11-letter words containing t, o, u
- curiosities — Plural form of curiosity.
- currantworm — the larva of any of several insects, as a sawfly, Nematus ribesii (imported currantworm) which infests and feeds on the leaves and fruit of currants.
- curtain rod — A curtain rod is a long, narrow pole on which you hang curtains.
- cushion cut — a variety of brilliant cut in which the girdle has the form of a square with rounded corners.
- cuspidation — decoration using cusps
- custom-made — If something is custom-made, it is made according to someone's special requirements.
- custom-make — to make according to the specifications of an individual buyer
- customaries — Plural form of customary.
- customarily — according to custom; usually
- customhouse — a building or office where customs or duties are paid and ships are cleared for entering or leaving
- customizing — to modify or build according to individual or personal specifications or preference: to customize an automobile.
- cut a melon — to declare an abnormally high dividend to shareholders
- cut corners — to do something in the easiest and shortest way, esp at the expense of high standards
- cut throats — a person who cuts the throat of another; a murderer.
- cut through — to penetrate or go through by cutting
- cut tobacco — tobacco cut into thin shreds as used in cigarettes, often for pipes and for rolling
- cut-up poem — a poem created from parts of the works of various authors combined to form one composition.
- cutaneously — In a cutaneous way.
- cutoff time — The cutoff time is the time at which a bank stops crediting same-day deposits.
- cuts no ice — If you say that something cuts no ice with you, you mean that you are not impressed or influenced by it.
- cutting oil — a specially prepared oil used as a cutting fluid.
- cuttlebones — Plural form of cuttlebone.
- cutty stool — (formerly, in Scotland) the church seat on which an unchaste person sat while being harangued by the minister
- cyclobutane — (uncountable, organic compound) A simple alicyclic hydrocarbon, C4H8; a light inflammable gas.
- cystogenous — forming or secreting cysts
- cytophagous — the ingestion of cells by other cells.
- dear-bought — having been purchased at great expense
- death house — the section of a prison containing an execution chamber and the cells in which persons condemned to die are housed in the days just before their execution
- deauthorize — to give authority for; formally sanction (an act or proceeding): Congress authorized the new tax on tobacco.
- debouchment — the act or an instance of debouching
- declivitous — fairly steep
- deconstruct — In philosophy and literary criticism, to deconstruct an idea or text means to show the contradictions in its meaning, and to show how it does not fully explain what it claims to explain.
- decurionate — the post or position of a decurion
- decurvation — the act of curving downwards
- decussation — a decussating or being decussated
- deevolution — any process of formation or growth; development: the evolution of a language; the evolution of the airplane.
- deglutition — the act of swallowing
- deglutitory — of or relating to swallowing
- degustation — the act of sampling a wide variety of foods, wines, etc.
- degustatory — tasty; having a pleasant flavour
- deleterious — Something that has a deleterious effect on something has a harmful effect on it.
- delusionist — a person prone to delusions
- demodulated — Simple past tense and past participle of demodulate.
- demodulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of demodulate.
- demodulator — a device used in demodulation
- demountable — to remove from a mounting, setting, or place of support, as a gun.
- demy quarto — a book size, 113⁄4 by 85⁄8 inches
- denouements — Plural form of denouement.
- dentigerous — bearing or having teeth
- deobstruent — a drug which removes obstructions in the body by aiding the opening of ducts