5-letter words containing t
- bovet — Daniel. 1907–92, Italian pharmacologist, born in Switzerland, noted for his pioneering work on antihistamine drugs. Nobel prize for physiology or medicine 1957
- bowat — a small lamp or lantern
- boxty — a potato pancake
- bract — a specialized leaf, usually smaller than the foliage leaves, with a single flower or inflorescence growing in its axil
- brant — a small goose, Branta bernicla, that has a dark grey plumage and short neck and occurs in most northern coastal regions
- brent — a borough of NW Greater London. Pop: 267 800 (2003 est). Area: 44 sq km (17 sq miles)
- brest — a port in NW France, in Brittany: chief naval station of the country, planned by Richelieu in 1631 and fortified by Vauban. Pop: 148 316 (2006)
- brett — a male or female given name.
- brith — the Jewish rite of circumcising a male child eight days after his birth.
- britt — a turbot of northeastern Atlantic seas.
- broth — Broth is a kind of soup. It usually has vegetables or rice in it.
- bruit — to report; rumour
- brunt — the main force or shock of a blow, attack, etc (esp in the phrase bear the brunt of)
- brute — If you call someone, usually a man, a brute, you mean that they are rough, violent, and insensitive.
- built — Built is the past tense and past participle of build.
- buist — an identification mark on livestock made with paint or tar
- bundt — a ring-shaped cake
- bunty — infected with bunt
- buret — a graduated glass tube, commonly having a stopcock at the bottom, used for accurately measuring or measuring out small quantities of liquid.
- burnt — Burnt is a past tense and past participle of burn.
- burst — If something bursts or if you burst it, it suddenly breaks open or splits open and the air or other substance inside it comes out.
- busti — a small settlement; village.
- busty — If you describe a woman as busty, you mean that she has large breasts.
- butch — If you describe a woman as butch, you mean that she behaves or dresses in a masculine way. This use could cause offence.
- buteo — a type of American hawk
- butle — to act as butler
- butsu — a representation of the Buddha.
- butte — an isolated steep-sided flat-topped hill
- butts — a large cask for wine, beer, or ale.
- butty — A butty is a sandwich.
- butut — a Gambian monetary unit worth one hundredth of a dalasi
- butyl — of, consisting of, or containing any of four isomeric forms of the group C4H9–
- byatt — Dame A(ntonia) S(usan). born 1936, British novelist; her books include The Virgin in the Garden (1978), Possession (1990), and A Whistling Woman (2002)
- byest — by1 .
- bytes — adjacent bits, usually eight, processed by a computer as a unit.
- bytom — an industrial city in SW Poland, in Upper Silesia: under Prussian and German rule from 1742 to 1945. Pop: 185 793 (2007 est)
- cabet — Étienne [ey-tyen] /eɪˈtyɛn/ (Show IPA), 1788–1856, French socialist who established a utopian community in the U.S. (in Illinois) called Icaria: became U.S. citizen 1854.
- cabot — John Italian name Giovanni Caboto. 1450–98, Italian explorer, who landed in North America in 1497, under patent from Henry VII of England, and explored the coast from Nova Scotia to Newfoundland
- cacti — any of numerous succulent plants of the family Cactaceae, of warm, arid regions of the New World, having fleshy, leafless, usually spiny stems, and typically having solitary, showy flowers.
- cadet — A cadet is a young man or woman who is being trained in the armed services or the police.
- cagot — a member of a class of French outcasts who lived in the West Pyrenees, Béarn, Brittany, and Gascony, considered to be lepers and heretics
- can't — Can't is the usual spoken form of 'cannot'.
- canst — can1
- canto — a main division of a long poem
- cants — a salient angle.
- canty — lively; brisk; in good spirits
- capet — Hugh or Hugues (yg). ?938–996 ad, king of France (987–96); founder of the Capetian dynasty
- capot — the winning of all the tricks by one player
- capt. — Capt. is a written abbreviation for captain.
- caput — the main or most prominent part of an organ or structure