10-letter words containing b, u, s, t
- substation — a branch of a main post office.
- substellar — having a mass smaller than the mass needed by stars for nuclear fusion
- substernal — of or relating to the sternum.
- substitute — a person or thing acting or serving in place of another.
- substratal — something that is spread or laid under something else; a stratum or layer lying under another.
- substratum — something that is spread or laid under something else; a stratum or layer lying under another.
- subsulfate — a basic salt of sulfuric acid.
- subsultory — moving in starts or twitches; relating to subsultus
- subtangent — the part of the x-axis cut off between the ordinate of a given point of a curve and the tangent at that point.
- subterfuge — an artifice or expedient used to evade a rule, escape a consequence, hide something, etc.
- subterrain — a cave or subterranean room.
- subterrane — a cave or subterranean room.
- subtextual — the underlying or implicit meaning, as of a literary work.
- subtilisin — a proteolytic enzyme produced by the bacterium Bacillus subtilis, used as an active ingredient in detergents and also in research to help reveal protein structure.
- subtilties — subtlety.
- subtitling — the addition of subtitles to a film or programme
- subtleness — thin, tenuous, or rarefied, as a fluid or an odor.
- subtleties — the state or quality of being subtle.
- subtotally — less than totally, incompletely
- subtractor — in electronics, a circuit of which the output depends upon the difference between two inputs
- subtrahend — a number that is subtracted from another.
- subtropics — the region lying between the tropics and temperate lands
- subvariety — a minor or subordinate variety
- subvention — a grant of money, as by a government or some other authority, in aid or support of some institution or undertaking, especially in connection with science or the arts.
- sugar beet — various cultivars of a beet, Beta vulgaris, of the amaranth family, having a white root, cultivated for the sugar it yields.
- sunbathing — to take a sunbath.
- superbitch — an exceptionally spiteful woman, a very bitchy person
- tankbuster — an aircraft, missile, etc designed to destroy tanks
- taste buds — one of numerous small, flask-shaped bodies, chiefly in the epithelium of the tongue, which are the end organs for the sense of taste.
- tenebrious — dark; gloomy; obscure.
- tetterbush — an evergreen shrub, Lyonia lucida, of the southeastern U.S., having leathery leaves and white to pink flowers.
- tewkesbury — a town in N Gloucestershire, in W England: final defeat of the Lancastrians in the Wars of the Roses 1471.
- the absurd — the conception of the world, esp in Existentialist thought, as neither designed nor predictable but irrational and meaningless
- the bushes — rural or small-town districts
- the buskin — tragic drama
- thumbikins — thumbscrews
- thumbscrew — a screw, the head of which is so constructed that it may be turned easily with the thumb and a finger.
- thumbstall — a protective sheath of rubber, leather, or the like for the thumb.
- tipu sahib — 1750–99, sultan of Mysore 1782–99.
- to be sure — free from doubt as to the reliability, character, action, etc., of something: to be sure of one's data.
- toothbrush — a small brush with a long handle, for cleaning the teeth.
- touch base — make contact
- trolleybus — a passenger bus operating on tires and having an electric motor that draws power from overhead wires.
- true basic — (language) A compiled BASIC, by John Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz, requiring no line numbers.
- tube sheet — A tube sheet is a plate which is used to support the tubes in a shell-and-tube heat exchanger.
- tube-nosed — having a long, tubelike beak or snout.
- tuberosity — a rough projection or protuberance of a bone, as for the attachment of a muscle.
- tubicolous — living in a self-constructed tube, as a marine worm.
- tuboplasty — surgical repair of one or both Fallopian tubes
- turboshaft — a gas turbine used to deliver shaft power, as to a helicopter rotor.