11-letter words containing c, u, b
- subcontract — a contract by which one agrees to render services or to provide materials necessary for the performance of another contract.
- subcontrary — one of two propositions that can both be true but cannot both be false.
- subcortical — situated beneath the cortex.
- subcritical — Physics. pertaining to a state, value, or quantity that is less than critical, especially to a mass of radioactive material.
- subcultured — Bacteriology. to cultivate (a bacterial strain) again on a new medium.
- subcurative — of a dosage which is not strong enough to have a curing effect
- subdeaconry — the position or office of a subdeacon
- subdecision — a decision secondary to a main decision
- subdiaconal — of or relating to a subdeacon.
- subdirector — an assistant or secondary director
- subdistrict — a division of a district.
- subeconomic — pertaining to the production, distribution, and use of income, wealth, and commodities.
- subfraction — Mathematics. a number usually expressed in the form a/b. a ratio of algebraic quantities similarly expressed.
- subharmonic — an oscillation that has a frequency which is an integral submultiple of the frequency of a related oscillation.
- subincision — the slitting of the underside of the penis to the urethra, performed as a puberty rite among some tribal peoples, especially in Australia.
- subindicate — to indirectly indicate or hint
- subjectable — that which forms a basic matter of thought, discussion, investigation, etc.: a subject of conversation.
- subjectless — that which forms a basic matter of thought, discussion, investigation, etc.: a subject of conversation.
- subjectship — the state of being a subject or citizen
- subjudicial — pertaining to judgment in courts of justice or to the administration of justice: judicial proceedings; the judicial system.
- subjunction — an act of subjoining.
- subjunctive — (in English and certain other languages) noting or pertaining to a mood or mode of the verb that may be used for subjective, doubtful, hypothetical, or grammatically subordinate statements or questions, as the mood of be in if this be treason. Compare imperative (def 3), indicative (def 2).
- sublicensee — a person, company, etc., to whom a sublicense is granted.
- subliteracy — below average literacy
- submergence — to put or sink below the surface of water or any other enveloping medium.
- submetallic — somewhat or imperfectly metallic.
- submolecule — a part of a molecule
- subordinacy — a subordinate person or thing.
- subscapular — situated beneath or on the deep surface of the scapula, as a muscle.
- subscribing — to pledge, as by signing an agreement, to give or pay (a sum of money) as a contribution, gift, or investment: He subscribed $6,000 for the new church.
- subsentence — a part of a sentence which can stand by itself as a sentence
- subsequence — a sequence obtained from a given sequence by selecting terms from it and placing them in the order in which they occur in it.
- subsistence — the state or fact of subsisting.
- subspecific — of, relating to, or of the nature of a subspecies.
- substance p — a small peptide released upon stimulation in the nervous system and involved in regulation of the pain threshold.
- substractor — a person who subtracts or takes away
- subtacksman — a renter who holds the property they rent by subletting it
- subtraction — an act or instance of subtracting.
- subtractive — tending to subtract; having power to subtract.
- subtropical — bordering on the tropics; nearly tropical.
- subvertical — being in a position or direction perpendicular to the plane of the horizon; upright; plumb.
- subvocalize — to form (words) silently by moving the lips or other vocal organs without vocalization
- sucker bait — an enticement calculated to lure a person into a scheme in which he or she may be victimized.
- superscribe — to write (words, letters, one's name, address, etc.) above or on something.
- supper club — a nightclub, especially a small, luxurious one.
- susceptible — admitting or capable of some specified treatment: susceptible of a high polish; susceptible to various interpretations.
- suspectable — that could be suspected
- suspectible — to believe to be guilty, false, counterfeit, undesirable, defective, bad, etc., with little or no proof: to suspect a person of murder.
- suzie cobol — /soo'zee koh'bol/ 1. (IBM, probably from Frank Zappa's "Suzy Creamcheese") A coder straight out of training school who knows everything except the value of comments in plain English. Also (fashionable among personkind wishing to avoid accusations of sexism) "Sammy Cobol" or (in some non-IBM circles) "Cobol Charlie". 2. (proposed) Meta-name for any code grinder, analogous to J. Random Hacker.
- swashbuckle — to work, behave, or perform as a swashbuckler.