10-letter words containing t, h, e, o, r
- tocherless — without dowry or tocher
- tocopherol — one of several alcohols that constitute the dietary factor known as vitamin E, occurring in wheat-germ oil, lettuce or spinach leaves, egg yolk, etc.
- tony hoare — Anthony Hoare
- toolholder — a device for holding a tool or tools.
- toolpusher — a foreman who supervises drilling operations on an oil rig
- top-hamper — the light upper sails and their gear and spars, sometimes used to refer to all spars and gear above the deck.
- touchpaper — paper saturated with potassium nitrate to make it burn slowly, used for igniting explosives and fireworks.
- tow-haired — having blond and sometimes tousled hair
- tracheolar — of or relating to the tracheole
- 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).
- trap house — a shelter from which the clay pigeons are released in trapshooting.
- tree house — a small house, especially one for children to play in, built or placed up in the branches of a tree.
- treehopper — any of numerous homopterous jumping insects of the family Membracidae, that have an enlarged prothorax and feed on the juices of plants, often injuring the plants.
- trichinose — to infest with parasitic worms (trichinae)
- trichogyne — a hairlike prolongation of a carpogonium, serving as a receptive organ for the spermatium.
- tripehound — an objectionable person
- trochanter — Anatomy. either of two knobs at the top of the femur, the greater on the outside and the lesser on the inside, serving for the attachment of muscles between the thigh and pelvis.
- trophesial — involving or relating to trophesy
- trophosome — an organ in deep-sea tube worms that is colonized by bacteria supplying the host worm with food and energy.
- tropophyte — a tropophilous plant, as a broad-leaved tree.
- troutperch — a North American freshwater fish, Percopsis omiscomaycas, exhibiting characteristics of both trouts and perches.
- true north — the direction of the north pole from a given point.
- trunk hose — full, baglike breeches covering the body from the waist to the middle of the thigh or lower, sometimes having the stockings attached in one piece, worn by men in the 16th and 17th centuries.
- turcophile — a person who favors or admires Turkey, Turkish customs, or Turks.
- turcophobe — a person who has a morbid fear of Turks.
- turkophile — a person who favors or admires Turkey, Turkish customs, or Turks.
- turkophobe — a person who has a morbid fear of Turks.
- two-hander — a play for two actors
- typeholder — a small device for holding a few lines of type, used in stamping titles on book covers, or the like.
- umber moth — any of various brownish geometrid moths, esp the waved umber (Menophra abruptaria) and small waved umber (Horisme vitalbata), that are cryptically marked to merge with tree bark, and the mottled umber (Erannis defoliaria) whose looper larvae can strip branches and even trees
- unbothered — not experiencing mental or physical discomfort: He was unbothered by the cold. He was unbothered about not being picked for the team.
- under oath — having sworn to tell the truth
- undershoot — to shoot or launch a projectile that strikes under or short of (a target).
- underthrow — to throw a ball or other object short of (the intended receiver or target)
- unitholder — a person who owns a unit of something
- unmotherly — not motherly
- untochered — (of a woman) undowered; not provided with a tocher
- untogether — disorganized; confused; chaotic: Right after the divorce was a very untogether time for me.
- upholstery — the materials used to cushion and cover furniture.
- urosthenic — having a tail which drives movement of the body
- vectograph — a technology that uses special glasses to see a photographic image between two plastic sheets as three dimensional
- waiterhood — the state of being a waiter
- watch over — to be alertly on the lookout, look attentively, or observe, as to see what comes, is done, or happens: to watch while an experiment is performed.
- watchtower — a tower on which a sentinel keeps watch.
- water hole — a depression in the surface of the ground, containing water.
- waterhouse — Alfred. 1830–1905, British architect; a leader of the Gothic Revival. His buildings include Manchester Town Hall (1868) and the Natural History Museum, London (1881)
- weightroom — an exercise room with weightlifting equipment.
- wetterhorn — a mountain in S Switzerland, in the Bernese Alps. 12,149 feet (3715 meters).
- whatsoever — At all (used for emphasis).