11-letter words containing b, u, n, t, a
- brain trust — A brain trust is a group of experts who advise important people in a government or organization.
- brain-trust — to serve as a brain trust or a brain truster for: They have brain-trusted many major corporations.
- bring about — To bring something about means to cause it to happen.
- broaden out — If something such as a discussion broadens out or if someone broadens it out, the number of things or people that it includes or affects becomes greater.
- brunch coat — a knee-length housecoat.
- buccinatory — relating to a trumpeter or trumpet playing
- budget plan — the planning of one's spending
- buena vista — a village in NE Mexico, near Saltillo: site of the defeat of the Mexicans by US forces (1847)
- bullbaiting — a type of blood sport involving the baiting of a bull by dogs
- bulldog ant — any of several aggressive ants of the genus Myrmecia, mostly of Australia and Tasmania, capable of inflicting a painful and potentially dangerous sting.
- bungstarter — a mallet for loosening or removing the bung of a cask.
- buoyantness — the property of being buoyant
- 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
- bus station — a place incorporating waiting areas, stands for buses, and ticket offices from which buses or coaches depart
- but and ben — a two-roomed cottage consisting of an outer room or kitchen (but) and an inner room (ben)
- butorphanol — a narcotic analgesic, C 21 H 29 NO 2 , administered by injection to treat moderate to severe pain.
- butter bean — Butter beans are the yellowish flat round seeds of a kind of bean plant. They are eaten as a vegetable, and in Britain they are usually sold dried rather than fresh.
- cabin court — Older Use. a roadside motel having cabins.
- cabin trunk — a large trunk specially designed to be used on journeys, and often having large handles at either end to make it easy to move
- carburation — the process of mixing a hydrocarbon fuel with a correct amount of air to make an explosive mixture for an internal-combustion engine
- carburetant — a substance, as gasoline or benzene, added to air or gas to carburet it
- carburetion — Carburetion is the process of fuel becoming vapor and mixing with a stream of air in a carburetor.
- celebutante — a young woman from a wealthy background who becomes a celebrity
- concubitant — a person obliged to marry another, esp a woman obliged to marry her husband's brother on her husband's death
- confabulate — to talk together; converse; chat
- construable — that can be construed
- contubernal — occupying the same tent
- conurbation — A conurbation consists of a large city together with the smaller towns around it.
- counterbase — a double bass
- cretan bull — a savage bull, captured on Crete by Hercules and allowed to roam near Marathon in Greece until captured by Theseus.
- currant bun — a sweet bun containing currants
- cyclobutane — (uncountable, organic compound) A simple alicyclic hydrocarbon, C4H8; a light inflammable gas.
- debauchment — The act of debauching or corrupting; the act of seducing from virtue or duty.
- demountable — to remove from a mounting, setting, or place of support, as a gun.
- disturbance — the act of disturbing.
- drumbeating — That to beat on drums.
- dustbin man — (in British English) a man that is employed to collect domestic refuse
- east punjab — the eastern part of the former province of Punjab, in British India: now part of Punjab state, India.
- entablature — A horizontal, continuous lintel on a classical building supported by columns or a wall, comprising the architrave, frieze, and cornice.
- equilibrant — a force capable of balancing another force and producing equilibrium
- exuberantly — In an exuberant manner.
- exuberating — Present participle of exuberate.
- fantabulous — extremely fine or desirable; excellent; wonderful.
- funambulate — to walk on a tightrope
- funambulist — a tightrope walker.
- gangbusters — a law-enforcement officer who specializes in breaking up organized crime, often by forceful or sensational means.
- gangbusting — the activity of a gangbuster
- gas turbine — a turbine utilizing the gaseous products of combustion.
- glastonbury — a borough of SW England, in whose vicinity the ruins of an important Iron Age lake village have been found and to which in folklore both King Arthur and Joseph of Arimathaea have been linked, the latter as the founder of the abbey there.