12-letter words containing t, r, u, e
- anzus treaty — Australia, New Zealand, and the United States, especially as associated in the mutual defense treaty (ANZUS Pact or ANZUS Treaty) of 1952.
- apfelstrudel — apple strudel
- appeal court — An appeal court is the same as a Court of Appeal.
- apple butter — a jam made from stewed spiced apples
- appurtenance — a secondary or less significant thing or part
- arbitrageurs — Plural form of arbitrageur.
- arc spectrum — a spectrum formed from the light produced by an electric arc, characteristic of the gas or vapor through which the arc passes.
- arched truss — a truss having an archlike form but unlike a true arch in that it is free to move horizontally at its base, as in expanding or contracting because of temperature changes.
- architecture — Architecture is the art of planning, designing, and constructing buildings.
- armour plate — a tough heavy steel, usually containing chromium, nickel, and molybdenum and often hardened on the surface, used for protecting warships, tanks, etc
- arseniureted — combined with arsenic
- arthur evans — Sir Arthur John, 1851–1941, English archaeologist.
- articulately — uttered clearly in distinct syllables.
- articulative — relating to articulation
- arts student — a person studying an arts subject
- at a premium — If something is at a premium, it is wanted or needed, but is difficult to get or achieve.
- at a venture — at random; by chance
- atheromatous — a sebaceous cyst.
- atmospherium — an optical system used to simulate images of atmospheric phenomena, as cloud formations, storms, and day and night, on the inside of a dome.
- attenborough — Sir David. born 1926, British naturalist and broadcaster; noted esp for his TV series Life on Earth (1978), The Living Planet (1983), The Life of Birds (1998), The Life of Mammals (2002), and First Life (2010)
- attributable — If something is attributable to an event, situation, or person, it is likely that it was caused by that event, situation or person.
- au contraire — on the contrary
- auctioneered — Simple past tense and past participle of auctioneer.
- auger effect — the spontaneous emission of an electron instead of a photon by an excited ion as a result of a vacancy being filled in an inner electron shell
- austronesian — of or relating to Austronesia, its peoples, or their languages
- authorizable — able to be authorized
- auto-erotism — the arousal and satisfaction of sexual excitement within or by oneself, as by masturbation.
- autoanalyzer — any of various automatic devices that test and analyze chemicals, blood, etc.
- autochangers — Plural form of autochanger.
- autocritique — the examination of factors guiding one's thoughts, beliefs and actions; self-criticism
- autodestruct — likely to or possessing the power to destroy or obliterate itself or its possessor
- autodiallers — Plural form of autodialler.
- autoexposure — A device that sets the exposure automatically on a camera or other piece of equipment.
- autoinjector — A medical device designed to deliver a single dose of a particular, typically life-saving, drug.
- autoreactive — (immunology, medicine) Acting against the organism by which it was produced.
- averruncator — a long pair of shears used for pruning the higher branches of trees
- baccalauréat — (esp in France) a school-leaving examination that qualifies the successful candidates for entrance to university
- bach trumpet — a modern small three-valved trumpet for playing clarino passages in Bach's music
- baluchithere — a hornless rhinoceros of the extinct genus Baluchitherium that inhabited central Asia during the Oligocene and early Miocene epochs: the largest land mammal known.
- bankruptcies — Plural form of bankruptcy.
- banquet room — A banquet room is a room in a hotel where large formal meals for many people can be held.
- barbecue pit — a trench in which wood or charcoal is burned for barbecuing
- barbecue set — a set of tools used for barbecuing
- barbiturates — any of a group of barbituric acid derivatives, used in medicine as sedatives and hypnotics.
- barquisimeto — a city in NW Venezuela. Pop: 1 009 000 (2005 est)
- barrel vault — a vault in the form of a half cylinder
- basque shirt — a knitted pullover shirt having a crew neck, long or short sleeves, and a pattern of horizontal stripes.
- bathtub race — a sailing race between bathtubs fitted with outboard motors
- battle group — a group of warships usually consisting of at least one aircraft carrier, other surface ships, submarines, landing craft, etc
- battleground — A battleground is the same as a battlefield.