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11-letter words containing t, h, u

  • triphibious — employing or involving land, naval, and air forces in a combined operation.
  • triphyllous — having three leaves.
  • tristichous — arranged in three rows.
  • trisulphide — any sulphide containing three sulphur atoms per molecule
  • troubleshot — to act or be employed as a troubleshooter: She troubleshoots for a large industrial firm.
  • trough roof — M roof.
  • trout-perch — any of a family (Percopsidae) of North American freshwater bony fishes having spiny and fleshy fins, esp., a species (Percopsis omiscomaycus) of Canada and the E U.S.
  • truehearted — faithful; loyal.
  • trumpetfish — any of several fishes of the family Aulostomidae, having a long, tubular snout, as the slender, brown-flecked Aulostomus maculatus, inhabiting waters on both sides of the tropical Atlantic Ocean, having the habit of orienting vertically in the water and capturing its prey from that position.
  • truncheoned — the club carried by a police officer; billy.
  • truncheoner — someone who carries a truncheon
  • trust hotel — a licensed hotel or a bar owned by a publicly elected committee as trustees, the profits of which go to public amenities
  • trusteeship — Law. the office or function of a trustee.
  • trustworthy — deserving of trust or confidence; dependable; reliable: The treasurer was not entirely trustworthy.
  • truth claim — a hypothesis not yet verified by experience.
  • truth quark — top quark
  • truth serum — 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.
  • truth table — a table that gives the truth-values of a compound sentence formed from component sentences by means of logical connectives, as AND, NOT, or OR, for every possible combination of truth-values of the component sentences.
  • truth-value — the truth or falsehood of a proposition: The truth-value of “2 + 2 = 5” is falsehood.
  • tu bishevat — the 15th day of the month of Shevat, observed as a new year for trees by planting trees and by eating fruits.
  • tub-thumper — a vociferous supporter or promoter, as of a cause.
  • tubthumping — to promote something or express opinions vociferously.
  • tudorbethan — (of a contemporary building) imitative of Tudor and Elizabethan architecture
  • tukey, john — John Tukey
  • tulip chair — an armchair designed by Eero Saarinen in 1956, having a contoured seat of molded plastic supported by a slender, stemlike pedestal of plastic-covered cast metal that terminates in a large, flat, round foot.
  • tumble home — Nautical. an inward and upward slope of the middle body of a vessel.
  • tuning head — the part of a stringed instrument where the tension of the strings is adjusted by means of screwed pegs.
  • turbocharge — to equip (an internal-combustion engine) with a turbocharger.
  • turishcheva — Ludmilla (lʊdˈmɪlə). born 1952, Soviet gymnast: world champion 1970, 1972 (at the Olympic Games), and 1974
  • turk's-head — a turbanlike knot of small cords, made around a rope, spar, etc.
  • turkish rug — any of a large variety of handwoven rugs produced in Turkey, characterized by coarse, heavy yarn and a long, uneven pile.
  • turkish van — a breed of cat with soft white semi-long hair and coloured markings on the head and tail
  • turnip moth — a common noctuid moth, Agrotis segetum, drab grey-brown in colour, the larvae of which feed on root crops and brassica stems
  • tutankhamen — 14th century b.c, a king of Egypt of the 18th dynasty.
  • ulotrichous — belonging to a group of people having woolly or crisply curly hair.
  • ultra-right — having extreme right-wing views
  • ultrasmooth — extremely smooth
  • umpty-umpth — umpteenth.
  • un-hydrated — (of paper pulp) beaten until gelatinous for making into water-resistant paper.
  • unaesthetic — offensive to the aesthetic sense; lacking in beauty or sensory appeal; unpleasant, as an object, design, arrangement, etc.: an unaesthetic combination of colors.
  • unalachtigo — a member of a North American Indian people, one of the Delaware group.
  • unauthentic — not false or copied; genuine; real: an authentic antique.
  • unbenighted — not overtaken by darkness or night
  • unbetrothed — engaged to be married: She is betrothed to that young lieutenant.
  • unbreathing — not breathing; holding the breath
  • unbrotherly — not brotherly
  • uncatchable — to seize or capture, especially after pursuit: to catch a criminal; to catch a runaway horse.
  • unchartered — without a charter.
  • unchastened — to inflict suffering upon for purposes of moral improvement; chastise.
  • unchastised — not chastised or reprimanded
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