10-letter words containing d, o, r, t, u
- sub-editor — A sub-editor is a person whose job it is to check and correct articles in newspapers or magazines before they are printed.
- subcordate — almost heart-shaped
- subproduct — a thing produced by labor: products of farm and factory; the product of his thought.
- sudatorium — a hot-air bath for inducing sweating.
- surefooted — not likely to stumble, slip, or fall.
- surmounted — to mount upon; get on the top of; mount upon and cross over: to surmount a hill.
- talk round — If you talk someone round, you persuade them to change their mind so that they agree with you, or agree to do what you want them to do
- tendrilous — a threadlike, leafless organ of climbing plants, often growing in spiral form, which attaches itself to or twines round some other body, so as to support the plant.
- tenpounder — ladyfish.
- thunderbox — a portable boxlike lavatory seat that can be placed over a hole in the ground
- thunderous — producing thunder or a loud noise like thunder: thunderous applause.
- torquemada — Tomás de [taw-mahs th e] /tɔˈmɑs ðɛ/ (Show IPA), 1420–98, Spanish inquisitor general.
- tour guide — A tour guide is a person employed by a travel company to assist people who are on vacation.
- traduction — a transmission or communication
- tremendous — extraordinarily great in size, amount, or intensity: a tremendous ocean liner; tremendous talent.
- tripehound — an objectionable person
- troubadour — one of a class of medieval lyric poets who flourished principally in southern France from the 11th to 13th centuries, and wrote songs and poems of a complex metrical form in langue d'oc, chiefly on themes of courtly love. Compare trouvère.
- troubledly — in a troubled manner
- trumpeldor — Joseph, 1880–1920, Zionist leader, born in Russia.
- trunk road — A trunk road is a major road that has been specially built for travelling long distances. A trunk road is not as wide or as fast as a motorway.
- tudor arch — a four-centered arch, the inner pair of curves having a radius much greater than that of the outer pair.
- turnaround — the total time consumed in the round trip of a ship, aircraft, vehicle, etc.
- turned off — to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
- turned out — presented: groomed or dressed
- turtledove — any of several small to medium-sized Old World doves of the genus Streptopelia, especially S. turtur, of Europe, having a long, graduated tail: noted for its soft, cooing call.
- ultrasound — Physics. sound with a frequency greater than 20,000 Hz, approximately the upper limit of human hearing.
- un-grouted — a thin, coarse mortar poured into various narrow cavities, as masonry joints or rock fissures, to fill them and consolidate the adjoining objects into a solid mass.
- unassorted — consisting of different or various kinds; miscellaneous: assorted flavors; assorted sizes.
- unbothered — not experiencing mental or physical discomfort: He was unbothered by the cold. He was unbothered about not being picked for the team.
- uncorseted — Sometimes, corsets. a close-fitting undergarment, stiffened with whalebone or similar material and often capable of being tightened by lacing, enclosing the trunk: worn, especially by women, to shape and support the body; stays.
- under foot — on the ground; beneath one's feet
- under oath — having sworn to tell the truth
- underactor — a secondary actor or agent
- undercount — to count less than the full number or amount of: The mayor claimed the census had undercounted the city's population.
- undercroft — a vault or chamber under the ground, especially in a church.
- undernoted — well-known; celebrated; famous: a noted scholar.
- underquote — to offer (stocks, merchandise, etc.) at a price lower than the market price or some other quoted price; offer at a price reduced by (a specified amount).
- undershoot — to shoot or launch a projectile that strikes under or short of (a target).
- understock — to provide an insufficient quantity, as of merchandise, supplies, or livestock.
- understood — simple past tense and past participle of understand.
- understory — the shrubs and plants growing beneath the main canopy of a forest.
- underthrow — to throw a ball or other object short of (the intended receiver or target)
- undertoned — in an undertone
- underwrote — simple past tense of underwrite.
- undoctored — not doctored or altered; genuine
- undulatory — Also, undular. moving in undulations.
- unescorted — a group of persons, or a single person, accompanying another or others for protection, guidance, or courtesy: An escort of sailors accompanied the queen.
- unfactored — one of the elements contributing to a particular result or situation: Poverty is only one of the factors in crime.
- unforested — not forested
- unforetold — not foretold