8-letter words containing su
- sublimit — a limit on a subcategory
- sublunar — situated beneath the moon or between the earth and the moon.
- submerge — to put or sink below the surface of water or any other enveloping medium.
- submerse — to submerge.
- subnasal — situated beneath the nose
- subniche — a subdivision of a niche
- subnodal — below the level of a node
- suboptic — below the eye
- suborder — a category of related families within an order.
- suborned — to bribe or induce (someone) unlawfully or secretly to perform some misdeed or to commit a crime.
- subotica — a city in the autonomous province of Vojvodina, in N Serbia.
- subovate — almost egg-shaped
- suboxide — the oxide of an element that contains the smallest proportion of oxygen.
- subpanel — a panel that is part of a larger panel
- subphase — any of the major appearances or aspects in which a thing of varying modes or conditions manifests itself to the eye or mind.
- subplant — any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
- 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.
- subpolar — subantarctic.
- subprime — being of less than top quality: a subprime grade of steel.
- subprior — a monk junior to a prior
- subpubic — beneath the pubic bone
- subrange — the extent to which or the limits between which variation is possible: the range of steel prices; a wide range of styles.
- subright — Usually, subrights. subsidiary rights, as for a literary or dramatic property.
- subround — somewhat round or rounded.
- 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.
- subshaft — a secondary shaft in a mine
- subshell — a group of electrons in an atom belonging to the same shell and also having the same azimuthal quantum number.
- subshrub — a plant consisting of a woody, perennial base with annual, herbaceous shoots.
- subsided — to sink to a low or lower level.
- subsizar — formerly, an undergraduate at the University of Cambridge who did not have to pay tuition fees but who instead helped in the kitchen or household of their college
- subskill — an element of a wider skill
- subsolar — situated beneath the sun or between the earth and the sun.
- subsonic — noting or pertaining to a speed less than that of sound in air at the same height above sea 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.
- subtalar — beneath the ankle bone
- subtaxon — a supplementary piece of identifying information in a plant's or animal's scientific name
- 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.
- subtidal — of or relating to, inhabiting or existing in the region below the level of low tide, that is always underwater
- subtilin — an antibiotic peptide drug derived from Bacillus subtilis, predominantly used to combat various pathogenic fungi as well as Gram-positive bacteria
- subtilty — subtlety.
- 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.