9-letter words containing u, c, t
- spit curl — a tight curl of hair, usually pressed against the forehead or cheek.
- spout cup — a deep vessel used in feeding babies and invalids, having a long, curved, rising spout.
- st. cloud — a city in central Minnesota, on the Mississippi.
- st. lucia — one of the Windward Islands, in the E West Indies.
- stauncher — firm or steadfast in principle, adherence, loyalty, etc., as a person: a staunch Republican; a staunch friend.
- staunchly — firm or steadfast in principle, adherence, loyalty, etc., as a person: a staunch Republican; a staunch friend.
- stenchful — malodorous; foul-smelling
- sterculia — any of various tropical trees of the genus Sterculia, of which some species are grown as ornamentals and some are the source of commercially valuable wood.
- stick out — to pierce or puncture with something pointed, as a pin, dagger, or spear; stab: to stick one's finger with a needle.
- stitch up — sew a wound
- stricture — a remark or comment, especially an adverse criticism: The reviewer made several strictures upon the author's style.
- stroupach — a cup of tea
- structure — mode of building, construction, or organization; arrangement of parts, elements, or constituents: a pyramidal structure.
- sub-stock — a supply of goods kept on hand for sale to customers by a merchant, distributor, manufacturer, etc.; inventory.
- subaction — an act of subduing
- subarctic — of, pertaining to, similar to, or being the region immediately south of the Arctic Circle; subpolar.
- subatomic — of or relating to a process that occurs within an atom.
- subcantor — a deputy to a cantor
- subcavity — a cavity within a larger cavity
- subcenter — a secondary or subordinate center, as in the location of a business.
- subcentre — a secondary centre
- subcortex — Anatomy, Zoology. the outer region of an organ or structure, as the outer portion of the kidney. the cerebral cortex.
- subcostal — below the rib
- subcounty — a division of a county
- subducted — to take away; subtract.
- subjacent — situated or occurring underneath or below; underlying.
- subjected — that which forms a basic matter of thought, discussion, investigation, etc.: a subject of conversation.
- suboctave — an octave below another octave
- subscript — written below (distinguished from adscript, superscript).
- subsector — Geometry. a plane figure bounded by two radii and the included arc of a circle.
- substance — that of which a thing consists; physical matter or material: form and substance.
- substruct — to build underneath as a foundation
- succedent — following or succeeding; subsequent.
- succentor — a precentor's deputy.
- succinate — a salt or ester of succinic acid.
- succinite — Baltic or 'true' amber, so called because of the succinic acid in the fossil resin: often incorrectly applied to fossilized resin (amber) generally
- succorant — the act of seeking out affectionate care and social support.
- succotash — a cooked dish of kernels of corn mixed with shell beans, especially lima beans, and, often, with green and sweet red peppers.
- succulent — full of juice; juicy.
- such that — so that: used to express purpose or result
- suctorial — adapted for sucking or suction, as an organ; functioning as a sucker for imbibing or adhering.
- suctorian — a suctorial animal.
- suffocate — to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle.
- sugar act — a law passed by the British Parliament in 1764 raising duties on foreign refined sugar imported by the colonies so as to give British sugar growers in the West Indies a monopoly on the colonial market.
- sugarcoat — to cover with sugar: to sugarcoat a pill.
- sulcation — having long, narrow grooves or channels, as plant stems, or being furrowed or cleft, as hoofs.
- sulphatic — sulphuric, of or pertaining to a sulphate
- sunk cost — A sunk cost is an expense that you have already paid for or committed to and which you cannot change.
- sunstruck — affected with sunstroke.
- supercity — a large, heavily populated urban area that includes several cities; megalopolis.