9-letter words containing s, u, n, c, r
- subcantor — a deputy to a cantor
- subcenter — a secondary or subordinate center, as in the location of a business.
- subcentre — a secondary centre
- submicron — (of particles) being less than a micron in overall dimensions.
- succentor — a precentor's deputy.
- succorant — the act of seeking out affectionate care and social support.
- suctorian — a suctorial animal.
- sugarcane — a tall grass, Saccharum officinarum, of tropical and warm regions, having a stout, jointed stalk, and constituting the chief source of sugar.
- sun cream — a chemical, usually in the form of a cream, applied to exposed skin to block out all or almost all of the ultraviolet rays of the sun
- sun porch — a windowed porch or porchlike room having more window than wall area, intended to receive large amounts of sunlight.
- sun-cured — cured or preserved by exposure to the rays of the sun, as meat, fish, fruit, tobacco, etc.
- sunscreen — a substance formulated to prevent sunburn, skin cancers, and other conditions caused by excessive exposure to the sun, usually by absorbing and reflecting ultraviolet radiation. Compare SPF.
- sunstruck — affected with sunstroke.
- surcingle — a belt or girth that passes around the belly of a horse and over the blanket, pack, saddle, etc., and is buckled on the horse's back.
- surfacing — the outer face, outside, or exterior boundary of a thing; outermost or uppermost layer or area.
- surgeoncy — the office, duties, or position of a surgeon, esp in the army or navy
- synsacrum — a dorsal ridge of bone in the pelvic region of birds, formed by the fusion of certain thoracic, lumbar, sacral, and caudal vertebrae.
- trachinus — a weever fish
- transduce — to convert (energy) from one form into another.
- un-strict — characterized by or acting in close conformity to requirements or principles: a strict observance of rituals.
- uncrossed — not crossed.
- uncrushed — intact or not crushed
- uncurious — incurious
- undercast — Mining. a crossing of two passages, as airways, dug at the same level so that one descends to pass beneath the other without any opening into it. Compare overcast (def 9).
- unprecise — definitely or strictly stated, defined, or fixed: precise directions.
- unscarred — a mark left by a healed wound, sore, or burn.
- unscoured — unclean; unscrubbed
- unsecular — not secular
- unsecured — not secured, especially not insured against loss, as by a bond or pledge: an unsecured loan.
- unsourced — (of a story or quotation) not attributed to a source
- uraniscus — a starlike ornament, as in a coffer of a ceiling.
- urgencies — urgent character; imperativeness; insistence; importunateness.