10-letter words containing t, o, u, r
- borgerhout — a town in N Belgium, near Antwerp. Pop: 40 142 (2002 est)
- bouquetier — a small container for holding flowers in a bouquet or nosegay.
- bournonite — a sulfide of lead, antimony, and copper, PbCuSbS 3 , occurring in gray to black crystals or granular masses.
- box cutter — a knife-like tool with a short retractable blade
- box gutter — a gutter set into the slope of a roof above the cornice.
- box turtle — any of several North American terrapins (genus Terrapene) with a hinged shell that can be completely closed: usually found on land
- branch out — If a person or an organization branches out, they do something that is different from their normal activities or work.
- brazen out — If you have done something wrong and you brazen it out, you behave confidently in order not to appear ashamed, even though you probably do feel ashamed.
- brontosaur — apatosaurus
- brought on — made or bought outside the community, as a commercially manufactured product.
- brought-on — made or bought outside the community, as a commercially manufactured product.
- buccinator — a thin muscle that compresses the cheeks and holds them against the teeth during chewing, etc
- budget for — If you budget for something, you take account of it when you are deciding how much you can afford to spend on different things.
- buitenzorg — former Dutch name of Bogor.
- bull trout — any large trout, esp the salmon trout
- bunt order — a dominance hierarchy seen in herds of cattle, established and maintained by bunting.
- buonaparte — Bonaparte1
- buonarroti — Michelangelo.
- burlington — a city in S Canada on Lake Ontario, northeast of Hamilton. Pop: 150 836 (2001)
- burned-out — consumed; rendered unserviceable or ineffectual by maximum use: a burned-out tube.
- burst into — If you burst into tears, laughter, or song, you suddenly begin to cry, laugh, or sing.
- butterwort — a plant of the genus Pinguicula, esp P. vulgaris, that grows in wet places and has violet-blue spurred flowers and fleshy greasy glandular leaves on which insects are trapped and digested: family Lentibulariaceae
- button ear — a dog's ear that folds forward completely.
- by-product — A by-product is something which is produced during the manufacture or processing of another product.
- cafetorium — a room, usually in a school or other educational institution, which serves both as a cafeteria and an auditorium
- calculator — A calculator is a small electronic device that you use for making mathematical calculations.
- caquetoire — cacqueteuse.
- carburetor — A carburetor is the part of an engine, usually in a car, in which air and gasoline are mixed together to form a vapor which can be burned.
- cargo cult — a religious movement of the SW Pacific, characterized by expectation of the return of spirits in ships or aircraft carrying goods that will provide for the needs of the followers
- cartouches — Plural form of cartouche.
- cat around — to search promiscuously for sexual partners; be promiscuous
- cataloguer — One who catalogues.
- cautionary — A cautionary story or a cautionary note to a story is one that is intended to give a warning to people.
- cautioners — Plural form of cautioner.
- celeritous — (rare) Swift, speedy, fast.
- centurions — Plural form of centurion.
- ceratosaur — a carnivorous, swift-running North American theropod dinosaur of the genus Ceratosaurus and closely related genera, of the Jurassic Period, having a large skull with a short horn between the nostrils and a bony knob in front of each eye, and reaching a length of 20 feet (6.1 meter).
- charthouse — the compartment on a ship or boat where charts are kept
- choreutics — a system that analyzes form in movement, developed by Rudolf von Laban (1879–1958), Hungarian choreographer and dance theorist.
- choucroute — a dish, resembling sauerkraut, that consists of cabbage that has been preserved by soaking in pickle
- chrononaut — (science fiction, dated) A time-traveller.
- circle-out — a closed plane curve consisting of all points at a given distance from a point within it called the center. Equation: x 2 + y 2 = r 2 .
- circuition — (archaic) The act of going round; a circuit, an encircling.
- circuitous — A circuitous route is long and complicated rather than simple and direct.
- circulator — a person who moves from place to place.
- clay court — a tennis court with a playing surface topped by a layer of crushed shale, brick, or stone
- cloudburst — A cloudburst is a sudden, very heavy fall of rain.
- co-routine — a section of a computer program similar to but differing from a subroutine in that it can be left and re-entered at any point
- co-venture — a business project or enterprise undertaken jointly by two or more companies, each sharing in the capitalization and in any profits or losses.
- coadjutors — Plural form of coadjutor.