10-letter words containing e, c, r, u
- supercargo — a merchant-ship officer who is in charge of the cargo and the commercial concerns of the voyage.
- superceded — supersede.
- supercedes — supersede.
- supercilia — the fillet above the cyma of a cornice.
- superclass — a category of related classes within a phylum or subphylum.
- superclean — exceptionally clean
- supercover — an insurance policy with additional benefits
- supercycle — any complete round or series of occurrences that repeats or is repeated.
- superfecta — a type of bet, especially on horse races, in which the bettor must select the first four finishers in exact order.
- superflack — an extremely competent, successful press agent
- supermacho — extremely macho
- supermicro — the fastest and most powerful type of microcomputer, with capabilities more commonly associated with minicomputers.
- superscale — on a very large scale
- superscout — a highly skilled scout
- supersonic — greater than the speed of sound waves through air.
- superstock — an exceptionally lucrative investment
- superthick — extremely thick
- supertonic — the second tone of a diatonic scale, being the next above the tonic.
- supertruck — a fast powerful truck used in truck racing
- supragenic — beyond the limits or above the level of genes.
- surfaceman — a labourer, such as a miner, who works at the surface
- surjection — onto function.
- surjective — onto (def 3).
- surveyance — survey; inspection; superintendence
- survivance — survival
- telecourse — a course of study presented on television, as for local home viewers receiving credit at a community college.
- tentacular — Zoology. any of various slender, flexible processes or appendages in animals, especially invertebrates, that serve as organs of touch, prehension, etc.; feeler.
- tersanctus — Sanctus (def 1).
- testicular — of or relating to the testes.
- the cratur — whisky or whiskey
- the crunch — the critical moment or situation
- theocritus — flourished c270 b.c, Greek poet.
- thruppence — threepence.
- thumbscrew — a screw, the head of which is so constructed that it may be turned easily with the thumb and a finger.
- tom cruise — Tom (Thomas Cruise Mapother, 4th) born 1962, U.S. film actor.
- touchpaper — paper saturated with potassium nitrate to make it burn slowly, used for igniting explosives and fireworks.
- trabeculae — Anatomy, Botany. a structural part resembling a small beam or crossbar.
- trabecular — Anatomy, Botany. a structural part resembling a small beam or crossbar.
- trachelium — (in classical architecture) any member between the hypotrachelium and the capital of a column.
- traductive — able to be deduced or transmitted
- trance out — to go into a trancelike or ecstatic state, esp through the effects of drugs or music
- transducer — a device that receives a signal in the form of one type of energy and converts it to a signal in another form: A microphone is a transducer that converts acoustic energy into electrical impulses.
- tree yucca — Joshua tree.
- trekschuit — a horse-drawn boat, literally a tugboat, specific to the Netherlands
- trickle-up — noting or pertaining to the theory that monetary benefits directed toward small businesses and the poor will gradually pass up to big business and the rich.
- tricoteuse — a woman who knits, with reference to women who sat and witnessed the public executions taking place during the French Revolution
- trifurcate — to divide into three forks or branches.
- trioecious — of or relating to a species having male, female, and hermaphrodite flowers on different plants.
- trisulcate — having three grooves or furrows
- triticeous — used to refer to specific small rounded structures of tissue or cartilage, resembling grains of wheat, sometimes found in the area near the larynx and the base of the tongue