10-letter words containing r, e, c, u, t
- 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
- troutperch — a North American freshwater fish, Percopsis omiscomaycas, exhibiting characteristics of both trouts and perches.
- truculence — fierce; cruel; savagely brutal.
- truculency — fierce; cruel; savagely brutal.
- true basic — (language) A compiled BASIC, by John Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz, requiring no line numbers.
- true-crime — based on or describing an actual crime.
- trumscheit — trumpet marine.
- tubercular — pertaining to tuberculosis; tuberculous.
- tuberculin — a sterile liquid prepared from cultures of the tubercle bacillus, used in the diagnosis and, formerly, in the treatment of tuberculosis.
- tuberculo- — tubercular
- tuberculum — a tubercle.
- tucker-bag — a bag used to carry food.
- tucker-box — a box used to store or carry food.
- tule perch — See under perch2 (def 3).
- tumorgenic — producing tumours
- turbulence — the quality or state of being turbulent; violent disorder or commotion.
- turbulency — the quality or state of being turbulent; violent disorder or commotion.
- turcophile — a person who favors or admires Turkey, Turkish customs, or Turks.
- turcophobe — a person who has a morbid fear of Turks.
- turgescent — becoming swollen; swelling.
- turnbuckle — a link or sleeve with a swivel at one end and an internal screw thread at the other, or with an internal screw thread at each end, used as a means of uniting or coupling, and of tightening, two parts, as the ends of two rods.
- turtleback — Archaeology. tortoise-core.
- turtleneck — a high, close-fitting collar, often rolled or turned down, appearing especially on pullover sweaters.
- ulcerating — to form an ulcer; become ulcerous: His skin ulcerated after exposure to radioactive material.
- ulceration — to form an ulcer; become ulcerous: His skin ulcerated after exposure to radioactive material.
- ulcerative — causing ulceration.
- ultraclean — extremely clean, especially free of germs: an ultraclean laboratory.
- ultrafiche — a form of microfiche with the images greatly reduced in size, generally by a factor of 100 or more.
- unaccurate — free from error or defect; consistent with a standard, rule, or model; precise; exact.
- uncaptured — to take by force or stratagem; take prisoner; seize: The police captured the burglar.
- uncarpeted — having no carpet
- unchristen — unchristian
- uncloister — to free from confinement of any kind
- unconcrete — constituting an actual thing or instance; real: a concrete proof of his sincerity.
- uncontrite — caused by or showing sincere remorse.
- uncorseted — Sometimes, corsets. a close-fitting undergarment, stiffened with whalebone or similar material and often capable of being tightened by lacing, enclosing the trunk: worn, especially by women, to shape and support the body; stays.
- uncreative — having the quality or power of creating.
- uncredited — commendation or honor given for some action, quality, etc.: Give credit where it is due.
- uncultured — the lack or absence of culture: Much modern fiction is a product of unculture.
- underactor — a secondary actor or agent
- undercount — to count less than the full number or amount of: The mayor claimed the census had undercounted the city's population.
- undercrest — to support with a crest
- undercroft — a vault or chamber under the ground, especially in a church.