8-letter words containing su
- surnames — the name that a person has in common with other family members, as distinguished from a Christian name or given name; family name.
- surplice — a loose-fitting, broad-sleeved white vestment, worn over the cassock by clergy and choristers.
- surprint — to print over with additional marks or matter; overprint.
- surprise — to strike or occur to with a sudden feeling of wonder or astonishment, as through unexpectedness: Her beauty surprised me.
- surrebut — to give evidence to support a surrebutter
- surround — to enclose on all sides; encompass: She was surrounded by reporters.
- surroyal — the terminal section of a stag's horns, above the section known as the 'royal'
- surtitle — supertitle.
- surucucu — the venomous bushmaster snake, Lachesis muta, native to South America
- surveyal — the action of surveying
- surveyed — to take a general or comprehensive view of or appraise, as a situation, area of study, etc.
- surveyor — a person whose occupation is surveying.
- survival — the act or fact of surviving, especially under adverse or unusual circumstances.
- survived — to continue to live or exist after the death, cessation, or occurrence of: His wife survived him. He survived the operation.
- survivor — a person or thing that survives.
- sus laws — laws authorizing the arrest and punishment of suspected persons frequenting, or loitering in, public places with criminal intent. In England, the sus law formed part of the Vagrancy Act of 1824, repealed in 1981
- susannah — a feminine name
- suspense — a state or condition of mental uncertainty or excitement, as in awaiting a decision or outcome, usually accompanied by a degree of apprehension or anxiety.
- suss out — Chiefly British Slang. to investigate or figure out (usually followed by out).
- susurrus — a soft murmuring or rustling sound; whisper.
- sutorial — relating to sewing or cobbling
- suwannee — a river in SE Georgia and N Florida, flowing SW to the Gulf of Mexico. 240 miles (386 km) long.
- suzerain — a sovereign or a state exercising political control over a dependent state.
- swimsuit — bathing suit.
- t'ai tsu — (Tʾai Tsu) 927–976 a.d, Chinese emperor 960–976: founder of the Sung dynasty.
- tiramisu — an Italian dessert with coffee and liquor-soaked layers of sponge cake alternating with mascarpone cheese and chocolate.
- tissuing — Biology. an aggregate of similar cells and cell products forming a definite kind of structural material with a specific function, in a multicellular organism.
- transude — to pass or ooze through pores or interstices, as a fluid.
- transume — to make an official transcription of
- treasure — wealth or riches stored or accumulated, especially in the form of precious metals, money, jewels, or plate.
- treasury — a place where the funds of the government, of a corporation, or the like are deposited, kept, and disbursed.
- tressure — Heraldry. a narrower diminutive of the orle, usually ornamented with fleurs-de-lis at the edges and often doubled.
- tsunamic — an unusually large sea wave produced by a seaquake or undersea volcanic eruption.
- tsushima — two adjacent Japanese islands between Korea and Kyushu: Russian fleet defeated by Japanese fleet 1905. 271 sq. mi. (702 sq. km).
- tsutsumu — the Japanese art of wrapping objects or gifts
- ubi sunt — a poetic motif emphasizing the transitory nature of youth, life, and beauty, found especially in medieval Latin poems.
- unissued — the act of sending out or putting forth; promulgation; distribution: the issue of food and blankets to flood victims.
- unsubtle — thin, tenuous, or rarefied, as a fluid or an odor.
- unsubtly — thin, tenuous, or rarefied, as a fluid or an odor.
- unsucked — not sucked; not having been sucked
- unsuited — appropriate: She is suited to such a job.
- unsummed — not calculated or summed; uncounted or summed up
- unsunned — not subjected to or affected by sunlight; not exposed to or reached by the sun; not warmed or lit by sunlight
- unsupple — rigid; not supple
- unsurely — free from doubt as to the reliability, character, action, etc., of something: to be sure of one's data.
- ursuline — Roman Catholic Church. a member of an order of nuns founded at Brescia, Italy, about 1537, devoted to teaching.
- usufruct — the right of enjoying all the advantages derivable from the use of something that belongs to another, as far as is compatible with the substance of the thing not being destroyed or injured.
- usumbura — former name of Bujumbura.
- usurious — practicing usury; charging illegal or exorbitant rates of interest for the use of money: a usurious moneylender.
- usurping — to seize and hold (a position, office, power, etc.) by force or without legal right: The pretender tried to usurp the throne.