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11-letter words containing d, o, r, t, u

  • round steak — a steak cut from directly above the hind leg of beef.
  • round table — conference, meeting
  • round tower — a freestanding circular stone belfry built in Ireland from the 10th century beside a monastery and used as a place of refuge
  • round-table — noting or pertaining to a conference, discussion, or deliberation in which each participant has equal status, equal time to present views, etc.: round-table discussions.
  • rudderstock — the vertical member at the forward edge of a rudder, hinged at the sternpost and attached to the helm or steering gear.
  • rufter hood — a temporary, loosely fitted hood used on newly captured hawks.
  • run to seed — the fertilized, matured ovule of a flowering plant, containing an embryo or rudimentary plant.
  • shootaround — an informal match or practice session
  • soft ground — an etching ground usually mixed with tallow. Compare hard ground.
  • sound truck — a truck carrying a loudspeaker from which speeches, music, etc., are broadcast, as for advertising, campaigning, or the like.
  • southbridge — a town in S Massachusetts.
  • southlander — a person from the south
  • southwardly — toward the south
  • square-toed — with the toes squared off
  • stock guard — a barrier for keeping cattle and other animals off the tracks or right of way.
  • stoneground — (of wheat or other grain) ground between millstones, especially those made of burstone, so as to retain the whole of the grain and preserve nutritional content.
  • storm cloud — raincloud before storm
  • stourbridge — an industrial town in W central England, in Dudley unitary authority, West Midlands. Pop: 55 480 (2001)
  • strikebound — closed by a strike: a strikebound factory.
  • study group — an informal gathering of people who convene regularly to exchange ideas and information on a specific subject.
  • sub-product — a thing produced by labor: products of farm and factory; the product of his thought.
  • subdirector — an assistant or secondary director
  • subordinate — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
  • sugarcoated — to cover with sugar: to sugarcoat a pill.
  • suraddition — an additional title
  • sure-footed — not likely to stumble, slip, or fall.
  • talk around — to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry.
  • tetrandrous — having four stamens.
  • tetrapodous — of or related to a tetrapod
  • thermoduric — (of certain microorganisms) able to survive high temperatures, as during pasteurization.
  • third house — a legislative lobby.
  • thunderbolt — a flash of lightning with the accompanying thunder.
  • to run wild — If something or someone, especially a child, runs wild, they behave in a natural, free, or uncontrolled way.
  • toolbuilder — Tool Builder Kit
  • top-up card — a card bought by a mobile phone user entitling him or her to a stipulated amount of credit for future calls
  • torpedinous — of, relating to, or resembling a torpedo
  • touch-ready — (of software) ready to work on touch-screen computers and devices
  • trade route — any route usually taken by merchant ships, caravans, etc.
  • trade union — a labor union of craftspeople or workers in related crafts, as distinguished from general workers or a union including all workers in an industry.
  • transductor — a magnetic device that amplifies electronic signals
  • tricoloured — having three colours
  • tridominium — the shared rule of three states
  • trifluoride — a fluoride containing three atoms of fluorine.
  • trojan duck — a duck that is a carrier of avian flu and is therefore a threat to other birds and also to humans, but which shows no outward signs of infection
  • trombiculid — (of a mite) belonging to the family Trombiculidae
  • troubadours — 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.
  • truncheoned — the club carried by a police officer; billy.
  • tuberculoid — resembling a tubercle.
  • tudorbethan — (of a contemporary building) imitative of Tudor and Elizabethan architecture
  • turn around — move to face away
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