c19 b.c, Roman poet.
- troubles — your troubles are the things that you are worried about
- tshiluba — Luba (def 2).
- tub-fast — (in the past) a period of fasting and sweating in a hot tub, intended as a cure for venereal disease
- tubenose — tubesnout.