8-letter words containing u, s, b, e
- 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.
- subprime — being of less than top quality: a subprime grade of steel.
- subrange — the extent to which or the limits between which variation is possible: the range of steel prices; a wide range of styles.
- subscale — a scale within a scale
- subsense — a definition that is a division of a wider definition
- subserve — to be useful or instrumental in promoting (a purpose, action, etc.): Light exercise subserves digestion.
- subshell — a group of electrons in an atom belonging to the same shell and also having the same azimuthal quantum number.
- subsided — to sink to a low or lower level.
- subspace — a smaller space within a main area that has been divided or subdivided: The jewelry shop occupies a subspace in the hotel's lobby.
- substage — the component part of a microscope below the stage, for supporting a condenser, mirror, or other accessories.
- substate — the condition of a person or thing, as with respect to circumstances or attributes: a state of health.
- substyle — a straight line on a dial on which the style (the object that creates the shadow, on, for example, a sundial) is erected
- subsumed — to consider or include (an idea, term, proposition, etc.) as part of a more comprehensive one.
- subtense — a line that subtends
- subtheme — a subject of discourse, discussion, meditation, or composition; topic: The need for world peace was the theme of the meeting.
- subtitle — a secondary or subordinate title of a literary work, usually of explanatory character.
- subtlest — thin, tenuous, or rarefied, as a fluid or an odor.
- subtlety — the state or quality of being subtle.
- subtrend — the general course or prevailing tendency; drift: trends in the teaching of foreign languages; the trend of events.
- subtribe — tribe within a larger tribe
- subtrude — to intrude stealthily
- subtweet — (on the Twitter website) a hostile or otherwise negative post that is addressed to or about a particular person but does not mention the person’s username or does not name the person at all.
- subulate — slender, somewhat cylindrical, and tapering to a point; awl-shaped.
- subvened — to arrive or occur as a support or relief.
- suitable — such as to suit; appropriate; fitting; becoming.
- summable — capable of being added.
- 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.
- sunbreak — a projection from the side of a building for intercepting part of the sunlight falling upon the adjacent surface.
- sungrebe — finfoot.
- superbad — exceptionally bad
- superbly — admirably fine or excellent; extremely good: a superb performance.
- superbug — a pathogenic bacterium that has developed immunity to antibiotics, or an insect that has developed immunity to insecticides.
- surbased — having a surbase.
- surrebut — to give evidence to support a surrebutter
- the bush — an uncultivated or sparsely settled area, esp in Africa, Australia, New Zealand, or Canada: usually covered with trees or shrubs, varying from open shrubby country to dense rainforest
- tiberius — (Tiberius Claudius Nero Caesar) 42 b.c.–a.d. 37, Roman emperor 14–37.
- troubles — your troubles are the things that you are worried about
- tubenose — tubesnout.
- tuberose — a bulbous plant, Polianthes tuberosa, of the agave family, cultivated for its spike of fragrant, creamy-white, lily-like flowers.
- tuberous — characterized by the presence of rounded or wartlike prominences or tubers.
- tubulose — belonging or relating to a group of corals (Tubulosa) with tubular outer coverings
- umeboshi — a salty and tart Japanese condiment made from unripened plums pickled in a brine.
- 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)