10-letter words containing b, u, e
- bute house — a house in Charlotte Square, Edinburgh: official residence of the First Minister of Scotland
- butlership — the skills of a butler
- butt heads — an extremely stupid or inept person.
- butt hinge — a hinge made of two matching leaves, one recessed into a door and the other into the jamb so that they are in contact when the door is shut
- butt plate — a plate made usually of metal and attached to the butt end of a gunstock
- butt-naked — completely naked
- butterball — a chubby or fat person
- butterfish — an eel-like blennioid food fish, Pholis gunnellus, occurring in North Atlantic coastal regions: family Pholidae (gunnels). It has a slippery scaleless golden brown skin with a row of black spots along the base of the long dorsal fin
- butterless — without butter
- buttermere — a lake in NW England, in Cumbria, in the Lake District, southwest of Keswick. Length: 2 km (1.25 miles)
- buttermilk — Buttermilk is the liquid that remains when fat has been removed from cream when butter is being made. You can drink buttermilk or use it in cooking.
- butterweed — a North American herbaceous plant, Senecio glabellus, with yellow flowers
- butterwort — a plant of the genus Pinguicula, esp P. vulgaris, that grows in wet places and has violet-blue spurred flowers and fleshy greasy glandular leaves on which insects are trapped and digested: family Lentibulariaceae
- button ear — a dog's ear that folds forward completely.
- buttonhole — A buttonhole is a hole that you push a button through in order to fasten a shirt, coat, or other piece of clothing.
- buttonless — having no button or buttons.
- buttressed — any external prop or support built to steady a structure by opposing its outward thrusts, especially a projecting support built into or against the outside of a masonry wall.
- buy-to-let — of or relating to the practice of buying a property to let to tenants rather than to live in onself
- by default — If something happens by default, it happens only because something else which might have prevented it or changed it has not happened.
- by request — in accordance with someone's desire
- by-numbers — done in an uninspired, simplistic, or formulaic way
- byssaceous — consisting of fine threads
- bytesexual — (jargon) /bi:t" sek"shu-*l/ An adjective used to describe hardware, denotes willingness to compute or pass data in either big-endian or little-endian format (depending, presumably, on a mode bit somewhere). See also NUXI problem.
- cable buoy — a buoy marking or supporting part of a submerged cable.
- calculable — Calculable amounts or consequences can be calculated.
- canteloube — (Marie) Joseph (French ʒozɛf). 1879–1957, French composer, best known for his Chants d'Auvergne (1923–30)
- canterbury — a late 18th-century low wooden stand with partitions for holding cutlery and plates: often mounted on casters
- capturable — to take by force or stratagem; take prisoner; seize: The police captured the burglar.
- carbuncled — infected with a carbuncle.
- carbuncles — Plural form of carbuncle.
- carbureted — (of a vehicle or engine) having fuel supplied through a carburetor, rather than an injector.
- 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.
- carburized — Simple past tense and past participle of carburize.
- celebrious — (obsolete) famous.
- celebutard — (informal, pejorative, offensive, slang) A celebrity viewed as unintelligent; especially a celebrity who behaves badly in public.
- censurable — deserving censure, condemnation, or blame
- cerebellum — The cerebellum is a part of the brain in humans and other mammals that controls the body's movements and balance.
- check stub — A check stub is the part of a check that is kept by the payee with information such as the check number, date, and amount.
- chequebook — a book containing detachable blank cheques and issued by a bank or building society to holders of cheque accounts
- cherubfish — a brilliantly colored butterflyfish, Centropyge argi, found in the West Indies: kept in home aquariums.
- cherubical — Cherubic.
- cherubicon — the hymn sung during the Great Entrance by the choir, which represents the cherubim.
- cherublike — a celestial being. Gen. 3:24; Ezek. 1, 10.
- chess club — a club in which participants can learn chess and improve their playing skills
- china blue — a bright greenish blue.
- chubbiness — round and plump: a chubby child; a chubby face.
- chubsucker — any of several stout suckers of the genus Erimyzon, inhabiting sluggish streams, backwaters, and lakes of the central and eastern U.S.
- circulable — able to be circulated
- cloud base — the apparent lower surface of a cloud or cloud layer.
- cloudberry — a creeping Eurasian herbaceous rosaceous plant, Rubus chamaemorus, with white flowers and orange berry-like fruits (drupelets)