10-letter words containing r, u, b, t
- subproject — something that is contemplated, devised, or planned; plan; scheme.
- subquarter — one of the quarterings of a grand quarter.
- subreption — Canon Law. a concealment of the pertinent facts in a petition, as for dispensation or favor, that in certain cases nullifies the grant. Compare obreption (def 1).
- subroutine — an instruction sequence in a machine or assembly language program that can be prewritten and referred to as often as needed. Compare procedure (def 4a).
- substellar — having a mass smaller than the mass needed by stars for nuclear fusion
- substernal — of or relating to the sternum.
- substratal — something that is spread or laid under something else; a stratum or layer lying under another.
- substratum — something that is spread or laid under something else; a stratum or layer lying under another.
- subsultory — moving in starts or twitches; relating to subsultus
- subterfuge — an artifice or expedient used to evade a rule, escape a consequence, hide something, etc.
- subterrain — a cave or subterranean room.
- subterrane — a cave or subterranean room.
- subtractor — in electronics, a circuit of which the output depends upon the difference between two inputs
- subtrahend — a number that is subtracted from another.
- subtropics — the region lying between the tropics and temperate lands
- subvariety — a minor or subordinate variety
- sugar beet — various cultivars of a beet, Beta vulgaris, of the amaranth family, having a white root, cultivated for the sugar it yields.
- superbitch — an exceptionally spiteful woman, a very bitchy person
- tabularize — to tabulate.
- tabulatory — relating to tabulation
- tambourine — a small drum consisting of a circular frame with a skin stretched over it and several pairs of metal jingles attached to the frame, played by striking with the knuckles, shaking, and the like.
- tamburitza — one of a family of mandolinlike stringed instruments of southern Slavic regions.
- tankbuster — an aircraft, missile, etc designed to destroy tanks
- tax burden — the amount of tax paid by a person, company, or country in a specified period considered as a proportion of total income in that period.
- tenebrious — dark; gloomy; obscure.
- 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
- the burren — a limestone area on the North Clare coast in the Irish Republic, famous for its wild flowers, caves, and dolmens
- thereabout — about or near that place or time: last June or thereabout.
- thumbprint — a mark or impression of the ventral surface of the last joint of the thumb.
- thumbscrew — a screw, the head of which is so constructed that it may be turned easily with the thumb and a finger.
- thunbergia — any of various plants, vines, or shrubs belonging to the genus Thunbergia, of the acanthus family, native to Africa and southern Asia, having variously colored flowers and often cultivated as ornamentals in warm regions.
- thunderbox — a portable boxlike lavatory seat that can be placed over a hole in the ground
- to be sure — free from doubt as to the reliability, character, action, etc., of something: to be sure of one's data.
- toothbrush — a small brush with a long handle, for cleaning the teeth.
- tourbillon — a device in a mechanical watch which prevents errors due to changes in gravity
- trabeculae — Anatomy, Botany. a structural part resembling a small beam or crossbar.
- trabecular — Anatomy, Botany. a structural part resembling a small beam or crossbar.
- triturable — capable of being triturated.
- trolleybus — a passenger bus operating on tires and having an electric motor that draws power from overhead wires.
- troubadour — one of a class of medieval lyric poets who flourished principally in southern France from the 11th to 13th centuries, and wrote songs and poems of a complex metrical form in langue d'oc, chiefly on themes of courtly love. Compare trouvère.
- troubledly — in a troubled manner
- 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 basic — (language) A compiled BASIC, by John Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz, requiring no line numbers.
- tube train — an underground train, esp in London
- tuber fern — a tropical, erect fern, Nephrolepis cordifolia, having sharply toothed and numerously segmented fronds.
- 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