10-letter words containing b, u, t, l
- cutability — the portion of saleable lean meat on a carcass
- cuttlebone — the internal calcareous shell of the cuttlefish, used as a mineral supplement to the diet of cage-birds and as a polishing agent
- cyclobutyl — (organic chemistry) The univalent radical derived from cyclobutane by the formal removal of a hydrogen atom.
- deductable — Alternative spelling of deductibletrue; that which can be deducted.
- 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.
- delft blue — the blue colour of Delft ceramics
- disputable — capable of being disputed; debatable; questionable.
- disputably — In a disputable manner.
- distrouble — to trouble; to interrupt
- double act — Two comedians or entertainers who perform together are referred to as a double act. Their performance can also be called a double act.
- double tap — an act of firing a gun twice in rapid succession
- double top — a score of double 20
- double-cut — noting a file having parallel cutting ridges crisscrossing in two directions.
- doubletons — Plural form of doubleton.
- doubletree — a pivoted bar with a whiffletree attached to each end, used in harnessing two horses abreast.
- doubtfully — of uncertain outcome or result.
- doubtingly — In a doubting manner.
- drum table — a table having a cylindrical top with drawers or shelves in the skirt, rotating on a central post with three or four outwardly curving legs.
- durability — able to resist wear, decay, etc., well; lasting; enduring.
- eboulement — a collapse; cave-in.
- ebullition — a seething or overflowing, as of passion or feeling; outburst.
- educatable — capable of being educated.
- elucubrate — To solve, write or compose by working studiously at night; to study.
- equability — A condition of being equable; uniformity.
- ethambutol — a compound used in the treatment of tuberculosis
- executable — (of a file or program) able to be run by a computer.
- extrudable — able to be extruded
- fabulation — to tell invented stories; create fables or stories filled with fantasy.
- fabulistic — Being or resembling a fable.
- fabulosity — (uncountable) Fabulousness; the quality of being fabulous; fictitiousness; mythical character.
- fall about — If you say that people are falling about, you mean that they are laughing a lot about something.
- 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.
- flash tube — a gaseous discharge tube designed to emit extremely short bursts of very intense light
- fluoborate — a salt of fluoboric acid.
- fly button — a button on the fly of a pair of trousers
- fruit bowl — dish for displaying fruit
- full blast — a sudden and violent gust of wind: Wintry blasts chilled us to the marrow.
- fusibility — the quality of being fusible or convertible from a solid to a liquid state by heat.
- gatlinburg — a town in E Tennessee: resort.
- glauberite — a mineral, sodium calcium sulfate, Na 2 Ca(SO 4) 2 , often found as a deposit on the beds of salt lakes.
- globulites — Plural form of globulite.
- gun battle — a violent fight between groups of people in which guns are used
- habitually — of the nature of a habit; fixed by or resulting from habit: habitual courtesy.
- home-built — built at home
- immunoblot — a technique used to transfer a pattern of proteins
- in trouble — facing punishment
- infibulate — to stitch together the vulva of (a girl or woman), often after a clitoridectomy, in order to prevent intercourse.
- insuitable — Obsolete form of unsuitable.
- insultable — capable of being insulted
- intuitable — Capable of being intuitively sensed or understood.