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10-letter words containing a, h, u, t

  • subcharter — to rent a chartered vehicle
  • subchelate — having a claw with one pincer longer than the other
  • subhepatic — of or relating to the liver.
  • subtrahend — a number that is subtracted from another.
  • sulphatase — an enzyme of the esterase group that catalyses the hydrolysis of sulphate esters
  • sulphatise — to convert into a sulfate, as by the roasting of ores.
  • sulphonate — a salt or ester of any sulphonic acid containing the ion RSO2O– or the group RSO2O–, R being an organic group
  • sulphurate — to combine or treat with sulphur or a sulphur compound
  • sunbathing — to take a sunbath.
  • sutherland — Earl Wilbur, Jr. 1915–74, U.S. biochemist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1971.
  • sweathouse — (especially among North American Indians) a special building used for cleansing and purifying one's body by sweating, in which heated water is poured over heated stones to produce steam.
  • synanthous — relating to plants whose leaves and flowers expand simultaneously
  • talcahuano — a seaport in central Chile.
  • tannhauser — a German lyric poet of the 13th century: a well-known legend tells of his stay with Venus in the Venusberg and his later repentance.
  • tarahumara — a member of an American Indian people of the Sierra Madre region of the state of Chihuahua, Mexico.
  • tatpurusha — a compound of two words in which the first is an attributive noun and the second a substantive, as bookcase, aircraft, or flowerpot.
  • tauromachy — the art or technique of bullfighting.
  • tautophony — the repetition of a sound
  • tchoukball — a non-contact, team-orientated, ballgame developed by the Swiss biologist Dr H. Brandt, the object of the game is to throw the ball at a frame mounted with a springy surface so that it rebounds without being caught by the defending team
  • telemachus — the son of Odysseus and Penelope who helped Odysseus to kill the suitors of Penelope.
  • thankfully — feeling or expressing gratitude; appreciative.
  • thaumasite — a colourless or white silicate mineral, Ca3Si(CO3)(SO4)(OH)6·12(H2O)
  • the absurd — the conception of the world, esp in Existentialist thought, as neither designed nor predictable but irrational and meaningless
  • the buddha — ?563–483 bc, a title applied to Gautama Siddhartha, a nobleman and religious teacher working in N India, regarded by his followers as the most recent rediscoverer of the path to enlightenment: the founder of Buddhism
  • the cratur — whisky or whiskey
  • the undead — such supernatural beings collectively
  • the yakuza — a Japanese criminal organization involved in illegal gambling, extortion, gun-running, etc
  • the-plague — French La Peste. a novel (1947) by Albert Camus.
  • thereabout — about or near that place or time: last June or thereabout.
  • thinsulate — a type of thermal insulation made of synthetic fibers, used esp. as a lining in clothing
  • thiouracil — a white, slightly water-soluble, bitter, crystalline powder C 4 H 4 N 2 OS, used chiefly in treating hyperthyroidism by reducing the activity of the thyroid gland.
  • thoughtway — a habitual manner of thought in a particular group of people.
  • thousandth — last in order of a series of a thousand.
  • thrash out — to beat soundly in punishment; flog.
  • throughway — a limited-access toll highway providing a means of direct transportation between distant areas for high-speed automobile traffic.
  • thumbstall — a protective sheath of rubber, leather, or the like for the thumb.
  • thunbergia — any of various plants, vines, or shrubs belonging to the genus Thunbergia, of the acanthus family, native to Africa and southern Asia, having variously colored flowers and often cultivated as ornamentals in warm regions.
  • thuringian — a state in central Germany. 5985 sq. mi. (15,550 sq. km) Capital: Erfurt.
  • thysanuran — Also, thysanurous. belonging or pertaining to the order Thysanura, comprising the bristletails.
  • tiahuanaco — of or relating to a pre-Incan culture existing c300 b.c.–a.d. c900, chiefly in Peru and Bolivia, characterized by the use of megalithic masonry carved with geometric and animal designs, stone statues, polychrome pottery, and bronze artifacts.
  • tibouchina — a member of the genus Tibouchina, which includes 350 species of shrubs found in South America
  • tipu sahib — 1750–99, sultan of Mysore 1782–99.
  • tophaceous — a calcareous concretion formed in the soft tissue about a joint, in the pinna of the ear, etc., especially in gout; a gouty deposit.
  • touch base — make contact
  • touchpaper — paper saturated with potassium nitrate to make it burn slowly, used for igniting explosives and fireworks.
  • trachelium — (in classical architecture) any member between the hypotrachelium and the capital of a column.
  • transhuman — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or having the nature of people: human frailty.
  • trap house — a shelter from which the clay pigeons are released in trapshooting.
  • triumphant — having achieved victory or success; victorious; successful.
  • tudor arch — a four-centered arch, the inner pair of curves having a radius much greater than that of the outer pair.
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