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10-letter words containing e, t, o, u

  • blue point — a Siamese cat having a light-colored body and darker, bluish-gray points.
  • bluebonnet — a broad, flat cap of blue woolen cloth, formerly worn in Scotland
  • bluebottle — A bluebottle is a large fly with a shiny dark-blue body.
  • bluethroat — a small brownish European songbird, Cyanosylvia svecica, related to the thrushes, the male of which has a blue throat: family Muscicapidae
  • bluetongue — an Australian lizard, Tiliqua scincoides, having a cobalt-blue tongue
  • blusterous — to roar and be tumultuous, as wind.
  • bog turtle — a small turtle, Clemmys muhlenbergi, inhabiting swamps and slow, muddy-bottomed streams in scattered areas from New York to North Carolina.
  • böhm flute — a type of flute in which the holes are covered with keys; the standard type of modern flute
  • 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.
  • bombed out — destroyed or severely damaged by or as by bombing: a bombed-out village; a bombed-out economy.
  • bombed-out — A bombed-out building has been damaged or destroyed by a bomb.
  • bonkbuster — a novel characterized by graphic descriptions of the heroine's frequent sexual encounters
  • bonne nuit — good night
  • borgerhout — a town in N Belgium, near Antwerp. Pop: 40 142 (2002 est)
  • bottle out — If you bottle out, you lose your courage at the last moment and do not do something you intended to do.
  • 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.
  • box cutter — a knife-like tool with a short retractable blade
  • box gutter — a gutter set into the slope of a roof above the cornice.
  • box turtle — any of several North American terrapins (genus Terrapene) with a hinged shell that can be completely closed: usually found on land
  • brazen out — If you have done something wrong and you brazen it out, you behave confidently in order not to appear ashamed, even though you probably do feel ashamed.
  • bubble-top — a bulletproof, transparent dome, as over the rear section of an automobile
  • bucket out — to empty out with or as if with a bucket
  • budget for — If you budget for something, you take account of it when you are deciding how much you can afford to spend on different things.
  • 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.
  • bulletwood — the wood of a tropical American sapotaceous tree, Manilkara bidentata, widely used for construction due to its durability and toughness
  • bumblefoot — a swelling, sometimes purulent, of the ball of the foot in fowl.
  • bunionette — a bunionlike enlargement of the joint of the little toe, usually caused by pressure from tight shoes.
  • bunt order — a dominance hierarchy seen in herds of cattle, established and maintained by bunting.
  • buonaparte — Bonaparte1
  • burned-out — consumed; rendered unserviceable or ineffectual by maximum use: a burned-out tube.
  • bute house — a house in Charlotte Square, Edinburgh: official residence of the First Minister of Scotland
  • butterwort — a plant of the genus Pinguicula, esp P. vulgaris, that grows in wet places and has violet-blue spurred flowers and fleshy greasy glandular leaves on which insects are trapped and digested: family Lentibulariaceae
  • button ear — a dog's ear that folds forward completely.
  • buttonhole — A buttonhole is a hole that you push a button through in order to fasten a shirt, coat, or other piece of clothing.
  • buttonless — having no button or buttons.
  • buy-to-let — of or relating to the practice of buying a property to let to tenants rather than to live in onself
  • cactaceous — belonging to the Cactaceae, the cactus family of plants.
  • cafetorium — a room, usually in a school or other educational institution, which serves both as a cafeteria and an auditorium
  • cancel out — If one thing cancels out another thing, the two things have opposite effects, so that when they are combined no real effect is produced.
  • cantaloupe — A cantaloupe is a type of melon.
  • canteloube — (Marie) Joseph (French ʒozɛf). 1879–1957, French composer, best known for his Chants d'Auvergne (1923–30)
  • caquetoire — cacqueteuse.
  • carburetor — A carburetor is the part of an engine, usually in a car, in which air and gasoline are mixed together to form a vapor which can be burned.
  • cartouches — Plural form of cartouche.
  • catalogued — a list or record, as of items for sale or courses at a university, systematically arranged and often including descriptive material: a stamp catalog.
  • cataloguer — One who catalogues.
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