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10-letter words that end in t

  • big-ticket — If you describe something as a big-ticket item, you mean that it costs a lot of money.
  • bikini cut — a horizontal surgical incision in the lower abdomen, often used for a hysterectomy or a Cesarean delivery, so called because it leaves a less noticeable scar than does a vertical incision.
  • bilinguist — a speaker of two languages
  • billy goat — A billy goat is a male goat.
  • binet test — a test comprising questions and tasks, used to determine the mental age of subjects, usually children
  • biochemist — A biochemist is a scientist or student who studies biochemistry.
  • bioreagent — a reagent of biological origin, such as an enzyme
  • birthnight — the night on which a person was born
  • birthright — Something that is your birthright is something that you feel you have a basic right to have, simply because you are a human being.
  • bit bucket — (jargon)   1. (Or "write-only memory", "WOM") The universal data sink (originally, the mythical receptacle used to catch bits when they fall off the end of a register during a shift instruction). Discarded, lost, or destroyed data is said to have "gone to the bit bucket". On Unix, often used for /dev/null. Sometimes amplified as "the Great Bit Bucket in the Sky". 2. The place where all lost mail and news messages eventually go. The selection is performed according to Finagle's Law; important mail is much more likely to end up in the bit bucket than junk mail, which has an almost 100% probability of getting delivered. Routing to the bit bucket is automatically performed by mail-transfer agents, news systems, and the lower layers of the network. 3. The ideal location for all unwanted mail responses: "Flames about this article to the bit bucket." Such a request is guaranteed to overflow one's mailbox with flames. 4. Excuse for all mail that has not been sent. "I mailed you those figures last week; they must have landed in the bit bucket." Compare black hole. This term is used purely in jest. It is based on the fanciful notion that bits are objects that are not destroyed but only misplaced. This appears to have been a mutation of an earlier term "bit box", about which the same legend was current; old-time hackers also report that trainees used to be told that when the CPU stored bits into memory it was actually pulling them "out of the bit box". Another variant of this legend has it that, as a consequence of the "parity preservation law", the number of 1 bits that go to the bit bucket must equal the number of 0 bits. Any imbalance results in bits filling up the bit bucket. A qualified computer technician can empty a full bit bucket as part of scheduled maintenance. In contrast, a "chad box" is a real container used to catch chad. This may be related to the origin of the term "bit bucket" [Comments ?].
  • bit by bit — If something happens bit by bit, it happens in stages.
  • bitter rot — a disease of apples, grapes, and other fruit, characterized by cankers on the branches or twigs and bitter, rotted fruit, caused by any of several fungi.
  • bitterroot — a pink flower with an edible root found growing in America
  • bitterwort — yellow gentian.
  • bittorrent — a file transfer protocol which enables users to upload and download large files on the internet in the form of software, games, film, video, music, etc, from other users rather than from a central server
  • black belt — A black belt is worn by someone who has reached a very high standard in a sport such as judo or karate.
  • black diet — deprivation of all food and water as a punishment, often leading to death.
  • black gnat — a type of artificial fly, used chiefly for trout and salmon.
  • black heat — heat emitted by an electric element made from low-resistance thick wire that does not glow red
  • black knot — a fungal disease of plums and cherries caused by Dibotryon morbosum, characterized by rough black knotlike swellings on the twigs and branches
  • black list — a list of persons under suspicion, disfavor, censure, etc.: His record as an anarchist put him on the government's blacklist.
  • 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
  • black spot — If you describe a place, time, or part of a situation as a black spot, you mean that it is particularly bad or likely to cause problems.
  • blackheart — an abnormal darkening of the woody stems of some plants, thought to be caused by extreme cold
  • blackshirt — (in Europe) a member of a fascist organization, esp a member of the Italian Fascist party before and during World War II
  • 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
  • blastocyst — the blastula of mammals: a sphere of cells (trophoblast) enclosing an inner mass of cells and a fluid-filled cavity (blastocoel)
  • blind spot — If you say that someone has a blind spot about something, you mean that they seem to be unable to understand it or to see how important it is.
  • blind test — a test in which the participants cannot identify the products that they are testing
  • blind-spot — Also called blind spot. an area in which radio or cell phone signals are weak and their reception poor.
  • blindsight — the ability to respond to visual stimuli without having any conscious visual experience; it can occur after some forms of brain damage
  • block mast — a short mast from the head of which a lateen yard is suspended.
  • blood clot — a clotted mass of blood
  • blood heat — Blood heat is a temperature of 37°C, which is about the same as the normal temperature of the human body.
  • blood knot — barrel knot.
  • blood lust — If you say that someone is driven by a blood lust, you mean that they are acting in an extremely violent way because their emotions have been aroused by the events around them.
  • blood test — A blood test is a medical examination of a small amount of your blood.
  • bloodguilt — guilt of murder or shedding blood
  • 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 giant — any of the large, bright stars having surface temperatures of about 20,000 K and diameters that are often ten times that of the sun.
  • 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.
  • bluebonnet — a broad, flat cap of blue woolen cloth, formerly worn in Scotland
  • bluebreast — any of several birds with blue plumage around the throat
  • bluejacket — a sailor in the Navy
  • bluethroat — a small brownish European songbird, Cyanosylvia svecica, related to the thrushes, the male of which has a blue throat: family Muscicapidae
  • board foot — a unit of board measure: the cubic content of a piece of wood one foot square and one inch thick
  • boatwright — a craftsman who builds wooden boats.
  • bobble hat — A bobble hat is a woollen hat with a bobble on it.
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