8-letter words containing s, u, c, e, i
- numerics — The field of numerically-controlled engineering.
- occupies — to take or fill up (space, time, etc.): I occupied my evenings reading novels.
- outcries — Plural form of outcry.
- pictures — a visual representation of a person, object, or scene, as a painting, drawing, photograph, etc.: I carry a picture of my grandchild in my wallet.
- piecrust — the crust or shell of a pie.
- precious — of high price or great value; very valuable or costly: precious metals.
- quickens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of quicken.
- quickest — done, proceeding, or occurring with promptness or rapidity, as an action, process, etc.; prompt; immediate: a quick response.
- quickies — Plural form of quickie.
- quickset — a plant or cutting, especially of hawthorn, set to grow, as in a hedge.
- quiesced — Simple past tense and past participle of quiesce.
- saucisse — a small sausage
- scissure — a longitudinal cleft or opening.
- scituate — a town in E Massachusetts.
- sciurine — of or relating to the squirrels and allied rodents of the family Sciuridae.
- scurried — to go or move quickly or in haste.
- scurrier — a scout
- scurries — to go or move quickly or in haste.
- scurrile — scurrilous.
- scutiger — any species of the Scutigera genus which includes many types of centipede
- security — freedom from danger, risk, etc.; safety.
- seducive — seductive
- seleucia — an ancient city in Iraq, on the Tigris River: capital of the Seleucid empire.
- seleucid — a member of a Macedonian dynasty, 312–64 b.c., that ruled an empire that included much of Asia Minor, Syria, Persia, Bactria, and Babylonia.
- semuncia — a bronze coin produced during the period of the Roman Republic, weighing half an ounce, and equivalent in value to a twenty-fourth of an as at the time
- sinecure — an office or position requiring little or no work, especially one yielding profitable returns.
- slice up — cut into thin pieces
- specious — apparently good or right though lacking real merit; superficially pleasing or plausible: specious arguments.
- spice up — make more exciting
- subchief — a chief below the main chief
- subniche — a subdivision of a niche
- suchlike — of any such kind; similar.
- suchwise — in such a way or manner
- suckiest — disagreeable; unpleasant.
- sufficed — to be enough or adequate, as for needs, purposes, etc.
- suffices — to be enough or adequate, as for needs, purposes, etc.
- suicided — the intentional taking of one's own life.
- suitcase — a usually rectangular piece of luggage especially for carrying clothes while traveling.
- suricate — a small, burrowing South African carnivore, Suricata suricatta, of a grayish color with dark bands across the back, related to the mongooses and having social behavior similar to that of prairie dogs.
- surplice — a loose-fitting, broad-sleeved white vestment, worn over the cassock by clergy and choristers.
- unsicker — unsafe; untrustworthy.
- unsliced — not sliced
- unsluice — to provide an opening for (something)
- vespucci — Amerigo [uh-mer-i-goh;; Italian ah-me-ree-gaw] /əˈmɛr ɪˌgoʊ;; Italian ˌɑ mɛˈri gɔ/ (Show IPA), (Americus Vespucius) 1451–1512, Italian merchant, adventurer, and explorer after whom America was named.