Usually from Latin via French.
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capture creature culture denture feature fixture fracture gesture juncture lecture mixture moisture nurture pasture picture posture puncture rupture scripture sculpture stature structure suture texture torture venture vulture |
departure expenditure furniture legislature overture prefecture signature temperature |
barbiturate bitumen capitulate century estuary factual infatuate mutual perpetuate postulate punctual punctuate pustulant saturate situate spiritual statue statute sumptuous tarantula unfortunate virtual virtue |


Do the words ‘tree’ and ‘trust’ fall in this category?
Very interesting question, as lots of kids do think ‘cheese’ and ‘trees’ are homophones, and a lot of speakers of Broad Australian English do pronounce the ‘t’ in ‘tr’ like /ch/, (so ‘trap’ sounds like ‘chrap’ etc), but the Macquarie Dictionary only codes letter ‘t’ as the sound /ch/ in the middle of words like ‘future’ and ‘posture’, and I use that dictionary as the guide for these lists.