10-letter words containing s, t, o, u
- backcourts — Plural form of backcourt.
- barratrous — (legal) Tainted with, or constituting, barratry.
- basutoland — Lesotho
- bathhouses — Plural form of bathhouse.
- battailous — ready for battle; pugnacious
- be used to — If you are used to something, you are familiar with it because you have done it or experienced it many times before.
- beltcourse — a horizontal band or course, as of stone, projecting beyond or flush with the face of a building, often molded and sometimes richly carved.
- bipetalous — having two petals
- bismuthous — of or containing bismuth in the trivalent state
- bitou bush — type of sprawling woody shrub
- bituminous — of the nature of bitumen, esp. with regard to its color and combustibility
- blood lust — If you say that someone is driven by a blood lust, you mean that they are acting in an extremely violent way because their emotions have been aroused by the events around them.
- blottesque — (of a painting) crudely executed, often characterized by blots and smears
- blue lotus — either of two Egyptian water lilies of the genus Nymphaea, as N. caerulea (blue lotus) having light blue flowers, or N. lotus (white lotus) having white flowers.
- blusterous — to roar and be tumultuous, as wind.
- boastfully — given to or characterized by boasting.
- 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.
- bonkbuster — a novel characterized by graphic descriptions of the heroine's frequent sexual encounters
- boot virus — An MS-DOS virus that infects the boot record program on hard disks and floppy disks or the master boot record on hard disks. The virus gets loaded into memory before MS-DOS and takes control of the computer, infecting any floppy disks subsequently accessed. An infected boot disk may stop the computer starting up at all.
- bottoms up — Some people say bottoms up to each other just before drinking an alcoholic drink.
- boy scouts — the worldwide movement founded by Lord Baden-Powell in 1908, now called the Scout Association in the UK and the Boys Scouts of America in the USA, which pursues a programme of activities for boys with the aim of developing character and responsibility
- brontosaur — apatosaurus
- bullionist — a purveyor of bullion
- burst into — If you burst into tears, laughter, or song, you suddenly begin to cry, laugh, or sing.
- bush pilot — a pilot who flies small aircraft over rugged terrain or unsettled regions to serve remote areas inaccessible to or off the route of larger planes: Bush pilots brought supplies to the Alaskan village once a week.
- bust chops — Usually, chops. the jaw.
- bute house — a house in Charlotte Square, Edinburgh: official residence of the First Minister of Scotland
- buttonbush — a N American shrub of the genus Cephalanthus
- buttonless — having no button or buttons.
- cactaceous — belonging to the Cactaceae, the cactus family of plants.
- calamitous — If you describe an event or situation as calamitous, you mean it is very unfortunate or serious.
- capacitous — Having the legal capacity to do something.
- captiously — In a captious manner.
- cartouches — Plural form of cartouche.
- cast about — to make a mental or visual search
- catalogues — Plural form of catalogue.
- catamounts — Plural form of catamount.
- catholicus — catholicos.
- causations — Plural form of causation.
- cautioners — Plural form of cautioner.
- cautiously — showing, using, or characterized by caution: a cautious man; To be cautious is often to show wisdom.
- celeritous — (rare) Swift, speedy, fast.
- centurions — Plural form of centurion.
- ceratosaur — a carnivorous, swift-running North American theropod dinosaur of the genus Ceratosaurus and closely related genera, of the Jurassic Period, having a large skull with a short horn between the nostrils and a bony knob in front of each eye, and reaching a length of 20 feet (6.1 meter).
- charthouse — the compartment on a ship or boat where charts are kept
- choreutics — a system that analyzes form in movement, developed by Rudolf von Laban (1879–1958), Hungarian choreographer and dance theorist.
- circuitous — A circuitous route is long and complicated rather than simple and direct.
- cistaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Cistaceae, a family of shrubby or herbaceous plants that includes the rockroses
- cloudburst — A cloudburst is a sudden, very heavy fall of rain.