9-letter words containing c, u, s, e
- speechful — full of speech or expression
- sphacelus — the death of living tissue
- spicebush — Also called spice-wood. a yellow-flowered, North American shrub, Lindera benzoin, of the laurel family, whose bark and leaves have a spicy odor.
- spiculate — having the form of a spicule.
- spleuchan — a small pouch, especially for carrying tobacco or money.
- spruce up — trim in dress or appearance; neat; smart; dapper.
- spruce-up — an act of cleaning up, refurbishing, renovating, or the like.
- squinched — to contort (the features) or squint.
- stauncher — firm or steadfast in principle, adherence, loyalty, etc., as a person: a staunch Republican; a staunch friend.
- stenchful — malodorous; foul-smelling
- 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.
- sub-chief — the head or leader of an organized body of people; the person highest in authority: the chief of police.
- subagency — an organization, company, or bureau that provides some service for another: a welfare agency.
- 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.
- subclause — Grammar. a syntactic construction containing a subject and predicate and forming part of a sentence or constituting a whole simple sentence.
- subcortex — Anatomy, Zoology. the outer region of an organ or structure, as the outer portion of the kidney. the cerebral cortex.
- subdeacon — a member of the clerical order next below that of deacon.
- subducted — to take away; subtract.
- subincise — to perform a subincision
- subjacent — situated or occurring underneath or below; underlying.
- subjected — that which forms a basic matter of thought, discussion, investigation, etc.: a subject of conversation.
- suboctave — an octave below another octave
- suboffice — a branch or local office of a business
- suboscine — of or relating to birds of the suborder Suboscines, of the order Passeriformes, comprising the supposedly more primitive members of the order, with less well developed vocal organs than the oscine birds.
- subschema — a part of a computer database which is used by an individual
- 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.
- subsecive — left over or spare
- subsector — Geometry. a plane figure bounded by two radii and the included arc of a circle.
- substance — that of which a thing consists; physical matter or material: form and substance.
- succedent — following or succeeding; subsequent.
- succeeded — to happen or terminate according to desire; turn out successfully; have the desired result: Our efforts succeeded.
- succentor — a precentor's deputy.
- successes — the favorable or prosperous termination of attempts or endeavors; the accomplishment of one's goals.
- successor — a person or thing that succeeds or follows.
- succinate — a salt or ester of succinic acid.
- succinite — Baltic or 'true' amber, so called because of the succinic acid in the fossil resin: often incorrectly applied to fossilized resin (amber) generally
- succoured — help; relief; aid; assistance.
- succubine — of or relating to a succubus
- succulent — full of juice; juicy.
- succumber — to give way to superior force; yield: to succumb to despair.
- suck face — to draw into the mouth by producing a partial vacuum by action of the lips and tongue: to suck lemonade through a straw.
- 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.
- suffocate — to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle.
- sugarcane — a tall grass, Saccharum officinarum, of tropical and warm regions, having a stout, jointed stalk, and constituting the chief source of sugar.
- sulcalize — to furrow, make a furrow in; predominantly, to make a furrow in (the tongue), make the surface of (the tongue) concave in order to produce certain phonemes