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11-letter words containing a, s, t, u

  • brain-trust — to serve as a brain trust or a brain truster for: They have brain-trusted many major corporations.
  • breast lump — a harder lump detectable in the soft tissue of a woman's breast
  • breast pump — a device for extracting and collecting milk from the breast during lactation
  • bucket seat — A bucket seat is a seat for one person in a car or aeroplane which has rounded sides that partly enclose and support the body.
  • buena vista — a village in NE Mexico, near Saltillo: site of the defeat of the Mexicans by US forces (1847)
  • bullmastiff — a breed of dog
  • bungstarter — a mallet for loosening or removing the bung of a cask.
  • buoyantness — the property of being buoyant
  • burgomaster — the chief magistrate of a town in Austria, Belgium, Germany, or the Netherlands; mayor
  • burmese cat — a breed of cat similar in shape to the Siamese but typically having a dark brown or blue-grey coat
  • burnt shale — carbonaceous shale formed by destructive distillation of oil shale or by spontaneous combustion of shale after it has been some years in a tip: sometimes used in road making
  • burnt sugar — caramel
  • bursiculate — resembling a pouch
  • bus station — a place incorporating waiting areas, stands for buses, and ticket offices from which buses or coaches depart
  • bush jacket — a casual jacket or shirt having four patch pockets and a belt
  • bust a move — go, leave
  • butterpaste — a mixture of flour and butter kneaded together, used as a thickening for sauces.
  • butyraceous — of, containing, or resembling butter
  • cacqueteuse — a narrow, upright armchair of 16th-century France, having widely splayed arms and a very narrow back.
  • cactus moth — a moth, Cactoblastis cactorum, native to South America and introduced into Australia to control prickly pear cactus, on which the larvae feed.
  • cactus pear — tuna2 .
  • cactus wren — any American wren of the genus Campylorhynchus, of arid regions, especially C. brunneicapillus, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.
  • cafetoriums — Plural form of cafetorium.
  • calculators — Plural form of calculator.
  • calixtus ii — died 1124, French ecclesiastic: pope 1119–24.
  • callistus i — Calixtus I.
  • calochortus — any plant of the genus Calochortus, of the lily family, as the mariposa lily and the sego lily.
  • calumniates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of calumniate.
  • calycanthus — any of several shrubs of the genus Calycanthus, found in North America
  • cantaloupes — Plural form of cantaloupe.
  • capital sum — an amount of money paid to an insured person or paid as an initial fee or investment
  • capitulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of capitulate.
  • capsulation — enclosed in or formed into a capsule.
  • capsulotomy — (surgery) incision into a capsule, especially into the lens of the eye when removing cataracts.
  • carburetors — Plural form of carburetor.
  • carefullest — Superlative form of careful.
  • caricatures — a picture, description, etc., ludicrously exaggerating the peculiarities or defects of persons or things: His caricature of the mayor in this morning's paper is the best he's ever drawn.
  • carnaptious — ill-tempered or cantankerous
  • cartularies — Plural form of cartulary.
  • castellanus — (of a cloud) having small turrets.
  • castellatus — (formerly) castellanus.
  • casuistical — Casuistic.
  • catacaustic — (of a caustic curve or surface) formed by reflected light rays
  • catadromous — (of fishes such as the eel) migrating down rivers to the sea in order to breed
  • catafalques — Plural form of catafalque.
  • cataloguers — Plural form of cataloguer.
  • cataractous — of or relating to cataracts
  • catechumens — Plural form of catechumen.
  • cattywampus — catawampus
  • causability — a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?
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