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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.
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