8-letter words containing s, u, c, e
- focusses — a central point, as of attraction, attention, or activity: The need to prevent a nuclear war became the focus of all diplomatic efforts.
- fructose — Chemistry, Pharmacology. a yellowish to white, crystalline, water-soluble, levorotatory ketose sugar, C 6 H 12 O 6 , sweeter than sucrose, occurring in invert sugar, honey, and a great many fruits: used in foodstuffs and in medicine chiefly in solution as an intravenous nutrient.
- fuchsine — A dye (rosaniline hydrochloride or similar) usually a deep red or magenta colour.
- fuchsite — a bright green variety of muscovite having chromium in place of some of the aluminum.
- fuculose — (carbohydrate) A deoxysugar related to tagatose.
- furnaces — Plural form of furnace.
- gemsbuck — gemsbok.
- geoducks — Plural form of geoduck.
- glucides — any of various organic compounds that consist of or contain a carbohydrate.
- gouaches — Plural form of gouache.
- grouches — Plural form of grouch.
- grutches — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of grutch.
- guesclin — Bertrand du ?1320–80, French commander during the Hundred Years' War
- hachures — Short parallel lines used in hill-shading on maps, their closeness indicating steepness of gradient.
- halluces — the first or innermost digit of the foot of humans and other primates or of the hind foot of other mammals; great toe; big toe.
- haunches — the hip.
- hercules — a hero noted for his great strength, courage, and for the performance of twelve immense labours
- housecat — a domesticated cat kept as a pet.
- huckster — a retailer of small articles, especially a peddler of fruits and vegetables; hawker.
- huisache — a tropical and subtropical New World shrub, Acacia farnesiana, of the legume family, having clusters of fragrant, deep-yellow flower heads.
- icehouse — a building for storing ice.
- incisure — a notch, as in a bone or other structure.
- includes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of include.
- inducers — Plural form of inducer.
- insecure — subject to fears, doubts, etc.; not self-confident or assured: an insecure person.
- insucken — relating to, or situated within, a sucken
- issuance — the act of issuing.
- j'accuse — any strong denunciation
- jesuitic — of or relating to Jesuits or Jesuitism.
- juiciest — Superlative form of juicy.
- justicer — a judge or magistrate.
- justices — Plural form of justice.
- knuckles — a joint of a finger, especially one of the articulations of a metacarpal with a phalanx.
- lace-ups — Lace-ups are shoes which are fastened with laces.
- lacquers — Plural form of lacquer.
- lacteous — milky; of the color of milk.
- lacunose — full of or having lacunae.
- launches — Plural form of launch.
- lectures — Plural form of lecture.
- lecythus — (in ancient Greece) a vase with a narrow neck
- lettuces — Plural form of lettuce.
- leucosin — an albumin occurring in some cereal grains, such as wheat
- leucosis — any of several diseases occurring chiefly in chickens, involving proliferation of the leukocytes and characterized by paralysis, blindness, formation of tumors in the internal organs, and bone calcification.
- leuricus — Leofric.
- liquesce — to become liquid
- lucifers — Plural form of lucifer.
- luckiest — having or marked by good luck; fortunate: That was my lucky day.
- luckless — having no luck; unfortunate; hapless; ill-fated; turning out or ending disastrously: a luckless venture that ruined many of the investors.
- lunacies — Plural form of lunacy.
- lupercus — an ancient Roman fertility god, often identified with Faunus or Pan.