9-letter words containing t, e, u
- busticate — to break
- bustiness — the state of being busty
- butadiene — a colourless easily liquefiable flammable gas that polymerizes readily and is used mainly in the manufacture of synthetic rubbers. Formula: CH2:CHCH:CH2
- butcher's — a look
- butchered — a retail or wholesale dealer in meat.
- butcherer — a person who butchers
- butcherly — of or resembling a butcher
- butchness — the state of being butch
- butenandt — Adolf Frederick Johann. 1903–95, German organic chemist. He shared the Nobel prize for chemistry (1939) for his pioneering work on sex hormones
- buteonine — of or relating to hawks
- buteshire — (until 1975) a county of SW Scotland, consisting of islands in the Firth of Clyde and Kilbrannan Sound: formerly part of Strathclyde region (1975–96), now part of Argyll and Bute council area
- buthelezi — Mangosouthu Gatsha (ˌmæŋɡəʊˈsuːtuː ˈɡætʃə), known as Chief Buthelezi. born 1928, Zulu leader, chief minister of the KwaZulu territory of South Africa from 1970 until its abolition in 1994; founder of the Inkatha movement and advocate of Zulu autonomy; minister of home affairs (1994–2004)
- butlerage — a butler's position or rank
- butt weld — a welded butt joint
- butter up — If someone butters you up, they try to please you because they want you to help or support them.
- butterbur — a plant of the Eurasian genus Petasites with fragrant whitish or purple flowers, woolly stems, and leaves formerly used to wrap butter: family Asteraceae (composites)
- buttercup — A buttercup is a small plant with bright yellow flowers.
- butterfat — the fatty substance of milk from which butter is made, consisting of a mixture of glycerides, mainly butyrin, olein, and palmitin
- butterfly — A butterfly is an insect with large colourful wings and a thin body.
- butterine — an artificial butter made partly from milk
- buttering — the fatty portion of milk, separating as a soft whitish or yellowish solid when milk or cream is agitated or churned.
- butternut — a walnut tree, Juglans cinerea of E North America
- buxtehude — Dietrich (ˈdiːtrɪç). 1637–1707, Danish composer and organist, resident in Germany from 1668, who influenced Bach and Handel
- buzz term — buzzword.
- by nature — essentially or innately
- by repute — If you know someone by repute, you have never met them but you have heard or read about them.
- by return — by the next post back to the sender
- cajeputol — cineole.
- calculate — If you calculate a number or amount, you discover it from information that you already have, by using arithmetic, mathematics, or a special machine.
- calenture — a mild fever of tropical climates, similar in its symptoms to sunstroke
- camouflet — a type of bomb that is used during a siege to collapse an enemy's tunnel
- candlenut — a euphorbiaceous tree, Aleurites mollucana, of tropical Asia and Polynesia
- canefruit — a fruit, such as the raspberry, which grows on woody-stemmed plants
- cannulate — to insert a cannula into (a person)
- canulated — Simple past tense and past participle of canulate.
- canulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of canulate.
- capsulate — within or formed into a capsule
- capturers — to take by force or stratagem; take prisoner; seize: The police captured the burglar.
- carburate — carburet.
- cartouche — a carved or cast ornamental tablet or panel in the form of a scroll, sometimes having an inscription
- carve out — to make or create (a career)
- carve-out — to cut (a solid material) so as to form something: to carve a piece of pine.
- cassoulet — a stew originating from France, made from haricot beans and goose, duck, pork, etc
- castellum — a small fort, normally used as a watch tower
- castoreum — the oil secreted from the beaver which is used as bait by trappers
- catalogue — A catalogue is a list of things such as the goods you can buy from a particular company, the objects in a museum, or the books in a library.
- caterwaul — If a person or animal caterwauls, they make a loud, high, unpleasant noise like the noise that cats make when they fight.
- cathouses — Plural form of cathouse.
- causative — Causative factors are ones which are responsible for causing something.
- cautelous — crafty or cunning