19-letter words containing ru
- stringed instrument — a musical instrument having strings as the medium of sound production, played with the fingers or with a plectrum or a bow: The guitar, the harp, and the violin are stringed instruments.
- structural engineer — A structural engineer is an engineer who works on large structures such as roads, bridges, and large buildings.
- swimming instructor — sb who teaches people to swim
- take a running jump — a contemptuous expression of dismissal
- thrust augmentation — an increase in the thrust of a jet or rocket engine, as by afterburning or reheating.
- to be running short — If you are running short of something or running low on something, you do not have much of it left. If a supply of something is running short or running low, there is not much of it left.
- to run out of steam — If you run out of steam, you stop doing something because you have no more energy or enthusiasm left.
- to run the gauntlet — If you run the gauntlet, you go through an unpleasant experience in which a lot of people criticize or attack you.
- to strut your stuff — If you strut your stuff, you act in a proud way and show off.
- too good to be true — If you say that something seems too good to be true, you are suspicious of it because it seems better than you had expected, and you think there may something wrong with it that you have not noticed.
- training instructor — a person who teaches people the skills they need for a particular field or profession
- trumpet honeysuckle — an American honeysuckle, Lonicera sempervirens, having spikes of large, tubular flowers, deep-red outside and yellow within.
- trusteeship council — a United Nations body that supervises the government of a territory by a foreign country