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10-letter words containing our

  • overhonour — to honour too highly
  • overlabour — excessive toil
  • palm court — a large room, usually in a prestigious hotel, where functions are staged, notably tea dances
  • peak hours — prime time, busiest period
  • petit four — a small teacake, variously frosted and decorated.
  • plus-fours — Plus-fours are short wide trousers fastened below the knees which people used to wear when hunting or playing golf.
  • pour it on — to flatter profusely
  • pour point — the lowest temperature at which a substance will flow under given conditions.
  • pourparler — an informal preliminary conference.
  • racecourse — racetrack.
  • re-adjourn — to suspend the meeting of (a club, legislature, committee, etc.) to a future time, another place, or indefinitely: to adjourn the court.
  • resourcing — the provision of resources
  • rice flour — flour made of finely-ground rice
  • rock flour — glacial meal.
  • sixty-four — a cardinal number, 60 plus 4.
  • sojourners — a temporary stay: during his sojourn in Paris.
  • sojourning — a temporary stay: during his sojourn in Paris.
  • sour cream — cream soured by the lactic acid produced by a ferment.
  • sour crude — Sour crude is crude oil with a high sulfur content.
  • sour gourd — the acid fruit of any of several African or Australian trees belonging to the genus Adansonia, of the bombax family, as the baobab, A. digitata.
  • sour-faced — bad-tempered and unfriendly
  • sourcebook — a book which contains sources of information on a particular subject
  • sourceless — any thing or place from which something comes, arises, or is obtained; origin: Which foods are sources of calcium?
  • sourdeline — a type of bagpipe
  • soya flour — flour made from soya beans
  • strasbourg — a department in NE France. 1848 sq. mi. (4785 sq. km). Capital: Strasbourg.
  • study tour — a trip or tour taken by a group of people in order to study something, such as a language
  • 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.
  • telecourse — a course of study presented on television, as for local home viewers receiving credit at a community college.
  • thiouracil — a white, slightly water-soluble, bitter, crystalline powder C 4 H 4 N 2 OS, used chiefly in treating hyperthyroidism by reducing the activity of the thyroid gland.
  • three-four — designating or of a musical rhythm with three quarter notes to a measure
  • tour guide — A tour guide is a person employed by a travel company to assist people who are on vacation.
  • tourbillon — a device in a mechanical watch which prevents errors due to changes in gravity
  • 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.
  • tournament — a trial of skill in some game, in which competitors play a series of contests: a chess tournament.
  • tourniquet — Medicine/Medical, Surgery. any device for arresting bleeding by forcibly compressing a blood vessel, as a bandage tightened by twisting.
  • tout court — simply; briefly
  • 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.
  • unarmoured — (of a ship) without armour
  • uncoloured — with no colour or with no colour added
  • unfavoured — not regarded with especial kindness or approval
  • unhonoured — not honoured
  • unlaboured — (of writing or artwork) not showing effort, but natural and flowing in style
  • untouristy — not typical of a tourist: They're the most untouristy couple you ever met.
  • vapourware — new computer software that has not yet been produced and which is likely never to be released or not to work as promised
  • woman-hour — a woman honored by a group.
  • your-grace — elegance or beauty of form, manner, motion, or action: We watched her skate with effortless grace across the ice. Synonyms: attractiveness, charm, gracefulness, comeliness, ease, lissomeness, fluidity. Antonyms: stiffness, ugliness, awkwardness, clumsiness; klutziness.
  • yourselves — You (used as the object of a verb or preposition, referring to the people being spoken to, previously mentioned).
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