10-letter words containing t, u
- blue point — a Siamese cat having a light-colored body and darker, bluish-gray points.
- blue shift — a shift toward shorter wavelengths of the spectral lines of a celestial object, caused by the motion of the object toward the observer.
- blue stain — a bluish discoloration of sapwood caused by growth of fungi
- blue state — a state of the U.S. that usually votes Democratic.
- blue-plate — a plate, often decorated with a blue willow pattern, divided by ridges into sections for holding apart several kinds of food.
- blue-water — designed to operate on and range over the open sea; oceangoing: a bluewater navy that can be dispatched throughout the world, far from its home base.
- 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.
- bluebreast — any of several birds with blue plumage around the throat
- bluehearts — a hairy, purple-flowered perennial plant (Buchnera americana) of the figwort family, found in the S U.S.
- bluejacket — a sailor in the Navy
- bluest eye — a novel (1970) by Toni Morrison.
- 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.
- boastfully — given to or characterized by boasting.
- body count — the number of people killed
- bog turtle — a small turtle, Clemmys muhlenbergi, inhabiting swamps and slow, muddy-bottomed streams in scattered areas from New York to North Carolina.
- böhm flute — a type of flute in which the holes are covered with keys; the standard type of modern flute
- boilersuit — a one-piece work garment consisting of overalls and a shirt top usually worn over ordinary clothes to protect them
- boisterous — Someone who is boisterous is noisy, lively, and full of energy.
- bombed out — destroyed or severely damaged by or as by bombing: a bombed-out village; a bombed-out economy.
- bombed-out — A bombed-out building has been damaged or destroyed by a bomb.
- bonkbuster — a novel characterized by graphic descriptions of the heroine's frequent sexual encounters
- bonne nuit — good night
- boot virus — An MS-DOS virus that infects the boot record program on hard disks and floppy disks or the master boot record on hard disks. The virus gets loaded into memory before MS-DOS and takes control of the computer, infecting any floppy disks subsequently accessed. An infected boot disk may stop the computer starting up at all.
- 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
- borgerhout — a town in N Belgium, near Antwerp. Pop: 40 142 (2002 est)
- bottle out — If you bottle out, you lose your courage at the last moment and do not do something you intended to do.
- 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.
- 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.
- bowhunting — the practice of hunting wild animals with bow and arrow
- 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 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
- branch cut — a method for selecting a single-valued function on a subset of the domain of a multiple-valued function of a complex variable.
- branch out — If a person or an organization branches out, they do something that is different from their normal activities or work.
- brazen out — If you have done something wrong and you brazen it out, you behave confidently in order not to appear ashamed, even though you probably do feel ashamed.
- brazil nut — a tropical South American tree, Bertholletia excelsa, producing large globular capsules, each containing several closely packed triangular nuts: family Lecythidaceae
- breadfruit — Breadfruit are large round fruit that grow on trees in the Pacific Islands and in tropical parts of America and that, when baked, look and feel like bread.
- breadstuff — any form of bread
- bring suit — to institute legal action; sue
- brontosaur — apatosaurus
- brought on — made or bought outside the community, as a commercially manufactured product.