8-letter words containing s, u, c
- factious — given to faction; dissentious: A factious group was trying to undermine the government.
- factures — Plural form of facture.
- farceurs — Plural form of farceur.
- farceuse — a woman skilled in farce.
- fascinum — An ivory phallus used in certain ancient erotic rites.
- fast-cut — to go abruptly from one brief scene to another.
- feluccas — Plural form of felucca.
- fescuing — Present participle of fescue.
- fictious — (obsolete) Fictitious.
- floscule — a floret; a single blossom of a composite flower
- flounces — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flounce.
- fluerics — fluidics.
- fluidics — the technology dealing with the use of a flowing liquid or gas in various devices, especially controls, to perform functions usually performed by an electric current in electronic devices.
- focusing — a central point, as of attraction, attention, or activity: The need to prevent a nuclear war became the focus of all diplomatic efforts.
- focussed — a central point, as of attraction, attention, or activity: The need to prevent a nuclear war became the focus of all diplomatic efforts.
- 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.
- fuchsias — Plural form of fuchsia.
- fuchsine — A dye (rosaniline hydrochloride or similar) usually a deep red or magenta colour.
- fuchsins — Plural form of fuchsin.
- fuchsite — a bright green variety of muscovite having chromium in place of some of the aluminum.
- fuculose — (carbohydrate) A deoxysugar related to tagatose.
- fulcrums — Plural form of fulcrum.
- functors — Plural form of functor.
- furnaces — Plural form of furnace.
- futtocks — Plural form of futtock.
- gemsbuck — gemsbok.
- geoducks — Plural form of geoduck.
- glacious — Characteristic, composed, or of the nature of icy; icy.“Gla
- glaucous — light bluish-green or greenish-blue.
- glucides — any of various organic compounds that consist of or contain a carbohydrate.
- glucosan — any of a number of polysaccharides that yield glucose upon hydrolysis.
- glucosin — any of a class of compounds, some of which are highly toxic, derived from reactions of glucose with ammonia.
- gouaches — Plural form of gouache.
- gracchus — Gaius Sempronius [gey-uh s sem-proh-nee-uh s] /ˈgeɪ əs sɛmˈproʊ ni əs/ (Show IPA), 153–121 b.c, and his brother, Tiberius Sempronius [tahy-beer-ee-uh s] /taɪˈbɪər i əs/ (Show IPA) 163–133 b.c., Roman reformers and orators.
- gracious — pleasantly kind, benevolent, and courteous.
- granicus — a river in NW Turkey, flowing N to the Sea of Marmara: battle 334 b.c. 45 miles (70 km) long.
- grouches — Plural form of grouch.
- grutches — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of grutch.
- guanacos — Plural form of guanaco.
- guesclin — Bertrand du ?1320–80, French commander during the Hundred Years' War
- guiscard — Robert [French raw-ber] /French rɔˈbɛr/ (Show IPA), (Robert de Hauteville) c1015–85, Norman conqueror in Italy.
- gunlocks — Plural form of gunlock.
- gunstick — a ramrod
- gunstock — the stock or support in which the barrel of a shoulder weapon is fixed.
- hachures — Short parallel lines used in hill-shading on maps, their closeness indicating steepness of gradient.
- hackbuss — Alternative form of hagbut.
- haircuts — Plural form of haircut.
- 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.