7-letter words containing t, o, u
- rap out — If you rap out an order or a question, you say it quickly and sharply.
- rat out — be cowardly, withdraw
- readout — Computers. the output of information from a computer in readable form. Compare printout.
- recount — to count again.
- redoubt — Mount, an active volcano in S Alaska, on the Alaska Peninsula: highest peak in the Aleutian Range. 10,197 feet (3108 meters).
- remount — a fresh horse or supply of fresh horses.
- requote — to repeat (a passage, phrase, etc.) from a book, speech, or the like, as by way of authority, illustration, etc.
- reroute — a course, way, or road for passage or travel: What's the shortest route to Boston?
- retouch — to improve with new touches, highlights, or the like; touch up or rework, as a painting or makeup.
- rideout — to sit on and manage a horse or other animal in motion; be carried on the back of an animal.
- rig out — Chiefly Nautical. to put in proper order for working or use. to fit (a ship, mast, etc.) with the necessary shrouds, stays, etc. to fit (shrouds, stays, sails, etc.) to the mast, yard, or the like.
- riotous — (of an act) characterized by or of the nature of rioting or a disturbance of the peace.
- robusta — a coffee tree, Coffea canephora, native to western tropical Africa and cultivated in warm regions of the Old World.
- rollout — the first public showing of an aircraft.
- romaunt — a romantic tale or poem; romance.
- root up — a part of the body of a plant that develops, typically, from the radicle and grows downward into the soil, anchoring the plant and absorbing nutriment and moisture.
- rostrum — any platform, stage, or the like, for public speaking.
- rotorua — a city on N central North Island, in New Zealand.
- rotunda — a round building, especially one with a dome.
- rouault — Georges [zhawrzh] /ʒɔrʒ/ (Show IPA), 1871–1958, French painter.
- rousant — rising
- rouster — roustabout (def 1).
- rout up — to find or get by turning up or poking about
- routhie — abundant, plentiful, or well filled
- routine — subroutine
- routing — a bellow.
- rub out — to subject the surface of (a thing or person) to pressure and friction, as in cleaning, smoothing, polishing, coating, massaging, or soothing: to rub a table top with wax polish; to rub the entire back area.
- ruction — a disturbance, quarrel, or row.
- run out — an act or instance, or a period of running: a five-minute run before breakfast.
- run-out — the act of evading a jump or jumping outside of the limiting markers.
- rustout — rust-through.
- sagunto — a city in E Spain, N of Valencia: besieged by Hannibal 219–218 b.c.
- sautoir — a ribbon, chain, scarf, or the like, tied around the neck in such a manner that the ends cross over each other.
- scouted — a soldier, warship, airplane, etc., employed in reconnoitering.
- scouter — a person who scouts.
- scrotum — the pouch of skin that contains the testes.
- see out — to perceive with the eyes; look at.
- sellout — an act or instance of selling out.
- set out — to put (something or someone) in a particular place: to set a vase on a table.
- sfumato — the subtle and minute gradation of tone and color used to blur or veil the contours of a form in painting.
- shantou — a seaport in E Guangdong province, in SE China.
- shavuot — a festival, celebrated on the sixth and seventh days of Sivan by Orthodox and Conservative Jews outside Israel but only on the sixth day by Reform Jews and Jews in Israel, that commemorates God's giving of the Ten Commandments to Moses.
- shot up — to hit, wound, damage, kill, or destroy with a missile discharged from a weapon.
- shotgun — a smoothbore gun for firing small shots to kill birds and small quadrupeds, though often used with buckshot to kill larger animals.
- shut of — rid of; free from
- shutoff — an object or device that shuts (something) off: the automatic shutoff on a heater.
- shutout — an act or instance of shutting out.
- sickout — an organized absence from work by employees on the pretext of sickness, as to avoid the legal problems or antistrike clauses that would be invoked in the case of a formal strike.
- sit out — to rest with the body supported by the buttocks or thighs; be seated.
- slipout — an instance of slipping out