11-letter words containing t, u, m
- this minute — immediately, without delay
- thrummingly — in a thrumming manner or by way of thrumming
- thumb drive — Also called flash memory drive, thumb drive, USB drive. a very small, portable, solid-state hard drive that can be inserted into a USB port for storage and retrieval of data.
- thumb glass — a drinking glass having external indentations to allow it to be firmly grasped.
- thumb index — tabs on edge of a book's pages
- thumb piano — any of various African boxlike musical instruments, such as the kalimba or mbira, having tuned strips of metal or wood that vibrate when played with the thumbs.
- thumb-index — to provide (a book) with a thumb index.
- thumbs down — the short, thick, inner digit of the human hand, next to the forefinger.
- thumbs-down — an act or instance of dissent, disapproval, etc.
- thumbsucker — a person who habitually sucks a thumb.
- thunder mug — a chamber pot.
- thutmose ii — flourished c1495 b.c, Egyptian ruler, son of Thutmose I, half brother of Thutmose III.
- tidal datum — (in a hydrographic survey) a curved surface representing one phase of a tide, usually mean low water, taken as a datum level.
- timor timur — East Timor
- tîrgu mureş — a city in central Romania.
- to run amok — If a person or animal runs amok, they behave in a violent and uncontrolled way.
- tolbutamide — a white crystalline substance, C 12 H 18 N 2 O 3 S, used to augment insulin secretion in the treatment of diabetes mellitus.
- tollund man — the perfectly preserved remains of an Iron Age man, hanged and thrown into a bog at Tollund, in Jutland, Denmark: discovered in 1950.
- tomato soup — soup made from tomatoes
- tonal music — music that uses the diatonic system
- tongue worm — any wormlike invertebrate of the phylum Pentastomida (or subphylum of Arthropoda), having two pairs of hooks at the sides of the mouth: all are parasitic, some in the respiratory tracts of mammals.
- traducement — to speak maliciously and falsely of; slander; defame: to traduce someone's character.
- transhumant — the seasonal migration of livestock, and the people who tend them, between lowlands and adjacent mountains.
- traumatised — Pathology. to injure (tissues) by force or by thermal, chemical, etc., agents.
- traumatized — Pathology. to injure (tissues) by force or by thermal, chemical, etc., agents.
- tremulously — (of persons, the body, etc.) characterized by trembling, as from fear, nervousness, or weakness.
- tridominium — the shared rule of three states
- triple jump — a jumping event for distance in which a participant leaps on one foot from a takeoff point, lands on the same foot, steps forward on the other foot, leaps, and lands on both feet.
- triptolemus — a favorite of Demeter and the inventor of the plow and patron of agriculture, connected with the Eleusinian mysteries.
- trispermous — having three seeds.
- tristimulus — as in tristimulus values, amounts of each of three colour primaries that must be combined to form an objective colour match with a sample
- triumvirate — Roman History. the office or magistracy of a triumvir.
- trombiculid — (of a mite) belonging to the family Trombiculidae
- trouble man — troubleshooter (def 2).
- troublesome — causing trouble, annoyance, or difficulty; vexatious: a troublesome situation; a troublesome person.
- truckmaster — an officer in charge of trade with Native Americans, esp among the early settlers
- trumpet leg — a turned leg that flares upward and outward from a narrow lower end.
- trumpetfish — any of several fishes of the family Aulostomidae, having a long, tubular snout, as the slender, brown-flecked Aulostomus maculatus, inhabiting waters on both sides of the tropical Atlantic Ocean, having the habit of orienting vertically in the water and capturing its prey from that position.
- trumpetweed — any of various eupatorium plants, esp joe-pye weed
- truth claim — a hypothesis not yet verified by experience.
- truth serum — a drug, as the barbiturate thiopental, that induces in the subject a desire to talk or a state of heightened suggestibility, used in psychotherapy and in interrogation to discover repressed or consciously withheld information.
- tub-thumper — a vociferous supporter or promoter, as of a cause.
- tuberculoma — a tumour or other mass that grows from a tuberculous lesion or caused by the tubercle bacillus
- tubthumping — to promote something or express opinions vociferously.
- tulipomania — (in 17th-century Holland) a widespread obsession with tulips, especially of highly prized varieties, as those of a streaked, variegated, or unusual color.
- tumble cart — a horse-drawn cart having two solid wheels.
- tumble down — collapse, fall
- tumble home — Nautical. an inward and upward slope of the middle body of a vessel.
- tumble over — If someone or something tumbles over, they fall, often with a rolling or bouncing movement.
- tumble-down — dilapidated; ruined; rundown: He lived in a tumble-down shack.