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11-letter words containing b, u, t, o, n

  • butenedioic — designating a type of acid
  • butorphanol — a narcotic analgesic, C 21 H 29 NO 2 , administered by injection to treat moderate to severe pain.
  • button down — (of a shirt collar) having buttonholes so it can be buttoned to the body of the shirt.
  • button lift — a kind of ski lift for one person consisting of a moving cable to which is attached a pole with a circular plate at the bottom, which a skier places between his or her legs to be carried up the hill
  • button rose — a small rose whose flowers form a round head
  • button tree — any of a genus (Conocarpus) of dicotyledonous West Indian trees with buttonlike fruit
  • button-down — A button-down shirt or a shirt with a button-down collar has a button under each end of the collar which you can fasten.
  • button-hole — the hole, slit, or loop through which a button is passed and by which it is secured.
  • buttoned up — If you say that someone is buttoned up, you mean that they do not usually talk about their thoughts and feelings.
  • buttoned-up — carefully planned, operated, supervised, etc.: one of the most buttoned-up companies in the business.
  • buttonholer — a person who buttonholes
  • buttonmould — the small core of plastic, wood, or metal that is the base for buttons covered with fabric, leather, etc
  • cabin court — Older Use. a roadside motel having cabins.
  • carburation — the process of mixing a hydrocarbon fuel with a correct amount of air to make an explosive mixture for an internal-combustion engine
  • carburetion — Carburetion is the process of fuel becoming vapor and mixing with a stream of air in a carburetor.
  • clenbuterol — a drug prescribed for breathing disorders
  • combustions — Plural form of combustion.
  • concubitant — a person obliged to marry another, esp a woman obliged to marry her husband's brother on her husband's death
  • conductible — personal behavior; way of acting; bearing or deportment.
  • confabulate — to talk together; converse; chat
  • construable — that can be construed
  • contributed — to give (money, time, knowledge, assistance, etc.) to a common supply, fund, etc., as for charitable purposes.
  • contributer — Misspelling of contributor.
  • contributes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of contribute.
  • contributor — You can use contributor to refer to one of the causes of an event or situation, especially if that event or situation is an unpleasant one.
  • control bus — (architecture)   In a digital computer, the signal paths that carry commands from the instruction decode logic to various different functional units such as the ALU, memory address register, memory data register and other buffers. Named by analogy with the address bus and data bus, each of which carries a set of related signals, the signals carried by the control bus are more independent. Some might include other signals such as timing (clock) and status under the term, further reducing its similarity to other busses.
  • contubernal — occupying the same tent
  • conurbation — A conurbation consists of a large city together with the smaller towns around it.
  • cotton bush — any of various downy chenopodiaceous shrubs, esp Kochia aphylla, which is used to feed livestock
  • counterbase — a double bass
  • counterbids — Plural form of counterbid.
  • counterblow — a retaliatory blow
  • counterbond — a bond that protects a person who has entered into a bond for another person
  • counterbore — a tool for enlarging a drilled hole for a portion of its length, as to permit sinking a screw head.
  • counterbuff — a retaliatory blow
  • cuff button — the button for a shirt cuff.
  • cuttlebones — Plural form of cuttlebone.
  • cyclobutane — (uncountable, organic compound) A simple alicyclic hydrocarbon, C4H8; a light inflammable gas.
  • debouchment — the act or an instance of debouching
  • demountable — to remove from a mounting, setting, or place of support, as a gun.
  • deobstruent — a drug which removes obstructions in the body by aiding the opening of ducts
  • double knit — a weft-knit fabric that consists of two single-knit fabrics intimately interlooped.
  • double knot — any of various knots that are reinforced with a second tying
  • double-knit — a weft-knit fabric that consists of two single-knit fabrics intimately interlooped.
  • doublethink — the acceptance of two contradictory ideas or beliefs at the same time.
  • ebullitions — Plural form of ebullition.
  • fantabulous — extremely fine or desirable; excellent; wonderful.
  • glastonbury — a borough of SW England, in whose vicinity the ruins of an important Iron Age lake village have been found and to which in folklore both King Arthur and Joseph of Arimathaea have been linked, the latter as the founder of the abbey there.
  • ground bait — chum2 (def 1).
  • groundburst — The explosion of a bomb dropped from the air when it hits the ground.
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