10-letter words containing a, u, t, o, h
- splash out — If you splash out on something, especially on a luxury, you buy it even though it costs a lot of money.
- statehouse — the building in which the legislature of a state sits; the capitol of a state.
- steakhouse — a restaurant specializing in beefsteak.
- stomachful — the amount one's stomach can hold
- stomachous — resentful, sullen, obstinate
- sulphonate — a salt or ester of any sulphonic acid containing the ion RSO2O– or the group RSO2O–, R being an organic group
- 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.
- 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
- thereabout — about or near that place or time: last June or thereabout.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- trap house — a shelter from which the clay pigeons are released in trapshooting.
- tudor arch — a four-centered arch, the inner pair of curves having a radius much greater than that of the outer pair.
- turboshaft — a gas turbine used to deliver shaft power, as to a helicopter rotor.
- turnbroach — (formerly) a servant whose job was to turn the spit on which meat, poultry, etc, was roasting
- typhaceous — belonging to the family of flowering plants Typhaceae
- udon thani — a city in NE Thailand.
- ultrashort — extremely short.
- unactorish — not resembling or characteristic of actors or acting
- under oath — having sworn to tell the truth
- unfathomed — a unit of length equal to six feet (1.8 meters): used chiefly in nautical measurements. Abbreviation: fath.
- washed out — capable of being washed without shrinking, fading, etc.; washable: a wash dress.
- washed-out — faded, especially from washing.
- waterhouse — Alfred. 1830–1905, British architect; a leader of the Gothic Revival. His buildings include Manchester Town Hall (1868) and the Natural History Museum, London (1881)
- what about — You use what about at the beginning of a question when you make a suggestion, offer, or request.
- whatabouts — what one is doing generally; things that are occupying someone
- whereabout — whereabouts.
- whirlabout — a whirling around in a circle.
- would that — If you say 'would that' something were the case, you are saying that you wish it were the case.
- youthquake — (informal) A noticeable shift in society or culture in response to the activities or tastes of younger members of the culture.
- yucca moth — any of several white moths of the genus Tegeticula that pollinate the yucca plant, the larvae of which develop in the ovary of the plant, consuming some of the seeds.