8-letter words containing t, u, s, i, c
- sculpsit — he engraved, carved, or sculptured (it); she engraved, carved, or sculptured (it). Abbreviation: sc.
- scutiger — any species of the Scutigera genus which includes many types of centipede
- security — freedom from danger, risk, etc.; safety.
- sick-out — a form of industrial action in which all workers in a factory, etc, report sick simultaneously
- sinciput — the forepart of the skull.
- stick up — a thrust with a pointed instrument; stab.
- stick-up — a thrust with a pointed instrument; stab.
- stickful — as much set type as a composing stick will hold, usually about two column inches.
- stickout — a person who is outstanding or conspicuous, usually for superior endowments, talents, etc.: Jimmy Brown is the stickout among running backs.
- stuckism — a British art movement, founded in 1999 by Billy Childish (born 1959) and Charles Thomson (born 1953) to advance new figurative painting (as opposed to conceptual art)
- sub-city — a large or important town.
- subcutis — the deeper layer of the dermis, containing mostly fat and connective tissue.
- suboptic — below the eye
- subotica — a city in the autonomous province of Vojvodina, in N Serbia.
- subtonic — the seventh tone of a scale, being the next below the upper tonic.
- subtopic — a topic that is included within another topic.
- subtunic — a garment worn under a tunic
- succinct — expressed in few words; concise; terse.
- suckiest — disagreeable; unpleasant.
- sufficit — as much as suffices; enough.
- suitcase — a usually rectangular piece of luggage especially for carrying clothes while traveling.
- sultanic — the sovereign of an Islamic country.
- sun city — city in SC Arizona: pop. 38,000
- suricate — a small, burrowing South African carnivore, Suricata suricatta, of a grayish color with dark bands across the back, related to the mongooses and having social behavior similar to that of prairie dogs.
- truistic — a self-evident, obvious truth.
- tsunamic — an unusually large sea wave produced by a seaquake or undersea volcanic eruption.
- tungstic — of or containing tungsten, especially in the pentavalent or hexavalent state.
- tungusic — a family of languages spoken or formerly spoken in Manchuria and central and SE Siberia, including Manchu, Evenki, Even, and languages of the Amur River region, as Nanay.
- unsticky — having the property of adhering, as glue; adhesive.
- unstitch — one complete movement of a threaded needle through a fabric or material such as to leave behind it a single loop or portion of thread, as in sewing, embroidery, or the surgical closing of wounds.
- victuals — victuals, food supplies; provisions.
- viscount — a nobleman next below an earl or count and next above a baron.