8-Letter Words Containing: _,_,A,S,S,S,U

• any of numerous annual trailing plants of the genus Cucurbita grown for their fleshy edible fruits

• edible fruit of a squash plant; eaten as a vegetable

• a game played in an enclosed court by two or four players who strike the ball with long-handled rackets

• to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition

• a bitter compound used as an insecticide and tonic and vermifuge; extracted from the wood and bark of trees of the genera Quassia and Picrasma

• handsome South American shrub or small tree having bright scarlet flowers and yielding a valuable fine-grained yellowish wood; yields the bitter drug quassia from its wood and bark

• An abrupt, damaging breakdown or failure.

• A violent collision involving one or more vehicles.

• A private detective; originally, a policeman or police detective.

• a radioactive transuranic element, with atomic number 108

• a genus of the family Cruciferae, containing annual and perennial herbaceous plants or small shrubs, growing to 10-100 cm tall, with oblong-oval leaves and yellow or white flowers (Alyssum)

• any garden plant of the genus Alyssum having clusters of small yellow or white flowers

• Armor for the legs, usually made of mail.