9-letter words containing c, u, r, s, e
- scrutoire — writing desk (def 1).
- scuddaler — a leader of festivities
- sculpture — the art of carving, modeling, welding, or otherwise producing figurative or abstract works of art in three dimensions, as in relief, intaglio, or in the round.
- scundered — embarrassed
- scunnered — an irrational dislike; loathing: She took a scunner to him.
- scuppered — Military. to overwhelm; surprise and destroy, disable, or massacre.
- secateurs — scissors or shears, especially pruning shears.
- secularly — of or relating to worldly things or to things that are not regarded as religious, spiritual, or sacred; temporal: secular interests.
- securable — free from or not exposed to danger or harm; safe.
- securance — the act or process of securing
- securicor — a well-known security company which transports money between shops, banks etc; it is also involved in prison management
- securitan — a person believing they are secure
- semicured — partly cured or preserved
- semitruck — tractor-trailer.
- sepulcher — a tomb, grave, or burial place.
- sepulchre — to place in a sepulcher; bury.
- sequencer — a device for the automatic determination or regulation of a sequence.
- sericeous — silky.
- set scrum — the act or method of restarting play after an infringement, called by the referee, when the two opposing packs of forwards group together with heads down and arms interlocked and push to gain ground while the scrum half throws the ball in and the hookers attempt to scoop it out to their own team
- sicknurse — someone who nurses a sick person
- side curl — earlock.
- simulacre — simulacrum.
- sorcerous — of the nature of or involving sorcery.
- sourceful — any thing or place from which something comes, arises, or is obtained; origin: Which foods are sources of calcium?
- spruce up — trim in dress or appearance; neat; smart; dapper.
- spruce-up — an act of cleaning up, refurbishing, renovating, or the like.
- stauncher — firm or steadfast in principle, adherence, loyalty, etc., as a person: a staunch Republican; a staunch friend.
- sterculia — any of various tropical trees of the genus Sterculia, of which some species are grown as ornamentals and some are the source of commercially valuable wood.
- stricture — a remark or comment, especially an adverse criticism: The reviewer made several strictures upon the author's style.
- structure — mode of building, construction, or organization; arrangement of parts, elements, or constituents: a pyramidal structure.
- 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.
- subcortex — Anatomy, Zoology. the outer region of an organ or structure, as the outer portion of the kidney. the cerebral cortex.
- subscribe — 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.
- subsector — Geometry. a plane figure bounded by two radii and the included arc of a circle.
- succentor — a precentor's deputy.
- successor — a person or thing that succeeds or follows.
- succoured — help; relief; aid; assistance.
- succumber — to give way to superior force; yield: to succumb to despair.
- sucralose — a white, crystalline powder, C 12 H 19 Cl 3 O 8 , produced synthetically from sucrose, about 600 times as sweet as sucrose but having no calories.
- sugarcane — a tall grass, Saccharum officinarum, of tropical and warm regions, having a stout, jointed stalk, and constituting the chief source of sugar.
- sun cream — a chemical, usually in the form of a cream, applied to exposed skin to block out all or almost all of the ultraviolet rays of the sun
- sun-cured — cured or preserved by exposure to the rays of the sun, as meat, fish, fruit, tobacco, etc.
- sunscreen — a substance formulated to prevent sunburn, skin cancers, and other conditions caused by excessive exposure to the sun, usually by absorbing and reflecting ultraviolet radiation. Compare SPF.
- super pac — a type of PAC that has no limitations on the amount or source of donations, though it cannot contribute directly to a political campaign or party. See also PAC.
- supercede — supersede.
- supercell — a highly organized thunderstorm that can last for several hours, capable of producing both updrafts and downdrafts exceeding 100 miles per hour, large hailstones, tornadoes, and flash flooding (often used attributively): a supercell in Kansas City; supercell storms.
- superchic — highly or very chic