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

  • southwester — a wind, gale, or storm from the southwest.
  • spur blight — a disease of raspberries, characterized by reddish-brown spots on the stems, caused by a fungus, Didymella applanata.
  • square with — a rectangle having all four sides of equal length.
  • staggerbush — an ericaceous deciduous shrub, Lyonia mariana, of E North America, having white or pinkish flowers: it is poisonous to livestock
  • stop chorus — a solo during which the rhythm section plays only the first beat of each phrase of music
  • storm house — a storm cellar.
  • straight up — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
  • straight-up — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
  • strengthful — full of strength, strong
  • stretch out — lie down, sprawl
  • stump ranch — (in British Columbia) an undeveloped ranch in the bush where animals graze among the stumps of felled trees
  • sub-charter — a document, issued by a sovereign or state, outlining the conditions under which a corporation, colony, city, or other corporate body is organized, and defining its rights and privileges.
  • sulphurator — an apparatus used in treating anything with sulphur or sulphur fumes, such as in fumigating
  • sulphurwort — an umbelliferous perennial plant, Peucedanum officinale, of which the roots produce a smell like that of sulphur
  • super-earth — a hypothetical planet larger than the earth but smaller than the four gas giants Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus, thought to be orbiting the sun beyond the Kuiper belt but nearer than the Oort cloud: its existence is suggested by two known dwarf planets in a similar orbit
  • superbright — exceptionally bright
  • supergrowth — exceptional growth; very rapid growth
  • 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.
  • supersleuth — a detective. Synonyms: investigator, private investigator; private eye, gumshoe, shamus.
  • supersmooth — exceptionally smooth
  • sweet shrub — Carolina allspice.
  • taurocholic — of or derived from taurocholic acid.
  • tautochrone — a curve upon which a moving object will reach a certain point at the same time through gravity from whichever point it starts
  • telesphorus — pope a.d. 125?–136?.
  • terbrugghen — Hendrik. 1588–1629, Dutch painter of the Utrecht school, who specialized in religious subjects, for example the Incredulity of St Thomas and the Calling of St Matthew
  • terre haute — a city in W Indiana, on the Wabash River.
  • tharborough — a type of constable in William Shakespeare's 'Love's Labours Lost'
  • thaumatrope — a card with different pictures on opposite sides, as a horse on one side and a rider on the other, which appear as if combined when the card is twirled rapidly, thus illustrating the persistence of visual impressions.
  • thaumaturge — a worker of wonders or miracles; magician.
  • thaumaturgy — the working of wonders or miracles; magic.
  • the centaur — the constellation Centaurus
  • the circuit — a series of tournaments in which the same players regularly take part
  • the country — the outlying area or area furthest from the finish of a sports ground or racecourse
  • the curtain — the end of a scene of a play, opera, etc, marked by the fall or closing of the curtain
  • the numbers — an illegal lottery in which small bets are placed on the order of certain numbers, usually the last three, in some tabulation of game scores or financial reports published in the daily newspapers
  • the rapture — in some Christian theologies, the bodily ascent into heaven just before Armageddon of those who are saved (see save1 (sense 8)
  • the support — an actor or group of actors playing subordinate roles
  • the surreal — the atmosphere or qualities evoked by surrealism
  • the vapours — a depressed mental condition believed originally to be the result of vaporous exhalations from the stomach
  • therapeutic — of or relating to the treating or curing of disease; curative.
  • thereabouts — about or near that place or time: last June or thereabout.
  • thermoduric — (of certain microorganisms) able to survive high temperatures, as during pasteurization.
  • thesauruses — a dictionary of synonyms and antonyms, such as the online Thesaurus.com.
  • third house — a legislative lobby.
  • thirty-four — a cardinal number, 30 plus 4.
  • thoreauvian — Henry David, 1817–62, U.S. naturalist and author.
  • thoroughpin — an abnormal swelling just above the hock of a horse, usually appearing on both sides of the leg and sometimes causing lameness.
  • thoroughwax — an umbelliferous plant with yellow flowers and perfoliate leaves, Bupleurum rotundifolium
  • thrasybulus — died c389 b.c, Athenian patriot and general.
  • three hours — a religious observance practiced between noon and three o'clock on the afternoon of Good Friday.
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