9-letter words containing s, a, b, c
- step back — retreat, move backwards
- stickable — to pierce or puncture with something pointed, as a pin, dagger, or spear; stab: to stick one's finger with a needle.
- stickball — a form of baseball played in the streets, on playgrounds, etc., in which a rubber ball and a broomstick or the like are used in place of a baseball and bat.
- subaction — an act of subduing
- subagency — an organization, company, or bureau that provides some service for another: a welfare agency.
- subapical — located below the apex.
- subarctic — of, pertaining to, similar to, or being the region immediately south of the Arctic Circle; subpolar.
- subatomic — of or relating to a process that occurs within an atom.
- subbranch — a subordinate branch or a branch of a branch, as of a bank, business, or the like.
- subcantor — a deputy to a cantor
- subcasing — a rough casing for a doorway or window.
- subcaudal — below a tail
- subcavity — a cavity within a larger cavity
- subcellar — a cellar below the main cellar.
- 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.
- subclimax — the development of an ecological community to a stage short of the expected climax because of some factor, as repeated fires in a forest, that arrests the normal succession.
- subcostal — below the rib
- subdeacon — a member of the clerical order next below that of deacon.
- subic bay — a bay in the South China Sea, near the Bataan Peninsula in W Luzon, in the Philippines: former U.S. naval base.
- subjacent — situated or occurring underneath or below; underlying.
- submucosa — the layer of connective tissue located beneath the mucous membrane.
- suboctave — an octave below another octave
- subocular — below or under the eye
- subsacral — below the sacrum or bone at the back of the pelvis
- subschema — a part of a computer database which is used by an individual
- subsocial — without a definite social structure.
- substance — that of which a thing consists; physical matter or material: form and substance.
- suribachi — an extinct volcano on Iwo Jima island: World War II battle 1945.
- sway-back — an excessive downward curvature of the spinal column in the dorsal region, especially of horses.
- sweepback — the shape of, or the angle formed by, an airplane wing or other airfoil the leading or trailing edge of which slopes backward from the fuselage.
- sweptback — (of the leading edge of an airfoil) forming a markedly obtuse angle with the fuselage.
- swingback — (especially in political affairs) a return or reversion, as to previous opinion, custom, or ideology: We must fight any swingback to isolationism.
- sybaritic — (usually lowercase) pertaining to or characteristic of a sybarite; characterized by or loving luxury or sensuous pleasure: to wallow in sybaritic splendor.
- tabescent — wasting away; becoming emaciated or consumed.
- the backs — the grounds between the River Cam and certain Cambridge colleges
- webcaster — A person or organization that transmits a webcast over the Internet.
- wingbacks — Plural form of wingback.
- zwiebacks — Plural form of zwieback.