10-letter words containing t, o
- bitonality — the quality of two musical keys being played simultaneously
- bitou bush — type of sprawling woody shrub
- bitter rot — a disease of apples, grapes, and other fruit, characterized by cankers on the branches or twigs and bitter, rotted fruit, caused by any of several fungi.
- bitterroot — a pink flower with an edible root found growing in America
- bitterwood — any of several simaroubaceous trees of the genus Picrasma of S and SE Asia and the Caribbean, whose bitter bark and wood are used in medicine as a substitute for quassia
- bitterwort — yellow gentian.
- bittorrent — a file transfer protocol which enables users to upload and download large files on the internet in the form of software, games, film, video, music, etc, from other users rather than from a central server
- bituminous — of the nature of bitumen, esp. with regard to its color and combustibility
- black knot — a fungal disease of plums and cherries caused by Dibotryon morbosum, characterized by rough black knotlike swellings on the twigs and branches
- black spot — If you describe a place, time, or part of a situation as a black spot, you mean that it is particularly bad or likely to cause problems.
- blackstone — Sir William. 1723–80, English jurist noted particularly for his Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765–69), which had a profound influence on jurisprudence in the US
- blackthorn — a thorny Eurasian rosaceous shrub, Prunus spinosa, with black twigs, white flowers, and small sour plumlike fruits
- blamestorm — (of colleagues in a business, government, etc) to meet in order to apportion blame for an error or failure
- blastocoel — the cavity within a blastula
- blastocyst — the blastula of mammals: a sphere of cells (trophoblast) enclosing an inner mass of cells and a fluid-filled cavity (blastocoel)
- blastoderm — the layer of cells that surrounds the blastocoel of a blastula
- blastodisc — the blastula that forms as a flattened sphere on top of the yolk in the yolk-laden eggs of birds and reptiles.
- blastodisk — germinal disk
- blastomere — any of the cells formed by cleavage of a fertilized egg
- blastopore — the opening of the archenteron in the gastrula that develops into the anus of some animals
- blind spot — If you say that someone has a blind spot about something, you mean that they seem to be unable to understand it or to see how important it is.
- blind-spot — Also called blind spot. an area in which radio or cell phone signals are weak and their reception poor.
- blindstory — a windowless story
- blithesome — cheery; merry
- block mast — a short mast from the head of which a lateen yard is suspended.
- block vote — A block vote is a large number of votes that are all cast in the same way by one person on behalf of a group of people.
- blockflote — a recorder.
- bloggerati — those considered to be important or influential in the world of blogging
- blogstream — the publication on the internet of content from weblogs rather than from mainstream media sources
- blood bath — a killing of many people; massacre
- blood clot — a clotted mass of blood
- blood heat — Blood heat is a temperature of 37°C, which is about the same as the normal temperature of the human body.
- blood knot — barrel knot.
- blood lust — If you say that someone is driven by a blood lust, you mean that they are acting in an extremely violent way because their emotions have been aroused by the events around them.
- blood test — A blood test is a medical examination of a small amount of your blood.
- blood type — Someone's blood type is the same as their blood group.
- bloodguilt — guilt of murder or shedding blood
- bloodstain — A bloodstain is a mark on a surface caused by blood.
- bloodstock — Horses that are bred for racing are referred to as bloodstock.
- bloodstone — a dark-green variety of chalcedony with red spots: used as a gemstone
- blottesque — (of a painting) crudely executed, often characterized by blots and smears
- bloviation — a lengthy but insubstantial speech
- blue lotus — either of two Egyptian water lilies of the genus Nymphaea, as N. caerulea (blue lotus) having light blue flowers, or N. lotus (white lotus) having white flowers.
- blue point — a Siamese cat having a light-colored body and darker, bluish-gray points.
- bluebonnet — a broad, flat cap of blue woolen cloth, formerly worn in Scotland
- bluebottle — A bluebottle is a large fly with a shiny dark-blue body.
- bluethroat — a small brownish European songbird, Cyanosylvia svecica, related to the thrushes, the male of which has a blue throat: family Muscicapidae
- bluetongue — an Australian lizard, Tiliqua scincoides, having a cobalt-blue tongue
- blusterous — to roar and be tumultuous, as wind.
- board foot — a unit of board measure: the cubic content of a piece of wood one foot square and one inch thick