8-letter words containing u, n, s, c
- sinecure — an office or position requiring little or no work, especially one yielding profitable returns.
- sluicing — an artificial channel for conducting water, often fitted with a gate (sluice gate) at the upper end for regulating the flow.
- souchong — a variety of black tea grown in India and Sri Lanka.
- sourcing — any thing or place from which something comes, arises, or is obtained; origin: Which foods are sources of calcium?
- sprauncy — smart or showy in appearance
- spruance — Raymond Ames [eymz] /eɪmz/ (Show IPA), 1886–1969, U.S. admiral.
- sprucing — trim in dress or appearance; neat; smart; dapper.
- stuck on — simple past tense and past participle of stick2 .
- subniche — a subdivision of a niche
- subsonic — noting or pertaining to a speed less than that of sound in air at the same height above sea level.
- subtonic — the seventh tone of a scale, being the next below the upper tonic.
- subtunic — a garment worn under a tunic
- succinct — expressed in few words; concise; terse.
- succinic — pertaining to or obtained from amber.
- succinyl — either of the two radicals of succinic acid
- suchness — a fundamental, intrinsic, or characteristic quality or condition: seraphic indifference to the suchness of his surroundings.
- suckener — a tenant of a sucken
- suckling — Sir John, 1609–42, English poet.
- sulfonic — sulfo.
- sulindac — a yellow crystalline substance, C 2 0 H 1 7 FO 3 S, that is used as an analgesic, antipyretic, and anti-inflammatory in the treatment of certain rheumatic diseases.
- sultanic — the sovereign of an Islamic country.
- sun city — city in SC Arizona: pop. 38,000
- sun deck — a raised, open area, as a roof, terrace, or ship's deck, that is exposed to the sun.
- sun disc — a disc symbolizing the sun, esp one flanked by two serpents and the extended wings of a vulture, used as a religious figure in ancient Egypt
- 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.
- sunchoke — Jerusalem artichoke (def 2).
- sunporch — a room with large windows and often a glass roof, built around one of the main entrances to a building
- sunscald — injury to the leaves, bark, or underlying tissues of woody plants due to the combined effects of heat, humidity, and intense sunshine.
- sunspace — sunroom.
- syconium — a multiple fruit developed from a hollow fleshy receptacle containing numerous flowers, as in the fig.
- szechuan — Sichuan.
- tsunamic — an unusually large sea wave produced by a seaquake or undersea volcanic eruption.
- tungstic — of or containing tungsten, especially in the pentavalent or hexavalent state.
- tungusic — a family of languages spoken or formerly spoken in Manchuria and central and SE Siberia, including Manchu, Evenki, Even, and languages of the Amur River region, as Nanay.
- tusculan — an ancient city of Latium, SE of Rome: Roman villas, especially that of Cicero.
- uncashed — money in the form of coins or banknotes, especially that issued by a government.
- uncasked — removed from a cask; brought out of a cask
- uncaused — not resulting from some antecedent cause.
- unceased — to stop; discontinue: Not all medieval beliefs have ceased to exist.
- unchaste — not chaste; not virtuous; not pure: an unchaste woman.
- unchosen — a past participle of choose.
- unclassy — not classy; lacking in good taste or sense; crude: Always being late for appointments is unclassy.
- unclosed — not closed: an unclosed door.
- uncostly — costing much; expensive; high in price: a costly emerald bracelet; costly medical care.
- unctuous — characterized by excessive piousness or moralistic fervor, especially in an affected manner; excessively smooth, suave, or smug.
- unscaled — noting armor having imbricated metal plates sewn to a flexible backing.
- unscared — to fill, especially suddenly, with fear or terror; frighten; alarm.
- unsecret — not secret
- unsecure — free from or not exposed to danger or harm; safe.
- unselect — to choose in preference to another or others; pick out.