10-letter words containing t, u, r, b, o
- stormbound — confined, detained, or isolated by storms: a stormbound ship; a stormbound village.
- strasbourg — a department in NE France. 1848 sq. mi. (4785 sq. km). Capital: Strasbourg.
- stubbornly — unreasonably obstinate; obstinately unmoving: a stubborn child.
- sub-editor — A sub-editor is a person whose job it is to check and correct articles in newspapers or magazines before they are printed.
- sub-sector — Geometry. a plane figure bounded by two radii and the included arc of a circle.
- subcontrol — to exercise restraint or direction over; dominate; command: The car is difficult to control at high speeds. That zone is controlled by enemy troops.
- subcordate — almost heart-shaped
- subjugator — to bring under complete control or subjection; conquer; master.
- suborbital — (of a spacecraft) not in orbit; not achieving an altitude and velocity resulting in a ballistic trajectory circling the earth at least once.
- subproduct — a thing produced by labor: products of farm and factory; the product of his thought.
- subproject — something that is contemplated, devised, or planned; plan; scheme.
- subreption — Canon Law. a concealment of the pertinent facts in a petition, as for dispensation or favor, that in certain cases nullifies the grant. Compare obreption (def 1).
- subroutine — an instruction sequence in a machine or assembly language program that can be prewritten and referred to as often as needed. Compare procedure (def 4a).
- subsultory — moving in starts or twitches; relating to subsultus
- subtractor — in electronics, a circuit of which the output depends upon the difference between two inputs
- subtropics — the region lying between the tropics and temperate lands
- tabulatory — relating to tabulation
- tambourine — a small drum consisting of a circular frame with a skin stretched over it and several pairs of metal jingles attached to the frame, played by striking with the knuckles, shaking, and the like.
- tenebrious — dark; gloomy; obscure.
- thereabout — about or near that place or time: last June or thereabout.
- thunderbox — a portable boxlike lavatory seat that can be placed over a hole in the ground
- to be sure — free from doubt as to the reliability, character, action, etc., of something: to be sure of one's data.
- toothbrush — a small brush with a long handle, for cleaning the teeth.
- tourbillon — a device in a mechanical watch which prevents errors due to changes in gravity
- trolleybus — a passenger bus operating on tires and having an electric motor that draws power from overhead wires.
- troubadour — one of a class of medieval lyric poets who flourished principally in southern France from the 11th to 13th centuries, and wrote songs and poems of a complex metrical form in langue d'oc, chiefly on themes of courtly love. Compare trouvère.
- troubledly — in a troubled manner
- trubetzkoy — N(ikolai) S(ergeievich) [nyi-kuh-lahy syir-gye-yi-vyich] /nyɪ kʌˈlaɪ syɪrˈgyɛ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1890–1938, Russian linguist in Austria.
- tuberculo- — tubercular
- tuberiform — in the form of a tuber
- tuberosity — a rough projection or protuberance of a bone, as for the attachment of a muscle.
- tucker-box — a box used to store or carry food.
- turbo pump — a turbine powered pump
- turboshaft — a gas turbine used to deliver shaft power, as to a helicopter rotor.
- turbotrain — a train powered by a gas-turbine locomotive.
- turbulator — a device that is designed to make air flow more smoothly over the wing of an aircraft and minimize turbulence
- turcophobe — a person who has a morbid fear of Turks.
- turkophobe — a person who has a morbid fear of Turks.
- turnbroach — (formerly) a servant whose job was to turn the spit on which meat, poultry, etc, was roasting
- ulan bator — a republic in E central Asia, in N Mongolia. About 600,000 sq. mi. (1,500,000 sq. km). Capital: Ulan Bator.
- umber moth — any of various brownish geometrid moths, esp the waved umber (Menophra abruptaria) and small waved umber (Horisme vitalbata), that are cryptically marked to merge with tree bark, and the mottled umber (Erannis defoliaria) whose looper larvae can strip branches and even trees
- umberto ii — 1904–83, the last king of Italy (1946), following the abdication of his father Victor Emmanuel III: abdicated when a referendum supported the abolition of the monarchy
- unbothered — not experiencing mental or physical discomfort: He was unbothered by the cold. He was unbothered about not being picked for the team.
- unprobated — Law. the official proving of a will as authentic or valid in a probate court.
- untroubled — without trouble, discomfort, or disturbance: an easy, untroubled life; He was untroubled by daily setbacks.
- whereabout — whereabouts.
- whirlabout — a whirling around in a circle.
- word burst — a greater than normal rate of occurrence of a particular word in a given context, esp in weblogs