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10-letter words containing u, r, t

  • bicultural — having two cultures
  • bifurcated — divided into two branches.
  • bijouterie — jewellery esteemed for the delicacy of the work rather than the value of the materials
  • biquadrate — the fourth power
  • 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
  • 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 peter — a signal flag of blue with a white square at the centre, displayed by a vessel about to leave port
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • bluethroat — a small brownish European songbird, Cyanosylvia svecica, related to the thrushes, the male of which has a blue throat: family Muscicapidae
  • blusterous — to roar and be tumultuous, as wind.
  • bog turtle — a small turtle, Clemmys muhlenbergi, inhabiting swamps and slow, muddy-bottomed streams in scattered areas from New York to North Carolina.
  • 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.
  • bonkbuster — a novel characterized by graphic descriptions of the heroine's frequent sexual encounters
  • 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.
  • borgerhout — a town in N Belgium, near Antwerp. Pop: 40 142 (2002 est)
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • buccinator — a thin muscle that compresses the cheeks and holds them against the teeth during chewing, etc
  • 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.
  • buffet car — a railway coach where light refreshments are served
  • bug-hunter — a person who is interested in insects
  • buitenzorg — former Dutch name of Bogor.
  • bull trout — any large trout, esp the salmon trout
  • bully tree — any of several tropical American trees of the sapodilla family that yield balata
  • 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
  • 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.
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