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11-letter words containing t, o, u, r

  • trade route — any route usually taken by merchant ships, caravans, etc.
  • trade union — a labor union of craftspeople or workers in related crafts, as distinguished from general workers or a union including all workers in an industry.
  • transductor — a magnetic device that amplifies electronic signals
  • transfusion — the act or process of transfusing.
  • travelogues — a lecture, slide show, or motion picture describing travels.
  • treacherous — characterized by faithlessness or readiness to betray trust; traitorous.
  • treachetour — a traitor
  • tremulously — (of persons, the body, etc.) characterized by trembling, as from fear, nervousness, or weakness.
  • trevor nunn — a university degree graded 2:1 (second class upper bracket)
  • trial court — the court in which a controversy is first adjudicated (distinguished from appellate division).
  • tribulation — grievous trouble; severe trial or suffering.
  • tricoloured — having three colours
  • tridominium — the shared rule of three states
  • trifluoride — a fluoride containing three atoms of fluorine.
  • tripetalous — having three petals.
  • triphibious — employing or involving land, naval, and air forces in a combined operation.
  • triphyllous — having three leaves.
  • triptolemus — a favorite of Demeter and the inventor of the plow and patron of agriculture, connected with the Eleusinian mysteries.
  • triquetrous — three-sided; triangular.
  • trisepalous — having three sepals.
  • trispermous — having three seeds.
  • tristichous — arranged in three rows.
  • trituration — the act of triturating.
  • trobar clus — a complex and obscure style of writing adopted by some 12th-century Provençal poets.
  • trojan duck — a duck that is a carrier of avian flu and is therefore a threat to other birds and also to humans, but which shows no outward signs of infection
  • trolley bus — a passenger bus operating on tires and having an electric motor that draws power from overhead wires.
  • trombiculid — (of a mite) belonging to the family Trombiculidae
  • troubadours — one of a class of medieval lyric poets who flourished principally in southern France from the 11th to 13th centuries, and wrote songs and poems of a complex metrical form in langue d'oc, chiefly on themes of courtly love. Compare trouvère.
  • troubetzkoy — N(ikolai) S(ergeievich) [nyi-kuh-lahy syir-gye-yi-vyich] /nyɪ kʌˈlaɪ syɪrˈgyɛ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1890–1938, Russian linguist in Austria.
  • trouble man — troubleshooter (def 2).
  • troubleshot — to act or be employed as a troubleshooter: She troubleshoots for a large industrial firm.
  • troublesome — causing trouble, annoyance, or difficulty; vexatious: a troublesome situation; a troublesome person.
  • trough roof — M roof.
  • trouser leg — the leg of a pair of trousers
  • 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.
  • true course — a course whose bearing is given relative to the geographical meridian.
  • true fresco — fresco (def 1).
  • true-fresco — fresco (def 1).
  • 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
  • trustworthy — deserving of trust or confidence; dependable; reliable: The treasurer was not entirely trustworthy.
  • try out for — If you try out for a sports team or an acting role, you compete or you perform a test in an attempt to be chosen.
  • tuberaceous — belonging or relating to the order of fungi Tuberaceae, or specifically the truffle genus (Tuber)
  • tuberculoid — resembling a tubercle.
  • tuberculoma — a tumour or other mass that grows from a tuberculous lesion or caused by the tubercle bacillus
  • tuberculose — tuberculate.
  • tuberculous — tubercular.
  • tubiflorous — tubuliflorous.
  • tudorbethan — (of a contemporary building) imitative of Tudor and Elizabethan architecture
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