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10-letter words containing b, u, t, i, e

  • 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
  • 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.
  • bonne nuit — good night
  • bouillotte — a French card game similar to poker
  • bouquetier — a small container for holding flowers in a bouquet or nosegay.
  • bournonite — a sulfide of lead, antimony, and copper, PbCuSbS 3 , occurring in gray to black crystals or granular masses.
  • breadfruit — Breadfruit are large round fruit that grow on trees in the Pacific Islands and in tropical parts of America and that, when baked, look and feel like bread.
  • brunetiere — Ferdinand [fer-dee-nahn] /fɛr diˈnɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1849–1906, French literary critic.
  • bufotenine — a tryptamine alkaloid with hallucinogenic properties, found in the skin of some species of toad and in some mushrooms and tropical shrubs
  • buitenzorg — former Dutch name of Bogor.
  • bulletined — a brief account or statement, as of news or events, issued for the information of the public.
  • bunionette — a bunionlike enlargement of the joint of the little toe, usually caused by pressure from tight shoes.
  • burnettize — to preserve (timber) with a solution of zinc chloride
  • burnt lime — calcium oxide; quicklime
  • burnt-lime — Also called burnt lime, calcium oxide, caustic lime, calx, quicklime. a white or grayish-white, odorless, lumpy, very slightly water-soluble solid, CaO, that when combined with water forms calcium hydroxide (slaked lime) obtained from calcium carbonate, limestone, or oyster shells: used chiefly in mortars, plasters, and cements, in bleaching powder, and in the manufacture of steel, paper, glass, and various chemicals of calcium.
  • butlership — the skills of a butler
  • butt hinge — a hinge made of two matching leaves, one recessed into a door and the other into the jamb so that they are in contact when the door is shut
  • butterfish — an eel-like blennioid food fish, Pholis gunnellus, occurring in North Atlantic coastal regions: family Pholidae (gunnels). It has a slippery scaleless golden brown skin with a row of black spots along the base of the long dorsal fin
  • buttermilk — Buttermilk is the liquid that remains when fat has been removed from cream when butter is being made. You can drink buttermilk or use it in cooking.
  • combustive — the act or process of burning.
  • contribute — If you contribute to something, you say or do things to help to make it successful.
  • coquimbite — hydrated ferric sulphate found in certain rocks and in volcanic fumaroles
  • counterbid — A counterbid is a bid that is made in response to a bid from another person or group, offering the seller more advantages.
  • cultivable — (of land) capable of being cultivated
  • debt issue — a fixed corporate obligation, as a bond or debenture.
  • deductible — If a payment or expense is deductible, it can be deducted from another sum such as your income, for example, when calculating how much income tax you have to pay.
  • demob suit — a suit of civilian clothes issued to a demobilized soldier, esp at the end of World War II
  • disburthen — (obsolete) disburden.
  • disputable — capable of being disputed; debatable; questionable.
  • distribute — to divide and give out in shares; deal out; allot.
  • distrouble — to trouble; to interrupt
  • drift tube — a conducting enclosure, usually cylindrical, held at a constant potential so that electrons or charged particles within will experience no force, and therefore no change in velocity. Compare Klystron.
  • dubitative — doubting; doubtful.
  • dumbwaiter — a small elevator, manually or electrically operated, consisting typically of a box with shelves, used in apartment houses, restaurants, and large private dwellings for moving dishes, food, garbage, etc., between floors.
  • ebullition — a seething or overflowing, as of passion or feeling; outburst.
  • eburnation — an abnormal condition in which bone becomes hard and dense like ivory.
  • embothrium — any evergreen shrub of the genus Embothrium, esp E. coccineum, native to South America but widely cultivated as an ornamental for its scarlet flowers: family Proteaceae
  • equability — A condition of being equable; uniformity.
  • erubescite — a copper ore that tarnishes to purple when exposed to oxygen
  • estributor — a person or organization that helps an author publish and distribute his or her own work in electronic form
  • eubacteria — (biology) Plural form of eubacterium.
  • eurybathic — (of an aquatic organism) able to live at different depths
  • extubating — Present participle of extubate.
  • extubation — (medicine) The removal of a tube inserted by intubation.
  • exurbanite — A person who lives in an exurb.
  • filibuster — U.S. Politics. the use of irregular or obstructive tactics by a member of a legislative assembly to prevent the adoption of a measure generally favored or to force a decision against the will of the majority. an exceptionally long speech, as one lasting for a day or days, or a series of such speeches to accomplish this purpose. a member of a legislature who makes such a speech.
  • fruit beer — a beer or ale to which fruit or fruit syrup has been added for a second fermentation.
  • glauberite — a mineral, sodium calcium sulfate, Na 2 Ca(SO 4) 2 , often found as a deposit on the beds of salt lakes.
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