7-letter words containing s, c, u
- excurse — To journey or pass through.
- excusal — the act of excusing
- excused — Simple past tense and past participle of excuse.
- excuser — One who offers excuses or pleads in extenuation of the fault of another.
- excuses — Plural form of excuse.
- eyecups — Plural form of eyecup.
- factums — Plural form of factum.
- faucets — Plural form of faucet.
- fescued — Simple past tense and past participle of fescue.
- fescues — Plural form of fescue.
- festuca — any grass of the genus Festuca, chiefly characterized by tufted blades and spikelets, comprising the fescues.
- floccus — a small tuft of woolly hairs.
- fluctus — (astronomy, geology) An area covered by outflow from a volcano.
- focus's — a central point, as of attraction, attention, or activity: The need to prevent a nuclear war became the focus of all diplomatic efforts.
- focused — a central point, as of attraction, attention, or activity: The need to prevent a nuclear war became the focus of all diplomatic efforts.
- focuser — a central point, as of attraction, attention, or activity: The need to prevent a nuclear war became the focus of all diplomatic efforts.
- focuses — a central point, as of attraction, attention, or activity: The need to prevent a nuclear war became the focus of all diplomatic efforts.
- fractus — containing small, individual elements that have a ragged appearance.
- fuchsia — a plant belonging to the genus Fuchsia, of the evening primrose family, including many varieties cultivated for their handsome drooping flowers.
- fuchsin — a greenish, water-soluble, solid, coal-tar derivative, obtained by the oxidation of a mixture of aniline and the toluidines, that forms deep-red solutions: used chiefly as a dye.
- fucused — adorned with cosmetics; painted
- fuschia — Misspelling of fuchsia.
- fuscous — of brownish-gray or dusky color.
- fustics — Plural form of fustic.
- gauchos — Plural form of gaucho.
- glaucus — A genus Glaucus of nudibranchiate mollusks, found in the warmer latitudes, swimming in the open sea. These mollusks are beautifully colored with blue and silvery white.
- glucans — Plural form of glucan.
- glucose — a sugar, C 6 H 12 O 6 , having several optically different forms, the common dextrorotatory form (dextroglucose, or -glucose) occurring in many fruits, animal tissues and fluids, etc., and having a sweetness about one half that of ordinary sugar, and the rare levorotatory form (levoglucose, or -glucose) not naturally occurring.
- gnumacs — /gnoo'maks/ [contraction of "GNU Emacs"] Often-heard abbreviated name for the GNU project's flagship tool, Emacs. Used especially in contrast with GOSMACS.
- gulches — Plural form of gulch.
- hiccups — a quick, involuntary inhalation that follows a spasm of the diaphragm and is suddenly checked by closure of the glottis, producing a short, relatively sharp sound.
- hocused — Simple past tense and past participle of hocus.
- hsuchou — a city in N Jiangsu province, in E China.
- huascar — 1495?–1533, Inca prince of Peru (half brother of Atahualpa; son of Huayna Capac).
- huastec — a member of an Indian people of Mexico.
- hubcaps — Plural form of hubcap.
- hunches — A feeling or guess based on intuition rather than known facts.
- hutches — Plural form of hutch.
- ichthus — An image of a fish used as a symbol of Christianity.
- icterus — jaundice (def 1).
- ictinus — flourished mid-5th century b.c, Greek architect, a designer of the Parthenon.
- iliacus — a muscle near the ilium which flexes the hip joint
- iliescu — Ion [yawn] /yɔn/ (Show IPA), born 1930, Romanian political leader: president 1990–96, 2000–04.
- incluse — recluse (def 2).
- incrust — to cover or line with a crust or hard coating.
- incubus — an imaginary demon or evil spirit supposed to descend upon sleeping persons, especially one fabled to have sexual intercourse with women during their sleep. Compare succubus (def 1).
- incudes — a plural of incus.
- incused — Simple past tense and past participle of incuse.
- incuses — Plural form of incuse.
- induces — to lead or move by persuasion or influence, as to some action or state of mind: to induce a person to buy a raffle ticket.