8-letter words containing c, i, s, u
- stick-up — a thrust with a pointed instrument; stab.
- stickful — as much set type as a composing stick will hold, usually about two column inches.
- stickout — a person who is outstanding or conspicuous, usually for superior endowments, talents, etc.: Jimmy Brown is the stickout among running backs.
- stuckism — a British art movement, founded in 1999 by Billy Childish (born 1959) and Charles Thomson (born 1953) to advance new figurative painting (as opposed to conceptual art)
- sub-city — a large or important town.
- subacrid — slightly acrid
- subchief — a chief below the main chief
- subclaim — a claim that is part of a larger claim
- subcutis — the deeper layer of the dermis, containing mostly fat and connective tissue.
- subniche — a subdivision of a niche
- suboptic — below the eye
- subotica — a city in the autonomous province of Vojvodina, in N Serbia.
- subpubic — beneath the pubic bone
- subsonic — noting or pertaining to a speed less than that of sound in air at the same height above sea level.
- subtonic — the seventh tone of a scale, being the next below the upper tonic.
- subtopic — a topic that is included within another topic.
- subtunic — a garment worn under a tunic
- subvicar — an assistant to a vicar; a subordinate vicar
- succinct — expressed in few words; concise; terse.
- succinic — pertaining to or obtained from amber.
- succinyl — either of the two radicals of succinic acid
- suchlike — of any such kind; similar.
- suchwise — in such a way or manner
- suckfish — remora (def 1).
- suckiest — disagreeable; unpleasant.
- suckling — Sir John, 1609–42, English poet.
- sufficed — to be enough or adequate, as for needs, purposes, etc.
- suffices — to be enough or adequate, as for needs, purposes, etc.
- sufficit — as much as suffices; enough.
- suicidal — pertaining to, involving, or suggesting suicide.
- suicided — the intentional taking of one's own life.
- suitcase — a usually rectangular piece of luggage especially for carrying clothes while traveling.
- sulfonic — sulfo.
- sulfuric — of, relating to, or containing sulfur, especially in the hexavalent state.
- sulindac — a yellow crystalline substance, C 2 0 H 1 7 FO 3 S, that is used as an analgesic, antipyretic, and anti-inflammatory in the treatment of certain rheumatic diseases.
- sultanic — the sovereign of an Islamic country.
- sun city — city in SC Arizona: pop. 38,000
- sun disc — a disc symbolizing the sun, esp one flanked by two serpents and the extended wings of a vulture, used as a religious figure in ancient Egypt
- 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.
- surplice — a loose-fitting, broad-sleeved white vestment, worn over the cassock by clergy and choristers.
- syconium — a multiple fruit developed from a hollow fleshy receptacle containing numerous flowers, as in the fig.
- truistic — a self-evident, obvious truth.
- tsunamic — an unusually large sea wave produced by a seaquake or undersea volcanic eruption.
- tungstic — of or containing tungsten, especially in the pentavalent or hexavalent state.
- tungusic — a family of languages spoken or formerly spoken in Manchuria and central and SE Siberia, including Manchu, Evenki, Even, and languages of the Amur River region, as Nanay.
- unsicker — unsafe; untrustworthy.
- unsliced — not sliced
- unsluice — to provide an opening for (something)
- unsocial — relating to, devoted to, or characterized by friendly companionship or relations: a social club.