9-letter words containing tu
- turgidity — swollen; distended; tumid.
- turkestan — a vast region in W and central Asia, E of the Caspian Sea: includes territory in the S central part of Xinjiang province in China (Eastern Turkestan or Chinese Turkestan) a strip of N Afghanistan, and the area (Russian Turkestan) comprising the republics of Kazakhstan, Kirghizia (Kyrgyzstan), Tadzhikistan (Tajikistan), Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.
- turkistan — a vast region in W and central Asia, E of the Caspian Sea: includes territory in the S central part of Xinjiang province in China (Eastern Turkestan or Chinese Turkestan) a strip of N Afghanistan, and the area (Russian Turkestan) comprising the republics of Kazakhstan, Kirghizia (Kyrgyzstan), Tadzhikistan (Tajikistan), Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.
- turkophil — a person who favors or admires Turkey, Turkish customs, or Turks.
- turmaline — tourmaline.
- turn away — move further from sth, sb
- turn back — to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
- turn down — to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
- turn over — to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
- turn tail — the hindmost part of an animal, especially that forming a distinct, flexible appendage to the trunk.
- turnabout — the act of turning in a different or opposite direction.
- turnagain — an about-turn
- turned on — lively and chic; switched-on.
- turned-on — lively and chic; switched-on.
- turnhalle — a building in which gymnastics is taught and practised
- turnround — A turnround is the same as a turnaround.
- turnstile — a structure of four horizontally revolving arms pivoted atop a post and set in a gateway or opening in a fence to allow the controlled passage of people.
- turnstone — any shorebird of the genus Arenaria, characterized by the habit of turning over stones in search of food.
- turntable — the rotating disk that spins the record on a phonograph.
- turophile — a connoisseur or lover of cheese.
- turpitude — vile, shameful, or base character; depravity.
- turquoise — Also, turquois. an opaque mineral, a basic hydrous copper aluminum phosphate often containing a small amount of iron, sky-blue or greenish-blue in color, cut cabochon as a gem. Compare bone turquoise.
- tuscarora — a member of an Indian people living originally in North Carolina and later, after their admission into the Iroquois confederacy, in New York.
- tussocked — having or covered with tussocks
- tutiorism — (in Roman Catholic moral theology) the doctrine that in cases of moral doubt it is best to follow the safer course or that in agreement with the law
- tutorship — a person employed to instruct another in some branch or branches of learning, especially a private instructor.
- tutworker — a person involved in tutwork
- ultimatum — a final, uncompromising demand or set of terms issued by a party to a dispute, the rejection of which may lead to a severance of relations or to the use of force.
- un-mature — complete in natural growth or development, as plant and animal forms: a mature rose bush.
- unattuned — unaccustomed to or unfamiliar with
- unculture — the lack or absence of culture: Much modern fiction is a product of unculture.
- undulatus — billow cloud.
- unfactual — of or relating to facts; concerning facts: factual accuracy.
- unfortune — misfortune
- unguentum — (in prescriptions) ointment.
- unmatured — complete in natural growth or development, as plant and animal forms: a mature rose bush.
- unnatural — contrary to the laws or course of nature.
- unstudied — not studied; not premeditated or labored; natural; unaffected.
- unstuffed — not stuffed; not filled with stuffing
- unsutured — Surgery. a joining of the lips or edges of a wound or the like by stitching or some similar process. a particular method of doing this. one of the stitches or fastenings employed.
- untumbled — (of gemstones or other materials) not tumbled or polished in a tumbling-box
- untunable — not tuneful or melodious; discordant (literally or figuratively)
- untunably — tunelessly
- untuneful — not tuneful or melodious
- untutored — not tutored; untaught; uninstructed.
- vastitude — vastness; immensity: the vastitude of his love for all humankind.
- vecturist — a person who collects transportation tokens as a hobby.
- venturing — an undertaking involving uncertainty as to the outcome, especially a risky or dangerous one: a mountain-climbing venture.
- venturous — venturesome.
- vertumnus — a Roman god of gardens, orchards, and seasonal change