8-letter words containing o, u, t
- boot-cut — (of trousers) slightly flared at the bottom of the legs
- botch-up — A botch-up is the same as a botch.
- bothrium — one of two groove-shaped suckers on the scolex of a tapeworm
- botulism — Botulism is a serious form of food poisoning.
- bouffant — A bouffant hairstyle is one in which your hair is high and full.
- boughpot — a bouquet of flowers or boughs
- boughten — bought at a store and not homemade
- bountied — offering a bounty.
- bourtree — the elder-tree
- boutique — A boutique is a small shop that sells fashionable clothes, shoes, or jewellery.
- boutonné — reserved or reticent
- bowl out — In a sport such as cricket, if a team is bowled out, each player in that team has had to stop batting and leave the pitch and there is nobody left to bat.
- breakout — If there has been a break-out, someone has escaped from prison.
- brownout — a dimming or reduction in the use of electric lights in a city, esp to conserve electric power or as a defensive precaution in wartime
- buckshot — Buckshot consists of pieces of lead fired from a gun when hunting animals.
- buff top — a very low, almost flat, cabochon cut.
- buffcoat — buff1 (def 6).
- bullboat — a lightweight, shallow-draft boat made of hides stretched over a wooden frame and used by Plains Indians.
- bullpout — a type of fish
- bullshot — a cocktail of vodka and beef stock
- bun foot — a foot having the form of a slightly flattened ball.
- bunodont — (of the teeth of certain mammals) having cusps that are separate and rounded
- burgonet — a light 16th-century helmet, usually made of steel, with hinged cheekpieces
- burn out — If a fire burns itself out, it stops burning because there is nothing left to burn.
- burstone — any of various siliceous rocks used for millstones.
- bus stop — A bus stop is a place on a road where buses stop to let passengers on and off.
- bush lot — a tract of timberland
- bushgoat — a S African antelope
- bust out — escape from somewhere
- butanone — a colourless soluble flammable liquid used mainly as a solvent for resins, as a paint remover, and in lacquers, cements, and adhesives. Formula: CH3COC2H5
- butt out — If someone tells you to butt out, they are telling you rudely to go away or not to interfere with what they are doing.
- butthole — anus.
- buttocks — the two large fleshy masses of thick muscular tissue that form the human rump
- butyrous — resembling butter; butyraceous
- buy boat — a boat sent out by a dealer to purchase the catches of fishing vessels.
- buy into — If you buy into a company or an organization, you buy part of it, often in order to gain some control of it.
- call out — If you call someone out, you order or request that they come to help, especially in an emergency.
- call-out — an act or instance of calling out.
- calutron — a device used for the separation of isotopes
- camp out — If you say that people camp out somewhere in the open air, you are emphasizing that they stay there for a long time, because they are waiting for something to happen.
- captious — apt to make trivial criticisms; fault-finding; carping
- carryout — designating or of prepared food sold as by a restaurant to be eaten away from the premises
- cartouch — Alternative form of cartouche.
- carveout — A small company created from a larger one.
- case out — an often small or portable container for enclosing something, as for carrying or safekeeping; receptacle: a jewel case.
- cash out — cash in1 (sense 1)
- cash-out — Also, cashout. a direct cash payment or a cash profit or remainder: The store owner lived on a cash-out of fifty dollars a day.
- cast out — To cast out something or someone means to get rid of them because you do not like or need them, or do not want to take responsibility for them.
- cathouse — a house of prostitution
- cautions — alertness and prudence in a hazardous situation; care; wariness: Landslides ahead—proceed with caution.