10-letter words containing r, o, t, h
- torch song — a popular song concerned with unhappiness or failure in love.
- torchlight — the light of a torch or torches.
- touchpaper — paper saturated with potassium nitrate to make it burn slowly, used for igniting explosives and fireworks.
- tovarishch — comrade (used as a term of address in the Soviet Union).
- tow-haired — having blond and sometimes tousled hair
- tracheolar — of or relating to the tracheole
- track shoe — a light, heelless, usually leather shoe having either steel spikes for use outdoors on a cinder or dirt track, or a rubber sole for use indoors on a board floor.
- track shot — a camera shot in which the cameraman follows a specific person or event in the action
- trade show — show (def 22).
- 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.
- treehopper — any of numerous homopterous jumping insects of the family Membracidae, that have an enlarged prothorax and feed on the juices of plants, often injuring the plants.
- trichinose — to infest with parasitic worms (trichinae)
- trichinous — pertaining to or of the nature of trichinosis.
- trichocyst — an organ of offense and defense embedded in the outer cytoplasm of certain protozoans, consisting of a small elongated sac containing a fine, hairlike filament capable of being ejected.
- trichogyne — a hairlike prolongation of a carpogonium, serving as a receptive organ for the spermatium.
- trichology — the science dealing with the study of the hair and its diseases.
- trichotomy — division into three parts, classes, categories, etc.
- trichroism — pleochroism of a biaxial crystal such that it exhibits three different colors when viewed from three different directions under transmitted light.
- trichromat — any person with normal colour vision, who can therefore see the three primary colours
- trihydroxy — containing three hydroxyl groups.
- trillionth — coming last in a series of a trillion
- trimonthly — occurring, taking place, done, or acted upon every three months.
- tripehound — an objectionable person
- triphthong — Phonetics. a monosyllabic speech-sound sequence perceived as being made up of three differing vowel qualities, as the pronunciation of our, especially in r-dropping dialects.
- trithionic — designating a certain thionic acid
- trochanter — Anatomy. either of two knobs at the top of the femur, the greater on the outside and the lesser on the inside, serving for the attachment of muscles between the thigh and pelvis.
- trochoidal — like, arranged or in the form of a trochoid, or belonging or relating to trochoids
- trochotron — a trochoidal magnetron, in which the electrodes are arranged in a wheel-like pattern around a central cathode, and electrons can be caused to move in a trochoidal curve
- trollopish — like or typical of a trollop
- trophesial — involving or relating to trophesy
- trophology — the study or science of nutrition
- trophosome — an organ in deep-sea tube worms that is colonized by bacteria supplying the host worm with food and energy.
- tropophyte — a tropophilous plant, as a broad-leaved tree.
- troutperch — a North American freshwater fish, Percopsis omiscomaycas, exhibiting characteristics of both trouts and perches.
- true north — the direction of the north pole from a given point.
- 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.
- trunk show — a showing and sale in a retail store of an entire collection of clothing, jewelry, etc., from a particular designer.
- truss hoop — a hoop placed around the staves of a barrel to secure them in place.
- tryptophan — an essential amino acid, (C 8 H 6 N)CH 2 CH(NH 2)COOH, colorless, crystalline, and aromatic, released from proteins by tryptic digestion and a precursor of serotonin. Symbol: W. Abbreviation: Trp;
- tudor arch — a four-centered arch, the inner pair of curves having a radius much greater than that of the outer pair.
- turboshaft — a gas turbine used to deliver shaft power, as to a helicopter rotor.
- turcophile — a person who favors or admires Turkey, Turkish customs, or Turks.
- turcophobe — a person who has a morbid fear of Turks.
- turkophile — a person who favors or admires Turkey, Turkish customs, or Turks.
- turkophobe — a person who has a morbid fear of Turks.
- turnbroach — (formerly) a servant whose job was to turn the spit on which meat, poultry, etc, was roasting
- two-hander — a play for two actors
- two-thirds — Two-thirds of something is an amount that is two out of three equal parts of it.
- typeholder — a small device for holding a few lines of type, used in stamping titles on book covers, or the like.