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11-letter words containing e, a, t, u

  • buena vista — a village in NE Mexico, near Saltillo: site of the defeat of the Mexicans by US forces (1847)
  • buffet meal — meal at which people stand up and help themselves from the table
  • bull market — A bull market is a situation on the stock market when people are buying a lot of shares because they expect that the shares will increase in value and that they will be able to make a profit by selling them again after a short time. Compare bear market.
  • bungstarter — a mallet for loosening or removing the bung of a cask.
  • buoyantness — the property of being buoyant
  • burgomaster — the chief magistrate of a town in Austria, Belgium, Germany, or the Netherlands; mayor
  • burmese cat — a breed of cat similar in shape to the Siamese but typically having a dark brown or blue-grey coat
  • burnt shale — carbonaceous shale formed by destructive distillation of oil shale or by spontaneous combustion of shale after it has been some years in a tip: sometimes used in road making
  • bursiculate — resembling a pouch
  • bush jacket — a casual jacket or shirt having four patch pockets and a belt
  • bust a move — go, leave
  • but and ben — a two-roomed cottage consisting of an outer room or kitchen (but) and an inner room (ben)
  • butter bean — Butter beans are the yellowish flat round seeds of a kind of bean plant. They are eaten as a vegetable, and in Britain they are usually sold dried rather than fresh.
  • butter clam — any of a genus (Saxidomus) of large, edible clams found along the Pacific coast of North America
  • butter tart — a kind of tart made with butter, brown sugar, and raisins
  • butterbread — bread spread with butter.
  • buttercream — a vanilla-flavored cake frosting or filling made principally of softened butter and powdered sugar.
  • butterpaste — a mixture of flour and butter kneaded together, used as a thickening for sauces.
  • butyraceous — of, containing, or resembling butter
  • cacqueteuse — a narrow, upright armchair of 16th-century France, having widely splayed arms and a very narrow back.
  • cactus pear — tuna2 .
  • cactus wren — any American wren of the genus Campylorhynchus, of arid regions, especially C. brunneicapillus, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.
  • cafe brulot — black coffee flavored with sugar, lemon and orange rinds, cloves, cinnamon, and brandy, ignited and allowed to flame briefly.
  • cafetoriums — Plural form of cafetorium.
  • calculative — the act or process of calculating; computation.
  • calumniated — Simple past tense and past participle of calumniate.
  • calumniates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of calumniate.
  • camera tube — the part of a television camera that converts an optical image into an electrical signal
  • campanulate — (esp of flower corollas) shaped like a bell
  • candidature — Candidature means the same as candidacy.
  • cane-cutter — any of several species of large cottontails inhabiting swamps or marshes.
  • cantaloupes — Plural form of cantaloupe.
  • capitulated — Simple past tense and past participle of capitulate.
  • capitulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of capitulate.
  • carburetant — a substance, as gasoline or benzene, added to air or gas to carburet it
  • carburetion — Carburetion is the process of fuel becoming vapor and mixing with a stream of air in a carburetor.
  • carburetors — Plural form of carburetor.
  • carburetter — Alternative spelling of carburetor.
  • carburettor — A carburettor is the part of an engine, usually in a car, in which air and petrol are mixed together to form a vapour which can be burned.
  • carbutamide — An antidiabetic drug.
  • carefullest — Superlative form of careful.
  • caricatured — Simple past tense and past participle of caricature.
  • caricatures — a picture, description, etc., ludicrously exaggerating the peculiarities or defects of persons or things: His caricature of the mayor in this morning's paper is the best he's ever drawn.
  • cartularies — Plural form of cartulary.
  • carunculate — having a caruncle.
  • carvelbuilt — Alternative form of carvel-built.
  • castellanus — (of a cloud) having small turrets.
  • castellatus — (formerly) castellanus.
  • catafalques — Plural form of catafalque.
  • cataloguers — Plural form of cataloguer.
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