10-letter words containing s, t, u
- 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
- breadstuff — any form of bread
- bring suit — to institute legal action; sue
- brontosaur — apatosaurus
- bruschetta — Bruschetta is a slice of toasted bread which is brushed with olive oil and usually covered with chopped tomatoes.
- bucky bits — /buh'kee bits/ 1. Obsolete. The bits produced by the CONTROL and META shift keys on a SAIL keyboard (octal 200 and 400 respectively), resulting in a 9-bit keyboard character set. The MIT AI TV (Knight) keyboards extended this with TOP and separate left and right CONTROL and META keys, resulting in a 12-bit character set; later, LISP Machines added such keys as SUPER, HYPER, and GREEK (see space-cadet keyboard). 2. By extension, bits associated with "extra" shift keys on any keyboard, e.g. the ALT on an IBM PC or command and option keys on a Macintosh. It has long been rumored that "bucky bits" were named after Buckminster Fuller during a period when he was consulting at Stanford. Actually, bucky bits were invented by Niklaus Wirth when *he* was at Stanford in 1964--65; he first suggested the idea of an EDIT key to set the 8th bit of an otherwise 7 bit ASCII character. It seems that, unknown to Wirth, certain Stanford hackers had privately nicknamed him "Bucky" after a prominent portion of his dental anatomy, and this nickname transferred to the bit. Bucky-bit commands were used in a number of editors written at Stanford, including most notably TV-EDIT and NLS. The term spread to MIT and CMU early and is now in general use. Ironically, Wirth himself remained unaware of its derivation for nearly 30 years, until GLS dug up this history in early 1993! See double bucky, quadruple bucky.
- buddy seat — a seat on a motorcycle or moped for the driver and a passenger sitting one behind the other.
- buff stick — a small stick covered with leather or the like, used in polishing.
- bullionist — a purveyor of bullion
- bump start — a method of starting a motor vehicle by engaging a low gear with the clutch depressed and pushing it or allowing it to run down a hill until sufficient momentum has been acquired to turn the engine by releasing the clutch
- burns unit — a section of a hospital in which those with serious burns are treated
- burst into — If you burst into tears, laughter, or song, you suddenly begin to cry, laugh, or sing.
- burst page — banner
- bus master — (architecture) The device in a computer which is driving the address bus and bus control signals at some point in time. In a simple architecture only the (single) CPU can be bus master but this means that all communications between ("slave") I/O devices must involve the CPU. More sophisticated architectures allow other capable devices (or multiple CPUs) to take turns at controling the bus. This allows, for example, a network controller card to access a disk controller directly while the CPU performs other tasks which do not require the bus, e.g. fetching code from its cache. Note that any device can drive data onto the data bus when the CPU reads from that device, but only the bus master drives the address bus and control signals. See also distributed kernel.
- 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.
- bush shirt — bush jacket.
- bushbeater — a person who conducts a thorough search to recruit talented people, as for an athletic team.
- bushmaster — a large greyish-brown highly venomous snake, Lachesis muta, inhabiting wooded regions of tropical America: family Crotalidae (pit vipers)
- bust a gut — to make an intense effort
- bust chops — Usually, chops. the jaw.
- bustamante — Anastasio [ah-nahs-tah-syaw] /ˌɑ nɑsˈtɑ syɔ/ (Show IPA), 1780–1853, Mexican military and political leader: president 1830–32, 1837–41.
- bustlingly — in a bustling manner
- 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
- bute house — a house in Charlotte Square, Edinburgh: official residence of the First Minister of Scotland
- butlership — the skills of a butler
- butt heads — an extremely stupid or inept person.
- butt shaft — a blunt-headed unbarbed arrow
- butt-strap — (in metal construction) a plate which overlaps and fastens two pieces butted together.
- butterfish — an eel-like blennioid food fish, Pholis gunnellus, occurring in North Atlantic coastal regions: family Pholidae (gunnels). It has a slippery scaleless golden brown skin with a row of black spots along the base of the long dorsal fin
- butterless — without butter
- buttonbush — a N American shrub of the genus Cephalanthus
- buttonless — having no button or buttons.
- buttressed — any external prop or support built to steady a structure by opposing its outward thrusts, especially a projecting support built into or against the outside of a masonry wall.
- by request — in accordance with someone's desire
- bytesexual — (jargon) /bi:t" sek"shu-*l/ An adjective used to describe hardware, denotes willingness to compute or pass data in either big-endian or little-endian format (depending, presumably, on a mode bit somewhere). See also NUXI problem.
- c terminus — the carboxyl end of a protein molecule.
- 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.
- calculates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of calculate.
- calixtus i — Saint, a.d. c160–222, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 218–222.
- candlenuts — Plural form of candlenut.
- candytufts — Plural form of candytuft.
- capacitous — Having the legal capacity to do something.
- capillatus — (of a cumulonimbus cloud) having a cirriform upper portion that resembles an anvil or a disorderly mass of hair.
- capsulated — Enclosed in a capsule.
- captiously — In a captious manner.
- caqueteuse — cacqueteuse.
- caractacus — flourished a.d. c50, British chieftain who opposed the Romans.
- carmustine — a toxic nitrosurea, C 5 H 9 Cl 2 N 3 O 2 , used in the treatment of a wide range of tumors.
- carthusian — a member of an austere monastic order founded by Saint Bruno in 1084 near Grenoble, France