14-letter words containing ut
- autotransplant — autograft.
- autotypography — a process in which drawings are executed on gelatin before being impressed on a soft metal plate to allow for printing
- azimuth circle — a device for measuring azimuths, consisting of a graduated ring equipped with a sighting vane on each side, which fits concentrically over a compass.
- bathing beauty — an attractive girl in a swimming costume
- be cut to size — If an object is cut to size, its size is altered to make it suitable for a particular purpose.
- be out of luck — If you say that someone is out of luck, you mean that they cannot have something which they can normally have.
- beautification — Making beautiful, beautifying, improving the appearance of something.
- beauty contest — A beauty contest is a competition in which young women are judged to decide which one is the most beautiful.
- beauty culture — the skill or occupation of a beautician
- beauty pageant — A beauty pageant is the same as a beauty contest.
- beauty parlour — A beauty parlour is a place where women can go to have beauty treatments, for example to have their hair, nails or make-up done.
- bermuda cutter — a marconi-rigged cutter.
- beyond dispute — not open to dispute or question; settled
- bioaeronautics — the use of aircraft in the discovery, development, and protection of natural and biological resources
- bleat on about — If you say that someone is bleating on about something, you mean that they are talking about it a great deal in a way which makes them sound weak and irritating.
- blood and guts — dealing with or depicting war or violence, especially in a lurid manner: a blood-and-guts movie.
- blood-and-guts — dealing with or depicting war or violence, especially in a lurid manner: a blood-and-guts movie.
- body beautiful — a beautiful body
- bophuthatswana — (formerly) a Bantu homeland in N South Africa: consisted of six separate areas; declared independent by South Africa in 1977 although this was not internationally recognized; abolished in 1993. Capital: Mmabatho
- border dispute — a disagreement between countries about where the border between them should be drawn
- boutique hotel — A boutique hotel is a small, high-quality and usually attractive hotel.
- bridge fluting — (on the stem of a drinking glass) flutes or facets continuing onto the underside of the bowl.
- butcher's shop — a shop dedicated to the selling of meat
- buteyko method — a breath control technique used to prevent hyperventilation and treat asthma without drugs
- butler's table — a small table, usually used as a coffee table, with a removable or fixed butler's tray for a top.
- butter brickle — an ice-cream flavor, usually vanilla or butterscotch, containing crunchy bits of butterscotch candy.
- butterfingered — a person who frequently drops things; clumsy person.
- butterfly bomb — Military. a small, aerial, antipersonnel bomb with two folding wings that revolve, slowing the rate of descent and arming the fuze.
- butterfly bush — buddleia
- butterfly fish — any small tropical marine percoid fish of the genera Chaetodon, Chelmon, etc, that has a deep flattened brightly coloured or strikingly marked body and brushlike teeth: family Chaetodontidae
- butterfly knot — a particularly resistant knot which resembles a butterfly and can take loads on both ends, as well as on the loop
- butterfly roof — a roof having more than one slope, each descending inward from the eaves.
- butterfly weed — a North American asclepiadaceous plant, Asclepias tuberosa (or A. decumbens), having flat-topped clusters of bright orange flowers
- buttermilk sky — a cloudy sky resembling the mottled or clabbered appearance of buttermilk.
- button-through — (of a dress or skirt) fastened with buttons from top to hem
- butyl aldehyde — butyraldehyde
- butylene group — any of four bivalent isomeric groups having the formula –C 4 H 8 –.
- can't help but — to give or provide what is necessary to accomplish a task or satisfy a need; contribute strength or means to; render assistance to; cooperate effectively with; aid; assist: He planned to help me with my work. Let me help you with those packages.
- capital outlay — a capital expenditure.
- carbon neutral — A carbon neutral lifestyle, company, or activity does not cause an increase in the overall amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
- carbon-neutral — pertaining to or having achieved a state in which the net amount of carbon dioxide or other carbon compounds emitted into the atmosphere is reduced to zero because it is balanced by actions to reduce or offset these emissions: Since the administration installed solar panels, the campus has become carbon neutral; a carbon-neutral brewery.
- cardiac output — blood volume in liters pumped by the left ventricle of the heart per minute.
- check-out time — the time by which one has to check out of a hotel
- chemoautotroph — an organism that obtains energy through chemoautotrophy
- cigarette butt — A cigarette butt or a cigarette end is the part of a cigarette that you throw away when you have finished smoking it.
- circumlocution — A circumlocution is a way of saying or writing something using more words than are necessary instead of being clear and direct.
- circumlocutory — a roundabout or indirect way of speaking; the use of more words than necessary to express an idea.
- circumnutation — the irregular spiral or elliptical rotation of the apex of a growing stem, root, or shoot, caused by differences in the rate of growth of the opposite sides
- circumnutatory — relating to circumnutation
- circumvolution — the act of turning, winding, or folding around a central axis