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16-letter words containing e, u, r, o

  • surrogate mother — a person who acts in the place of another person's biological mother.
  • surround theater — a theater, concert hall, or the like, in which seats are arranged around or on all four sides of a central stage.
  • surveyor's chain — a series of objects connected one after the other, usually in the form of a series of metal rings passing through one another, used either for various purposes requiring a flexible tie with high tensile strength, as for hauling, supporting, or confining, or in various ornamental and decorative forms.
  • surveyor's level — level (def 8a).
  • swiss tournament — (in certain games and sports) a tournament system in which players are paired in each round according to the scores they then have, playing a new opponent each time. More players can take part than in an all-play-all tournament of the same duration
  • synchronous idle — (character)   (SYN) The mnemonic for ASCII character 22.
  • take the trouble — If you take the trouble to do something, you do something which requires a small amount of additional effort.
  • tandem computers — (company)   A US computer manufacturer. Quarterly sales $544M, profits $49M (Aug 1994).
  • telecommunicator — to transmit (data, sound, images, etc.) by telecommunications.
  • telephone number — digits dialled to reach sb by phone
  • temperature spot — a sensory area in the skin that selectively responds to increased or decreased temperature; a warm spot or a cold spot.
  • teutoburg forest — region of low, forested mountains, mostly in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany: highest point, c. 1,500 ft (457 m)
  • teutoburger wald — a chain of wooded hills in Germany, in Westphalia: Romans defeated by German tribes a.d.
  • texas revolution — a revolutionary movement, 1832–36, in which U.S. settlers asserted their independence from Mexico and established the republic of Texas.
  • texture modifier — a substance that is added to food products to increase viscosity
  • the first couple — the US president and their spouse
  • the four hundred — the most exclusive or affluent social clique in a particular place
  • the gang of four — a radical faction within the Chinese Communist Party that emerged as a political force in the spring of 1976 and was suppressed later that year. Its members, Zhang Chunqiao, Wang Hongwen, Yao Wenyuan, and Jiang Qing, were tried and imprisoned (1981)
  • the gospel truth — the unquestionable truth
  • the high country — sheep pastures in the foothills of the Southern Alps, New Zealand
  • the hitler youth — a Nazi paramilitary youth organization (1922-45)
  • the king country — an area in the centre of North Island, New Zealand: home of the King Movement, a nineteenth-century Māori separatist movement
  • the oil industry — the industry that produces and delivers petroleum and petroleum products
  • the preconscious — preconscious mental activity
  • the resurrection — the rising of Jesus from the dead after his death and burial
  • the scots guards — a regiment of Guards Division of the British Army which dates back to 1642
  • the unobservable — something that cannot be observed
  • the west country — the southwest of England, esp Cornwall, Devon, and Somerset
  • there you are/go — You say 'there you are' or 'there you go' when you are offering something to someone.
  • there's no hurry — If you say to someone 'There's no hurry' or 'I'm in no hurry' you are telling them that there is no need for them to do something immediately.
  • thermal neutrons — a neutron with low kinetic energy, especially one slowed by the moderator in a nuclear reactor.
  • thermoregulation — the regulation of body temperature.
  • thought disorder — disorganized speech, as flight of ideas or loosening of associations, thought to reflect disorganized thinking and occurring as a symptom of some types of mental illness, as manic disorder or schizophrenia.
  • three-point turn — When the driver of a vehicle does a three-point turn, he or she turns the vehicle by driving forwards in a curve, then backwards in a curve, and then forwards in a curve.
  • through the mill — a factory for certain kinds of manufacture, as paper, steel, or textiles.
  • through-composed — having different music for each verse: a through-composed song. Compare strophic (def 2).
  • tierra del fuego — a group of islands at the S tip of South America, separated from the mainland by the Strait of Magellan: jointly owned by Argentina and Chile; boundary disputed. 27,476 sq. mi. (71,165 sq. km).
  • to bite your lip — If you bite your lip or your tongue, you stop yourself from saying something that you want to say, because it would be the wrong thing to say in the circumstances.
  • to come a gutzer — to make an error or blunder
  • to dip your toes — If you dip your toes into something or dip your toes into the waters of something, you start doing that thing slowly and carefully, because you are not sure whether it will be successful or whether you will like it.
  • to get your oats — to have sexual intercourse regularly
  • to overabound in — to have or contain too large a quantity or number of something
  • to run an errand — If you run an errand for someone, you do or get something for them, usually by making a short trip somewhere.
  • 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.
  • torque converter — a fluid coupling in which three or more rotors are used, one of which can be checked so that output torque is augmented and output speed diminished.
  • 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.
  • toulouse-lautrec — Henri Marie Raymond de [ahn-ree ma-ree re-mawn duh] /ɑ̃ˈri maˈri rɛˈmɔ̃ də/ (Show IPA), 1864–1901, French painter and lithographer.
  • 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.
  • transport number — that fraction of the total electric current that anions and cations carry in passing through an electrolytic solution.
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