9-letter words containing u, s, e, n, t
- submental — situated beneath the chin
- submentum — the base of an insect's lip
- subpotent — not at full strength
- substance — that of which a thing consists; physical matter or material: form and substance.
- subtenant — a person who rents land, a house, or the like, from a tenant.
- subtenure — the tenancy of a subtenant.
- 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
- succulent — full of juice; juicy.
- suetonius — (Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus) a.d. 75–150, Roman historian.
- sulfonate — an ester or salt derived from a sulfonic acid.
- sultanate — the office or rule of a sultan.
- sultaness — sultana (defs 2, 3).
- sunbonnet — a bonnet with a large brim shading the face and sometimes a piece projecting over the neck, worn by women and children.
- sunstroke — a sudden and sometimes fatal affection due to exposure to the sun's rays or to excessive heat, marked by prostration with or without fever, convulsion, and coma.
- suntanned — having a suntan: suntanned strollers on the boardwalk.
- supernate — a supernatant liquid
- superthin — extremely thin
- sustained — to support, hold, or bear up from below; bear the weight of, as a structure.
- sustainer — a person or thing that sustains.
- sustinent — offering sustenance or support
- telegonus — a son of Odysseus and Circe who unknowingly killed his father and eventually married Penelope.
- ten gurus — the ten leaders of the Sikh religion from its founder Guru Nanak to Guru Govind Singh, who ended the line of gurus by calling on Sikhs to rely on the holy text of the Granth to guide them
- tenacious — holding fast; characterized by keeping a firm hold (often followed by of): a tenacious grip on my arm; tenacious of old habits.
- tendinous — of the nature of or resembling a tendon.
- tenebrous — dark; gloomy; obscure.
- tenuously — thin or slender in form, as a thread.
- teutonism — the character, spirit, or culture of the Teutons, especially the Germans.
- the sound — a strait between SW Sweden and Zealand (Denmark), linking the Kattegat with the Baltic: busy shipping lane; spanned by a bridge in 2000. Length of the strait: 113 km (70 miles). Narrowest point: 5 km (3 miles)
- the sudan — a region stretching across Africa south of the Sahara and north of the tropical zone: inhabited chiefly by Negroid tribes rather than Arabs
- toughness — strong and durable; not easily broken or cut.
- tournedos — small slices of fillet of beef, round and thick, served with a variety of sauces and garnished.
- townhouse — a house in the city, especially as distinguished from a house in the country owned by the same person.
- trans-use — (language) An early system on the IBM 1130.
- transduce — to convert (energy) from one form into another.
- transeunt — (of a mental act) producing an effect outside of the mind.
- transfuse — to transfer or pass from one to another; transmit; instill: to transfuse a love of literature to one's students.
- transhume — to move cattle to suitable grazing grounds according to the season
- transmute — change into another form
- trunkless — the main stem of a tree, as distinct from the branches and roots.
- tubesnout — a slender, marine fish, Aulorhynchus flavidus, inhabiting coastal waters from southern California to Alaska, having a long, tubelike snout.
- tumescent — swelling; slightly tumid.
- tunesmith — a person who composes popular music or songs.
- tungstate — a salt of any tungstic acid.
- tungstite — a yellow or yellowish-green mineral, tungsten trioxide, WO 3 , usually occurring in a pulverulent form.
- turkestan — a vast region in W and central Asia, E of the Caspian Sea: includes territory in the S central part of Xinjiang province in China (Eastern Turkestan or Chinese Turkestan) a strip of N Afghanistan, and the area (Russian Turkestan) comprising the republics of Kazakhstan, Kirghizia (Kyrgyzstan), Tadzhikistan (Tajikistan), Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.
- turnstile — a structure of four horizontally revolving arms pivoted atop a post and set in a gateway or opening in a fence to allow the controlled passage of people.
- turnstone — any shorebird of the genus Arenaria, characterized by the habit of turning over stones in search of food.