11-letter words containing s, u, c, t
- stick-built — built piece-by-piece at the construction site, as opposed to factory-built.
- stickup man — a man who commits a stickup.
- stirrup cup — farewell drink, especially one offered to a rider already mounted for departure.
- stock guard — a barrier for keeping cattle and other animals off the tracks or right of way.
- stock-route — a public trail having right of way across private properties and over which cattle and sheep may be herded to grazing grounds or to market.
- stockhausen — Karlheinz [kahrl-hahynts] /ˈkɑrlˌhaɪnts/ (Show IPA), 1928–2007, German composer.
- stonecutter — a person who cuts or carves stone.
- stop chorus — a solo during which the rhythm section plays only the first beat of each phrase of music
- storm cloud — raincloud before storm
- stretch out — lie down, sprawl
- struck jury — a jury obtained by special agreement between the opposing attorneys, each taking turns in eliminating a member of the impaneled group until 12 members remain.
- strumectomy — excision of part or all of a goiter.
- stump ranch — (in British Columbia) an undeveloped ranch in the bush where animals graze among the stumps of felled trees
- stumpsucker — windsucker; cribber.
- 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-culture — Bacteriology. to cultivate (a bacterial strain) again on a new medium.
- 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.
- subadjacent — lying near, close, or contiguous; adjoining; neighboring: a motel adjacent to the highway.
- subcategory — a subordinate category or a division of a category.
- 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
- subdirector — an assistant or secondary director
- subdistrict — a division of a district.
- subfraction — Mathematics. a number usually expressed in the form a/b. a ratio of algebraic quantities similarly expressed.
- 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
- subjunction — an act of subjoining.
- subjunctive — (in English and certain other languages) noting or pertaining to a mood or mode of the verb that may be used for subjective, doubtful, hypothetical, or grammatically subordinate statements or questions, as the mood of be in if this be treason. Compare imperative (def 3), indicative (def 2).
- subliteracy — below average literacy
- submetallic — somewhat or imperfectly metallic.
- subsentence — a part of a sentence which can stand by itself as a sentence
- subsistence — the state or fact of subsisting.
- substance p — a small peptide released upon stimulation in the nervous system and involved in regulation of the pain threshold.
- substractor — a person who subtracts or takes away
- subtacksman — a renter who holds the property they rent by subletting it
- subtraction — an act or instance of subtracting.
- subtractive — tending to subtract; having power to subtract.
- subtropical — bordering on the tropics; nearly tropical.
- subvertical — being in a position or direction perpendicular to the plane of the horizon; upright; plumb.
- succulently — full of juice; juicy.