10-letter words containing a, b, o, u, t
- boastfully — given to or characterized by boasting.
- boucicault — Dion (ˈdaɪɒn), real name Dionysius Lardner Boursiquot. 1822–90, Irish dramatist and actor. His plays include London Assurance (1841), The Octoroon (1859), and The Shaughran (1874)
- bounty bag — a set of free samples, such as nappies and creams, given to mothers leaving hospital with a new baby
- branch out — If a person or an organization branches out, they do something that is different from their normal activities or work.
- brazen out — If you have done something wrong and you brazen it out, you behave confidently in order not to appear ashamed, even though you probably do feel ashamed.
- brontosaur — apatosaurus
- buccinator — a thin muscle that compresses the cheeks and holds them against the teeth during chewing, etc
- buffy coat — a yellowish-white layer consisting of leukocytes that, upon centrifugation of blood, covers the red blood cells.
- bull float — a machine for giving the final surfacing to an area of concrete, as on a road.
- buonaparte — Bonaparte1
- buonarroti — Michelangelo.
- button ear — a dog's ear that folds forward completely.
- button man — soldier (sense 2) soldier (sense 2b)
- buttonball — a North American plane tree, Platanus occidentalis
- butylation — the introduction of butyl into a compound
- buzz about — to scurry about
- cannot but — You use cannot but, could not but, and cannot help but when you want to emphasize that you believe something must be true and that there is no possibility of anything else being the case.
- canteloube — (Marie) Joseph (French ʒozɛf). 1879–1957, French composer, best known for his Chants d'Auvergne (1923–30)
- carburetor — A carburetor is the part of an engine, usually in a car, in which air and gasoline are mixed together to form a vapor which can be burned.
- cast about — to make a mental or visual search
- come about — When you say how or when something came about, you say how or when it happened.
- commutable — (of a punishment) capable of being reduced in severity
- computable — computability theory
- confutable — (archaic, or, formal) That can be confuted, i.e. shown to be false; disprovable.
- customable — subject to customs
- double act — Two comedians or entertainers who perform together are referred to as a double act. Their performance can also be called a double act.
- double tap — an act of firing a gun twice in rapid succession
- dubitation — doubt.
- earthbound — headed for the earth: an earthbound meteorite.
- eastbourne — a seaport in East Sussex, in SE England.
- eburnation — an abnormal condition in which bone becomes hard and dense like ivory.
- ethambutol — a compound used in the treatment of tuberculosis
- extubation — (medicine) The removal of a tube inserted by intubation.
- fabulation — to tell invented stories; create fables or stories filled with fantasy.
- fabulosity — (uncountable) Fabulousness; the quality of being fabulous; fictitiousness; mythical character.
- faff about — If you say that someone is faffing about or faffing around, you mean that they are doing things in a disorganized way and not achieving very much.
- fall about — If you say that people are falling about, you mean that they are laughing a lot about something.
- fart about — to behave foolishly or aimlessly
- fluoborate — a salt of fluoboric acid.
- fuck about — to act in a stupid or aimless manner
- garburator — (Canada) An electric device between the drain and the U-bend in a kitchen sink that shreds food waste into small enough bits to be washed down the sink.
- gastro-pub — A gastro-pub is a pub that serves very good food.
- gastropubs — Plural form of gastropub.
- groundbait — chum2 (def 1).
- gubernator — a governor
- hang about — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
- hereabouts — about this place; in this neighborhood.
- houseboats — Plural form of houseboat.
- hunt board — English Furniture. a semicircular drinking table, often having a groove serving as a guide for coasters and a well for unopened bottles.
- incubation — the act or process of incubating.