11-letter words containing u, n, b, s
- subminister — to supply
- submissness — submissiveness
- submunition — a weapon forming part of a larger warhead and released from it at a target
- subnational — of, relating to, or maintained by a nation as an organized whole or independent political unit: national affairs.
- subnotebook — a laptop computer smaller and lighter than a notebook, typically weighing less than 5 pounds (2.3 kg).
- subordinacy — a subordinate person or thing.
- subordinary — any of several heraldic bearings of secondary importance to the ordinary, such as the lozenge, the orle, and the fret
- subordinate — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
- subornation — to bribe or induce (someone) unlawfully or secretly to perform some misdeed or to commit a crime.
- subpanation — the belief that the body and blood of Christ are present in the bread and wine of Communion
- subpoenaing — the usual writ for the summoning of witnesses or the submission of evidence, as records or documents, before a court or other deliberative body.
- subrational — less than or almost rational.
- subrogation — to put into the place of another; substitute for another.
- subscribing — to pledge, as by signing an agreement, to give or pay (a sum of money) as a contribution, gift, or investment: He subscribed $6,000 for the new church.
- subsegments — a part or division of a segment.
- subsensible — unable to be detected by the senses
- subsentence — a part of a sentence which can stand by itself as a sentence
- subsequence — a sequence obtained from a given sequence by selecting terms from it and placing them in the order in which they occur in it.
- subservient — serving or acting in a subordinate capacity; subordinate.
- subsistence — the state or fact of subsisting.
- substance p — a small peptide released upon stimulation in the nervous system and involved in regulation of the pain threshold.
- substandard — below standard or less than adequate: substandard housing conditions.
- substantial — of ample or considerable amount, quantity, size, etc.: a substantial sum of money.
- substantive — a noun.
- substituent — Chemistry. an atom or atomic group that takes the place of another atom or group present in the molecule of the original compound.
- subsumption — an act of subsuming.
- subtacksman — a renter who holds the property they rent by subletting it
- subterminal — situated at or forming the end or extremity of something: a terminal feature of a vista.
- subtraction — an act or instance of subtracting.
- subungulate — any member of the superorder of animal termed Subungulata (also called Paenungulata), containing the elephant, sea cow and hyrax, as well as two extinct orders
- suburbanism — pertaining to, inhabiting, or being in a suburb or the suburbs of a city or town.
- suburbanite — a person who lives in a suburb of a city or large town.
- suburbanize — to give suburban characteristics to: to suburbanize a rural area.
- sugar basin — sugar bowl.
- sun bittern — a graceful South American wading bird, Eurypyga helias, related to the cranes and rails, having variegated plumage.
- sunday baby — an illegitimate child.
- sunday best — Sunday clothes.
- superabound — to abound beyond something else.
- surtarbrand — deposits of brown coal embedded in Iceland lava
- suspendible — to hang by attachment to something above: to suspend a chandelier from the ceiling.
- suspensible — capable of being suspended.
- sustainable — capable of being supported or upheld, as by having its weight borne from below.
- sustainably — in a way that allows for continual use of a natural resource without depleting it or causing environmental damage: sustainably grown coffee.
- tankbusting — the practice of destroying tanks
- the numbers — an illegal lottery in which small bets are placed on the order of certain numbers, usually the last three, in some tabulation of game scores or financial reports published in the daily newspapers
- thumbs down — the short, thick, inner digit of the human hand, next to the forefinger.
- thumbs-down — an act or instance of dissent, disapproval, etc.
- ton-up boys — youths who habitually ride or drive a vehicle at speeds of a hundred miles per hour or more
- tunableness — the quality of being melodious or tuneful
- turntablist — a DJ who is skilled in using turntables to obtain distinctive effects from records