12-letter words containing t, a, o, u
- surmountable — to mount upon; get on the top of; mount upon and cross over: to surmount a hill.
- sustentation — maintenance in being or activity; the sustaining of life through vital processes.
- swamp locust — water locust.
- sweat it out — wait tensely
- synantherous — with united anthers
- syndactylous — having fingers, or toes, united
- tag question — Also called tag. a short interrogative structure appended to a statement or command, as isn't it in It's raining, isn't it?, are you in You're not going, are you?, or German nicht wahr.
- take counsel — receive advice
- talent scout — a person whose business it is to recognize and recruit persons of marked aptitude for a certain field or occupation, especially in entertainment or sports.
- talk through — guide through: a procedure, etc.
- talmud torah — (in Europe) a community-supported Jewish elementary school for teaching children Hebrew, Bible, and the fundamentals of Judaism.
- tanjungpriok — a port in Indonesia, on the NW coast of Java adjoining the capital, Jakarta: a major shipping and distributing centre for the whole archipelago
- target group — intended audience or customers
- tau neutrino — a hypothetical type of neutrino that would obey a conservation law together with the tau lepton, with the total number of tau leptons and tau neutrinos minus the total number of their antiparticles remaining constant.
- tautological — needless repetition of an idea, especially in words other than those of the immediate context, without imparting additional force or clearness, as in “widow woman.”.
- tautomerizes — to undergo tautomerism.
- telanthropus — a genus of fossil hominids, known from two fragmentary lower jaws found in the region of Swartkrans, near Johannesburg, South Africa.
- telautograph — a telegraphic device for reproducing handwriting, drawings, etc, the movements of an electromagnetically controlled pen at one end being transmitted along a line to a similar pen at the receiving end
- teleosaurian — of or relating to the teleosaur
- telharmonium — a musical keyboard instrument operating by alternating currents of electricity which, on impulse from the keyboard, produce music at a distant point via telephone lines.
- temporaneous — lasting a short while
- tenuirostral — pertaining to a group of birds Tenuirostres which have slender bills
- teratomatous — relating to a tumour typically of the gonads
- tetrapterous — Zoology. having four wings or winglike appendages.
- teutonically — of or relating to the ancient Teutons.
- thaumatogeny — the belief that the origin of life was the result of a miracle
- thaumatology — the study or description of miracles.
- the absolute — ultimate reality regarded as uncaused, unmodified, unified and complete, timeless, etc.
- the mountain — an extremist faction during the French Revolution led by Danton and Robespierre
- the populars — cheap newspapers with mass circulation; the popular press
- theophrastus — 372?–287 b.c, Greek philosopher.
- thiobacillus — any of several rod-shaped bacteria of the genus Thiobacillus, inhabiting soil, sewage, etc., that derive energy from oxidation of sulfur or sulfur compounds.
- thiosulphate — any salt of thiosulphuric acid
- thoroughfare — a road, street, or the like, that leads at each end into another street.
- thought-read — to read someone's mind or psychically know what someone's thoughts are
- thousandfold — having a thousand elements or parts.
- thrash about — flail, throw oneself around
- thread count — thread density of a woven fabric
- through bass — figured bass.
- throw around — ideas, etc.: exchange, brainstorm
- throw mud at — to slander; vilify
- tidal volume — the volume of water associated with a rising tide
- titaniferous — containing or yielding titanium.
- to jump bail — If a prisoner jumps bail, he or she does not come back for his or her trial after being released on bail.
- to pull rank — If you say that someone in authority pulls rank, you mean that they unfairly force other people to do what they want because of their higher rank or position.
- toboggan run — a slope that you can slide down on a toboggan
- tomato juice — liquid from a tomato
- tomato puree — liquidized tomatoes
- tomato sauce — ketchup
- tongue graft — whip graft.