8-letter words containing u, n, b, s
- subagent — a person whose duties as an agent are delegated to him or her by another agent.
- subbasin — a circular container with a greater width than depth, becoming smaller toward the bottom, used chiefly to hold water or other liquid, especially for washing.
- subduing — to conquer and bring into subjection: Rome subdued Gaul.
- subentry — an item shown or listed under a main entry, as in bookkeeping.
- subgenre — a lesser or subordinate genre: a subgenre of popular fiction.
- subgenus — a category of related species within a genus.
- subhuman — less than or not quite human.
- subindex — an index to a part or subdivision of a larger category.
- sublunar — situated beneath the moon or between the earth and the moon.
- subnasal — situated beneath the nose
- subniche — a subdivision of a niche
- subnodal — below the level of a node
- suborned — to bribe or induce (someone) unlawfully or secretly to perform some misdeed or to commit a crime.
- subpanel — a panel that is part of a larger panel
- subplant — any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
- subpoena — the usual writ for the summoning of witnesses or the submission of evidence, as records or documents, before a court or other deliberative body.
- subrange — the extent to which or the limits between which variation is possible: the range of steel prices; a wide range of styles.
- subround — somewhat round or rounded.
- subsense — a definition that is a division of a wider definition
- subsonic — noting or pertaining to a speed less than that of sound in air at the same height above sea level.
- subtaxon — a supplementary piece of identifying information in a plant's or animal's scientific name
- subtense — a line that subtends
- subtilin — an antibiotic peptide drug derived from Bacillus subtilis, predominantly used to combat various pathogenic fungi as well as Gram-positive bacteria
- subtonic — the seventh tone of a scale, being the next below the upper tonic.
- subtrend — the general course or prevailing tendency; drift: trends in the teaching of foreign languages; the trend of events.
- subtunic — a garment worn under a tunic
- suburban — pertaining to, inhabiting, or being in a suburb or the suburbs of a city or town.
- subvened — to arrive or occur as a support or relief.
- subzonal — located under a zona, esp under the zona of an ovum
- sun bath — deliberate exposure of the body to the direct rays of the sun or a sunlamp.
- sun bear — a small bear, Helarctos malayanus, of tropical forests in S and SE Asia, having a black coat and a yellowish snout and feeding mostly on honey and insects
- sun belt — the southern and southwestern region of the U.S.
- sunbaked — baked by exposure to the sun, as bricks.
- sunbathe — to take a sunbath.
- sunberry — wonderberry.
- sunblind — a blind, such as a Venetian blind, that shades a room from the sun's glare
- sunblock — a substance that provides a high degree of protection against sunburn, often preventing most tanning as well as burning, as by obstructing the penetration of ultraviolet rays.
- sunbreak — a projection from the side of a building for intercepting part of the sunlight falling upon the adjacent surface.
- sunburnt — inflammation of the skin caused by overexposure to the sun or a sunlamp.
- sunburst — a burst of sunlight; a sudden shining of the sun through rifted clouds.
- sungrebe — finfoot.
- tubenose — tubesnout.
- ubi sunt — a poetic motif emphasizing the transitory nature of youth, life, and beauty, found especially in medieval Latin poems.
- unabased — (of a charge) lower on an escutcheon than is usual: a bend abased.
- unabused — not abused or mistreated physically or verbally
- unbasted — (of a garment) not basted; not sewn loosely together
- unbeseem — to not suit or befit (someone)
- unbiased — not biased or prejudiced; fair; impartial.
- unbishop — to remove (someone) from the position of bishop
- unbusted — not busted; unbroken