9-letter words containing s, c, u, t
- boy scout — The Boy Scouts is an organization for boys which teaches them discipline and practical skills.
- brush cut — crew cut
- bucharest — the capital of Romania, in the southeast. Pop: 1 764 000 (2005 est)
- buckstays — a beam held by stays to the exterior of a masonry wall, as that of a furnace or boiler, to keep the adjacent areas of the wall from being forced outward.
- bucuresti — Bucharest
- bud stick — a shoot of a plant from which buds are cut for the propagation of that plant.
- bush coat — a belted, hip-length, shirtlike jacket, usually with four patch pockets and a notched collar, adapted from the hunting coat customarily worn in the African bush.
- bushcraft — ability and experience in matters concerned with living in the bush
- busticate — to break
- butcher's — a look
- butchness — the state of being butch
- buttstock — the part of a gun behind the breech
- cantharus — a large two-handled pottery cup
- canulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of canulate.
- capsulate — within or formed into a capsule
- capturers — to take by force or stratagem; take prisoner; seize: The police captured the burglar.
- caratacus — died ?54 ad, British chieftain: led an unsuccessful resistance against the Romans (43–50)
- cassoulet — a stew originating from France, made from haricot beans and goose, duck, pork, etc
- castellum — a small fort, normally used as a watch tower
- castoreum — the oil secreted from the beaver which is used as bait by trappers
- casuistic — of or having to do with casuistry or casuists
- casuistry — Casuistry is the use of clever arguments to persuade or trick people.
- catapults — Plural form of catapult.
- catch-ups — an effort to reach or pass a norm, especially after a period of delay: After the slowdown there was a catch-up in production.
- cathouses — Plural form of cathouse.
- causality — Causality is the relationship of cause and effect.
- causation — The causation of something, usually something bad, is the factors that have caused it.
- causative — Causative factors are ones which are responsible for causing something.
- cautelous — crafty or cunning
- cauteries — Plural form of cautery.
- cauterise — to burn with a hot iron, electric current, fire, or a caustic, especially for curative purposes; treat with a cautery.
- cauterism — the application of burning, searing, or cautery
- ceanothus — any shrub of the North American rhamnaceous genus Ceanothus: grown for their ornamental, often blue, flower clusters
- ceintures — cincture (defs 1, 2).
- celsitude — the position or stance of dignity or loftiness
- centaurus — a conspicuous extensive constellation in the S hemisphere, close to the Southern Cross, that contains two first magnitude stars, Alpha Centauri and Beta Centauri, and the globular cluster Omega Centauri
- centuries — Plural form of century.
- cerastium — any of a genus of plants belonging to the family Caryophyllaceae
- ceratodus — any of various extinct lungfish constituting the genus Ceratodus, common in Cretaceous and Triassic times
- cerussite — a usually white mineral, found in veins. It is a source of lead. Composition: lead carbonate. Formula: PbCO3. Crystal structure: orthorhombic
- cespitous — Turfy; resembling turf.
- cetaceous — Relating to whales or more generally to any marine mammal of the order Cetacea.
- cgs units — a metric system of units based on the centimetre, gram, and second. For scientific and technical purposes these units have been replaced by SI units
- chanteuse — a female singer, esp in a nightclub or cabaret
- chautemps — Camille [ka-mee-yuh] /kaˈmi yə/ (Show IPA), 1885–1963, French politician: premier 1930, 1933–34, 1937–38.
- checkouts — Plural form of checkout.
- chestnuts — Plural form of chestnut.
- chitinous — a nitrogen-containing polysaccharide, related chemically to cellulose, that forms a semitransparent horny substance and is a principal constituent of the exoskeleton, or outer covering, of insects, crustaceans, and arachnids.
- chubbiest — Superlative form of chubby.
- cinctures — Plural form of cincture.