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11-letter words containing t, h, u, d

  • murder hunt — a search for a murderer
  • mustachioed — a mustache.
  • muttonheads — Plural form of muttonhead.
  • north-bound — going toward the north: northbound traffic.
  • null method — a method of measurement using an electrical device, as a Wheatstone bridge, in which the quantity to be measured is balanced by an opposing known quantity that is varied until the resultant of the two is zero.
  • olethreutid — any of numerous brown or gray moths of the family Olethreutidae having mottled or banded wings and forewings, each with a truncated tip, including many crop pests, as the codling moth or oriental fruit moth.
  • otter hound — one of an English breed of water dogs having a thick, shaggy, oily coat, trained to hunt otter.
  • out of hand — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
  • overdraught — (chiefly, British) An overdraft.
  • phd student — a person who is studying for a PhD
  • photoreduce — to undergo or to cause to undergo photoreduction
  • plott hound — an American hound having a brindled coat, used especially in hunting bears and wild boars.
  • pneumathode — a band or pore of aerating tissue, esp along the stipes of ferns
  • port hudson — a village in SE Louisiana, on the Mississippi, N of Baton Rouge: siege during the U.S. Civil War 1863.
  • pouched rat — pocket gopher.
  • pulchritude — physical beauty; comeliness.
  • purehearted — (of a person) without malice, treachery, or evil intent; honest; sincere; guileless.
  • put on hold — suspend
  • readthrough — reading (def 1).
  • rough draft — writing: unfinished version
  • rough trade — male homosexual prostitution, especially involving brutality or sadism.
  • rude health — If someone is in rude health, they are strong and healthy.
  • rue the day — If you rue the day that you did something, you are sorry that you did it, because it has had unpleasant results.
  • rufter hood — a temporary, loosely fitted hood used on newly captured hawks.
  • shootaround — an informal match or practice session
  • shunt-wound — noting a motor or a generator that has the field circuit connected in parallel with the armature winding.
  • silhouetted — a two-dimensional representation of the outline of an object, as a cutout or configurational drawing, uniformly filled in with black, especially a black-paper, miniature cutout of the outlines of a person's face in profile.
  • slaughtered — the killing or butchering of cattle, sheep, etc., especially for food.
  • sleuthhound — a bloodhound.
  • smoothhound — a smooth dogfish, especially Mustelus mustelus, inhabiting waters along the coast of Europe.
  • solid south — the states of the southern U.S. that traditionally supported the Democratic Party after the Civil War.
  • sound shift — a gradual alteration or series of alterations in the pronunciation of a set of sounds, esp of vowels
  • south devon — a breed of large red cattle originally from South Devon
  • south downs — a range of low hills, from Hampshire to East Sussex, in S England.
  • south ogden — a town in N Utah.
  • south sudan — a landlocked republic in NE Africa, in the Sahel region; formerly part of Sudan: became independent after a referendum in 2011, following a long civil war. Languages: English, Arabic. Religions: Christian, animist. Currency: South Sudanese Pound. Capital: Juba. Pop: 11 090 104 (2013 est). Area: 644 329 sq km (248 777 sq miles)
  • southbridge — a town in S Massachusetts.
  • southlander — a person from the south
  • southwardly — toward the south
  • studentship — the state or condition of being a student.
  • superheated — If a liquid is superheated, it has been heated to a temperature that is higher than its boiling point without being allowed to boil.
  • the accused — the defendant or defendants appearing on a criminal charge
  • the needful — money or funds
  • the wounded — persons wounded, esp. in warfare
  • thermoduric — (of certain microorganisms) able to survive high temperatures, as during pasteurization.
  • think aloud — If you think aloud, you express your thoughts as they occur to you, rather than thinking first and then speaking.
  • third house — a legislative lobby.
  • thohoyandou — a self-governing Bantu territory of South Africa in the NE part: granted independence in 1979 by South Africa, but not recognized by any other country as an independent state. 2510 sq. mi. (6500 sq. km). Capital: Thohoyandou.
  • thumb drive — Also called flash memory drive, thumb drive, USB drive. a very small, portable, solid-state hard drive that can be inserted into a USB port for storage and retrieval of data.
  • thumb index — tabs on edge of a book's pages
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