10-letter words containing u, r, l, e
- surplusage — something that is surplus; an excess amount.
- surrealism — a style of art and literature developed principally in the 20th century, stressing the subconscious or nonrational significance of imagery arrived at by automatism or the exploitation of chance effects, unexpected juxtapositions, etc.
- surrealist — a style of art and literature developed principally in the 20th century, stressing the subconscious or nonrational significance of imagery arrived at by automatism or the exploitation of chance effects, unexpected juxtapositions, etc.
- surreality — of, relating to, or characteristic of surrealism, an artistic and literary style; surrealistic.
- surveilled — to place under surveillance.
- survivable — able to be survived: Would an atomic war be survivable?
- sutherland — Earl Wilbur, Jr. 1915–74, U.S. biochemist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1971.
- tabularize — to tabulate.
- telecourse — a course of study presented on television, as for local home viewers receiving credit at a community college.
- temerously — in a temerous manner
- tendrilous — a threadlike, leafless organ of climbing plants, often growing in spiral form, which attaches itself to or twines round some other body, so as to support the plant.
- tentacular — Zoology. any of various slender, flexible processes or appendages in animals, especially invertebrates, that serve as organs of touch, prehension, etc.; feeler.
- tertullian — (Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus) a.d. c160–c230, Carthaginian theologian.
- testicular — of or relating to the testes.
- texturally — the visual and especially tactile quality of a surface: rough texture.
- the purple — high rank; nobility
- tirailleur — an African soldier in the French colonial army
- tolu resin — tolu.
- toolpusher — a foreman who supervises drilling operations on an oil rig
- tourmaline — any of a group of silicate minerals of complex composition, containing boron, aluminum, etc., usually black but having various colored, transparent varieties used as gems.
- trabeculae — Anatomy, Botany. a structural part resembling a small beam or crossbar.
- trabecular — Anatomy, Botany. a structural part resembling a small beam or crossbar.
- trachelium — (in classical architecture) any member between the hypotrachelium and the capital of a column.
- transvalue — to reestimate the value of, especially on a basis differing from accepted standards; reappraise; reevaluate.
- travelogue — a lecture, slide show, or motion picture describing travels.
- trickle-up — noting or pertaining to the theory that monetary benefits directed toward small businesses and the poor will gradually pass up to big business and the rich.
- trisulcate — having three grooves or furrows
- trisulfide — a sulfide containing three sulfur atoms.
- triturable — capable of being triturated.
- trolleybus — a passenger bus operating on tires and having an electric motor that draws power from overhead wires.
- tropaeolum — any garden plant of the genus Tropaeolum esp the nasturtium
- troubledly — in a troubled manner
- trouvaille — a windfall
- truculence — fierce; cruel; savagely brutal.
- truculency — fierce; cruel; savagely brutal.
- true level — an imaginary surface everywhere perpendicular to the plumb line, or line of gravity.
- trumpeldor — Joseph, 1880–1920, Zionist leader, born in Russia.
- trunk line — a major long-distance transportation line.
- tubercular — pertaining to tuberculosis; tuberculous.
- tuberculin — a sterile liquid prepared from cultures of the tubercle bacillus, used in the diagnosis and, formerly, in the treatment of tuberculosis.
- tuberculo- — tubercular
- tuberculum — a tubercle.
- tubulature — a tubulation
- tularaemia — a plaguelike disease of rabbits, squirrels, etc., caused by a bacterium, Francisella tularensis, transmitted to humans by insects or ticks or by the handling of infected animals and causing fever, muscle pain, and symptoms associated with the point of entry into the body.
- tule perch — See under perch2 (def 3).
- tulip tree — Also called tulip poplar, yellow poplar. a tall tree, Liriodendron tulipifera, of the magnolia family, native to the eastern U.S., having large, cup-shaped, green and orange flowers: the state tree of Indiana, Kentucky, and Tennessee.
- tumble-dry — to dry (washing) in a clothes drier in which articles are rotated vertically through heated air.
- turbulence — the quality or state of being turbulent; violent disorder or commotion.
- turbulency — the quality or state of being turbulent; violent disorder or commotion.
- turcophile — a person who favors or admires Turkey, Turkish customs, or Turks.