10-letter words containing t, h, u
- touch wood — the hard, fibrous substance composing most of the stem and branches of a tree or shrub, and lying beneath the bark; the xylem.
- touch-tone — of or relating to a tone-dialing system or a push-button phone operating on tone dialing.
- touch-type — to type by means of the touch system.
- touchpaper — paper saturated with potassium nitrate to make it burn slowly, used for igniting explosives and fireworks.
- touchstone — a test or criterion for the qualities of a thing.
- tough love — a mixture of toughness and warmth used in a relationship, especially with an adolescent.
- tough shit — Tough shit can be used as a way of telling someone that they will have to accept a situation they do not like because they have no choice.
- town house — a house in the city, especially as distinguished from a house in the country owned by the same person.
- trachelium — (in classical architecture) any member between the hypotrachelium and the capital of a column.
- transhuman — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or having the nature of people: human frailty.
- trap house — a shelter from which the clay pigeons are released in trapshooting.
- tree house — a small house, especially one for children to play in, built or placed up in the branches of a tree.
- trekschuit — a horse-drawn boat, literally a tugboat, specific to the Netherlands
- trichinous — pertaining to or of the nature of trichinosis.
- tripehound — an objectionable person
- triumphant — having achieved victory or success; victorious; successful.
- triumphery — a triumvir
- troutperch — a North American freshwater fish, Percopsis omiscomaycas, exhibiting characteristics of both trouts and perches.
- true north — the direction of the north pole from a given point.
- true rhyme — full rhyme.
- trumscheit — trumpet marine.
- trunk hose — full, baglike breeches covering the body from the waist to the middle of the thigh or lower, sometimes having the stockings attached in one piece, worn by men in the 16th and 17th centuries.
- trunk show — a showing and sale in a retail store of an entire collection of clothing, jewelry, etc., from a particular designer.
- truss hoop — a hoop placed around the staves of a barrel to secure them in place.
- truth drug — a drug, as the barbiturate thiopental, that induces in the subject a desire to talk or a state of heightened suggestibility, used in psychotherapy and in interrogation to discover repressed or consciously withheld information.
- truthfully — telling the truth, especially habitually: a truthful person.
- truthiness — the quality of seeming to be true according to one's intuition, opinion, or perception without regard to logic, factual evidence, or the like: the growing trend of truthiness as opposed to truth.
- tube sheet — A tube sheet is a plate which is used to support the tubes in a shell-and-tube heat exchanger.
- tudor arch — a four-centered arch, the inner pair of curves having a radius much greater than that of the outer pair.
- tule perch — See under perch2 (def 3).
- tumblehome — Nautical. an inward and upward slope of the middle body of a vessel.
- tummy ache — an ache or pain in the stomach
- turboshaft — a gas turbine used to deliver shaft power, as to a helicopter rotor.
- turcophile — a person who favors or admires Turkey, Turkish customs, or Turks.
- turcophobe — a person who has a morbid fear of Turks.
- turkophile — a person who favors or admires Turkey, Turkish customs, or Turks.
- turkophobe — a person who has a morbid fear of Turks.
- turn heads — to be so beautiful, unusual, or impressive as to attract a lot of attention
- turnbroach — (formerly) a servant whose job was to turn the spit on which meat, poultry, etc, was roasting
- turtlehead — any of several North American plants belonging to the genus Chelone, of the figwort family, having opposite, serrated leaves and spikes of purple or white, two-lipped flowers.
- tusk shell — tooth shell.
- typhaceous — belonging to the family of flowering plants Typhaceae
- udon thani — a city in NE Thailand.
- uintathere — any hoofed North American mammal of the extinct genus Dinoceras, of the Eocene Epoch, having a massive body and three pairs of horns.
- ultra-chic — attractive and fashionable; stylish: a chic hat.
- ultrafiche — a form of microfiche with the images greatly reduced in size, generally by a factor of 100 or more.
- ultraheavy — extremely heavy
- ultrahuman — surpassing the limits or boundaries of humanity
- ultralight — extremely lightweight in comparison with others of its kind: a car with an ultralight engine.
- ultraright — of or belonging to the extreme political Right; extremely conservative or reactionary.