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12-letter words containing t, r, u, e, o

  • subintroduce — to introduce subtly
  • subordinated — placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank.
  • subthreshold — (of a stimulus) too weak to produce a response.
  • suffruticose — woody at the base and herbaceous above.
  • sugar-coated — Sugar-coated food is covered with a sweet substance made of sugar.
  • summer stock — the production of plays, musical comedy, etc., during the summer, especially in a suburban or resort area, often by a repertory company.
  • super-polite — showing good manners toward others, as in behavior, speech, etc.; courteous; civil: a polite reply.
  • super-smooth — dead-smooth.
  • superconduct — to conduct electricity very efficiently or without resistance, to act as a superconductor
  • supererogate — to do more than duty requires.
  • superfrontal — a piece of cloth placed over an altar and frontal and hanging down a few inches over the front of the altar
  • superovulate — to produce more than the normal number of ova at one time, as through hormone treatment.
  • superpatriot — a person who is patriotic to an extreme.
  • superstardom — a person, as a performer or athlete, who enjoys wide recognition, is esteemed for exceptional talent, and is eagerly sought after for his or her services.
  • superstation — an independent television station whose signal is transmitted by satellite to subscribers on a cable system.
  • superstition — a belief or notion, not based on reason or knowledge, in or of the ominous significance of a particular thing, circumstance, occurrence, proceeding, or the like.
  • supervention — to take place or occur as something additional or extraneous (sometimes followed by on or upon).
  • suppletorily — supplying a deficiency.
  • support area — a minimum price below which a specific stock is not supposed to fall, as because of the stock's inherent worth.
  • support hose — elastic stockings worn to reduce pressure on the veins of the leg, esp for people with varicose veins
  • supraprotest — an acceptance or a payment of a bill by a third person after protest for nonacceptance or nonpayment by the drawee.
  • surmountable — to mount upon; get on the top of; mount upon and cross over: to surmount a hill.
  • synantherous — with united anthers
  • target group — intended audience or customers
  • tau neutrino — a hypothetical type of neutrino that would obey a conservation law together with the tau lepton, with the total number of tau leptons and tau neutrinos minus the total number of their antiparticles remaining constant.
  • tautomerizes — to undergo tautomerism.
  • tech support — an advising and troubleshooting service provided by a manufacturer, typically a software or hardware developer, to its customers, often online or on the telephone.
  • technicolour — brightly, showily, or garishly coloured; vividly noticeable
  • telanthropus — a genus of fossil hominids, known from two fragmentary lower jaws found in the region of Swartkrans, near Johannesburg, South Africa.
  • telautograph — a telegraphic device for reproducing handwriting, drawings, etc, the movements of an electromagnetically controlled pen at one end being transmitted along a line to a similar pen at the receiving end
  • telecommuter — person: works from home
  • telecomputer — teleprocessing.
  • teleosaurian — of or relating to the teleosaur
  • teleutospore — a spore of certain rust fungi, which carries the fungus through the winter and which, on germination, produces the promycelium.
  • telharmonium — a musical keyboard instrument operating by alternating currents of electricity which, on impulse from the keyboard, produce music at a distant point via telephone lines.
  • tellurometer — a surveying instrument using microwaves to measure distance.
  • temporaneous — lasting a short while
  • tennis court — ground marked out for tennis
  • tenuirostral — pertaining to a group of birds Tenuirostres which have slender bills
  • teratomatous — relating to a tumour typically of the gonads
  • tetrapterous — Zoology. having four wings or winglike appendages.
  • the big four — a small powerful group, as of banks, companies, etc, esp the four largest banks in Britain (Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds TSB, and NatWest)
  • the bosporus — a strait between European and Asian Turkey, linking the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara
  • the populars — cheap newspapers with mass circulation; the popular press
  • the troubles — political unrest or public disturbances
  • theophrastus — 372?–287 b.c, Greek philosopher.
  • therethrough — (of a place) through it; through them
  • thermocouple — a device that consists of the junction of two dissimilar metallic conductors, as copper and iron, in which an electromotive force is induced when the conductors are maintained at different temperatures, the force being related to the temperature difference: used to determine the temperature of a third substance by connecting it to the junction of the metals and measuring the electromotive force produced.
  • thoroughbred — of pure or unmixed breed, stock, or lineage, as a horse or other animal; bred from the purest and best blood.
  • thoroughfare — a road, street, or the like, that leads at each end into another street.
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