10-letter words containing t, h, e, u
- butterfish — an eel-like blennioid food fish, Pholis gunnellus, occurring in North Atlantic coastal regions: family Pholidae (gunnels). It has a slippery scaleless golden brown skin with a row of black spots along the base of the long dorsal fin
- buttonhole — A buttonhole is a hole that you push a button through in order to fasten a shirt, coat, or other piece of clothing.
- cape dutch — (in South Africa) a distinctive style of furniture or architecture
- cartouches — Plural form of cartouche.
- cashew nut — edible nut
- catechumen — a person, esp in the early Church, undergoing instruction prior to baptism
- ch'eng tsu — Yung Lo.
- chanteuses — Plural form of chanteuse.
- charcutier — a pork butcher.
- charthouse — the compartment on a ship or boat where charts are kept
- chartreuse — either of two liqueurs, green or yellow, made from herbs and flowers
- check stub — A check stub is the part of a check that is kept by the payee with information such as the check number, date, and amount.
- choreutics — a system that analyzes form in movement, developed by Rudolf von Laban (1879–1958), Hungarian choreographer and dance theorist.
- choucroute — a dish, resembling sauerkraut, that consists of cabbage that has been preserved by soaking in pickle
- chuntering — to grumble or grouse mildly or tediously.
- chuttering — Present participle of chutter.
- club wheat — a wheat, Triticum compactum, characterized by compact, club-shaped spikes, used for making pastry flour and the like.
- coal chute — an inclined channel or vertical passage down which coal may be dropped
- coauthored — one of two or more joint authors.
- continueth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of continue.
- coquettish — If you describe a woman as coquettish, you mean she acts in a playful way that is intended to make men find her attractive.
- couchettes — Plural form of couchette.
- court shoe — Court shoes are women's shoes that do not cover the top part of the foot and are usually made of plain leather with no design.
- courthouse — A courthouse is a building in which a court of law meets.
- crunchtime — the tense, critical phase of an activity
- curateship — the office or position of a curate
- cuttlefish — A cuttlefish is a sea animal that has a soft body and a hard shell inside.
- daughterly — of, like, or proper to a daughter
- death duty — a tax on property inheritances: in Britain, replaced in 1975 by capital transfer tax and since 1986 by inheritance tax
- declutched — Simple past tense and past participle of declutch.
- deep south — The Deep South consists of the states that are furthest south in the United States.
- delightful — If you describe something or someone as delightful, you mean they are very pleasant.
- dianthuses — Plural form of dianthus.
- disburthen — (obsolete) disburden.
- disulphate — a salt of pyrosulfuric acid, as sodium disulfate, Na 2 S 2 O 7 .
- doughtiest — Superlative form of doughty.
- draughtier — Comparative form of draughty.
- drive-thru — a takeaway restaurant, bank, etc designed so that customers can use it without leaving their cars
- duotheists — Plural form of duotheist.
- dust sheet — A dust sheet is a large cloth which is used to cover objects such as furniture in order to protect them from dust.
- dust-bathe — (of a bird) to squat in dusty soil and fluff dust through the plumage: probably performed to combat ectoparasites.
- dustsheets — Plural form of dustsheet.
- dutch oven — a heavily constructed kettle with a close-fitting lid, used for pot roasts, stews, etc.
- dutch rise — an increase in wages that is of no benefit to the recipient
- dutch wife — (in tropical countries) an open framework used in bed as a rest for the limbs.
- dutchesses — Plural form of dutchess.
- earthbound — headed for the earth: an earthbound meteorite.
- earthquake — something that is severely disruptive; upheaval.
- echinulate — (of a plant or animal) having a covering of prickles or small spines.
- embothrium — any evergreen shrub of the genus Embothrium, esp E. coccineum, native to South America but widely cultivated as an ornamental for its scarlet flowers: family Proteaceae