11-letter words containing s, u, b, c
- static tube — a tube for measuring the static pressure of a fluid in motion, so placed in the fluid as not to be affected by the pressure changes caused by the motion of the fluid.
- stick-built — built piece-by-piece at the construction site, as opposed to factory-built.
- sub-article — a written composition in prose, usually nonfiction, on a specific topic, forming an independent part of a book or other publication, as a newspaper or magazine.
- sub-captain — a person who is at the head of or in authority over others; chief; leader.
- sub-charter — a document, issued by a sovereign or state, outlining the conditions under which a corporation, colony, city, or other corporate body is organized, and defining its rights and privileges.
- sub-chronic — constant; habitual; inveterate: a chronic liar.
- sub-clauses — Grammar. a syntactic construction containing a subject and predicate and forming part of a sentence or constituting a whole simple sentence.
- sub-company — subsidiary company.
- sub-culture — Bacteriology. to cultivate (a bacterial strain) again on a new medium.
- sub-economy — thrifty management; frugality in the expenditure or consumption of money, materials, etc.
- sub-fascial — a band or fillet, as for binding the hair.
- sub-product — a thing produced by labor: products of farm and factory; the product of his thought.
- sub-project — something that is contemplated, devised, or planned; plan; scheme.
- sub-society — an organized group of persons associated together for religious, benevolent, cultural, scientific, political, patriotic, or other purposes.
- sub-species — A sub-species of a plant or animal is one of the types that a particular species is divided into.
- sub-surface — below the surface, especially of a body of water.
- subacromial — the outward end of the spine of the scapula or shoulder blade.
- subadjacent — lying near, close, or contiguous; adjoining; neighboring: a motel adjacent to the highway.
- suballiance — a suborder or subdivision of an alliance
- subcapsular — of, in, or like a capsule.
- subcardinal — (of veins) next to the cardinal veins
- subcategory — a subordinate category or a division of a category.
- subcellular — contained within a cell.
- subchairman — a subordinate or substitute chairman.
- subchloride — a chloride containing a relatively small proportion of chlorine, as mercurous chloride.
- subchondral — of or relating to cartilage or a cartilage.
- subclassify — to arrange in subclasses.
- 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.
- subcortical — situated beneath the cortex.
- subcritical — Physics. pertaining to a state, value, or quantity that is less than critical, especially to a mass of radioactive material.
- subcultured — Bacteriology. to cultivate (a bacterial strain) again on a new medium.
- subcurative — of a dosage which is not strong enough to have a curing effect
- subdeaconry — the position or office of a subdeacon
- subdecision — a decision secondary to a main decision
- subdiaconal — of or relating to a subdeacon.
- subdirector — an assistant or secondary director
- subdistrict — a division of a district.
- subeconomic — pertaining to the production, distribution, and use of income, wealth, and commodities.
- subfraction — Mathematics. a number usually expressed in the form a/b. a ratio of algebraic quantities similarly expressed.
- subharmonic — an oscillation that has a frequency which is an integral submultiple of the frequency of a related oscillation.
- subincision — the slitting of the underside of the penis to the urethra, performed as a puberty rite among some tribal peoples, especially in Australia.
- subindicate — to indirectly indicate or hint
- subjectable — that which forms a basic matter of thought, discussion, investigation, etc.: a subject of conversation.
- subjectless — that which forms a basic matter of thought, discussion, investigation, etc.: a subject of conversation.
- subjectship — the state of being a subject or citizen
- subjudicial — pertaining to judgment in courts of justice or to the administration of justice: judicial proceedings; the judicial system.
- subjunction — an act of subjoining.