9-letter words containing u, n, s, c
- subagency — an organization, company, or bureau that provides some service for another: a welfare agency.
- subbranch — a subordinate branch or a branch of a branch, as of a bank, business, or the like.
- subcantor — a deputy to a cantor
- subcasing — a rough casing for a doorway or window.
- subcenter — a secondary or subordinate center, as in the location of a business.
- subcentre — a secondary centre
- subcolony — a colony established by an existing colony
- subconsul — an assistant to a consul
- subcounty — a division of a county
- subdeacon — a member of the clerical order next below that of deacon.
- subincise — to perform a subincision
- subjacent — situated or occurring underneath or below; underlying.
- submicron — (of particles) being less than a micron in overall dimensions.
- suboscine — of or relating to birds of the suborder Suboscines, of the order Passeriformes, comprising the supposedly more primitive members of the order, with less well developed vocal organs than the oscine birds.
- substance — that of which a thing consists; physical matter or material: form and substance.
- 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.
- succubine — of or relating to a succubus
- succulent — full of juice; juicy.
- suctorian — a suctorial animal.
- sufficing — to be enough or adequate, as for needs, purposes, etc.
- sugarcane — a tall grass, Saccharum officinarum, of tropical and warm regions, having a stout, jointed stalk, and constituting the chief source of sugar.
- suiciding — the intentional taking of one's own life.
- sulcation — having long, narrow grooves or channels, as plant stems, or being furrowed or cleft, as hoofs.
- sulpician — a member of a society of secular priests founded in France in 1642, engaged chiefly in training men to teach in seminaries.
- sun block — 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.
- sun cream — a chemical, usually in the form of a cream, applied to exposed skin to block out all or almost all of the ultraviolet rays of the sun
- sun dance — a religious ceremony associated with the sun, practiced by North American Indians of the Plains, consisting of dancing attended with various symbolic rites and commonly including self-torture.
- sun porch — a windowed porch or porchlike room having more window than wall area, intended to receive large amounts of sunlight.
- sun-cured — cured or preserved by exposure to the rays of the sun, as meat, fish, fruit, tobacco, etc.
- sunk cost — A sunk cost is an expense that you have already paid for or committed to and which you cannot change.
- sunscreen — a substance formulated to prevent sunburn, skin cancers, and other conditions caused by excessive exposure to the sun, usually by absorbing and reflecting ultraviolet radiation. Compare SPF.
- sunstruck — affected with sunstroke.
- surcingle — a belt or girth that passes around the belly of a horse and over the blanket, pack, saddle, etc., and is buckled on the horse's back.
- surfacing — the outer face, outside, or exterior boundary of a thing; outermost or uppermost layer or area.
- surgeoncy — the office, duties, or position of a surgeon, esp in the army or navy
- suspicion — act of suspecting.
- syncytium — a multinucleate mass of cytoplasm that is not separated into cells.
- synecious — synoicous.
- synoicous — having male and female flowers on one head, as in many composite plants.
- synsacrum — a dorsal ridge of bone in the pelvic region of birds, formed by the fusion of certain thoracic, lumbar, sacral, and caudal vertebrae.
- tenacious — holding fast; characterized by keeping a firm hold (often followed by of): a tenacious grip on my arm; tenacious of old habits.
- trachinus — a weever fish
- transduce — to convert (energy) from one form into another.
- tumescent — swelling; slightly tumid.
- un-strict — characterized by or acting in close conformity to requirements or principles: a strict observance of rituals.
- unaccused — not charged with wrongdoing