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11-letter words containing s, u, b, a, n

  • subaudition — an act or instance of understanding or mentally supplying something not expressed.
  • subbasement — a basement or one of a series of basements below the main basement of a building.
  • subcardinal — (of veins) next to the cardinal veins
  • subchairman — a subordinate or substitute chairman.
  • subchondral — of or relating to cartilage or a cartilage.
  • subclinical — pertaining to an early stage of a disease; having no noticeable clinical symptoms.
  • subcolumnar — almost or imperfectly columnar.
  • subcontract — a contract by which one agrees to render services or to provide materials necessary for the performance of another contract.
  • subcontrary — one of two propositions that can both be true but cannot both be false.
  • subdeaconry — the position or office of a subdeacon
  • subdiaconal — of or relating to a subdeacon.
  • subdominant — Music. the fourth tone of a diatonic scale, next below the dominant.
  • subfraction — Mathematics. a number usually expressed in the form a/b. a ratio of algebraic quantities similarly expressed.
  • subgingival — being or occurring under the gums; especially, being or occurring in the crevice between the gum margin and the neck or root of a tooth.
  • subharmonic — an oscillation that has a frequency which is an integral submultiple of the frequency of a related oscillation.
  • subimaginal — of or relating to subimago
  • subindicate — to indirectly indicate or hint
  • subinterval — an interval that is a subset of a given interval.
  • subitaneous — sudden
  • subjugation — the act, fact, or process of subjugating, or bringing under control; enslavement: The subjugation of the American Indians happened across the country.
  • sublanguage — a subvariety of language used in a particular field or by a particular social group and characterized especially by distinctive vocabulary.
  • sublimation — Psychology. the diversion of the energy of a sexual or other biological impulse from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
  • subluxation — a partial dislocation, as of a joint; sprain.
  • submarginal — Biology. near the margin.
  • submarining — a vessel that can be submerged and navigated under water, usually built for warfare and armed with torpedoes or guided missiles.
  • subnational — of, relating to, or maintained by a nation as an organized whole or independent political unit: national affairs.
  • subordinacy — a subordinate person or thing.
  • subordinary — any of several heraldic bearings of secondary importance to the ordinary, such as the lozenge, the orle, and the fret
  • subordinate — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
  • subornation — to bribe or induce (someone) unlawfully or secretly to perform some misdeed or to commit a crime.
  • subpanation — the belief that the body and blood of Christ are present in the bread and wine of Communion
  • subpoenaing — the usual writ for the summoning of witnesses or the submission of evidence, as records or documents, before a court or other deliberative body.
  • subrational — less than or almost rational.
  • subrogation — to put into the place of another; substitute for another.
  • substance p — a small peptide released upon stimulation in the nervous system and involved in regulation of the pain threshold.
  • substandard — below standard or less than adequate: substandard housing conditions.
  • substantial — of ample or considerable amount, quantity, size, etc.: a substantial sum of money.
  • substantive — a noun.
  • subtacksman — a renter who holds the property they rent by subletting it
  • subterminal — situated at or forming the end or extremity of something: a terminal feature of a vista.
  • subtraction — an act or instance of subtracting.
  • subungulate — any member of the superorder of animal termed Subungulata (also called Paenungulata), containing the elephant, sea cow and hyrax, as well as two extinct orders
  • suburbanism — pertaining to, inhabiting, or being in a suburb or the suburbs of a city or town.
  • suburbanite — a person who lives in a suburb of a city or large town.
  • suburbanize — to give suburban characteristics to: to suburbanize a rural area.
  • sugar basin — sugar bowl.
  • sunday baby — an illegitimate child.
  • sunday best — Sunday clothes.
  • superabound — to abound beyond something else.
  • surtarbrand — deposits of brown coal embedded in Iceland lava
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