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9-letter words containing t, r, u, n

  • triennium — a period of three years.
  • trigonous — having three angles or corners, as a stem or seed; triangular.
  • trigynous — (of a plant) having three pistils
  • troubling — to disturb the mental calm and contentment of; worry; distress; agitate.
  • trouncing — to beat severely; thrash.
  • truanting — the condition or action of playing truant
  • truckline — a transportation line utilizing trucks.
  • truculent — fierce; cruel; savagely brutal.
  • true-born — genuinely or authentically so because of birth: a trueborn son of Ireland; a trueborn Parisian.
  • truepenny — a trusty, honest fellow.
  • truncated — truncated.
  • truncheon — the club carried by a police officer; billy.
  • trunkfish — any plectognath fish of the family Ostraciontidae, of warm seas, having a boxlike body encased in bony, polygonal plates.
  • trunkless — the main stem of a tree, as distinct from the branches and roots.
  • trunkwork — a clandestine action, esp by means of a trunk
  • tung tree — any of several trees belonging to the genus Aleurites, of the spurge family, especially A. fordii, of China, bearing seeds that yield tung oil.
  • tunneller — an underground passage.
  • turbinate — Also, turbinated. having the shape of an inverted cone; scroll-like; whorled; spiraled.
  • turbulent — being in a state of agitation or tumult; disturbed: turbulent feelings or emotions.
  • turducken — a deboned turkey that is stuffed with a deboned duck that is stuffed with a deboned chicken.
  • turkestan — a vast region in W and central Asia, E of the Caspian Sea: includes territory in the S central part of Xinjiang province in China (Eastern Turkestan or Chinese Turkestan) a strip of N Afghanistan, and the area (Russian Turkestan) comprising the republics of Kazakhstan, Kirghizia (Kyrgyzstan), Tadzhikistan (Tajikistan), Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.
  • turkistan — a vast region in W and central Asia, E of the Caspian Sea: includes territory in the S central part of Xinjiang province in China (Eastern Turkestan or Chinese Turkestan) a strip of N Afghanistan, and the area (Russian Turkestan) comprising the republics of Kazakhstan, Kirghizia (Kyrgyzstan), Tadzhikistan (Tajikistan), Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.
  • turmaline — tourmaline.
  • turn away — move further from sth, sb
  • turn back — to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
  • turn down — to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
  • turn over — to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
  • turn tail — the hindmost part of an animal, especially that forming a distinct, flexible appendage to the trunk.
  • turnabout — the act of turning in a different or opposite direction.
  • turnagain — an about-turn
  • turned on — lively and chic; switched-on.
  • turned-on — lively and chic; switched-on.
  • turnhalle — a building in which gymnastics is taught and practised
  • turnround — A turnround is the same as a turnaround.
  • turnstile — a structure of four horizontally revolving arms pivoted atop a post and set in a gateway or opening in a fence to allow the controlled passage of people.
  • turnstone — any shorebird of the genus Arenaria, characterized by the habit of turning over stones in search of food.
  • turntable — the rotating disk that spins the record on a phonograph.
  • tyndareus — the husband of Leda and father of Clytemnestra and Castor.
  • tyrannous — tyrannical.
  • uitlander — a foreigner, especially a British settler in the Boer republics prior to the formation of the Union of South Africa.
  • ulsterman — a native or inhabitant of Ulster.
  • ultradian — of or relating to a biorhythm having a period of less than 24 hours.
  • ultrafine — extremely small or delicate
  • ultrathin — extremely thin: an ultrathin wristwatch.
  • ultratiny — extremely small or minute
  • un-mature — complete in natural growth or development, as plant and animal forms: a mature rose bush.
  • un-robust — strong and healthy; hardy; vigorous: a robust young man; a robust faith; a robust mind.
  • un-strict — characterized by or acting in close conformity to requirements or principles: a strict observance of rituals.
  • un-tiered — being or arranged in tiers or layers (usually used in combination): a two-tiered box of chocolates.
  • unaborted — (esp of a baby or pregnancy) not aborted or ended
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