10-letter words containing t, a, b, u
- 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
- breadfruit — Breadfruit are large round fruit that grow on trees in the Pacific Islands and in tropical parts of America and that, when baked, look and feel like bread.
- breadstuff — any form of bread
- brontosaur — apatosaurus
- bruschetta — Bruschetta is a slice of toasted bread which is brushed with olive oil and usually covered with chopped tomatoes.
- bubble tea — a cold drink, originally from Taiwan, of tea infused with fruit flavouring, shaken to produce bubbles, and served over tapioca pearls in a clear cup. It is usually drunk through a very wide straw
- buccinator — a thin muscle that compresses the cheeks and holds them against the teeth during chewing, etc
- buddy seat — a seat on a motorcycle or moped for the driver and a passenger sitting one behind the other.
- budget day — the day on which the Chancellor presents his budget to parliament
- buffet car — a railway coach where light refreshments are served
- buffy coat — a yellowish-white layer consisting of leukocytes that, upon centrifugation of blood, covers the red blood cells.
- bull float — a machine for giving the final surfacing to an area of concrete, as on a road.
- bullethead — a head considered similar in shape to a bullet, as that of a person with a high, domelike forehead and cranium and short hair.
- 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
- buonaparte — Bonaparte1
- buonarroti — Michelangelo.
- burckhardt — Jacob Christoph. 1818–97, Swiss art and cultural historian; author of The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy (1860)
- bureaucrat — Bureaucrats are officials who work in a large administrative system. You can refer to officials as bureaucrats especially if you disapprove of them because they seem to follow rules and procedures too strictly.
- 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.
- 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
- 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 heads — an extremely stupid or inept person.
- butt plate — a plate made usually of metal and attached to the butt end of a gunstock
- butt shaft — a blunt-headed unbarbed arrow
- butt-naked — completely naked
- butt-strap — (in metal construction) a plate which overlaps and fastens two pieces butted together.
- butterball — a chubby or fat person
- 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
- buzz about — to scurry about
- by default — If something happens by default, it happens only because something else which might have prevented it or changed it has not happened.
- 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.
- cabanatuan — city in SC Luzon, in the Philippines: pop. 173,000
- 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.
- 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
- capturable — to take by force or stratagem; take prisoner; seize: The police captured the burglar.
- carbureted — (of a vehicle or engine) having fuel supplied through a carburetor, rather than an injector.
- carburetor — A carburetor is the part of an engine, usually in a car, in which air and gasoline are mixed together to form a vapor which can be burned.
- cast about — to make a mental or visual search
- catacumbal — of or resembling catacombs
- celebutard — (informal, pejorative, offensive, slang) A celebrity viewed as unintelligent; especially a celebrity who behaves badly in public.
- club steak — a small steak that is cut from the short loin of beef and contains no part of the tenderloin