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

  • to try your hand — If you try your hand at an activity, you attempt to do it, usually for the first time.
  • tobacco industry — business of selling smoking products
  • tongue depressor — a broad, thin piece of wood used by doctors to hold down the patient's tongue during an examination of the mouth and throat.
  • tool builder kit — (tool)   (TBK) A product from IPSYS which allows users to develop CASE tools appropriate to any software engineering methodology.
  • torsion pendulum — a pendulum the weight of which is rotated alternately in opposite directions through a horizontal plane by the torsion of the suspending rod or spring: used for clocks intended to run a long time between windings.
  • touring bindings — specialised ski bindings with releasable locked down heels that can be used for ski touring and backcountry skiing
  • tourist industry — the people, activities, and organizations involved in providing services for people on holiday, for example hotels, restaurants, and tour guides
  • transconductance — the ratio of a small change in anode current of an electron tube at a certain level of output to the corresponding small change of control-electrode voltage, usually expressed in mhos or micromhos.
  • trapezoidal rule — a numerical method for evaluating the area between a curve and an axis by approximating the area with the areas of trapezoids.
  • tread under foot — to oppress
  • treaty of verdun — an agreement reached in 843 ad by three grandsons of Charlemagne, dividing his empire into an E kingdom (later Germany), a W kingdom (later France), and a middle kingdom (containing what became the Low Countries, Lorraine, Burgundy, and N Italy)
  • tridarn cupboard — a Welsh cupboard of the late 17th and 18th centuries, with an open, canopied upper section for display.
  • turn upside down — invert
  • twofold purchase — a purchase using a double standing block and a double running block so as to give a mechanical advantage of four or five, neglecting friction, depending on whether the hauling is on the standing block or the running block.
  • un-contradictory — asserting the contrary or opposite; contradicting; inconsistent; logically opposite: contradictory statements.
  • uncollateralized — lacking or needing no collateral: uncollateralized loans.
  • uncontradictable — to assert the contrary or opposite of; deny directly and categorically.
  • under one's belt — a band of flexible material, as leather or cord, for encircling the waist.
  • under the plough — If an area of land is under the plough, it is used for growing crops. If land is brought or put under the plough, it is ploughed for the first time and is then used for growing crops.
  • under-employment — employed at a job that does not fully use one's skills or abilities.
  • under-modulation — to reproduce (a sound or signal) at below the optimal output level in a recording or broadcasting system, causing it to be distorted.
  • undercompensated — to compensate or pay less than is fair, customary, or expected.
  • underconsumption — the act of consuming, as by use, decay, or destruction.
  • undernourishment — If someone is suffering from undernourishment, they have poor health because they are not eating enough food or are eating the wrong kind of food.
  • underutilization — to fail to utilize fully: to underutilize natural resources.
  • undiscriminatory — characterized by or showing prejudicial treatment, especially as an indication of bias related to age, color, national origin, religion, sex, etc.: discriminatory practices in housing; a discriminatory tax.
  • united provinces — (used with a singular or plural verb) former name of Uttar Pradesh.
  • unmarried mother — a woman who has a baby while she is not married
  • uranium trioxide — a radioactive orange powder, UO 3 , used in the manufacture of some ceramics.
  • voice production — the use of the voice in order to create particular effects
  • well-constructed — to build or form by putting together parts; frame; devise.
  • well-upholstered — (of a person) fat
  • woodland culture — a long pre-Columbian tradition characterized by the corded pottery of a hunting and later agricultural people of the eastern U.S. noted for the construction of burial mounds and other structures and dating from c1000 b.c. to a.d. 1700.
  • wrongful trading — the act of allowing a company to continue trading when its insolvency is inevitable
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