8-letter words containing u, t, o
- tamboura — an Asian musical instrument of the lute family having a small, round body and a long neck.
- tapaculo — a small passeriform bird, Pteroptochus albicollis (megapodius), with short wings and cocked tail, native to South America
- taphouse — an inn or tavern where liquor for sale is kept on tap.
- tautomer — a compound that exhibits tautomerism.
- tautonym — a scientific name in which the generic and the specific names are the same, as Chloris chloris (the greenfinch).
- teahouse — a restaurant or other establishment, especially in the Far East, where tea and refreshments are served.
- tear-out — designed to be easily torn out, as from bound matter: a tear-out children's section of games and puzzles.
- teetotum — any small top spun with the fingers.
- temerous — audacious
- teutones — the members of an ancient people, variously thought to have spoken a Germanic or a Celtic language, that lived north of the Elbe in Jutland
- teutonic — of or relating to the ancient Teutons.
- thallous — containing univalent thallium.
- thankyou — If you refer to something as a thankyou for what someone has done for you, you mean that it is intended as a way of thanking them.
- thaw out — defreeze
- the hour — an exact number of complete hours
- thin out — diminish, dissipate
- thiourea — a colorless, crystalline, bitter-tasting, water-soluble solid, CH 4 N 2 S, derived from urea by replacement of the oxygen with sulfur: used chiefly in photography, inorganic synthesis, and to accelerate the vulcanization of rubber.
- thonburi — a city in S Thailand, near Bangkok.
- thorough — executed without negligence or omissions: a thorough search.
- thoughts — the product of mental activity; that which one thinks: a body of thought.
- thousand — a cardinal number, 10 times 100.
- thrombus — a fibrinous clot that forms in and obstructs a blood vessel, or that forms in one of the chambers of the heart.
- throw up — to propel or cast in any way, especially to project or propel from the hand by a sudden forward motion or straightening of the arm and wrist: to throw a ball.
- thumbpot — a tiny flowerpot
- thurmond — (James) Strom [strom] /strɒm/ (Show IPA), 1902–2003, U.S. politician.
- thurrock — unitary authority in Essex, SE England, on the N of the Thames River. 71 sq. mi. (184 sq. km).
- thurston — a male given name: from a Scandinavian word meaning “Thor's stone.”.
- thutmose — flourished c1475 b.c, Egyptian ruler: conqueror of the Middle East.
- tidy-out — the act of making something look better by removing things one does not want
- time out — a brief suspension of activity; intermission or break.
- time-out — a brief suspension of activity; intermission or break.
- timorous — full of fear; fearful: The noise made them timorous.
- tire out — make exhausted
- titanous — containing trivalent titanium.
- tithonus — the son of Laomedon of Troy who was loved by the goddess Eos. She asked that he be made immortal but forgot to ask that he be made eternally young. When he aged, she turned him into a grasshopper
- titmouse — any of numerous, widely distributed, small songbirds of the family Paridae, especially of the genus Parus, having soft, thick plumage and a short, stout, conical bill.
- toad bug — any of several small broad aquatic insect-eating hemipterous insects of the family Gelastocoridae, having toadlike characteristics.
- toadrush — an annual rush growing in damp lowlands
- toby jug — Also, Toby, Toby jug. a mug in the form of a stout old man wearing a three-cornered hat.
- tohubohu — chaos; disorder; confusion.
- tokugawa — a member of a powerful family in Japan that ruled as shoguns, 1603–1867.
- tombaugh — Clyde William, 1906–97, U.S. astronomer: discovered Pluto 1930.
- tomentum — pubescence consisting of longish, soft, entangled hairs pressed close to the surface.
- tonguing — Anatomy. the usually movable organ in the floor of the mouth in humans and most vertebrates, functioning in eating, in tasting, and, in humans, in speaking.
- tongzhou — former name of Nantong.
- tonneaux — a rear part or compartment of an automobile body, containing seats for passengers.
- too much — an excess of
- toothful — a little (esp alcoholic) drink
- top plug — A top plug is a rubber seal in the casing string, which stops the fluid used in drilling from contaminating cement slurry.
- topelius — Zakarias [sah-kah-ree-ahs] /ˌsɑ kɑˈri ɑs/ (Show IPA), 1818–98, Finnish poet and novelist.