11-letter words starting with su
- submittable — to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).
- submolecule — a part of a molecule
- submultiple — a number that is contained by another number an integral number of times without a remainder: The number 3 is a submultiple of 12.
- submunition — a weapon forming part of a larger warhead and released from it at a target
- subnational — of, relating to, or maintained by a nation as an organized whole or independent political unit: national affairs.
- subnotebook — a laptop computer smaller and lighter than a notebook, typically weighing less than 5 pounds (2.3 kg).
- suboptimize — to use in a way that is less than optimal
- subordinacy — a subordinate person or thing.
- subordinary — any of several heraldic bearings of secondary importance to the ordinary, such as the lozenge, the orle, and the fret
- subordinate — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
- subornation — to bribe or induce (someone) unlawfully or secretly to perform some misdeed or to commit a crime.
- subpanation — the belief that the body and blood of Christ are present in the bread and wine of Communion
- subparallel — not quite parallel
- subpoenaing — the usual writ for the summoning of witnesses or the submission of evidence, as records or documents, before a court or other deliberative body.
- subprioress — a nun junior to a prioress
- subrational — less than or almost rational.
- subrogation — to put into the place of another; substitute for another.
- subscapular — situated beneath or on the deep surface of the scapula, as a muscle.
- subscribing — to pledge, as by signing an agreement, to give or pay (a sum of money) as a contribution, gift, or investment: He subscribed $6,000 for the new church.
- subsea pipe — A subsea pipe is a pipeline on the ocean bed for transporting oil or gas.
- subsegments — a part or division of a segment.
- subsensible — unable to be detected by the senses
- subsentence — a part of a sentence which can stand by itself as a sentence
- subsequence — a sequence obtained from a given sequence by selecting terms from it and placing them in the order in which they occur in it.
- subservient — serving or acting in a subordinate capacity; subordinate.
- subsistence — the state or fact of subsisting.
- subspecific — of, relating to, or of the nature of a subspecies.
- substance p — a small peptide released upon stimulation in the nervous system and involved in regulation of the pain threshold.
- substandard — below standard or less than adequate: substandard housing conditions.
- substantial — of ample or considerable amount, quantity, size, etc.: a substantial sum of money.
- substantive — a noun.
- substituent — Chemistry. an atom or atomic group that takes the place of another atom or group present in the molecule of the original compound.
- substractor — a person who subtracts or takes away
- subsumption — an act of subsuming.
- subtacksman — a renter who holds the property they rent by subletting it
- subterminal — situated at or forming the end or extremity of something: a terminal feature of a vista.
- subtilities — subtlety.
- subtraction — an act or instance of subtracting.
- subtractive — tending to subtract; having power to subtract.
- subtreasury — a subordinate or branch treasury.
- subtropical — bordering on the tropics; nearly tropical.
- subumbrella — the concave undersurface of a coelenterate medusa, as a jellyfish.
- subungulate — any member of the superorder of animal termed Subungulata (also called Paenungulata), containing the elephant, sea cow and hyrax, as well as two extinct orders
- suburbanism — pertaining to, inhabiting, or being in a suburb or the suburbs of a city or town.
- suburbanite — a person who lives in a suburb of a city or large town.
- suburbanize — to give suburban characteristics to: to suburbanize a rural area.
- subvertical — being in a position or direction perpendicular to the plane of the horizon; upright; plumb.
- subvitreous — of the nature of or resembling glass, as in transparency, brittleness, hardness, glossiness, etc.: vitreous china.
- subvocalize — to form (words) silently by moving the lips or other vocal organs without vocalization
- succedaneum — a substitute.