9-letter words containing s, c, r, u
- scumboard — a board or strip of material partly immersed in flowing water to hold back scum.
- scundered — embarrassed
- scunnered — an irrational dislike; loathing: She took a scunner to him.
- scuppered — Military. to overwhelm; surprise and destroy, disable, or massacre.
- scurrying — to go or move quickly or in haste.
- scut work — work that is regarded as tedious and routine or menial
- scutiform — being in the shape of a shield; shield-shaped.
- secateurs — scissors or shears, especially pruning shears.
- secularly — of or relating to worldly things or to things that are not regarded as religious, spiritual, or sacred; temporal: secular interests.
- securable — free from or not exposed to danger or harm; safe.
- securance — the act or process of securing
- securicor — a well-known security company which transports money between shops, banks etc; it is also involved in prison management
- securitan — a person believing they are secure
- semicured — partly cured or preserved
- semitruck — tractor-trailer.
- sepulcher — a tomb, grave, or burial place.
- sepulchre — to place in a sepulcher; bury.
- sequencer — a device for the automatic determination or regulation of a sequence.
- sericeous — silky.
- set scrum — the act or method of restarting play after an infringement, called by the referee, when the two opposing packs of forwards group together with heads down and arms interlocked and push to gain ground while the scrum half throws the ball in and the hookers attempt to scoop it out to their own team
- sharp-cut — cut so as to have a sharp edge: a tool with a sharp-cut blade.
- short cut — to cause to be shortened by the use of a shortcut.
- short-cut — to cause to be shortened by the use of a shortcut.
- sicknurse — someone who nurses a sick person
- side curl — earlock.
- simulacra — a slight, unreal, or superficial likeness or semblance.
- simulacre — simulacrum.
- sorcerous — of the nature of or involving sorcery.
- soundcard — A soundcard is a piece of equipment which can be put into a computer so that the computer can produce music or other sounds.
- sour dock — any of various weedy plants belonging to the genus Rumex, of the buckwheat family, as R. obtusifolius (bitter dock) or R. acetosa (sour dock) having long taproots.
- sourceful — any thing or place from which something comes, arises, or is obtained; origin: Which foods are sources of calcium?
- spartacus — died 71 b.c, Thracian slave, gladiator, and insurrectionist.
- spit curl — a tight curl of hair, usually pressed against the forehead or cheek.
- spruce up — trim in dress or appearance; neat; smart; dapper.
- spruce-up — an act of cleaning up, refurbishing, renovating, or the like.
- squad car — police vehicle
- squirarch — a person who believes in government by squires
- stauncher — firm or steadfast in principle, adherence, loyalty, etc., as a person: a staunch Republican; a staunch friend.
- 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.
- stroupach — a cup of tea
- structure — mode of building, construction, or organization; arrangement of parts, elements, or constituents: a pyramidal structure.
- subarctic — of, pertaining to, similar to, or being the region immediately south of the Arctic Circle; subpolar.
- subbranch — a subordinate branch or a branch of a branch, as of a bank, business, or the like.
- subcantor — a deputy to a cantor
- 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.
- subcortex — Anatomy, Zoology. the outer region of an organ or structure, as the outer portion of the kidney. the cerebral cortex.