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11-letter words containing r, u, h

  • tree-hugger — an environmentalist, especially one concerned with preserving forests.
  • triphibious — employing or involving land, naval, and air forces in a combined operation.
  • triphyllous — having three leaves.
  • tristichous — arranged in three rows.
  • trisulphide — any sulphide containing three sulphur atoms per molecule
  • troubleshot — to act or be employed as a troubleshooter: She troubleshoots for a large industrial firm.
  • trough roof — M roof.
  • trout-perch — any of a family (Percopsidae) of North American freshwater bony fishes having spiny and fleshy fins, esp., a species (Percopsis omiscomaycus) of Canada and the E U.S.
  • truehearted — faithful; loyal.
  • trumpetfish — any of several fishes of the family Aulostomidae, having a long, tubular snout, as the slender, brown-flecked Aulostomus maculatus, inhabiting waters on both sides of the tropical Atlantic Ocean, having the habit of orienting vertically in the water and capturing its prey from that position.
  • truncheoned — the club carried by a police officer; billy.
  • truncheoner — someone who carries a truncheon
  • trust hotel — a licensed hotel or a bar owned by a publicly elected committee as trustees, the profits of which go to public amenities
  • trusteeship — Law. the office or function of a trustee.
  • trustworthy — deserving of trust or confidence; dependable; reliable: The treasurer was not entirely trustworthy.
  • truth claim — a hypothesis not yet verified by experience.
  • truth quark — top quark
  • truth serum — a drug, as the barbiturate thiopental, that induces in the subject a desire to talk or a state of heightened suggestibility, used in psychotherapy and in interrogation to discover repressed or consciously withheld information.
  • truth table — a table that gives the truth-values of a compound sentence formed from component sentences by means of logical connectives, as AND, NOT, or OR, for every possible combination of truth-values of the component sentences.
  • truth-value — the truth or falsehood of a proposition: The truth-value of “2 + 2 = 5” is falsehood.
  • tub-thumper — a vociferous supporter or promoter, as of a cause.
  • tudorbethan — (of a contemporary building) imitative of Tudor and Elizabethan architecture
  • tulip chair — an armchair designed by Eero Saarinen in 1956, having a contoured seat of molded plastic supported by a slender, stemlike pedestal of plastic-covered cast metal that terminates in a large, flat, round foot.
  • turbocharge — to equip (an internal-combustion engine) with a turbocharger.
  • turishcheva — Ludmilla (lʊdˈmɪlə). born 1952, Soviet gymnast: world champion 1970, 1972 (at the Olympic Games), and 1974
  • turk's-head — a turbanlike knot of small cords, made around a rope, spar, etc.
  • turkish rug — any of a large variety of handwoven rugs produced in Turkey, characterized by coarse, heavy yarn and a long, uneven pile.
  • turkish van — a breed of cat with soft white semi-long hair and coloured markings on the head and tail
  • turnip moth — a common noctuid moth, Agrotis segetum, drab grey-brown in colour, the larvae of which feed on root crops and brassica stems
  • ulotrichous — belonging to a group of people having woolly or crisply curly hair.
  • ultra-right — having extreme right-wing views
  • ultrasmooth — extremely smooth
  • un-charming — pleasing; delightful: a charming child.
  • un-hydrated — (of paper pulp) beaten until gelatinous for making into water-resistant paper.
  • un-showered — a brief fall of rain or, sometimes, of hail or snow.
  • unbetrothed — engaged to be married: She is betrothed to that young lieutenant.
  • unbreathing — not breathing; holding the breath
  • unbrotherly — not brotherly
  • unburnished — to polish (a surface) by friction.
  • unchartered — without a charter.
  • uncherished — to hold or treat as dear; feel love for: to cherish one's native land.
  • unchristian — not conforming to Christian teaching or principles: unchristian selfishness.
  • uncrushable — to press or squeeze with a force that destroys or deforms.
  • under watch — If someone is being kept under watch, they are being guarded or observed all the time.
  • under-sight — the power or faculty of seeing; perception of objects by use of the eyes; vision.
  • under-weighunder weigh, Nautical. in motion; under way.
  • underbreath — a whisper
  • undercharge — to charge (a purchaser) less than the proper or fair price.
  • underclothe — to supply with underclothes
  • undergrowth — low-lying vegetation or small trees growing beneath larger trees; underbrush.
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