8-letter words containing c, u, s
- sea duck — any of various diving ducks, as the scaups, goldeneyes, scoters, and eiders, found principally on seas.
- seacunny — a steersman or quartermaster in a ship manned by lascars
- secaucus — a town in NE New Jersey.
- secluded — sheltered or screened from general activity, view, etc.: a secluded cottage.
- secundum — according to
- secundus — (in prescriptions) second.
- securely — free from or not exposed to danger or harm; safe.
- securest — free from or not exposed to danger or harm; safe.
- security — freedom from danger, risk, etc.; safety.
- seducive — seductive
- seductor — a person, usually a man, who seduces
- selcouth — strange; uncommon.
- 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.
- seleucus — (Seleucus Nicator) 358?–281? b.c, Macedonian general under Alexander the Great: founder of the Seleucid dynasty.
- 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
- sequence — the following of one thing after another; succession.
- sequency — consecutiveness
- shack up — a rough cabin; shanty.
- shauchle — to distort the shape of (something)
- shauchly — (of a person) unsteady or awkward on the feet
- shelduck — a sheldrake.
- shidduch — an arranged marriage
- shortcut — a shorter or quicker way.
- 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.
- skullcap — a small, brimless close-fitting cap, often made of silk or velvet, worn on the crown of the head, as for religious functions.
- slack up — to go more slowly
- slice up — cut into thin pieces
- slick up — to make sleek or smooth.
- slouched — to sit or stand with an awkward, drooping posture.
- sloucher — to sit or stand with an awkward, drooping posture.
- sluicing — an artificial channel for conducting water, often fitted with a gate (sluice gate) at the upper end for regulating the flow.
- slummock — to move heavily and awkwardly
- souchong — a variety of black tea grown in India and Sri Lanka.
- sourcing — any thing or place from which something comes, arises, or is obtained; origin: Which foods are sources of calcium?
- soutache — a narrow braid, commonly of mohair, silk, or rayon, used for trimming.
- 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.
- spectrum — ZX Spectrum
- specular — pertaining to or having the properties of a mirror.
- speculum — a mirror or reflector, especially one of polished metal, as on a reflecting telescope.
- spice up — make more exciting
- spicular — relating to or characteristic of spicula