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