8-letter words containing ub
- 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.
- subtonic — the seventh tone of a scale, being the next below the upper tonic.
- subtopia — suburban development that encroaches on rural areas yet appears to offer the attractions of country life to suburban dwellers
- subtopic — a topic that is included within another topic.
- subtotal — the sum or total of a part of a group or column of figures, as in an accounting statement.
- subtract — to withdraw or take away, as a part from a whole.
- 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
- subtrist — slightly sad; not completely sad
- subtrude — to intrude stealthily
- subtunic — a garment worn under a tunic
- 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.
- subucula — (in ancient Rome) an undergarment or subtunic worn by men;
- subulate — slender, somewhat cylindrical, and tapering to a point; awl-shaped.
- suburban — pertaining to, inhabiting, or being in a suburb or the suburbs of a city or town.
- suburbia — suburbs collectively.