8-letter words containing t, i, u
- tablinum — (in an ancient Roman house) a large, open room at the side of the peristyle farthest from the main entrance.
- taciturn — inclined to silence; reserved in speech; reluctant to join in conversation.
- taichung — a city in and the provincial capital of Taiwan, in the W part.
- tail out — to guide (timber) as it emerges from a power saw
- tailleur — a tailored or tailor-made costume for women.
- tainture — a taint or stain; contamination
- talmudic — of or relating to the Talmud.
- tanaquil — a legendary queen of Rome who prophesied the future greatness of Servius Tullius and helped him to gain the throne after the murder of her husband by a political faction.
- taqueria — a restaurant or stand specializing in Mexican dishes, as tacos and burritos.
- taunting — to reproach in a sarcastic, insulting, or jeering manner; mock.
- telluric — of or containing tellurium, especially in the hexavalent state.
- temirtau — a city in E central Kazakhstan, NW of Karaganda.
- tenurial — the holding or possessing of anything: the tenure of an office.
- terminus — the end or extremity of anything.
- teucrian — of or relating to the ancient Trojans.
- teutonic — of or relating to the ancient Teutons.
- thallium — a soft, malleable, rare, bluish-white metallic element: used in the manufacture of alloys and, in the form of its salts, in rodenticides. Symbol: Tl; atomic weight: 204.37; atomic number: 81; specific gravity: 11.85 at 20°C.
- thespius — the founder of the city of Thespiae and the father, by Megamede, of 50 daughters, all of whom bore sons to Hercules.
- theurgic — a system of beneficent magic practiced by the Egyptian Platonists and others.
- thin out — diminish, dissipate
- think up — to have a conscious mind, to some extent of reasoning, remembering experiences, making rational decisions, etc.
- thiourea — a colorless, crystalline, bitter-tasting, water-soluble solid, CH 4 N 2 S, derived from urea by replacement of the oxygen with sulfur: used chiefly in photography, inorganic synthesis, and to accelerate the vulcanization of rubber.
- thonburi — a city in S Thailand, near Bangkok.
- thudding — a dull sound, as of a heavy blow or fall.
- thuggish — a cruel or vicious ruffian, robber, or murderer.
- thumbing — the short, thick, inner digit of the human hand, next to the forefinger.
- thumbkin — thumbscrew (def 2).
- thumping — of, like, or pertaining to a thump.
- thurible — a censer.
- thurifer — a person who carries the thurible in religious ceremonies.
- thuswise — in this way; thus
- tiberius — (Tiberius Claudius Nero Caesar) 42 b.c.–a.d. 37, Roman emperor 14–37.
- tibullus — Albius [al-bee-uh s] /ˈæl bi əs/ (Show IPA), c54–c19 b.c, Roman poet.
- tidy-out — the act of making something look better by removing things one does not want
- tie plug — a wooden plug driven into the hole left in a tie when a spike has been withdrawn.
- tillicum — (in the Pacific Northwest) a friend
- timbuktu — a town in central Mali, W Africa, near the Niger River. French Tombouctou.
- time out — a brief suspension of activity; intermission or break.
- time-out — a brief suspension of activity; intermission or break.
- timorous — full of fear; fearful: The noise made them timorous.
- tincture — Pharmacology. a solution of alcohol or of alcohol and water, containing animal, vegetable, or chemical drugs.
- tinnitus — a ringing or similar sensation of sound in the ears.
- tiramisu — an Italian dessert with coffee and liquor-soaked layers of sponge cake alternating with mascarpone cheese and chocolate.
- tire out — make exhausted
- tiselius — Arne [ahr-nuh] /ˈɑr nə/ (Show IPA), 1902–71, Swedish biochemist: Nobel prize 1948.
- tissuing — Biology. an aggregate of similar cells and cell products forming a definite kind of structural material with a specific function, in a multicellular organism.
- titanium — a dark-gray or silvery, lustrous, very hard, light, corrosion-resistant, metallic element, occurring combined in various minerals: used in metallurgy to remove oxygen and nitrogen from steel and to toughen it. Symbol: Ti; atomic weight: 47.90; atomic number: 22; specific gravity: 4.5 at 20°C.
- titanous — containing trivalent titanium.
- tithonus — the son of Laomedon of Troy who was loved by the goddess Eos. She asked that he be made immortal but forgot to ask that he be made eternally young. When he aged, she turned him into a grasshopper
- titmouse — any of numerous, widely distributed, small songbirds of the family Paridae, especially of the genus Parus, having soft, thick plumage and a short, stout, conical bill.