10-letter words containing t, b
- boot money — unofficial bonuses in the form of illegal cash payments made by a professional sports club to its players
- 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.
- boot-faced — wearing a stern, disapproving expression
- booth-babe — an attractive woman hired to draw attendees of commercial exhibitions into promotional booths
- bootlegged — made, sold, or transported unlawfully.
- bootlegger — alcoholic liquor unlawfully made, sold, or transported, without registration or payment of taxes.
- bootlicker — to seek the favor or goodwill of in a servile, degraded way; toady to.
- bootloader — a bootstrap loader
- bootmaking — the activity of making boots and shoes
- booty bump — a method of administering the recreational drug methamphetamine, in which the drug is mixed with water then injected into the rectum with a needleless syringe
- booty call — a meeting arranged for the purpose of having sex
- border tax — a tax system for imports and exports, especially one that compensates for internal taxes in Common Market countries by levying fees or paying rebates.
- borgerhout — a town in N Belgium, near Antwerp. Pop: 40 142 (2002 est)
- borrow pit — an excavation dug to provide fill to make up ground elsewhere
- borrow-pit — a pit from which construction material, as sand or gravel, is taken for use as fill at another location.
- boss-tweed — William Marcy [mahr-see] /ˈmɑr si/ (Show IPA), ("Boss Tweed") 1823–78, U.S. politician.
- bossyboots — a bossy or domineering person
- boston bag — a two-handled bag for carrying books, papers, etc.
- boston ivy — a climbing vine (Parthenocissus tricuspidata) of the grape family, native to Japan and China, having shield-shaped leaves and purple berries: often grown to cover walls
- bostonians — of, relating to, or typical of Boston, Mass., or its residents: a Bostonian childhood; Bostonian reserve.
- botany bay — an inlet of the Tasman Sea, on the SE coast of Australia: surrounded by the suburbs of Sydney
- bothersome — Someone or something that is bothersome is annoying or irritating.
- botryoidal — (of minerals, parts of plants, etc) shaped like a bunch of grapes
- botticelli — Sandro (ˈsandro), original name Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi. 1444–1510, Italian (Florentine) painter, illustrator, and engraver, noted for the graceful outlines and delicate details of his mythological and religious paintings
- bottle cap — a device for closing or sealing a bottle, especially a metal cover with a cork gasket fitting tightly over the mouth of a glass or plastic bottle, held in place by crimping the edge of the cap over the lip or flange of the bottle.
- bottle imp — Cartesian diver.
- bottle out — If you bottle out, you lose your courage at the last moment and do not do something you intended to do.
- bottle-top — a cap on the top of a bottle
- bottlehead — bottlenose (def 2).
- bottleneck — A bottleneck is a place where a road becomes narrow or where it meets another road so that the traffic slows down or stops, often causing traffic jams.
- bottlenose — a kind of whale or dolphin
- bottletree — any of a genus (Brachychiton) of trees of the sterculia family, native to Australia, some of which have a swollen, bottle-shaped trunk
- bottom dog — underdog.
- bottom ice — anchor ice.
- bottom out — If a trend such as a fall in prices bottoms out, it stops getting worse or decreasing, and remains at a particular level or amount.
- bottomhole — The bottomhole is the lowest or deepest part of a well.
- bottomland — a lowland alluvial area near a river
- bottomless — If you describe a supply of something as bottomless, you mean that it seems so large that it will never run out.
- bottommost — lowest or most fundamental
- bottomness — the number of bottom antiquarks minus the number of bottom quarks in a particle
- bottoms up — Some people say bottoms up to each other just before drinking an alcoholic drink.
- boucicault — Dion (ˈdaɪɒn), real name Dionysius Lardner Boursiquot. 1822–90, Irish dramatist and actor. His plays include London Assurance (1841), The Octoroon (1859), and The Shaughran (1874)
- bouillotte — a French card game similar to poker
- bounty bag — a set of free samples, such as nappies and creams, given to mothers leaving hospital with a new baby
- bouquetier — a small container for holding flowers in a bouquet or nosegay.
- bournonite — a sulfide of lead, antimony, and copper, PbCuSbS 3 , occurring in gray to black crystals or granular masses.
- bovaristic — an exaggerated, especially glamorized, estimate of oneself; conceit.
- bow street — a street in London, England: location of a metropolitan police court.
- bow weight — the poundage required to draw a bow to the full length of the arrow
- bowhunting — the practice of hunting wild animals with bow and arrow