10-letter words containing n, a, t, u
- bankrupted — Law. a person who upon his or her own petition or that of his or her creditors is adjudged insolvent by a court and whose property is administered for and divided among his or her creditors under a bankruptcy law.
- banqueters — Plural form of banqueter.
- banqueting — A banqueting hall or room is a large room where banquets are held.
- banquettes — Plural form of banquette.
- bantu beer — a malted drink made from partly fermented and germinated millet
- bantustans — Plural form of bantustan.
- basutoland — Lesotho
- bat around — to discuss (an idea, proposition, etc) informally
- battenburg — an oblong sponge cake divided longitudinally into four square sections, two coloured pink and two yellow, with an outer coating of marzipan
- baumgarten — Alexander Gottlieb. 1714–62, German philosopher, noted for his pioneering work on aesthetics, a term that he originated
- beat up on — If someone beats up on a person or beats on them, they hit or kick the person many times.
- beating-up — a physical assault
- beautician — A beautician is a person whose job is giving people beauty treatments such as doing their nails, treating their skin, and putting on their make-up.
- betancourt — Rómulo [rom-yuh-loh;; Spanish raw-moo-law] /ˈrɒm yəˌloʊ;; Spanish ˈrɔ muˌlɔ/ (Show IPA), 1908–81, Venezuelan journalist and political leader: president of Venezuela 1945–48 and 1959–64.
- biannulate — having two bands, esp of colour
- bicornuate — Botany, Zoology. having two horns or hornlike parts.
- binucleate — having two nuclei
- biobutanol — butyl alcohol.
- bladdernut — any temperate shrub or small tree of the genus Staphylea, esp S. pinnata of S Europe, that has bladder-like seed pods: family Staphyleaceae
- blanquette — a French stew made of meat, usually veal, and white sauce
- blue giant — any of the large, bright stars having surface temperatures of about 20,000 K and diameters that are often ten times that of the sun.
- blue stain — a bluish discoloration of sapwood caused by growth of fungi
- bounty bag — a set of free samples, such as nappies and creams, given to mothers leaving hospital with a new baby
- branch cut — a method for selecting a single-valued function on a subset of the domain of a multiple-valued function of a complex variable.
- branch out — If a person or an organization branches out, they do something that is different from their normal activities or work.
- 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.
- brazil nut — a tropical South American tree, Bertholletia excelsa, producing large globular capsules, each containing several closely packed triangular nuts: family Lecythidaceae
- brontosaur — apatosaurus
- buccinator — a thin muscle that compresses the cheeks and holds them against the teeth during chewing, etc
- buonaparte — Bonaparte1
- buonarroti — Michelangelo.
- bustamante — Anastasio [ah-nahs-tah-syaw] /ˌɑ nɑsˈtɑ syɔ/ (Show IPA), 1780–1853, Mexican military and political leader: president 1830–32, 1837–41.
- butane gas — a colourless flammable gaseous alkane that exists in two isomeric forms, both of which occur in natural gas. The stable isomer, n-butane, is used mainly in the manufacture of rubber and fuels (such as Calor Gas). Formula: C4H10
- butt-naked — completely naked
- button ear — a dog's ear that folds forward completely.
- button man — soldier (sense 2) soldier (sense 2b)
- buttonball — a North American plane tree, Platanus occidentalis
- butylation — the introduction of butyl into a compound
- cabanatuan — city in SC Luzon, in the Philippines: pop. 173,000
- calumniate — to slander
- 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.
- candlenuts — Plural form of candlenut.
- candytufts — Plural form of candytuft.
- canecutter — any of several species of large cottontails inhabiting swamps or marshes.
- cannot but — You use cannot but, could not but, and cannot help but when you want to emphasize that you believe something must be true and that there is no possibility of anything else being the case.
- cannulated — Simple past tense and past participle of cannulate.
- 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)
- canterbury — a late 18th-century low wooden stand with partitions for holding cutlery and plates: often mounted on casters
- capitulant — a person who capitulates