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10-letter words containing t, o

  • 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
  • bowler hat — A bowler hat is a round, hard, black hat with a narrow brim which is worn by men, especially British businessmen. Bowler hats are no longer very common.
  • box cutter — a knife-like tool with a short retractable blade
  • box gutter — a gutter set into the slope of a roof above the cornice.
  • box staple — a socket for holding the end of a lock bolt when the door is closed.
  • box turtle — any of several North American terrapins (genus Terrapene) with a hinged shell that can be completely closed: usually found on land
  • boy scouts — the worldwide movement founded by Lord Baden-Powell in 1908, now called the Scout Association in the UK and the Boys Scouts of America in the USA, which pursues a programme of activities for boys with the aim of developing character and responsibility
  • brace root — prop root.
  • brachiator — any primate which swings by its arms from one hold to the next
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