11-letter words containing tru
- obstruction — something that obstructs, blocks, or closes up with an obstacle or obstacles; obstacle or hindrance: obstructions to navigation.
- obstructive — to block or close up with an obstacle; make difficult to pass: Debris obstructed the road.
- obtrusively — having or showing a disposition to obtrude, as by imposing oneself or one's opinions on others.
- organistrum — a stringed instrument played by two people
- out of true — not properly set, adjusted, aligned, etc.; inexact
- panel truck — a small truck having a fully enclosed body, used mainly to deliver light or small objects.
- play truant — be absent from school without permission
- pro-oestrus — proestrus.
- protrusible — able to be thrust outwards
- queen truss — a truss having queen posts with no king post.
- reconstruct — to construct again; rebuild; make over.
- restructure — to change, alter, or restore the structure of: to restructure a broken nose.
- rum truffle — a sweet resembling an edible fungus, of the European genus Tuber, in shape, flavoured with rum
- sand-struck — (of bricks) made with a mold lined with sand to permit freeing.
- sound truck — a truck carrying a loudspeaker from which speeches, music, etc., are broadcast, as for advertising, campaigning, or the like.
- stagestruck — obsessed with the desire to become an actor or actress.
- stake truck — a truck or trailer with a stake body, as for hauling farm animals or feed bags.
- star-struck — captivated by famous people or by fame itself.
- struck jury — a jury obtained by special agreement between the opposing attorneys, each taking turns in eliminating a member of the impaneled group until 12 members remain.
- struggle on — If you struggle on, you continue doing something rather than stopping, even though it is difficult.
- strumectomy — excision of part or all of a goiter.
- superstruct — to erect upon a foundation or on top of another building or part
- truckdriver — a person who drives a truck.
- truckle bed — a low bed moving on casters, usually pushed under another bed when not in use.
- truckmaster — an officer in charge of trade with Native Americans, esp among the early settlers
- truculently — fierce; cruel; savagely brutal.
- true course — a course whose bearing is given relative to the geographical meridian.
- true fresco — fresco (def 1).
- true-fresco — fresco (def 1).
- truehearted — faithful; loyal.
- trumpet leg — a turned leg that flares upward and outward from a narrow lower end.
- trumpetfish — any of several fishes of the family Aulostomidae, having a long, tubular snout, as the slender, brown-flecked Aulostomus maculatus, inhabiting waters on both sides of the tropical Atlantic Ocean, having the habit of orienting vertically in the water and capturing its prey from that position.
- trumpetweed — any of various eupatorium plants, esp joe-pye weed
- truncheoned — the club carried by a police officer; billy.
- truncheoner — someone who carries a truncheon
- trundle bed — truckle bed.
- trundletail — a dog with a curly tail.
- trunk cabin — a cabin of a yacht that presents a long, low profile with a relatively unbroken line fore and aft. Compare doghouse (def 2).
- trunksleeve — a sleeve that is puffed in shape or contains a large amount of fabric
- trust hotel — a licensed hotel or a bar owned by a publicly elected committee as trustees, the profits of which go to public amenities
- trustbuster — a federal official who seeks to dissolve business trusts, especially through vigorous application of antitrust regulations.
- trusteeship — Law. the office or function of a trustee.
- trustworthy — deserving of trust or confidence; dependable; reliable: The treasurer was not entirely trustworthy.
- truth claim — a hypothesis not yet verified by experience.
- truth quark — top quark
- truth serum — a drug, as the barbiturate thiopental, that induces in the subject a desire to talk or a state of heightened suggestibility, used in psychotherapy and in interrogation to discover repressed or consciously withheld information.
- truth table — a table that gives the truth-values of a compound sentence formed from component sentences by means of logical connectives, as AND, NOT, or OR, for every possible combination of truth-values of the component sentences.
- truth-value — the truth or falsehood of a proposition: The truth-value of “2 + 2 = 5” is falsehood.
- unconstrued — to give the meaning or intention of; explain; interpret.
- unintrusive — tending or apt to intrude; coming without invitation or welcome: intrusive memories of a lost love.