11-letter words containing u, b, a
- sub-manager — a person who has control or direction of an institution, business, etc., or of a part, division, or phase of it.
- sub-optimal — being below an optimal level or standard.
- sub-saharan — of, relating to, or in Africa south of the Sahara Desert: a sub-Saharan country; sub-Saharan peoples.
- sub-surface — below the surface, especially of a body of water.
- subacromial — the outward end of the spine of the scapula or shoulder blade.
- subadditive — something that is added, as one substance to another, to alter or improve the general quality or to counteract undesirable properties: an additive that thins paint.
- subadjacent — lying near, close, or contiguous; adjoining; neighboring: a motel adjacent to the highway.
- subaerially — in a subaerial manner
- subaffluent — between poor and affluent
- suballiance — a suborder or subdivision of an alliance
- subarboreal — living or thriving under trees
- subarration — an ancient way of marrying by giving a ring or gift
- subassemble — to assemble a basic unit of (a larger assembly).
- subassembly — a structural assembly, as of electronic or machine parts, forming part of a larger assembly.
- subaudition — an act or instance of understanding or mentally supplying something not expressed.
- subaxillary — situated or placed beneath an axil.
- subbasement — a basement or one of a series of basements below the main basement of a building.
- subcapsular — of, in, or like a capsule.
- subcardinal — (of veins) next to the cardinal veins
- subcategory — a subordinate category or a division of a category.
- subcellular — contained within a cell.
- subchairman — a subordinate or substitute chairman.
- subchondral — of or relating to cartilage or a cartilage.
- subclassify — to arrange in subclasses.
- subclinical — pertaining to an early stage of a disease; having no noticeable clinical symptoms.
- subcolumnar — almost or imperfectly columnar.
- 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.
- subcurative — of a dosage which is not strong enough to have a curing effect
- subdeaconry — the position or office of a subdeacon
- subdermally — in, located, or placed in a subdermal manner
- subdiaconal — of or relating to a subdeacon.
- subdominant — Music. the fourth tone of a diatonic scale, next below the dominant.
- subfraction — Mathematics. a number usually expressed in the form a/b. a ratio of algebraic quantities similarly expressed.
- subgingival — being or occurring under the gums; especially, being or occurring in the crevice between the gum margin and the neck or root of a tooth.
- subglobular — globe-shaped; spherical.
- subharmonic — an oscillation that has a frequency which is an integral submultiple of the frequency of a related oscillation.
- subimaginal — of or relating to subimago
- subindicate — to indirectly indicate or hint
- subinterval — an interval that is a subset of a given interval.
- subirrigate — to irrigate beneath the surface of the ground, as with water passing through a system of underground porous pipes or transmitted through the subsoil from ditches, etc.
- subitaneous — sudden
- subjectable — that which forms a basic matter of thought, discussion, investigation, etc.: a subject of conversation.
- subjudicial — pertaining to judgment in courts of justice or to the administration of justice: judicial proceedings; the judicial system.
- subjugation — the act, fact, or process of subjugating, or bringing under control; enslavement: The subjugation of the American Indians happened across the country.
- sublanguage — a subvariety of language used in a particular field or by a particular social group and characterized especially by distinctive vocabulary.
- sublethally — in a sublethal manner
- sublimation — Psychology. the diversion of the energy of a sexual or other biological impulse from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.