15-letter words containing o, u, t, r
- thermodiffusion — thermal diffusion.
- think you're it — If you say that someone thinks they're it, you mean that they think they are better or more important than they really are.
- thiobarbiturate — a barbiturate in which a sulphur atom has replaced one oxygen atom
- thorium dioxide — a white, heavy, water-insoluble powder, ThO 2 , used chiefly in incandescent mantles, as the Welsbach gas mantle.
- thought pattern — habitual way of thinking
- thought process — thinking, train of thought
- thought reading — mind reading.
- three-four time — music: 3/4 time signature
- through traffic — traffic which continues on a road or highway rather than crossing onto a different road
- to do your best — If you do your best or try your best to do something, you try as hard as you can to do it, or do it as well as you can.
- to earn a crust — If you earn a crust, you earn enough money to live on, especially by doing work you would prefer not to do.
- to err is human — If you say that to err is human, you mean that it is natural for human beings to make mistakes.
- to good purpose — with a good result or effect; advantageously
- to jump for joy — If you say that someone is jumping for joy, you mean that they are very pleased or happy about something.
- to pull strings — If you pull strings, you use your influence with other people in order to get something done, often unfairly.
- to take up arms — If one group or country takes up arms against another, they prepare to attack and fight them.
- tobacco budworm — the larva of a noctuid moth, Heliothis virescens, that damages the buds and young leaves of tobacco.
- torsion modulus — a coefficient of elasticity of a substance, expressing the ratio between the force per unit area (shearing stress) that laterally deforms the substance and the shear (shearing strain) that is produced by this force.
- torture chamber — a room where somebody is caused extreme physical pain, esp in order to extract information, break resistance, etc
- toucan crossing — a place where people who are walking and cyclists can both cross a busy road together. They press a button at the side of the road, which operates traffic lights to stop the traffic
- tourist traffic — the number of tourists that visit an area
- town councillor — member of municipal government
- trading account — an account similar to a traditional bank account, holding cash and securities, and administered by an investment dealer
- training course — practical programme of study
- training ground — an area where people prepare for sporting competitions, with activities primarily concentrating on skills and fitness
- transequatorial — of, relating to, or near an equator, especially the equator of the earth.
- transfer lounge — the place in an airport where you wait for a transfer from one flight to another
- transfiguration — the act of transfiguring.
- transform fault — a strike-slip fault that offsets a mid-ocean ridge in opposing directions on either side of an axis of seafloor spreading.
- traumatological — relating to traumatology
- travel brochure — a brochure, often from a travel agency, which advertises holidays, hotels, etc
- tricotyledonous — having three cotyledons.
- trifluoperazine — a compound, C 21 H 24 F 3 N 3 S, used as an antipsychotic.
- trinitrotoluene — TNT.
- troubled waters — a confused or chaotic state of affairs: The situation was terrible, but like many politicians he was attracted by troubled waters.
- troubleshooting — to act or be employed as a troubleshooter: She troubleshoots for a large industrial firm.
- trout fisherman — a fisherman who catches trout
- truck (on) down — to walk in a carefree, leisurely manner; stroll
- truman doctrine — the policy of President Truman, as advocated in his address to Congress on March 12, 1947, to provide military and economic aid to Greece and Turkey and, by extension, to any country threatened by Communism or any totalitarian ideology.
- trust territory — a territory under the administrative control of a country designated by the United Nations.
- trustee process — (in New England) garnishment (def 1).
- trustworthiness — deserving of trust or confidence; dependable; reliable: The treasurer was not entirely trustworthy.
- truth-condition — the circumstances under which a statement is true
- tuberculization — the process of becoming, or of causing people or animals to become, infected with tuberculosis
- turbinate bones — the thin scroll-shaped bones situated on the walls of the nasal passages
- turbojet engine — a jet-propulsion engine in which air from the atmosphere is compressed for combustion by a turbine-driven compressor.
- turf accountant — bookmaker (def 1).
- turgor pressure — the pressure exerted on a plant cell wall by water passing into the cell by osmosis
- turkish cypriot — denoting ethnically Turkish inhabitants of Cyprus
- turkish tobacco — a strongly aromatic tobacco, grown chiefly in Turkey and Greece, used in cigarettes.