10-letter words containing b, u, t, e
- the absurd — the conception of the world, esp in Existentialist thought, as neither designed nor predictable but irrational and meaningless
- the bounce — the start of play at the beginning of each quarter or after a goal
- the buddha — ?563–483 bc, a title applied to Gautama Siddhartha, a nobleman and religious teacher working in N India, regarded by his followers as the most recent rediscoverer of the path to enlightenment: the founder of Buddhism
- the budget — an estimate of British government expenditures and revenues and the financial plans for the ensuing fiscal year presented annually to the House of Commons by the Chancellor of the Exchequer
- the burren — a limestone area on the North Clare coast in the Irish Republic, famous for its wild flowers, caves, and dolmens
- the bushes — rural or small-town districts
- the buskin — tragic drama
- thereabout — about or near that place or time: last June or thereabout.
- thimbleful — the amount that a thimble will hold.
- thumbpiece — a lever over the hinge on the lid of a tankard, pressed by the thumb to raise the lid.
- thumbscrew — a screw, the head of which is so constructed that it may be turned easily with the thumb and a finger.
- thumbwheel — a small, partially exposed wheel that can be turned with a thumb or finger and is found on various devices such as computers or instruments
- thunbergia — any of various plants, vines, or shrubs belonging to the genus Thunbergia, of the acanthus family, native to Africa and southern Asia, having variously colored flowers and often cultivated as ornamentals in warm regions.
- thunderbox — a portable boxlike lavatory seat that can be placed over a hole in the ground
- tide-bound — (of a vessel) grounded or otherwise confined at low tide.
- time about — alternately; turn and turn about
- to be sure — free from doubt as to the reliability, character, action, etc., of something: to be sure of one's data.
- touch base — make contact
- trabeculae — Anatomy, Botany. a structural part resembling a small beam or crossbar.
- trabecular — Anatomy, Botany. a structural part resembling a small beam or crossbar.
- triturable — capable of being triturated.
- trolleybus — a passenger bus operating on tires and having an electric motor that draws power from overhead wires.
- troubledly — in a troubled manner
- trubetzkoy — N(ikolai) S(ergeievich) [nyi-kuh-lahy syir-gye-yi-vyich] /nyɪ kʌˈlaɪ syɪrˈgyɛ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1890–1938, Russian linguist in Austria.
- 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 train — an underground train, esp in London
- tube-nosed — having a long, tubelike beak or snout.
- tuber fern — a tropical, erect fern, Nephrolepis cordifolia, having sharply toothed and numerously segmented fronds.
- tubercular — pertaining to tuberculosis; tuberculous.
- tuberculin — a sterile liquid prepared from cultures of the tubercle bacillus, used in the diagnosis and, formerly, in the treatment of tuberculosis.
- tuberculo- — tubercular
- tuberculum — a tubercle.
- tuberiform — in the form of a tuber
- tuberosity — a rough projection or protuberance of a bone, as for the attachment of a muscle.
- tubulature — a tubulation
- tucker-bag — a bag used to carry food.
- tucker-box — a box used to store or carry food.
- tumble-dry — to dry (washing) in a clothes drier in which articles are rotated vertically through heated air.
- tumbledown — dilapidated; ruined; rundown: He lived in a tumble-down shack.
- tumblehome — Nautical. an inward and upward slope of the middle body of a vessel.
- tumbleweed — any of various plants, as Amaranthus albus, A. graecizans, or the Russian thistle, Salsola kali, whose branching upper parts become detached from the roots and are driven about by the wind.
- tunbellied — having a tunbelly
- turbinated — shaped like a top
- turbulence — the quality or state of being turbulent; violent disorder or commotion.
- turbulency — the quality or state of being turbulent; violent disorder or commotion.
- turcophobe — a person who has a morbid fear of Turks.
- turkophobe — a person who has a morbid fear of Turks.
- turnbuckle — a link or sleeve with a swivel at one end and an internal screw thread at the other, or with an internal screw thread at each end, used as a means of uniting or coupling, and of tightening, two parts, as the ends of two rods.
- turtleback — Archaeology. tortoise-core.