10-letter words containing r, u, t, h
- otterhound — one of an English breed of water dogs having a thick, shaggy, oily coat, trained to hunt otter.
- oudtshoorn — a city in the S Cape of Good Hope province, in the S Republic of South Africa.
- our father — Lord's Prayer.
- out-thrust — thrust or extended outward: a friendly, outthrust hand.
- outbreathe — to breathe out
- outgrowths — Plural form of outgrowth.
- outmarched — Simple past tense and past participle of outmarch.
- outreached — Simple past tense and past participle of outreach.
- outreaches — Plural form of outreach.
- outrightly — Outright.
- outstretch — to stretch forth; extend: to outstretch one's hand in welcome.
- outthrusts — Plural form of outthrust.
- overbought — marked by prices considered unjustifiably high because of extensive buying: The stock market is overbought now. Compare oversold.
- overtaught — taught to excess
- overthrust — a thrust fault with a low dip and a large slip.
- paintbrush — a brush for applying paint, as one used in painting houses or one used in painting pictures.
- parachutic — involving a parachute
- pasticheur — a person who makes, composes, or concocts a pastiche.
- phosphuret — a phosphate
- photomural — a wall decoration consisting of a very large photograph or photographs.
- pitcherful — the amount held by a pitcher.
- pittsburgh — a port in SW Pennsylvania, at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers that forms the Ohio River: steel industry.
- poor mouth — unjustified complaining, esp to excite sympathy
- poor-mouth — to lament or argue that one is too poor; plead poverty.
- port huron — a port in SE Michigan, on the St. Clair River, at the S end of Lake Huron.
- portsmouth — a seaport in S Hampshire, in S England, on the English Channel: chief British naval station.
- post-truth — of or relating to a culture in which appeals to the emotions tend to prevail over facts and logical arguments
- prometheus — a Titan, the father of Deucalion and brother of Atlas and Epimetheus, who taught humankind various arts and was sometimes said to have shaped humans out of clay and endowed them with the spark of life. For having stolen fire from Olympus and given it to humankind in defiance of Zeus, he was chained to a rock where an eagle daily tore at his liver, until he was finally released by Hercules.
- promethium — a rare-earth, metallic, trivalent element. Symbol: Pm; atomic number: 61.
- prothallus — prothallium.
- protohuman — of, relating to, or resembling extinct hominid populations that had some but not all the features of modern Homo sapiens.
- push-start — to start (a motor vehicle) by pushing it while it is in gear, thus turning the engine
- quad right — (in computer typesetting) flush right.
- quickthorn — hawthorn, esp when planted as a hedge
- ratchet up — If something ratchets up or is ratcheted up, it increases by a fixed amount or degree, and seems unlikely to decrease again.
- redruthite — an important dark-grey or black copper ore mineral which is a sulphide
- rheumatics — pertaining to or of the nature of rheumatism.
- rheumatism — any disorder of the extremities or back, characterized by pain and stiffness.
- rheumatoid — resembling rheumatism.
- rightabout — the position assumed by turning about to the right so as to face in the opposite direction.
- rightfully — having a valid or just claim, as to some property or position; legitimate: the rightful owner of the farm.
- ring shout — a group dance of West African origin introduced into parts of the southern U.S. by black revivalists, performed by shuffling counterclockwise in a circle while answering shouts of a preacher with corresponding shouts, and held to be, in its vigorous antiphonal patterns, a source in the development of jazz.
- ring-shout — a group dance of West African origin introduced into parts of the southern U.S. by black revivalists, performed by shuffling counterclockwise in a circle while answering shouts of a preacher with corresponding shouts, and held to be, in its vigorous antiphonal patterns, a source in the development of jazz.
- routemarch — march in which a unit retains its column formation but individuals are allowed to break step.
- rubythroat — a ruby-throated hummingbird
- run a bath — to turn on the taps to fill a bath with water for bathing oneself
- rush light — a candle made from a dried, partly peeled rush that has been dipped in grease.
- ruthenious — containing bivalent ruthenium.
- rutherford — Daniel, 1749–1819, Scottish physician and chemist: discoverer of nitrogen.
- ruthlessly — without pity or compassion; cruel; merciless: a ruthless tyrant.