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10-letter words containing s, t, e, r, o

  • teliospore — a spore of certain rust fungi, which carries the fungus through the winter and which, on germination, produces the promycelium.
  • telomerase — an enzyme, active chiefly in tumors and reproductive cells, that causes telomeres to lengthen: facilitates cell division and may account for the immortality of cancer cells.
  • temerously — in a temerous manner
  • tendrilous — a threadlike, leafless organ of climbing plants, often growing in spiral form, which attaches itself to or twines round some other body, so as to support the plant.
  • tenebrious — dark; gloomy; obscure.
  • tereshkova — Valentina Vladimirovna [vuh-lyin-tyee-nuh vluh-dyi-myee-ruh v-nuh] /və lyɪnˈtyi nə vlə dyɪˈmyi rəv nə/ (Show IPA), born 1937, Soviet cosmonaut: first woman in space 1963.
  • tetrapolis — a conglomeration of four cities
  • tetraspore — one of the four asexual spores produced within a tetrasporangium.
  • the azores — three groups of volcanic islands in the N Atlantic, since 1976 an autonomous region of Portugal. Capital: Ponta Delgada (on São Miguel). Pop: 241 762 (2001). Area: 2335 sq km (901 sq miles)
  • the boards — the acting profession; the stage
  • the chores — housework
  • the forces — the armed services of a nation
  • the horses — gambling linked to horse racing
  • the majors — the major leagues
  • the minors — the minor leagues, esp. in baseball
  • the others — the remaining ones (of a group)
  • theocritus — flourished c270 b.c, Greek poet.
  • theoretics — the theoretical or speculative part of a science or subject.
  • thermistor — a resistor whose action depends upon changes of its resistance material with changes in temperature.
  • thermostat — a device, including a relay actuated by thermal conduction or convection, that functions to establish and maintain a desired temperature automatically or signals a change in temperature for manual adjustment.
  • thermotics — the scientific study of heat
  • thesprotia — an ancient coastal district in SW Epirus.
  • thimerosal — a cream-colored, crystalline, water-soluble powder, C 9 H 9 HgNaO 2 S, used chiefly as an antiseptic.
  • three-spot — a playing card, an upward face of a die, or a domino half bearing three pips.
  • threescore — being or containing three times twenty; sixty.
  • thresh out — to beat soundly in punishment; flog.
  • thrombosed — affected with a thrombus or blood clot
  • thunderous — producing thunder or a loud noise like thunder: thunderous applause.
  • to be sure — free from doubt as to the reliability, character, action, etc., of something: to be sure of one's data.
  • to see red — If you see red, you suddenly become very angry.
  • tocherless — without dowry or tocher
  • toiletries — any article or preparation used in cleaning or grooming oneself, as soap or deodorant.
  • tolu resin — tolu.
  • tom cruise — Tom (Thomas Cruise Mapother, 4th) born 1962, U.S. film actor.
  • tom sawyer — (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer)a novel (1876) by Mark Twain.
  • tonguester — a person who talks endlessly or who gossips
  • toolpusher — a foreman who supervises drilling operations on an oil rig
  • top secret — highly confidential, restricted
  • top-secret — bearing the classification top-secret, the highest level of classified information.
  • toric lens — a lens used to correct astigmatism, having one of its surfaces shaped like part of a torus so that its focal lengths are different in different meridians
  • tormentors — a person or thing that torments.
  • torpedoist — a person in favour of the use of torpedoes or a person knowledgeable about torpedoes
  • torpescent — becoming torpid
  • tortfeasor — a person who commits a tort.
  • track shoe — a light, heelless, usually leather shoe having either steel spikes for use outdoors on a cinder or dirt track, or a rubber sole for use indoors on a board floor.
  • trade show — show (def 22).
  • traditores — an early Christian who betrayed other Christians at the time of the Roman persecutions.
  • traitoress — a female traitor
  • transcoder — a technology, such as a software package, used to transfer data from one format to another
  • transferor — a person who makes a transfer, as of property.
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