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11-letter words containing r, u, t, h

  • bush oyster — a bull's testicle when cooked and eaten
  • bush tucker — any wild animal, insect, plant or plant extract, etc traditionally used as food by native Australians
  • butcherbird — a shrike, esp one of the genus Lanius
  • butorphanol — a narcotic analgesic, C 21 H 29 NO 2 , administered by injection to treat moderate to severe pain.
  • butter dish — a small dish designed to hold butter
  • butterworth — George. 1885–1916, British composer, noted for his interest in folk song and his settings of Housman's poems
  • buttonholer — a person who buttonholes
  • calochortus — any plant of the genus Calochortus, of the lily family, as the mariposa lily and the sego lily.
  • centerpunch — to mark with a center punch.
  • champertous — a sharing in the proceeds of litigation by one who agrees with either the plaintiff or defendant to help promote it or carry it on.
  • charcuterie — cooked cold meats
  • chart house — a room or deckhouse for storing and working with charts, navigational instruments, etc.
  • chart music — songs that feature in the music charts
  • chartaceous — of the nature of paper; papery
  • chartbuster — A popular singer or group that makes a best-selling recording.
  • chateauroux — a town in central France: 10th-century castle (Château-Raoul). Pop: 46 386 (2009)
  • chou pastry — cream puff paste.
  • chucker-out — a person employed at a club, pub, disco, etc, to throw out drunks or troublemakers and stop those considered undesirable from entering
  • chug report — (humour)   From "chug" - to drink heavily. A bug report whose the submitter is thought to have had one too many. Not as bad as a drug report.
  • church rate — (formerly in England and Ireland) a compulsory assessment imposed on the parishioners' holdings of houses or land in order to repair the parish church and maintain its services.
  • church text — a heavy typeface in Gothic style
  • coauthoring — Present participle of coauthor.
  • cool hunter — a person who is employed to identify future trends, esp in fashion or the media
  • countermyth — a myth that conflicts with another myth
  • countershot — a sequence of frames seen from the perspective of the subject of the previous shot
  • courthouses — Plural form of courthouse.
  • crash truck — an emergency vehicle based at an airport.
  • credit hour — A credit hour is a credit that a school or college awards to students who have completed a course of study.
  • cri du chat — cat's cry syndrome.
  • crunch time — the critical moment
  • crushworthy — (usually, of a, person) Suitable for a crush (infatuation): attractive.
  • curatorship — The rank or period of being a curator.
  • curb weight — the weight of an automotive vehicle including fuel, coolant, and lubricants but excluding occupants and cargo.
  • cut throats — a person who cuts the throat of another; a murderer.
  • cut through — to penetrate or go through by cutting
  • dear-bought — having been purchased at great expense
  • deauthorize — to give authority for; formally sanction (an act or proceeding): Congress authorized the new tax on tobacco.
  • demi-hunter — a watch having a hinged case with a hole in the lid permitting the time to be seen even when the lid is closed.
  • deutschmark — the former standard monetary unit of Germany, divided into 100 pfennigs; replaced by the euro in 2002: until 1990 the standard monetary unit of West Germany
  • dinotherium — any elephantlike mammal of the extinct genus Dinotherium, from the later Tertiary Period of Europe and Asia, having large, outwardly curving tusks.
  • do up right — to do carefully or thoroughly
  • downdraught — Alternative spelling of downdraft.
  • draughtiest — Superlative form of draughty.
  • draughtsman — a checker, as used in the game of checkers.
  • draughtsmen — Plural form of draughtsman.
  • dreadnaught — a type of battleship armed with heavy-caliber guns in turrets: so called from the British battleship Dreadnought, launched in 1906, the first of its type.
  • dreadnought — a type of battleship armed with heavy-caliber guns in turrets: so called from the British battleship Dreadnought, launched in 1906, the first of its type.
  • drouthiness — the state or condition of being thirsty or dry
  • durum wheat — a wheat, Triticum turgidum, the grain of which yields flour used in making pasta.
  • dutch chair — a chair of c1700, derived from Dutch models, having curved uprights, a wide splat joined to the seat rail, and cabriole legs.
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