12-letter words containing t, i, o, u
- titaniferous — containing or yielding titanium.
- to jump bail — If a prisoner jumps bail, he or she does not come back for his or her trial after being released on bail.
- to pump iron — If someone pumps iron, they exercise by lifting weights using special machines.
- to ring true — If a statement rings true, it seems to be true or genuine. If it rings hollow, it does not seem to be true or genuine.
- tomato juice — liquid from a tomato
- top security — ultra secure
- touch-typing — the act of typing without having to look at the keys of the typewriter or computer keyboard
- touchability — to put the hand, finger, etc., on or into contact with (something) to feel it: He touched the iron cautiously.
- tough cookie — If you say that someone is a tough cookie, you mean that they have a strong and determined character.
- tough it out — strong and durable; not easily broken or cut.
- tough-minded — characterized by a practical, unsentimental attitude or point of view.
- tourist home — a private home with rooms for rent, usually for one night, to tourists, travelers, etc.
- tourist trap — a place, as a restaurant, shop, or hotel, that exploits tourists by overcharging.
- town council — municipal government
- tralaticious — transferred or passed down
- transduction — the transfer of genetic material from one cell to another by means of a virus.
- transpicuous — transparent.
- transudation — the act or process of transuding.
- transumption — an act of metaphorical transference
- trepidatious — tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; perturbation.
- triadelphous — (of stamens) united by the filaments into three sets or bundles.
- tricephalous — with three heads
- trichotomous — division into three parts, classes, categories, etc.
- trifurcation — to divide into three forks or branches.
- trimolecular — pertaining to or having three molecules.
- tripudiation — the act of dancing for joy
- tropophilous — adapted to a climate characterized by marked environmental changes.
- trouser clip — a clip that is worn around the bottom of a trouser leg to stop the material getting caught in the chain of a bicycle
- trouser suit — pantsuit.
- trucial oman — a former name of United Arab Emirates.
- true to life — realistic
- trunk piston — a piston with a long skirt to take the side thrust, as in an automobile engine.
- tube station — an underground station where underground trains depart and leave, esp in London
- tuberculosis — an infectious disease that may affect almost any tissue of the body, especially the lungs, caused by the organism Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and characterized by tubercles.
- tuberiferous — bearing or producing tubers
- tubocurarine — the principal active alkaloid of curare, C 38 H 44 Cl 2 N 2 O, used as a muscle relaxant, especially as an adjunct to anesthesia.
- tubuliferous — bearing or made up of tubules.
- tubulifloral — (of a plant) tubuliflorous
- tumbling box — a box, pivoted at two corners, used in the manner of a tumbling barrel.
- tumultuation — a tumultuous state or the act of creating a tumult
- tunnel diode — an extremely stable semiconductor diode, having a very narrow highly doped p-n junction, in which electrons travel across the junction by means of the tunnel effect
- turacoverdin — a green pigment found in certain feathers of the touraco
- turbinacious — with a peaty aroma or flavour
- turbo engine — an engine containing a turbocharger
- turn of mind — If someone is of a particular turn of mind, they have that kind of mind or character.
- tutor period — (in British secondary schools) a school period for which a tutor group comes together with their tutor
- two-pin plug — a plug that has two pins for inserting into a socket
- ubiquitously — existing or being everywhere, especially at the same time; omnipresent: ubiquitous fog; ubiquitous little ants.
- ufo sighting — the sighting of a UFO
- ultraserious — extremely serious