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11-letter words containing t, h, e, o, r

  • unbrotherly — not brotherly
  • underclothe — to supply with underclothes
  • undergrowth — low-lying vegetation or small trees growing beneath larger trees; underbrush.
  • underhonest — not fully honest
  • undershorts — short underpants for men and boys.
  • unit holder — an investor in a unit trust fund
  • unprophetic — not prophetic, not seeing future events correctly
  • unretouched — to improve with new touches, highlights, or the like; touch up or rework, as a painting or makeup.
  • unrighteous — not righteous; not upright or virtuous; wicked; sinful; evil: an unrighteous king.
  • unseaworthy — constructed, outfitted, manned, and in all respects fitted for a voyage at sea.
  • unthrottled — Also called throttle lever. a lever, pedal, handle, etc., for controlling or manipulating a throttle valve.
  • upholstered — to provide (chairs, sofas, etc.) with coverings, cushions, stuffing, springs, etc.
  • upholsterer — a person whose business it is to upholster furniture and, sometimes, to furnish and put in place hangings, curtains, carpets, etc.
  • upholstress — a female upholsterer
  • urethrotomy — an operation to cut a stricture of the urethra.
  • urochordate — having a urochord.
  • watchtowers — Plural form of watchtower.
  • wave theory — Also called undulatory theory. Physics. the theory that light is transmitted as a wave, similar to oscillations in magnetic and electric fields. Compare corpuscular theory.
  • weathercoat — Also, weathercoating. a weatherproof coating, applied especially to the exterior of a building.
  • weathercock — a weather vane with the figure of a rooster on it.
  • weatherford — a town in N Texas.
  • weathermost — (nautical) Farthest to the windward side.
  • weatherworn — weather-beaten.
  • weight room — weight-training gym
  • westborough — a town in central Massachusetts.
  • what's more — in addition
  • wheat flour — powdered cereal grain
  • whenceforth — from which time or place forward
  • whereabouts — about where? where?
  • whistle for — to make a clear musical sound, a series of such sounds, or a high-pitched, warbling sound by the forcible expulsion of the breath through a small opening formed by contracting the lips, or through the teeth, with the aid of the tongue.
  • white flour — flour that consists substantially of the starchy endosperm of wheat, most of the bran and the germ having been removed by the milling process
  • white frost — a heavy coating of frost.
  • white horse — a white-topped wave; whitecap.
  • white stork — a large Eurasian stork, Ciconia ciconia, having white plumage with black in the wings and a red bill.
  • white-robed — clothed in a white robe.
  • whiteboards — Plural form of whiteboard.
  • whitethorns — Plural form of whitethorn.
  • whitethroat — any of several small songbirds having a throat that is white, especially an Old World warbler, Sylvia communis.
  • whore after — to pursue something immoral or depraved
  • whoremaster — someone who consorts with whores; a lecher or pander.
  • winter moth — a brown geometrid moth, Operophtera brumata, of which the male is often seen against lighted windows in winter, the female being wingless
  • with reason — a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc.: the reason for declaring war.
  • witherspoonJohn, 1723–94, U.S. theologian and statesman, born in Scotland.
  • woman-hater — a person, especially a man, who dislikes women; misogynist.
  • workwatcher — a person who observes racehorses in training
  • worthlessly — In a worthless manner.
  • xanthophore — a chromatophore containing a yellow pigment, as in some cold-blooded animals.
  • xerophytism — (botany) The adaptation of plants to habitats where water is scarce.
  • xerothermic — of or relating to the condition of being dry and hot: a xerothermic climate.
  • yet another — (jargon)   (YA-, after Unix's yacc - Yet Another Compiler-Compiler) A humorous allusion often used in titles to acknowledge that the topic is not original, though the content is. As in "Yet Another AI Group" or "Yet Another Simulated Annealing Algorithm". If used of others' work, it describes something of which there are already far too many. In hackish acronyms the "YA" prefix almost invariably expands to Yet Another, e.g. YABA, YAUN.
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