8-letter words containing s, u, c
- astucity — Craftiness; astuteness.
- asuncion — the capital and chief port of Paraguay, on the Paraguay River, 1530 km (950 miles) from the Atlantic. Pop: 1 750 000 (2005 est)
- auctions — Plural form of auction.
- auricles — Plural form of auricle.
- auspices — an augur of ancient Rome.
- autecism — the development of the entire life cycle of a parasitic fungus on a single host or group of hosts.
- autistic — An autistic person suffers from autism.
- autopsic — relating to autopsy
- avouches — to make frank acknowledgment or affirmation of; declare or assert with positiveness.
- bacchius — a metrical foot of one short syllable followed by two long ones (◡ – –)
- bacillus — A bacillus is any bacterium that has a long, thin shape.
- backrush — the return of water seaward, down the foreshore of a beach, following the uprush of a wave.
- banausic — merely mechanical; materialistic; utilitarian
- bascules — Plural form of bascule.
- beclouds — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of becloud.
- berceuse — a cradlesong or lullaby
- bicuspid — having or terminating in two cusps or points
- biscuity — tasting or smelling of biscuit
- blesbuck — blesbok.
- bluchers — a strong, leather half boot.
- branchus — a son of Apollo, given the power of augury by his father.
- brancusi — Constantin (konstanˈtin). 1876–1957, Romanian sculptor, noted for his streamlined abstractions of animal forms
- bronchus — either of the two main branches of the trachea, which contain cartilage within their walls
- bucellas — a Portuguese white wine
- buckfast — a fortified tonic wine
- buckshee — without charge; free
- buckshot — Buckshot consists of pieces of lead fired from a gun when hunting animals.
- buckskin — Buckskin is soft, strong leather made from the skin of a deer or a goat.
- buckstay — a beam held by stays to the exterior of a masonry wall, as that of a furnace or boiler, to keep the adjacent areas of the wall from being forced outward.
- bucolics — a pastoral poem.
- bursicon — a hormone, produced by the insect brain, that regulates processes associated with ecdysis, such as darkening of the cuticle
- bushbuck — a small nocturnal spiral-horned antelope, Tragelaphus scriptus, of the bush and tropical forest of Africa. Its coat is reddish-brown with a few white markings
- butchest — butch haircut.
- buttocks — the two large fleshy masses of thick muscular tissue that form the human rump
- cabassou — (obsolete) The southern naked-tailed armadillo, a type of large armadillo native to South America, with five toes and enormous claws (Cabassous unicinctus).
- caciques — Plural form of cacique.
- cactuses — Plural form of cactus.
- caduceus — a staff entwined with two serpents and bearing a pair of wings at the top, carried by Hermes (Mercury) as messenger of the gods
- caducous — (of parts of a plant or animal) shed during the life of the organism
- caesious — having a waxy bluish-grey coating
- caesurae — Prosody. a break, especially a sense pause, usually near the middle of a verse, and marked in scansion by a double vertical line, as in know then thyself ‖ presume not God to scan.
- caesural — Prosody. a break, especially a sense pause, usually near the middle of a verse, and marked in scansion by a double vertical line, as in know then thyself ‖ presume not God to scan.
- caesuras — Plural form of caesura.
- caesuric — caesural
- cagoules — Plural form of cagoule.
- calathus — a vase-shaped basket represented in ancient Greek art, used as a symbol of fruitfulness
- calculus — Calculus is a branch of advanced mathematics which deals with variable quantities.
- calippus — flourished 4th century b.c, Greek astronomer.
- calixtus — (Alfonso de Borja; Alfonso Borgia) 1378–1458, Spanish ecclesiastic: pope 1455–58.
- callosum — (anatomy) corpus callosum.