10-letter words containing r, u, c, t
- tout court — simply; briefly
- trabeculae — Anatomy, Botany. a structural part resembling a small beam or crossbar.
- trabecular — Anatomy, Botany. a structural part resembling a small beam or crossbar.
- trachelium — (in classical architecture) any member between the hypotrachelium and the capital of a column.
- track suit — a sweat suit, usually with a long-sleeved jacket and long pants, worn by athletes, especially runners, before and after actual competition or during workouts.
- traduction — a transmission or communication
- traductive — able to be deduced or transmitted
- trance out — to go into a trancelike or ecstatic state, esp through the effects of drugs or music
- 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.
- translucid — translucent.
- tree yucca — Joshua tree.
- trekschuit — a horse-drawn boat, literally a tugboat, specific to the Netherlands
- trichinous — pertaining to or of the nature of trichinosis.
- 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.
- triclinium — a couch extending along three sides of a table, for reclining on at meals.
- 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.
- trilocular — having three loculi, chambers, or cells.
- trinocular — of or relating to a binocular microscope equipped with a third lens system for photographic recording.
- 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.
- truck crop — a vegetable crop raised on a truck farm.
- truck farm — a farm or piece of land for the growing of vegetables and fruit for sale, especially to local or nearby markets.
- truck stop — a gas station, usually at the side of a major highway, where truck drivers stop for fuel, and often including a restaurant, sleeping and showering rooms, a store selling basic items, etc.
- 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.
- trump card — Cards. trump1 (def 1a).
- trumscheit — trumpet marine.
- truncating — the process of shortening a variable
- truncation — the act or process of truncating.
- trunk call — a long-distance phone call.
- trunk curl — another term for sit-up
- 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.
- tudor arch — a four-centered arch, the inner pair of curves having a radius much greater than that of the outer pair.
- 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.