9-letter words containing u, p, s
- stitch up — sew a wound
- strike up — to deal a blow or stroke to (a person or thing), as with the fist, a weapon, or a hammer; hit.
- string up — a slender cord or thick thread used for binding or tying; line.
- strip out — to remove the working parts of (a machine)
- stroupach — a cup of tea
- strung up — tense, anxious
- stump bed — a bed without posts.
- stumpwork — a type of embroidery popular in the 17th century, consisting of intricate, colorful designs padded with horsehair to make them stand out in relief.
- stupefied — to put into a state of little or no sensibility; benumb the faculties of; put into a stupor.
- stupidest — lacking ordinary quickness and keenness of mind; dull.
- stupidity — the state, quality, or fact of being stupid.
- stuporous — suspension or great diminution of sensibility, as in disease or as caused by narcotics, intoxicants, etc.: He lay there in a drunken stupor.
- sub-phase — any of the major appearances or aspects in which a thing of varying modes or conditions manifests itself to the eye or mind.
- subalpine — pertaining to the regions at the foot of the Alps.
- subapical — located below the apex.
- subdeputy — an assistant to a deputy
- subperiod — a subdivision of a time period
- subphylum — a category of related classes within a phylum.
- subpoenas — the usual writ for the summoning of witnesses or the submission of evidence, as records or documents, before a court or other deliberative body.
- subpotent — not at full strength
- subprimal — (of meat) being a cut of meat larger than a steak, roast, or other single cut but smaller than a side of beef: shipped by the packer to local markets for final cutting to reduce processing costs and to retard spoilage.
- subpurlin — a light structural member for carrying roofing materials, supported by and running at right angles to purlins.
- subsample — a specimen from or a small part of a sample.
- subscript — written below (distinguished from adscript, superscript).
- sugar pea — snow pea.
- sugar pie — an open pie with a brown sugar filling
- sugarplum — a small sweetmeat made of sugar with various flavoring and coloring ingredients; a bonbon.
- sulphatic — sulphuric, of or pertaining to a sulphate
- sulphured — treated or combined with sulphur
- sulphuret — to treat or combine with sulphur
- sulphuryl — of, consisting of, or containing the divalent group, =SO2
- sulpician — a member of a society of secular priests founded in France in 1642, engaged chiefly in training men to teach in seminaries.
- summon up — call to action
- sump pump — a pump for removing liquid or wastes from a sump.
- sumpsimus — adherence to or persistence in using a strictly correct term, holding to a precise practice, etc., as a rejection of an erroneous but more common form (opposed to mumpsimus).
- sumptuary — pertaining to, dealing with, or regulating expense or expenditure.
- sumptuous — entailing great expense, as from choice materials, fine work, etc.; costly: a sumptuous residence.
- sun porch — a windowed porch or porchlike room having more window than wall area, intended to receive large amounts of sunlight.
- sunn-hemp — a tall East Indian shrub, Crotalaria juncea, of the legume family, having slender branches and yellow flowers, and an inner bark that yields a hemplike fiber used for making ropes, sacking, etc.
- super pac — a type of PAC that has no limitations on the amount or source of donations, though it cannot contribute directly to a political campaign or party. See also PAC.
- super vga — Super Video Graphics Array
- super-ego — Your super-ego is the part of your mind which makes you aware of what is right and wrong, and which causes you to feel guilty when you have done something wrong.
- superable — capable of being overcome; surmountable.
- superably — capable of being overcome; surmountable.
- superatom — a cluster of atoms behaving in certain ways like a single atom
- superbaby — an infant whose mental development and language acquisition are stimulated and presumably accelerated by certain teaching methods.
- superbank — a bank that owns other banks; an overarching banking organization
- superbike — a high-performance motorcycle
- superbity — pride
- superbold — (of writing, ornamentation, styling) very or exceptionally bold or striking