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13-letter words containing b, u, s, t

  • blast furnace — A blast furnace is a large structure in which iron ore is heated under pressure so that it melts and the pure iron metal separates out and can be collected.
  • blue asbestos — a common name for the mineral crocidolite, a variety of asbestos found in Africa and Australia
  • blue whistler — blue norther.
  • bonus eventus — the ancient Roman god of agricultural prosperity.
  • boom-and-bust — characteristic of a period of economic prosperity followed by a depression.
  • bouncy castle — A bouncy castle is a large object filled with air, often in the shape of a castle, which children play on at a fairground or other outdoor event.
  • boustrophedon — having alternate lines written from right to left and from left to right
  • boutros-ghali — ˈBoutros (ˈbutroʊs ) ; bo̅oˈtrōs) 1922- ; Egypt. diplomat: secretary-general of the United Nations (1992-96)
  • brachypterous — having very short or incompletely developed wings
  • brain truster — a member of a brain trust; an important but usually unofficial adviser.
  • breakthroughs — a military movement or advance all the way through and beyond an enemy's front-line defense.
  • bristle brush — a brush made with animal bristles
  • bronco buster — a person who breaks broncos to the saddle.
  • brown mustard — black mustard. See under mustard (def 2).
  • buck sergeant — a newly promoted sergeant
  • buckeye state — Ohio (used as a nickname).
  • budget speech — the speech in which the Chancellor presents his budget to parliament
  • buffet supper — supper at which people stand up and help themselves from the table
  • buggin's turn — promotion by seniority or rotation rather than merit.
  • buggins' turn — the principle of awarding an appointment to members of a group in turn, rather than according to merit
  • building site — A building site is an area of land on which a building or a group of buildings is in the process of being built or altered.
  • built-up mast — a wooden mast formed of several shaped, longitudinal pieces joined together.
  • bulk settling — Bulk settling is a process in which two liquids, or a solid and a liquid, of different densities are allowed to separate by gravity.
  • bums on seats — If the organizers of an event such as a concert want to put bums on seats, they want a lot of people to attend it.
  • bundle sheath — a layer of cells in plant leaves and stems that surrounds a vascular bundle.
  • bunker buster — a laser-guided bomb designed to penetrate deep underground, as into rock or concrete, before detonating.
  • bunko steerer — a swindler, especially a person who lures another to a gambling game to be cheated.
  • bureaucratese — wordy, jargon-filled, overcomplicated language considered typical of bureaucrats
  • bureaucratism — an official of a bureaucracy.
  • bureaucratist — a believer in bureaucracy
  • burt standish — Burt L. pseudonym of Gilbert Patten.
  • bus mastering — bus master
  • business suit — a formal suit suitable for wearing to work
  • business trip — a journey made somewhere and back again for business purposes in one's working capacity
  • bustard quail — button quail.
  • bustard-quail — any of several birds of the family Turnicidae, of warmer parts of the Old World, resembling but not related to the true quail. Also called bustard quail, hemipode.
  • buster collar — a round collar, similar to a lampshade in shape, that is fitted round the neck of an animal or bird, for example to prevent it removing or interfering with a dressing or other treatment
  • busto arsizio — a city in Lombardy, N Italy.
  • butcher's boy — a boy doing deliveries for a butcher and perhaps also learning the butchery trade, esp in the past
  • butcher's saw — a type of hacksaw used especially by butchers for cutting through meat and bones.
  • butler's tray — a tray resting on or attached to an X-shaped, often folding stand, on which are kept drink bottles and glasses
  • butter muslin — a fine loosely woven cotton material originally used for wrapping butter
  • butterfingers — a person who drops things inadvertently or fails to catch things
  • butterflyfish — any small tropical marine percoid fish of the genera Chaetodon, Chelmon, etc, that has a deep flattened brightly coloured or strikingly marked body and brushlike teeth: family Chaetodontidae
  • buttress root — a tree root that extends above ground as a platelike outgrowth of the trunk supporting the tree. Buttress roots are mainly found in trees of tropical rain forests
  • by its nature — If you say that something has a particular characteristic by its nature or by its very nature, you mean that things of that type always have that characteristic.
  • carbon tissue — a sheet of paper coated with pigmented gelatine, used in the carbon process
  • carbon-tissue — paper faced with a preparation of carbon or other material, used between two sheets of plain paper in order to reproduce on the lower sheet that which is written or typed on the upper.
  • claustrophobe — a person who suffers from claustrophobia.
  • clothes brush — a brush used to remove dust, fluff, dirt, etc from clothes
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