11-letter words containing u, n, a, s, c
- sub-captain — a person who is at the head of or in authority over others; chief; leader.
- sub-company — subsidiary company.
- subadjacent — lying near, close, or contiguous; adjoining; neighboring: a motel adjacent to the highway.
- suballiance — a suborder or subdivision of an alliance
- subcardinal — (of veins) next to the cardinal veins
- subchairman — a subordinate or substitute chairman.
- subchondral — of or relating to cartilage or a cartilage.
- 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.
- subdeaconry — the position or office of a subdeacon
- subdiaconal — of or relating to a subdeacon.
- subfraction — Mathematics. a number usually expressed in the form a/b. a ratio of algebraic quantities similarly expressed.
- subharmonic — an oscillation that has a frequency which is an integral submultiple of the frequency of a related oscillation.
- subindicate — to indirectly indicate or hint
- subordinacy — a subordinate person or thing.
- substance p — a small peptide released upon stimulation in the nervous system and involved in regulation of the pain threshold.
- subtacksman — a renter who holds the property they rent by subletting it
- subtraction — an act or instance of subtracting.
- succedaneum — a substitute.
- suffocation — to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle.
- súgán chair — a chair with a seat made from woven súgáns
- sugar candy — large crystals of sugar formed by suspending strings in a strong sugar solution that hardens on the strings, used chiefly for sweetening coffee
- sugar-candy — excessively sweet; saccharine: sugar-candy stories in family magazines.
- superagency — a very large agency, especially a large government agency that oversees smaller ones.
- superjacent — lying above or upon something else.
- surfcasting — the act, technique, or sport of fishing by casting from the shoreline into the sea, usually using heavy-duty tackle.
- susceptance — the imaginary component of admittance, equal to the quotient of the negative of the reactance divided by the sum of the squares of the reactance and resistance. Symbol: B.
- suscitation — the act of suscitating
- suspicional — of or relating to suspicion, especially morbid or insane suspicions.
- syndactylus — a person having united or webbed fingers or toes.
- tactfulness — having or manifesting tact: a tactful person; a tactful reply.
- tenaciously — holding fast; characterized by keeping a firm hold (often followed by of): a tenacious grip on my arm; tenacious of old habits.
- tonal music — music that uses the diatonic system
- transductor — a magnetic device that amplifies electronic signals
- translucent — permitting light to pass through but diffusing it so that persons, objects, etc., on the opposite side are not clearly visible: Frosted window glass is translucent but not transparent.
- transuranic — any element having an atomic number greater than 92, the atomic number of uranium. All such elements are radioactive and can be synthesized by bombarding a heavy element with a light particle or element. See also transactinide element.
- ultrasonics — the branch of science that deals with the effects of sound waves above human perception.
- unaccusable — not able to be accused or blamed
- unaccusably — in an unaccusable manner
- unaesthetic — offensive to the aesthetic sense; lacking in beauty or sensory appeal; unpleasant, as an object, design, arrangement, etc.: an unaesthetic combination of colors.
- unapostolic — not apostolic; not related to or characteristic of the early Christian apostles or their subsequent apostles
- uncalloused — not calloused
- uncanniness — having or seeming to have a supernatural or inexplicable basis; beyond the ordinary or normal; extraordinary: uncanny accuracy; an uncanny knack of foreseeing trouble.
- uncastrated — to remove the testes of; emasculate; geld.
- unceasingly — not ceasing or stopping; continuous: an unceasing flow of criticism.
- unchastened — to inflict suffering upon for purposes of moral improvement; chastise.
- unchastised — not chastised or reprimanded
- unchoosable — to select from a number of possibilities; pick by preference: She chose Sunday for her departure.