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7-letter words starting with tu

  • tunisia — a republic in N Africa, on the Mediterranean: a French protectorate until 1956. 48,330 sq. mi. (125,175 sq. km). Capital: Tunis.
  • tunnage — the capacity of a merchant vessel, expressed either in units of weight, as deadweight tons, or of volume, as gross tons.
  • tunning — a large cask for holding liquids, especially wine, ale, or beer.
  • tuonela — the afterworld, an island on which the sun and moon never shine.
  • tupolev — Andrei Nikolayevich [uhn-dryey nyi-kuh-lah-yi-vyich] /ʌnˈdryeɪ nyɪ kʌˈlɑ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1888–1972, Russian engineer and aircraft designer.
  • tupping — Chiefly British. a male sheep; ram.
  • turacin — a red pigment found in certain feathers of the touraco
  • turbary — land, or a piece of land, where turf or peat may be dug or cut.
  • turbine — any of various machines having a rotor, usually with vanes or blades, driven by the pressure, momentum, or reactive thrust of a moving fluid, as steam, water, hot gases, or air, either occurring in the form of free jets or as a fluid passing through and entirely filling a housing around the rotor.
  • turbo c — (language)   Borland's C compiler for IBM PCs. Turbo C, version 1.0, was introduced by Borland in 1987. It offered the first integrated edit-compile-run development environment for C on IBM PCs. It ran in 384KB of memory. It allowed inline assembly, supported all memory models, and offered optimisations for speed, size, constant folding, and jump elimination. Version 1.5 shipped on five 360 KB diskettes of uncompressed files, and came with sample C programs, including a stripped down spreadsheet called mcalc. Turbo C 2.0 has a debugger, a fast assembler, and an extensive graphics library. Turbo C has been largely supplanted by Turbo C++, introduced circa September, 1990 for both MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows.
  • turdine — belonging or pertaining to the family Turdidae, comprising the true thrushes.
  • turenne — Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne de [ahn-ree duh la toor doh-vern-yuh duh] /ɑ̃ˈri də la ˈtur doʊˈvɛrn yə də/ (Show IPA), 1611–75, French general and marshal.
  • turfing — a layer of matted earth formed by grass and plant roots.
  • turfman — a person who is extremely devoted to horse racing.
  • turfski — a short ski with rollers on the bottom used in turfskiing.
  • turgite — a red or black mineral consisting of hydrated ferric oxide. Formula: Fe2O3.nH2O
  • turista — traveler's diarrhea, especially as experienced by some visitors to Latin America.
  • turkana — a member of a seminomadic people of northwestern Kenya and bordering areas of Uganda.
  • turkish — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or derived from Turkey or the Turks.
  • turkism — the culture, beliefs, principles, practices, etc., of the Turks.
  • turkman — a native or inhabitant of Turkmenistan.
  • turkmen — the language of the Turkman people, a Turkic language spoken mostly east of the Caspian Sea in Turkmenistan but also in parts of European Russia, Iran, and the Caucasus.
  • turlock — a town in central California.
  • turmoil — a state of great commotion, confusion, or disturbance; tumult; agitation; disquiet: mental turmoil caused by difficult decisions.
  • turn in — to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
  • turn on — to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
  • turn to — to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
  • turn up — to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
  • turn-on — to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
  • turnery — the process or art of forming or shaping objects on a lathe.
  • turning — a movement of partial or total rotation: a slight turn of the handle.
  • turnipy — like a turnip
  • turnkey — a person who has charge of the keys of a prison; jailer.
  • turnoff — a small road that branches off from a larger one, especially a ramp or exit leading off a major highway: He took the wrong turnoff and it took him some 15 minutes to get back on the turnpike.
  • turnout — the gathering of persons who come to an exhibition, party, spectacle, or the like: They had a large turnout at the meeting.
  • turpeth — the root of an East Indian plant, Merremia (or Operculina) turpethum, of the morning glory family, formerly used as a purgative.
  • turrets — a small tower, usually one forming part of a larger structure.
  • turtlet — a young or small turtle.
  • tuscany — a region in W central Italy: formerly a grand duchy. 8879 sq. mi. (22,995 sq. km).
  • tushery — the use of affectedly archaic language in novels, etc
  • tushies — the buttocks.
  • tussaud — Marie Grosholtz [grohs-hohlts] /ˈgroʊs hoʊlts/ (Show IPA), ("Madame Tussaud") 1760–1850, Swiss wax modeler in France and England: wax museum founder.
  • tussive — of or relating to a cough.
  • tussock — a tuft or clump of growing grass or the like.
  • tussore — a tan silk from India. Compare Shantung (def 2a).
  • tut-tut — tut.
  • tutania — an alloy containing tin, antimony, and copper, having a low melting point, and used mostly for decorative purposes
  • tutenag — a nickel silver containing about 45 percent copper, with varying proportions of nickel and zinc and often smaller amounts of other metals.
  • tutoyed — to address (someone), especially in French, using the familiar forms of the pronoun “you” rather than the more formal forms; address familiarly.
  • tutoyer — to address (someone), especially in French, using the familiar forms of the pronoun “you” rather than the more formal forms; address familiarly.
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