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

  • beau geste — a noble or gracious gesture or act, esp one that is meaningless
  • beautifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of beautify.
  • beautifuls — having beauty; possessing qualities that give great pleasure or satisfaction to see, hear, think about, etc.; delighting the senses or mind: a beautiful dress; a beautiful speech.
  • beautyless — Devoid of beauty.
  • beaux arts — noting or pertaining to a style of architecture, popularly associated with the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, that prevailed in France in the late 19th century and that was adopted in the U.S. and elsewhere c1900, characterized by the free and eclectic use and adaptation of French architectural features of the 16th through 18th centuries combined so as to give a massive, elaborate, and often ostentatious effect, and also by the use of symmetrical plans preferably allowing vast amounts of interior space.
  • beaux-arts — relating to the classical decorative style, esp that of the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris
  • beet sugar — the sucrose obtained from sugar beet, identical in composition to cane sugar
  • belly-bust — belly-flop.
  • beltcourse — a horizontal band or course, as of stone, projecting beyond or flush with the face of a building, often molded and sometimes richly carved.
  • bemusement — Bemusement is the feeling that you have when you are puzzled or confused by something.
  • benedictus — a short canticle beginning Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini in Latin and Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord in English
  • bestraught — distraught; distracted
  • betelgeuse — a very remote luminous red supergiant, Alpha Orionis: the second brightest star in the constellation Orion. It is a variable star
  • bile ducts — a large duct that transports bile from the liver to the duodenum, having in humans and many other vertebrates a side branch to a gallbladder for bile storage.
  • bilinguist — a speaker of two languages
  • bipetalous — having two petals
  • bismuthine — an unstable hydride of bismuth, BiH 3 , analogous to arsine and stibine.
  • bismuthous — of or containing bismuth in the trivalent state
  • bisulphate — a salt or ester of sulphuric acid containing the monovalent group -HSO4 or the ion HSO4–
  • bisulphite — a salt or ester of sulphurous acid containing the monovalent group -HSO3 or the ion HSO3–
  • bitou bush — type of sprawling woody shrub
  • bituminous — of the nature of bitumen, esp. with regard to its color and combustibility
  • black rust — a stage in any of several diseases of cereals and grasses caused by rust fungi in which black masses of spores appear on the stems or leaves
  • blood lust — If you say that someone is driven by a blood lust, you mean that they are acting in an extremely violent way because their emotions have been aroused by the events around them.
  • blottesque — (of a painting) crudely executed, often characterized by blots and smears
  • blue lotus — either of two Egyptian water lilies of the genus Nymphaea, as N. caerulea (blue lotus) having light blue flowers, or N. lotus (white lotus) having white flowers.
  • blue shift — a shift toward shorter wavelengths of the spectral lines of a celestial object, caused by the motion of the object toward the observer.
  • blue stain — a bluish discoloration of sapwood caused by growth of fungi
  • blue state — a state of the U.S. that usually votes Democratic.
  • bluebreast — any of several birds with blue plumage around the throat
  • bluehearts — a hairy, purple-flowered perennial plant (Buchnera americana) of the figwort family, found in the S U.S.
  • bluest eye — a novel (1970) by Toni Morrison.
  • blusterous — to roar and be tumultuous, as wind.
  • boastfully — given to or characterized by boasting.
  • boilersuit — a one-piece work garment consisting of overalls and a shirt top usually worn over ordinary clothes to protect them
  • boisterous — Someone who is boisterous is noisy, lively, and full of energy.
  • bonkbuster — a novel characterized by graphic descriptions of the heroine's frequent sexual encounters
  • boot virus — An MS-DOS virus that infects the boot record program on hard disks and floppy disks or the master boot record on hard disks. The virus gets loaded into memory before MS-DOS and takes control of the computer, infecting any floppy disks subsequently accessed. An infected boot disk may stop the computer starting up at all.
  • bottoms up — Some people say bottoms up to each other just before drinking an alcoholic drink.
  • boy scouts — the worldwide movement founded by Lord Baden-Powell in 1908, now called the Scout Association in the UK and the Boys Scouts of America in the USA, which pursues a programme of activities for boys with the aim of developing character and responsibility
  • breadstuff — any form of bread
  • bring suit — to institute legal action; sue
  • brontosaur — apatosaurus
  • bruschetta — Bruschetta is a slice of toasted bread which is brushed with olive oil and usually covered with chopped tomatoes.
  • bucky bits — /buh'kee bits/ 1. Obsolete. The bits produced by the CONTROL and META shift keys on a SAIL keyboard (octal 200 and 400 respectively), resulting in a 9-bit keyboard character set. The MIT AI TV (Knight) keyboards extended this with TOP and separate left and right CONTROL and META keys, resulting in a 12-bit character set; later, LISP Machines added such keys as SUPER, HYPER, and GREEK (see space-cadet keyboard). 2. By extension, bits associated with "extra" shift keys on any keyboard, e.g. the ALT on an IBM PC or command and option keys on a Macintosh. It has long been rumored that "bucky bits" were named after Buckminster Fuller during a period when he was consulting at Stanford. Actually, bucky bits were invented by Niklaus Wirth when *he* was at Stanford in 1964--65; he first suggested the idea of an EDIT key to set the 8th bit of an otherwise 7 bit ASCII character. It seems that, unknown to Wirth, certain Stanford hackers had privately nicknamed him "Bucky" after a prominent portion of his dental anatomy, and this nickname transferred to the bit. Bucky-bit commands were used in a number of editors written at Stanford, including most notably TV-EDIT and NLS. The term spread to MIT and CMU early and is now in general use. Ironically, Wirth himself remained unaware of its derivation for nearly 30 years, until GLS dug up this history in early 1993! See double bucky, quadruple bucky.
  • buddy seat — a seat on a motorcycle or moped for the driver and a passenger sitting one behind the other.
  • buff stick — a small stick covered with leather or the like, used in polishing.
  • bullionist — a purveyor of bullion
  • bump start — a method of starting a motor vehicle by engaging a low gear with the clutch depressed and pushing it or allowing it to run down a hill until sufficient momentum has been acquired to turn the engine by releasing the clutch
  • burns unit — a section of a hospital in which those with serious burns are treated
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