8-letter words containing s, u
- acoelous — not having a true digestive tract
- acoustic — An acoustic guitar or other instrument is one whose sound is produced without any electrical equipment.
- acquires — to come into possession or ownership of; get as one's own: to acquire property.
- actuates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of actuate.
- acuities — sharpness; acuteness; keenness: acuity of vision; acuity of mind.
- adjourns — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of adjourn.
- adjudges — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of adjudge.
- adjuncts — Plural form of adjunct.
- adjusted — psychologically well or badly equipped to cope with reality and ordinary life and relationships
- adjuster — An adjuster is a device which allows you to alter a piece of equipment's position or setting.
- adjustor — a person or thing that adjusts.
- adrastus — a king of Argos and leader of the Seven against Thebes, of whom he was the sole survivor
- adultism — A predisposition towards adults (or a bias against children).
- aedeagus — the phallus of a male insect.
- aegyptus — a king of Egypt and twin brother of Danaüs
- aequalis — (grammar) The case conveying an equality with another noun, equivalent to
- aesculin — a chemical found in the bark of horse-chestnut trees
- afflatus — an impulse of creative power or inspiration, esp in poetry, considered to be of divine origin (esp in the phrase divine afflatus)
- affluxes — Plural form of afflux.
- affusion — the baptizing of a person by pouring water onto his head
- aftersun — a moisturizing lotion applied to the skin to soothe sunburn and avoid peeling
- agaricus — any mushroom of the genus Agaricus, comprising the meadow mushrooms and a commercially grown species, A. brunnescens.
- agendums — matters to be attended to, as at a meeting of a committee
- aguishly — in an aguish manner
- aidoneus — a king of Thesprotia.
- airbrush — An airbrush is an artist's tool which sprays paint onto a surface.
- airburst — the explosion of a bomb, shell, etc, in the air
- albumens — Plural form of albumen.
- albumins — Plural form of albumin.
- albumose — any of a class of chemical compounds derived from albumins by the action of certain enzymes, as in digestion
- alcinous — (in Homer's Odyssey) a Phaeacian king at whose court the shipwrecked Odysseus told of his wanderings
- alehouse — An alehouse is a pub.
- aliquots — Plural form of aliquot.
- allosaur — any large carnivorous bipedal dinosaur of the genus Antrodemus (formerly Allosaurus), common in North America in late Jurassic times: suborder Theropoda (theropods)
- allusion — An allusion is an indirect reference to someone or something.
- allusive — Allusive speech, writing, or art is full of indirect references to people or things.
- aloysius — Saint. full name Aloysius Luigi Gonzaga. 1568–91, Italian Jesuit who died nursing plague victims; the patron saint of youth. Feast day: June 21
- altruism — Altruism is unselfish concern for other people's happiness and welfare.
- altruist — a person unselfishly concerned for or devoted to the welfare of others (opposed to egoist).
- alumni's — a graduate or former student of a specific school, college, or university.
- alveolus — any small pit, cavity, or saclike dilation, such as a honeycomb cell
- amaracus — a genus of herbaceous plant with fragrant flowers
- amateurs — Plural form of amateur.
- amberous — of, relating to or resembling amber
- ambushed — Simple past tense and past participle of ambush.
- ambusher — One who ambushes.
- ambushes — Plural form of ambush.
- americus — a city in SW central Georgia.
- amesbury — a town in NE Massachusetts.
- ammianus — Marcellinus [mahr-suh-lahy-nuh s] /ˌmɑr səˈlaɪ nəs/ (Show IPA), a.d. c325–c398, Roman historian.