8-letter words containing c, i, s, u
- scholium — Often, scholia. an explanatory note or comment. an ancient annotation upon a passage in a Greek or Latin text.
- sciolous — pretending to have knowledge on a subject, having incomplete knowledge
- scirrhus — a firm, densely collagenous cancer.
- scissure — a longitudinal cleft or opening.
- scituate — a town in E Massachusetts.
- sciurine — of or relating to the squirrels and allied rodents of the family Sciuridae.
- sciuroid — sciurine.
- scorpius — a large zodiacal constellation lying between Libra and Sagittarius and crossed by the Milky Way. It contains the first magnitude star Antares
- scouring — to range over, as in a search: They scoured the countryside for the lost child.
- scouting — a soldier, warship, airplane, etc., employed in reconnoitering.
- scrinium — a cylindrical container used in ancient Rome to hold papyrus rolls.
- scrutiny — a searching examination or investigation; minute inquiry.
- scudding — to run or move quickly or hurriedly.
- scuffing — to scrape (something) with one's foot or feet.
- sculking — to lie or keep in hiding, as for some evil reason: The thief skulked in the shadows.
- scullion — a kitchen servant who does menial work.
- sculping — the act of cutting the skin and its adhering fat from the body of a seal.
- sculpsit — he engraved, carved, or sculptured (it); she engraved, carved, or sculptured (it). Abbreviation: sc.
- scumfish — to disgust or to stifle
- scummily — in a scummy manner
- scurried — to go or move quickly or in haste.
- scurrier — a scout
- scurries — to go or move quickly or in haste.
- scurrile — scurrilous.
- scutiger — any species of the Scutigera genus which includes many types of centipede
- security — freedom from danger, risk, etc.; safety.
- seducive — seductive
- seleucia — an ancient city in Iraq, on the Tigris River: capital of the Seleucid empire.
- seleucid — a member of a Macedonian dynasty, 312–64 b.c., that ruled an empire that included much of Asia Minor, Syria, Persia, Bactria, and Babylonia.
- semuncia — a bronze coin produced during the period of the Roman Republic, weighing half an ounce, and equivalent in value to a twenty-fourth of an as at the time
- shidduch — an arranged marriage
- shucking — a husk or pod, as the outer covering of corn, hickory nuts, chestnuts, etc.
- sick-out — a form of industrial action in which all workers in a factory, etc, report sick simultaneously
- silicium — silicon.
- silicula — a short broad siliqua, occurring in such cruciferous plants as honesty and shepherd's-purse
- sinciput — the forepart of the skull.
- sinecure — an office or position requiring little or no work, especially one yielding profitable returns.
- siracusa — Syracuse (def 2).
- siricius — Saint, died a.d. 399, pope 384–399.
- slice up — cut into thin pieces
- slick up — to make sleek or smooth.
- sluicing — an artificial channel for conducting water, often fitted with a gate (sluice gate) at the upper end for regulating the flow.
- sourcing — any thing or place from which something comes, arises, or is obtained; origin: Which foods are sources of calcium?
- spacious — containing much space, as a house, room, or vehicle; amply large.
- specious — apparently good or right though lacking real merit; superficially pleasing or plausible: specious arguments.
- spice up — make more exciting
- spicular — relating to or characteristic of spicula
- spiculum — a small, needlelike body, part, process, or the like.
- sprucing — trim in dress or appearance; neat; smart; dapper.
- stick up — a thrust with a pointed instrument; stab.