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10-letter words containing t, u

  • beetlebung — sour gum.
  • belly-bust — belly-flop.
  • beltcourse — a horizontal band or course, as of stone, projecting beyond or flush with the face of a building, often molded and sometimes richly carved.
  • bemusement — Bemusement is the feeling that you have when you are puzzled or confused by something.
  • benedictus — a short canticle beginning Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini in Latin and Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord in English
  • benumbment — the act of benumbing
  • bequeathal — to dispose of (personal property, especially money) by last will: She bequeathed her half of the company to her niece.
  • bequeathed — to dispose of (personal property, especially money) by last will: She bequeathed her half of the company to her niece.
  • berryfruit — any edible berry such as a raspberry, boysenberry, blackcurrant, or strawberry
  • bertolucci — Bernardo (berˈnardo). born 1940, Italian film director: his films include The Spider's Stratagem (1970), The Conformist (1970), 1900 (1976), The Last Emperor (1987), The Sheltering Sky (1990), and The Dreamers (2003)
  • bestraught — distraught; distracted
  • betancourt — Rómulo [rom-yuh-loh;; Spanish raw-moo-law] /ˈrɒm yəˌloʊ;; Spanish ˈrɔ muˌlɔ/ (Show IPA), 1908–81, Venezuelan journalist and political leader: president of Venezuela 1945–48 and 1959–64.
  • betelgeuse — a very remote luminous red supergiant, Alpha Orionis: the second brightest star in the constellation Orion. It is a variable star
  • betula oil — methyl salicylate.
  • bhavabhuti — flourished 8th century, Indian dramatist.
  • biannulate — having two bands, esp of colour
  • bicornuate — Botany, Zoology. having two horns or hornlike parts.
  • bicultural — having two cultures
  • bifurcated — divided into two branches.
  • bigmouthed — having a very large mouth.
  • bijouterie — jewellery esteemed for the delicacy of the work rather than the value of the materials
  • bikini cut — a horizontal surgical incision in the lower abdomen, often used for a hysterectomy or a Cesarean delivery, so called because it leaves a less noticeable scar than does a vertical incision.
  • bile ducts — a large duct that transports bile from the liver to the duodenum, having in humans and many other vertebrates a side branch to a gallbladder for bile storage.
  • bilinguist — a speaker of two languages
  • bimaculate — marked with two spots.
  • binucleate — having two nuclei
  • biobutanol — butyl alcohol.
  • bipetalous — having two petals
  • biquadrate — the fourth power
  • biquintile — the aspect of planets when they are at an angle of 144° to one another
  • bismuthine — an unstable hydride of bismuth, BiH 3 , analogous to arsine and stibine.
  • bismuthous — of or containing bismuth in the trivalent state
  • bisulphate — a salt or ester of sulphuric acid containing the monovalent group -HSO4 or the ion HSO4–
  • bisulphite — a salt or ester of sulphurous acid containing the monovalent group -HSO3 or the ion HSO3–
  • bit bucket — (jargon)   1. (Or "write-only memory", "WOM") The universal data sink (originally, the mythical receptacle used to catch bits when they fall off the end of a register during a shift instruction). Discarded, lost, or destroyed data is said to have "gone to the bit bucket". On Unix, often used for /dev/null. Sometimes amplified as "the Great Bit Bucket in the Sky". 2. The place where all lost mail and news messages eventually go. The selection is performed according to Finagle's Law; important mail is much more likely to end up in the bit bucket than junk mail, which has an almost 100% probability of getting delivered. Routing to the bit bucket is automatically performed by mail-transfer agents, news systems, and the lower layers of the network. 3. The ideal location for all unwanted mail responses: "Flames about this article to the bit bucket." Such a request is guaranteed to overflow one's mailbox with flames. 4. Excuse for all mail that has not been sent. "I mailed you those figures last week; they must have landed in the bit bucket." Compare black hole. This term is used purely in jest. It is based on the fanciful notion that bits are objects that are not destroyed but only misplaced. This appears to have been a mutation of an earlier term "bit box", about which the same legend was current; old-time hackers also report that trainees used to be told that when the CPU stored bits into memory it was actually pulling them "out of the bit box". Another variant of this legend has it that, as a consequence of the "parity preservation law", the number of 1 bits that go to the bit bucket must equal the number of 0 bits. Any imbalance results in bits filling up the bit bucket. A qualified computer technician can empty a full bit bucket as part of scheduled maintenance. In contrast, a "chad box" is a real container used to catch chad. This may be related to the origin of the term "bit bucket" [Comments ?].
  • bitou bush — type of sprawling woody shrub
  • bituminize — to treat with or convert into bitumen
  • bituminous — of the nature of bitumen, esp. with regard to its color and combustibility
  • black rust — a stage in any of several diseases of cereals and grasses caused by rust fungi in which black masses of spores appear on the stems or leaves
  • bladdernut — any temperate shrub or small tree of the genus Staphylea, esp S. pinnata of S Europe, that has bladder-like seed pods: family Staphyleaceae
  • blanquette — a French stew made of meat, usually veal, and white sauce
  • 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.
  • bloodguilt — guilt of murder or shedding blood
  • blottesque — (of a painting) crudely executed, often characterized by blots and smears
  • blue alert — (in military or civilian defense) an alert following the first, or yellow, alert, in which air attack seems probable.
  • blue beret — an informal name for a soldier of a United Nations peacekeeping force
  • blue giant — any of the large, bright stars having surface temperatures of about 20,000 K and diameters that are often ten times that of the sun.
  • 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 peter — a signal flag of blue with a white square at the centre, displayed by a vessel about to leave port
  • blue plate — a plate, often decorated with a blue willow pattern, divided by ridges into sections for holding apart several kinds of food.
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