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10-letter words containing t, h, u

  • superlight — extremely light
  • superthick — extremely thick
  • supertight — extremely tight
  • sure thing — something that is or is supposed to be a certain success, as a bet or a business venture: He thinks that real estate is a sure thing.
  • suretyship — the relationship between the surety, the principal debtor, and the creditor.
  • sutherland — Earl Wilbur, Jr. 1915–74, U.S. biochemist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1971.
  • sutton hoo — an archaeological site in Suffolk, England: a rowing boat, 80 feet (24 meters) long, discovered here and believed to have been buried a.d. c670 by Anglo-Saxons, possibly as a cenotaph in honor of a king.
  • sweathouse — (especially among North American Indians) a special building used for cleansing and purifying one's body by sweating, in which heated water is poured over heated stones to produce steam.
  • synanthous — relating to plants whose leaves and flowers expand simultaneously
  • synthronus — a combined throne for a bishop and his presbyters
  • talcahuano — a seaport in central Chile.
  • tannhauser — a German lyric poet of the 13th century: a well-known legend tells of his stay with Venus in the Venusberg and his later repentance.
  • tarahumara — a member of an American Indian people of the Sierra Madre region of the state of Chihuahua, Mexico.
  • tatpurusha — a compound of two words in which the first is an attributive noun and the second a substantive, as bookcase, aircraft, or flowerpot.
  • tauromachy — the art or technique of bullfighting.
  • tautophony — the repetition of a sound
  • tchoukball — a non-contact, team-orientated, ballgame developed by the Swiss biologist Dr H. Brandt, the object of the game is to throw the ball at a frame mounted with a springy surface so that it rebounds without being caught by the defending team
  • technetium — Chemistry. an element of the manganese family, not found in nature, but obtained in the fission of uranium or by the bombardment of molybdenum. Symbol: Tc; atomic weight: 99; atomic number: 43; specific gravity: 11.5.
  • telemachus — the son of Odysseus and Penelope who helped Odysseus to kill the suitors of Penelope.
  • tetterbush — an evergreen shrub, Lyonia lucida, of the southeastern U.S., having leathery leaves and white to pink flowers.
  • thankfully — feeling or expressing gratitude; appreciative.
  • thaumasite — a colourless or white silicate mineral, Ca3Si(CO3)(SO4)(OH)6·12(H2O)
  • the absurd — the conception of the world, esp in Existentialist thought, as neither designed nor predictable but irrational and meaningless
  • the bounce — the start of play at the beginning of each quarter or after a goal
  • the buddha — ?563–483 bc, a title applied to Gautama Siddhartha, a nobleman and religious teacher working in N India, regarded by his followers as the most recent rediscoverer of the path to enlightenment: the founder of Buddhism
  • the budget — an estimate of British government expenditures and revenues and the financial plans for the ensuing fiscal year presented annually to the House of Commons by the Chancellor of the Exchequer
  • the burren — a limestone area on the North Clare coast in the Irish Republic, famous for its wild flowers, caves, and dolmens
  • the bushes — rural or small-town districts
  • the buskin — tragic drama
  • the cratur — whisky or whiskey
  • the crunch — the critical moment or situation
  • the deluge — the great flood in Noah's time: Gen. 7
  • the dergue — the socialist ruling body of Ethiopia, established in 1974
  • the discus — the event or sport of throwing the discus
  • the exodus — the departure of the Israelites from Egypt led by Moses
  • the guides — an organization for girls equivalent to the Scouts
  • the gutter — a poverty-stricken, degraded, or criminal environment
  • the hounds — a pack of foxhounds, etc
  • the minute — If you say that something happens the minute something else happens, you are emphasizing that it happens immediately after the other thing.
  • the missus — one's wife or the wife of the person addressed or referred to
  • the occult — the occult arts or studies
  • the plough — the group of the seven brightest stars in the constellation Ursa Major
  • the pulpit — the preaching of the Christian message
  • the purple — high rank; nobility
  • the squits — diarrhoea
  • the undead — such supernatural beings collectively
  • the yakuza — a Japanese criminal organization involved in illegal gambling, extortion, gun-running, etc
  • the-clouds — a comedy (423 b.c.) by Aristophanes.
  • the-jungle — a novel (1906) by Upton Sinclair.
  • the-plague — French La Peste. a novel (1947) by Albert Camus.
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