10-letter words containing t, u, b, i
- oubliettes — Plural form of oubliette.
- outbargain — to surpass in bargaining
- outbidding — Present participle of outbid.
- outbraving — Present participle of outbrave.
- paintbrush — a brush for applying paint, as one used in painting houses or one used in painting pictures.
- patibulary — of or relating to a gallows or an execution
- perturbing — to disturb or disquiet greatly in mind; agitate.
- picturable — a visual representation of a person, object, or scene, as a painting, drawing, photograph, etc.: I carry a picture of my grandchild in my wallet.
- piss about — to behave in a casual or silly way
- pitot tube — (often lowercase) an instrument for measuring fluid velocity, consisting of a narrow tube, one end of which is open and faces upstream, the other end being connected to a manometer.
- pittsburgh — a port in SW Pennsylvania, at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers that forms the Ohio River: steel industry.
- public act — public law (def 1).
- quodlibets — Plural form of quodlibet.
- radio tube — a vacuum tube used in a radio receiving set.
- requitable — to make repayment or return for (service, benefits, etc.).
- retributor — a person who retributes
- rifle butt — the end of the stock of a rifle
- rightabout — the position assumed by turning about to the right so as to face in the opposite direction.
- robustious — rough, rude, or boisterous.
- rubinstein — Anton [an-ton;; Russian uhn-tawn] /ˈæn tɒn;; Russian ʌnˈtɔn/ (Show IPA), 1829–94, Russian pianist and composer.
- rubricated — (in ancient manuscripts, early printed books, etc.) having titles, catchwords, etc., distinctively colored.
- saintsbury — George Edward Bateman [beyt-muh n] /ˈbeɪt mən/ (Show IPA), 1845–1933, English literary critic and historian.
- scrub suit — a loose-fitting, usually two-piece garment, often of green cotton, worn by surgeons and assisting personnel in an operating room.
- semi-bantu — a group of languages of W Africa, mainly SE Nigeria and Cameroon, that were not traditionally classed as Bantu but that show certain essential Bantu characteristics. They are now classed with Bantu in the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo family
- shikibuton — futon.
- sieve tube — a vertical series of sieve cells in the phloem, specialized for the conduction of food materials.
- snowtubing — the sport of moving across snow on a large inflated inner tube
- solubility — the quality or property of being soluble; relative capability of being dissolved.
- soubriquet — sobriquet.
- sound bite — a brief, striking remark or statement excerpted from an audiotape or videotape for insertion in a broadcast news story.
- spittlebug — the nymph of the froghopper, which surrounds itself with a frothy mass.
- st. brieuc — a department in NW France. 2787 sq. mi. (7220 sq. km). Capital: Saint-Brieuc.
- sticky bun — honey bun (def 1).
- stimulable — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
- strabismus — a disorder of vision due to a deviation from normal orientation of one or both eyes so that both cannot be directed at the same object at the same time; squint; crossed eyes.
- strip club — strip joint.
- sturbridge — a town in central Massachusetts: reconstruction of early American village.
- sub-editor — A sub-editor is a person whose job it is to check and correct articles in newspapers or magazines before they are printed.
- subaquatic — living or growing partly on land, partly in water.
- subarticle — an article that forms part of a larger or main article
- subatomics — the study of subatomic particles
- subcabinet — a group of advisers ranking below the cabinet level, chosen by a chief executive usually from members of the various executive departments.
- subcircuit — a circuit within another circuit
- subdialect — a division of a larger dialect
- subduction — an act or instance of subducting; subtraction or withdrawal.
- subfertile — less than normally fertile
- subhepatic — of or relating to the liver.
- subintimal — the innermost membrane or lining of some organ or part, especially that of an artery, vein, or lymphatic.
- subintrant — having attacks or fits one after the other
- subjectify — to make subjective.