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11-letter words containing r, u, h

  • tharborough — a type of constable in William Shakespeare's 'Love's Labours Lost'
  • thaumatrope — a card with different pictures on opposite sides, as a horse on one side and a rider on the other, which appear as if combined when the card is twirled rapidly, thus illustrating the persistence of visual impressions.
  • thaumaturge — a worker of wonders or miracles; magician.
  • thaumaturgy — the working of wonders or miracles; magic.
  • the centaur — the constellation Centaurus
  • the circuit — a series of tournaments in which the same players regularly take part
  • the country — the outlying area or area furthest from the finish of a sports ground or racecourse
  • the curtain — the end of a scene of a play, opera, etc, marked by the fall or closing of the curtain
  • the numbers — an illegal lottery in which small bets are placed on the order of certain numbers, usually the last three, in some tabulation of game scores or financial reports published in the daily newspapers
  • the rapture — in some Christian theologies, the bodily ascent into heaven just before Armageddon of those who are saved (see save1 (sense 8)
  • the support — an actor or group of actors playing subordinate roles
  • the surreal — the atmosphere or qualities evoked by surrealism
  • the vapours — a depressed mental condition believed originally to be the result of vaporous exhalations from the stomach
  • therapeutic — of or relating to the treating or curing of disease; curative.
  • thereabouts — about or near that place or time: last June or thereabout.
  • thermoduric — (of certain microorganisms) able to survive high temperatures, as during pasteurization.
  • thesauruses — a dictionary of synonyms and antonyms, such as the online Thesaurus.com.
  • third house — a legislative lobby.
  • thirty-four — a cardinal number, 30 plus 4.
  • thoreauvian — Henry David, 1817–62, U.S. naturalist and author.
  • thoroughpin — an abnormal swelling just above the hock of a horse, usually appearing on both sides of the leg and sometimes causing lameness.
  • thoroughwax — an umbelliferous plant with yellow flowers and perfoliate leaves, Bupleurum rotundifolium
  • thrasybulus — died c389 b.c, Athenian patriot and general.
  • three hours — a religious observance practiced between noon and three o'clock on the afternoon of Good Friday.
  • through way — a way that traffic or vehicles can pass through
  • throw about — to spend (one's money) in a reckless and flaunting manner
  • thrummingly — in a thrumming manner or by way of thrumming
  • thrust upon — If something is thrust upon you, you are forced to have it, deal with it, or experience it.
  • thumb drive — Also called flash memory drive, thumb drive, USB drive. a very small, portable, solid-state hard drive that can be inserted into a USB port for storage and retrieval of data.
  • thumbsucker — a person who habitually sucks a thumb.
  • thunder bay — a port in W Ontario, in S Canada, on Lake Superior: created in 1970 by the merger of twin cities (Fort William and Port Arthur) and two adjoining townships.
  • thunder egg — a globular concretion of opal, agate, or chalcedony weathered out of tuff or basalt.
  • thunder mug — a chamber pot.
  • thunderbird — (in the mythology of some North American Indians) a huge, eaglelike bird capable of producing thunder, lightning, and rain.
  • thunderbolt — a flash of lightning with the accompanying thunder.
  • thunderclap — a crash of thunder.
  • thunderhead — incus (def 2).
  • thunderless — without thunder
  • thunderpeal — a crash of thunder; thunderclap.
  • thuriferous — producing frankincense
  • tool pusher — A tool pusher is someone who supervises drilling operations on an oil rig.
  • touch paper — paper saturated with potassium nitrate to make it burn slowly, used for igniting explosives and fireworks.
  • touch rugby — a limited-contact version of rugby in which players seek to evade being touched (rather than tackled) while in possession of the ball
  • touch-ready — (of software) ready to work on touch-screen computers and devices
  • touchscreen — a touch-sensitive display screen on a computer or other electronic device: touching different portions of the screen with a finger or stylus will cause the device to take actions determined by a computer program.
  • tract house — a house forming part of a real-estate development, usually having a plan and appearance common to some or all of the houses in the development.
  • transhumant — the seasonal migration of livestock, and the people who tend them, between lowlands and adjacent mountains.
  • treacherous — characterized by faithlessness or readiness to betray trust; traitorous.
  • treachetour — a traitor
  • tree hugger — environmental campaigner
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