8-Letter Words Containing: SSU

• 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

• An exceptionally fine and valuable fibre or cloth of ancient times. Originally used for fine flax and linens, the word was later extended to fine cottons, silks, and sea silk.

• The long fine silky filaments excreted by several mollusks (particularly Pinna nobilis) by which they attach themselves to the sea bed, and from which sea silk is manufactured.

• The stipe or stem of some fungi which are particularly thin and thread-like.

• To split, forming fissures.

• Having fissures.

• small furry Australian arboreal marsupials having long usually prehensile tails

• nocturnal arboreal marsupial having a naked prehensile tail found from southern North America to northern South America

• tall feather palm of northern Brazil with hard-shelled nuts yielding valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory

• excessively forward

• (law) a dwelling house and its adjacent buildings and the adjacent land used by the household