10-letter words containing e, t
- 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.
- bone earth — bone ash.
- bone white — any of various shades of grayish or yellowish white
- bonesetter — a person who sets broken or dislocated bones, esp one who has no formal medical qualifications
- bonkbuster — a novel characterized by graphic descriptions of the heroine's frequent sexual encounters
- bonne nuit — good night
- bonnet top — a top to a secretary, highboy, etc., following in outline a broken pediment on the front.
- bonnethead — a hammerhead shark, Sphyrna tiburo, found in shallow waters from Brazil to Massachusetts, having a spade-shaped head.
- bonnetiere — a tall, narrow wardrobe of the 18th century, found especially in Normandy and Brittany.
- book token — a gift token to be exchanged for books
- boosterish — designed to boost business; optimistic
- boosterism — the practice of actively promoting a city, region, etc, and its local businesses
- boot money — unofficial bonuses in the form of illegal cash payments made by a professional sports club to its players
- boot-faced — wearing a stern, disapproving expression
- booth-babe — an attractive woman hired to draw attendees of commercial exhibitions into promotional booths
- bootlegged — made, sold, or transported unlawfully.
- bootlegger — alcoholic liquor unlawfully made, sold, or transported, without registration or payment of taxes.
- bootlicker — to seek the favor or goodwill of in a servile, degraded way; toady to.
- bootloader — a bootstrap loader
- border tax — a tax system for imports and exports, especially one that compensates for internal taxes in Common Market countries by levying fees or paying rebates.
- borgerhout — a town in N Belgium, near Antwerp. Pop: 40 142 (2002 est)
- boss-tweed — William Marcy [mahr-see] /ˈmɑr si/ (Show IPA), ("Boss Tweed") 1823–78, U.S. politician.
- bothersome — Someone or something that is bothersome is annoying or irritating.
- botticelli — Sandro (ˈsandro), original name Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi. 1444–1510, Italian (Florentine) painter, illustrator, and engraver, noted for the graceful outlines and delicate details of his mythological and religious paintings
- bottle cap — a device for closing or sealing a bottle, especially a metal cover with a cork gasket fitting tightly over the mouth of a glass or plastic bottle, held in place by crimping the edge of the cap over the lip or flange of the bottle.
- bottle imp — Cartesian diver.
- bottle out — If you bottle out, you lose your courage at the last moment and do not do something you intended to do.
- bottle-top — a cap on the top of a bottle
- bottlehead — bottlenose (def 2).
- bottleneck — A bottleneck is a place where a road becomes narrow or where it meets another road so that the traffic slows down or stops, often causing traffic jams.
- bottlenose — a kind of whale or dolphin
- bottletree — any of a genus (Brachychiton) of trees of the sterculia family, native to Australia, some of which have a swollen, bottle-shaped trunk
- bottom ice — anchor ice.
- bottomhole — The bottomhole is the lowest or deepest part of a well.
- bottomless — If you describe a supply of something as bottomless, you mean that it seems so large that it will never run out.
- bottomness — the number of bottom antiquarks minus the number of bottom quarks in a particle
- 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.
- bow street — a street in London, England: location of a metropolitan police court.
- bow weight — the poundage required to draw a bow to the full length of the arrow
- bowler hat — A bowler hat is a round, hard, black hat with a narrow brim which is worn by men, especially British businessmen. Bowler hats are no longer very common.
- 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 staple — a socket for holding the end of a lock bolt when the door is closed.
- box turtle — any of several North American terrapins (genus Terrapene) with a hinged shell that can be completely closed: usually found on land
- brace root — prop root.
- bracketing — a set of brackets
- bradstreet — Anne (Dudley). ?1612–72, US poet, born in England: regarded as the first significant US poet