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