8-letter words containing c, u, s
- spiculum — a small, needlelike body, part, process, or the like.
- sprauncy — smart or showy in appearance
- spruance — Raymond Ames [eymz] /eɪmz/ (Show IPA), 1886–1969, U.S. admiral.
- sprucing — trim in dress or appearance; neat; smart; dapper.
- st-cloud — city in NC France: suburb of Paris: pop. 29,000
- stack up — a more or less orderly pile or heap: a precariously balanced stack of books; a neat stack of papers.
- star cut — a gem cut having a hexagonal table surrounded by six facets in the form of equilateral triangles.
- staubach — Roger Thomas, born 1942, U.S. football player.
- step cut — a cut consisting of a rectangular girdle, often faceted, with two or more tiers of narrow facets running parallel to the girdle on both the crown and the pavilion: used especially in stones in which color is more important than brilliance.
- stick up — a thrust with a pointed instrument; stab.
- 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.
- stock up — buy a lot of sth for future use
- stockout — a state or instance of being out of stock of goods.
- straucht — straight
- stuccoed — an exterior finish for masonry or frame walls, usually composed of cement, sand, and hydrated lime mixed with water and laid on wet.
- stuck on — simple past tense and past participle of stick2 .
- stuck up — snobbishly conceited.
- stuck-up — snobbishly conceited.
- 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 voce — (used as a direction to a reference) under the specified word. Abbreviation: s.v.
- sub-city — a large or important town.
- subacrid — slightly acrid
- subacute — somewhat or moderately acute.
- subblock — a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more flat or approximately flat faces.
- subcaste — Sociology. an endogamous and hereditary social group limited to persons of the same rank, occupation, economic position, etc., and having mores distinguishing it from other such groups. any rigid system of social distinctions.
- subcause — a factor less important than a cause
- subchief — a chief below the main chief
- subchord — a part of a chord
- subclaim — a claim that is part of a larger claim
- subclass — a primary division of a class.
- subclerk — a clerk who is subordinate or assistant to another clerk
- subcosta — a longitudinal vein in the anterior portion of the wing of an insect.
- subcover — a set of subsets of a cover of a given set that also is a cover of the set.
- subcrust — a secondary crust below a main crust
- subcutis — the deeper layer of the dermis, containing mostly fat and connective tissue.
- subepoch — an epoch or time period within another epoch or time period
- suberect — not quite erect
- subjects — that which forms a basic matter of thought, discussion, investigation, etc.: a subject of conversation.
- 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
- subscale — a scale within a scale
- subsonic — noting or pertaining to a speed less than that of sound in air at the same height above sea level.
- subspace — a smaller space within a main area that has been divided or subdivided: The jewelry shop occupies a subspace in the hotel's lobby.
- subtonic — the seventh tone of a scale, being the next below the upper tonic.
- subtopic — a topic that is included within another topic.
- subtract — to withdraw or take away, as a part from a whole.