10-letter words containing r, e, t, u, s
- suzerainty — the position or authority of a suzerain.
- take turns — to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
- tankbuster — an aircraft, missile, etc designed to destroy tanks
- 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.
- tartareous — resembling, of the nature of, or relating to tartar
- telecourse — a course of study presented on television, as for local home viewers receiving credit at a community college.
- temerously — in a temerous manner
- tendrilous — a threadlike, leafless organ of climbing plants, often growing in spiral form, which attaches itself to or twines round some other body, so as to support the plant.
- tenebrious — dark; gloomy; obscure.
- tersanctus — Sanctus (def 1).
- testicular — of or relating to the testes.
- tetterbush — an evergreen shrub, Lyonia lucida, of the southeastern U.S., having leathery leaves and white to pink flowers.
- tewkesbury — a town in N Gloucestershire, in W England: final defeat of the Lancastrians in the Wars of the Roses 1471.
- the absurd — the conception of the world, esp in Existentialist thought, as neither designed nor predictable but irrational and meaningless
- theocritus — flourished c270 b.c, Greek poet.
- thresh out — to beat soundly in punishment; flog.
- thumbscrew — a screw, the head of which is so constructed that it may be turned easily with the thumb and a finger.
- thunderous — producing thunder or a loud noise like thunder: thunderous applause.
- thuner see — German name of Lake of Thun.
- to be sure — free from doubt as to the reliability, character, action, etc., of something: to be sure of one's data.
- tolu resin — tolu.
- tom cruise — Tom (Thomas Cruise Mapother, 4th) born 1962, U.S. film actor.
- tonguester — a person who talks endlessly or who gossips
- toolpusher — a foreman who supervises drilling operations on an oil rig
- 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.
- transputer — A transputer is a type of fast powerful microchip.
- transudate — the act or process of transuding.
- transvalue — to reestimate the value of, especially on a basis differing from accepted standards; reappraise; reevaluate.
- trap house — a shelter from which the clay pigeons are released in trapshooting.
- traumatise — Pathology. to injure (tissues) by force or by thermal, chemical, etc., agents.
- treasonous — treasonable.
- 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
- tremendous — extraordinarily great in size, amount, or intensity: a tremendous ocean liner; tremendous talent.
- tricoteuse — a woman who knits, with reference to women who sat and witnessed the public executions taking place during the French Revolution
- trioecious — of or relating to a species having male, female, and hermaphrodite flowers on different plants.
- tripterous — three-winged; having three wings or winglike expansions.
- trisulcate — having three grooves or furrows
- trisulfide — a sulfide containing three sulfur atoms.
- 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
- trolleybus — a passenger bus operating on tires and having an electric motor that draws power from overhead wires.
- tropopause — the boundary, or transitional layer, between the troposphere and the stratosphere.
- trousering — any cloth suitable for trousers
- true basic — (language) A compiled BASIC, by John Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz, requiring no line numbers.
- trumscheit — trumpet marine.
- trunk hose — full, baglike breeches covering the body from the waist to the middle of the thigh or lower, sometimes having the stockings attached in one piece, worn by men in the 16th and 17th centuries.
- trust deed — law: conditions of trust
- trustiness — able to be trusted or relied on; trustworthy; reliable.
- truthiness — the quality of seeming to be true according to one's intuition, opinion, or perception without regard to logic, factual evidence, or the like: the growing trend of truthiness as opposed to truth.
- try square — a device for testing the squareness of carpentry work or the like, or for laying out right angles, consisting of a pair of straightedges fixed at right angles to one another.