10-letter words containing h, u, e, r, t
- shuttering — a solid or louvered movable cover for a window.
- slaughtery — a slaughterhouse
- southerner — a native or inhabitant of the south.
- southernly — southerly.
- spherulite — a rounded aggregate of radiating crystals found in obsidian and other glassy igneous rocks.
- storehouse — a building in which things are stored.
- stoutherie — theft
- stouthrief — theft using force or violence
- stretchout — a deliberate extension of time for meeting a production quota.
- subchapter — a subdivision especially of a body of laws.
- subcharter — to rent a chartered vehicle
- subtrahend — a number that is subtracted from another.
- sulphurate — to combine or treat with sulphur or a sulphur compound
- superbitch — an exceptionally spiteful woman, a very bitchy person
- superlight — extremely light
- superthick — extremely thick
- supertight — extremely tight
- sure thing — something that is or is supposed to be a certain success, as a bet or a business venture: He thinks that real estate is a sure thing.
- suretyship — the relationship between the surety, the principal debtor, and the creditor.
- sutherland — Earl Wilbur, Jr. 1915–74, U.S. biochemist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1971.
- tannhauser — a German lyric poet of the 13th century: a well-known legend tells of his stay with Venus in the Venusberg and his later repentance.
- tetterbush — an evergreen shrub, Lyonia lucida, of the southeastern U.S., having leathery leaves and white to pink flowers.
- the absurd — the conception of the world, esp in Existentialist thought, as neither designed nor predictable but irrational and meaningless
- the burren — a limestone area on the North Clare coast in the Irish Republic, famous for its wild flowers, caves, and dolmens
- the cratur — whisky or whiskey
- the crunch — the critical moment or situation
- the dergue — the socialist ruling body of Ethiopia, established in 1974
- the gutter — a poverty-stricken, degraded, or criminal environment
- the purple — high rank; nobility
- theocritus — flourished c270 b.c, Greek poet.
- thereabout — about or near that place or time: last June or thereabout.
- thereunder — under or beneath that.
- three-four — designating or of a musical rhythm with three quarter notes to a measure
- thresh out — to beat soundly in punishment; flog.
- thrum-eyed — (of flowers, esp primulas) having the stigma on a short style below the anthers, which lie in the mouth of the corolla on big stamens
- thruppence — threepence.
- thumbscrew — a screw, the head of which is so constructed that it may be turned easily with the thumb and a finger.
- thunbergia — any of various plants, vines, or shrubs belonging to the genus Thunbergia, of the acanthus family, native to Africa and southern Asia, having variously colored flowers and often cultivated as ornamentals in warm regions.
- thunderbox — a portable boxlike lavatory seat that can be placed over a hole in the ground
- thundering — of, relating to, or accompanied by thunder.
- thunderous — producing thunder or a loud noise like thunder: thunderous applause.
- thuner see — German name of Lake of Thun.
- toolpusher — a foreman who supervises drilling operations on an oil rig
- touchpaper — paper saturated with potassium nitrate to make it burn slowly, used for igniting explosives and fireworks.
- trachelium — (in classical architecture) any member between the hypotrachelium and the capital of a column.
- trap house — a shelter from which the clay pigeons are released in trapshooting.
- tree house — a small house, especially one for children to play in, built or placed up in the branches of a tree.
- trekschuit — a horse-drawn boat, literally a tugboat, specific to the Netherlands
- tripehound — an objectionable person
- triumphery — a triumvir