10-letter words containing t, u
- brought-on — made or bought outside the community, as a commercially manufactured product.
- brunetiere — Ferdinand [fer-dee-nahn] /fɛr diˈnɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1849–1906, French literary critic.
- bruschetta — Bruschetta is a slice of toasted bread which is brushed with olive oil and usually covered with chopped tomatoes.
- bubble tea — a cold drink, originally from Taiwan, of tea infused with fruit flavouring, shaken to produce bubbles, and served over tapioca pearls in a clear cup. It is usually drunk through a very wide straw
- bubble-top — a bulletproof, transparent dome, as over the rear section of an automobile
- buccinator — a thin muscle that compresses the cheeks and holds them against the teeth during chewing, etc
- buck teeth — upper front teeth which stick out
- bucket out — to empty out with or as if with a bucket
- bucky bits — /buh'kee bits/ 1. Obsolete. The bits produced by the CONTROL and META shift keys on a SAIL keyboard (octal 200 and 400 respectively), resulting in a 9-bit keyboard character set. The MIT AI TV (Knight) keyboards extended this with TOP and separate left and right CONTROL and META keys, resulting in a 12-bit character set; later, LISP Machines added such keys as SUPER, HYPER, and GREEK (see space-cadet keyboard). 2. By extension, bits associated with "extra" shift keys on any keyboard, e.g. the ALT on an IBM PC or command and option keys on a Macintosh. It has long been rumored that "bucky bits" were named after Buckminster Fuller during a period when he was consulting at Stanford. Actually, bucky bits were invented by Niklaus Wirth when *he* was at Stanford in 1964--65; he first suggested the idea of an EDIT key to set the 8th bit of an otherwise 7 bit ASCII character. It seems that, unknown to Wirth, certain Stanford hackers had privately nicknamed him "Bucky" after a prominent portion of his dental anatomy, and this nickname transferred to the bit. Bucky-bit commands were used in a number of editors written at Stanford, including most notably TV-EDIT and NLS. The term spread to MIT and CMU early and is now in general use. Ironically, Wirth himself remained unaware of its derivation for nearly 30 years, until GLS dug up this history in early 1993! See double bucky, quadruple bucky.
- buddy seat — a seat on a motorcycle or moped for the driver and a passenger sitting one behind the other.
- budget day — the day on which the Chancellor presents his budget to parliament
- budget for — If you budget for something, you take account of it when you are deciding how much you can afford to spend on different things.
- buff stick — a small stick covered with leather or the like, used in polishing.
- buffet car — a railway coach where light refreshments are served
- buffy coat — a yellowish-white layer consisting of leukocytes that, upon centrifugation of blood, covers the red blood cells.
- bufotenine — a tryptamine alkaloid with hallucinogenic properties, found in the skin of some species of toad and in some mushrooms and tropical shrubs
- bug-hunter — a person who is interested in insects
- build into — to make (something) a definite part of (a contract, agreement, etc)
- buitenzorg — former Dutch name of Bogor.
- bull float — a machine for giving the final surfacing to an area of concrete, as on a road.
- bull trout — any large trout, esp the salmon trout
- bullethead — a head considered similar in shape to a bullet, as that of a person with a high, domelike forehead and cranium and short hair.
- bulletined — a brief account or statement, as of news or events, issued for the information of the public.
- bulletwood — the wood of a tropical American sapotaceous tree, Manilkara bidentata, widely used for construction due to its durability and toughness
- bullionist — a purveyor of bullion
- bully tree — any of several tropical American trees of the sapodilla family that yield balata
- bumblefoot — a swelling, sometimes purulent, of the ball of the foot in fowl.
- bump start — a method of starting a motor vehicle by engaging a low gear with the clutch depressed and pushing it or allowing it to run down a hill until sufficient momentum has been acquired to turn the engine by releasing the clutch
- bung it on — to behave in a pretentious manner
- bunionette — a bunionlike enlargement of the joint of the little toe, usually caused by pressure from tight shoes.
- bunt order — a dominance hierarchy seen in herds of cattle, established and maintained by bunting.
- buonaparte — Bonaparte1
- buonarroti — Michelangelo.
- burckhardt — Jacob Christoph. 1818–97, Swiss art and cultural historian; author of The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy (1860)
- bureaucrat — Bureaucrats are officials who work in a large administrative system. You can refer to officials as bureaucrats especially if you disapprove of them because they seem to follow rules and procedures too strictly.
- burlington — a city in S Canada on Lake Ontario, northeast of Hamilton. Pop: 150 836 (2001)
- burned-out — consumed; rendered unserviceable or ineffectual by maximum use: a burned-out tube.
- burnettize — to preserve (timber) with a solution of zinc chloride
- burns unit — a section of a hospital in which those with serious burns are treated
- burnt lime — calcium oxide; quicklime
- burnt-lime — Also called burnt lime, calcium oxide, caustic lime, calx, quicklime. a white or grayish-white, odorless, lumpy, very slightly water-soluble solid, CaO, that when combined with water forms calcium hydroxide (slaked lime) obtained from calcium carbonate, limestone, or oyster shells: used chiefly in mortars, plasters, and cements, in bleaching powder, and in the manufacture of steel, paper, glass, and various chemicals of calcium.
- burst into — If you burst into tears, laughter, or song, you suddenly begin to cry, laugh, or sing.
- burst page — banner
- bus master — (architecture) The device in a computer which is driving the address bus and bus control signals at some point in time. In a simple architecture only the (single) CPU can be bus master but this means that all communications between ("slave") I/O devices must involve the CPU. More sophisticated architectures allow other capable devices (or multiple CPUs) to take turns at controling the bus. This allows, for example, a network controller card to access a disk controller directly while the CPU performs other tasks which do not require the bus, e.g. fetching code from its cache. Note that any device can drive data onto the data bus when the CPU reads from that device, but only the bus master drives the address bus and control signals. See also distributed kernel.
- bush pilot — a pilot who flies small aircraft over rugged terrain or unsettled regions to serve remote areas inaccessible to or off the route of larger planes: Bush pilots brought supplies to the Alaskan village once a week.
- bush shirt — bush jacket.
- bushbeater — a person who conducts a thorough search to recruit talented people, as for an athletic team.
- bushmaster — a large greyish-brown highly venomous snake, Lachesis muta, inhabiting wooded regions of tropical America: family Crotalidae (pit vipers)
- bust a gut — to make an intense effort
- bust chops — Usually, chops. the jaw.