10-letter words containing r, o, u, e
- toolpusher — a foreman who supervises drilling operations on an oil rig
- torquemada — Tomás de [taw-mahs th e] /tɔˈmɑs ðɛ/ (Show IPA), 1420–98, Spanish inquisitor general.
- touchpaper — paper saturated with potassium nitrate to make it burn slowly, used for igniting explosives and fireworks.
- tour guide — A tour guide is a person employed by a travel company to assist people who are on vacation.
- tourmaline — any of a group of silicate minerals of complex composition, containing boron, aluminum, etc., usually black but having various colored, transparent varieties used as gems.
- tournament — a trial of skill in some game, in which competitors play a series of contests: a chess tournament.
- tourniquet — Medicine/Medical, Surgery. any device for arresting bleeding by forcibly compressing a blood vessel, as a bandage tightened by twisting.
- trance out — to go into a trancelike or ecstatic state, esp through the effects of drugs or music
- trap house — a shelter from which the clay pigeons are released in trapshooting.
- travelogue — a lecture, slide show, or motion picture describing travels.
- treasonous — treasonable.
- tree house — a small house, especially one for children to play in, built or placed up in the branches of a tree.
- 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.
- tripehound — an objectionable person
- tripterous — three-winged; having three wings or winglike expansions.
- 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.
- tropaeolum — any garden plant of the genus Tropaeolum esp the nasturtium
- tropopause — the boundary, or transitional layer, between the troposphere and the stratosphere.
- troubledly — in a troubled manner
- trousering — any cloth suitable for trousers
- troutperch — a North American freshwater fish, Percopsis omiscomaycas, exhibiting characteristics of both trouts and perches.
- trouvaille — a windfall
- trubetzkoy — N(ikolai) S(ergeievich) [nyi-kuh-lahy syir-gye-yi-vyich] /nyɪ kʌˈlaɪ syɪrˈgyɛ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1890–1938, Russian linguist in Austria.
- true north — the direction of the north pole from a given point.
- trumpeldor — Joseph, 1880–1920, Zionist leader, born in Russia.
- 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.
- tuberculo- — tubercular
- tuberiform — in the form of a tuber
- tuberosity — a rough projection or protuberance of a bone, as for the attachment of a muscle.
- tucker-box — a box used to store or carry food.
- tumorgenic — producing tumours
- turcophile — a person who favors or admires Turkey, Turkish customs, or Turks.
- turcophobe — a person who has a morbid fear of Turks.
- turkey oak — any of several oaks, as Quercus cerris, of Eurasia, or Q. laevis and Q. incana, of the southern U.S., that grow on dry, sandy barrens.
- turkophile — a person who favors or admires Turkey, Turkish customs, or Turks.
- turkophobe — a person who has a morbid fear of Turks.
- turle knot — a special kind of knot for tying a leader, especially of gut, to an eyed hook or fly.
- turned off — to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
- turned out — presented: groomed or dressed
- turtledove — any of several small to medium-sized Old World doves of the genus Streptopelia, especially S. turtur, of Europe, having a long, graduated tail: noted for its soft, cooing call.
- two-suiter — a suitcase designed to hold two suits and additional smaller items.
- ulceration — to form an ulcer; become ulcerous: His skin ulcerated after exposure to radioactive material.
- ulteriorly — being beyond what is seen or avowed; intentionally kept concealed: ulterior motives.
- ultroneous — spontaneous; willing; voluntary
- umber moth — any of various brownish geometrid moths, esp the waved umber (Menophra abruptaria) and small waved umber (Horisme vitalbata), that are cryptically marked to merge with tree bark, and the mottled umber (Erannis defoliaria) whose looper larvae can strip branches and even trees
- umberto ii — 1904–83, the last king of Italy (1946), following the abdication of his father Victor Emmanuel III: abdicated when a referendum supported the abolition of the monarchy
- umbrageous — creating or providing shade; shady: an umbrageous tree.