10-letter words containing t, b
- brightline — (of rules, standards, etc.) unambiguously clear: This muddies the waters of what should be a brightline rule.
- brightness — the condition of being bright
- brightsome — bright or luminous
- brightwork — shiny metal trimmings or fittings on ships, cars, etc
- brilliante — with spirit; lively
- bring suit — to institute legal action; sue
- britishism — Briticism
- broadcloth — fabric woven on a wide loom
- broadsheet — A broadsheet is a newspaper that is printed on large sheets of paper. Broadsheets are generally considered to be more serious than other newspapers. Compare tabloid.
- brocatelle — a heavy brocade with the design in deep relief, used chiefly in upholstery
- broken lot — an irregular quantity or lot of securities that is smaller than the amount normally traded
- bronchitic — acute or chronic inflammation of the membrane lining of the bronchial tubes, caused by respiratory infection or exposure to bronchial irritants, as cigarette smoke.
- bronchitis — Bronchitis is an illness like a very bad cough, in which your bronchial tubes become sore and infected.
- brontobyte — 1027 or 290 bytes
- brontosaur — apatosaurus
- broomstaff — a broomstick
- broomstick — A broomstick is an old-fashioned broom which has a bunch of small sticks at the end.
- brought on — made or bought outside the community, as a commercially manufactured product.
- brought-on — made or bought outside the community, as a commercially manufactured product.
- browbeaten — intimidated
- browbeater — to intimidate by overbearing looks or words; bully: They browbeat him into agreeing.
- brown belt — a level of expertise just below that of black belt
- brown bent — a common grass, Agrostis canina, of North America, used for lawns and putting greens because its blades can be clipped very short without injury to the plant.
- brown coat — arriccio.
- brown spot — a disease of many plants, characterized by irregular, brownish lesions on the fruit and foliage and by stem cankers, caused by any of several fungi, as Ceratophorum setosum or Cephalosporium apii.
- brownprint — a process of photographic reproduction using a mixture of iron and silver salts to produce a white image on a sepia ground.
- brownshirt — Nazi stormtrooper
- brownstone — In the United States, a brownstone is a type of house which was built during the 19th century. Brownstones have a front that is made from a reddish-brown stone.
- brunetiere — Ferdinand [fer-dee-nahn] /fɛr diˈnɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1849–1906, French literary critic.
- bruschetta — Bruschetta is a slice of toasted bread which is brushed with olive oil and usually covered with chopped tomatoes.
- bsp method — (programming) A CASE method from IBM.
- 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
- bubble-top — a bulletproof, transparent dome, as over the rear section of an automobile
- buccinator — a thin muscle that compresses the cheeks and holds them against the teeth during chewing, etc
- buck teeth — upper front teeth which stick out
- bucket out — to empty out with or as if with a bucket
- 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.
- budget day — the day on which the Chancellor presents his budget to parliament
- budget for — If you budget for something, you take account of it when you are deciding how much you can afford to spend on different things.
- buff stick — a small stick covered with leather or the like, used in polishing.
- 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.
- bufotenine — a tryptamine alkaloid with hallucinogenic properties, found in the skin of some species of toad and in some mushrooms and tropical shrubs
- bug-hunter — a person who is interested in insects
- build into — to make (something) a definite part of (a contract, agreement, etc)
- buitenzorg — former Dutch name of Bogor.
- bull float — a machine for giving the final surfacing to an area of concrete, as on a road.
- bull trout — any large trout, esp the salmon trout
- 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.