10-letter words that end in t
- 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.
- burned-out — consumed; rendered unserviceable or ineffectual by maximum use: a burned-out tube.
- burns unit — a section of a hospital in which those with serious burns are treated
- 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.
- bust a gut — to make an intense effort
- butt joint — a joint between two plates, planks, bars, sections, etc, when the components are butted together and do not overlap or interlock. The joint may be strapped with jointing plates laid across it or welded (butt weld)
- butt shaft — a blunt-headed unbarbed arrow
- butterwort — a plant of the genus Pinguicula, esp P. vulgaris, that grows in wet places and has violet-blue spurred flowers and fleshy greasy glandular leaves on which insects are trapped and digested: family Lentibulariaceae
- buy-to-let — of or relating to the practice of buying a property to let to tenants rather than to live in onself
- buzz about — to scurry about
- by default — If something happens by default, it happens only because something else which might have prevented it or changed it has not happened.
- by request — in accordance with someone's desire
- by-product — A by-product is something which is produced during the manufacture or processing of another product.
- cable-knit — knitted using the cable stitch
- cajolement — The act of cajoling or the state of being cajoled.
- calcitrant — Stubborn; refractory.
- calico cat — a domestic cat, especially a female one, of variegated black, yellow, and white coloring.
- calotypist — a person who produces photographs using the calotype process
- cameralist — any of the mercantilist economists or public servants in Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries who held that the economic power of a nation can be enhanced by increasing its monetary wealth, as by the accumulation of bullion.
- caml light — A small portable implementation of a version of CAML by Xavier Leroy <[email protected]> and Damien Doligez of INRIA. Caml Light uses a bytecode interpreter written in C. It adds a Modula-2-like module system, separate compilation, lazy streams for parsing and printing, graphics primitives and an interface with C. Version 0.6 runs on Unix, MS-DOS, Macintosh, Atari ST and Amiga. It includes an interpreter, compiler, Emacs mode, libraries, scanner generator, parser generator, run-time support and an interactive development environment. The latest version, as of April 2003, is 0.75 and runs on Unix, Macintosh and Windows. The development of Caml Light has been stopped; current development is on Objective Caml. E-mail: <[email protected]>. Mailing list: <[email protected]>.
- camp shirt — a short-sleeved shirt or blouse with a notched collar and usually two breast pockets.
- can't wait — be impatient for
- canada act — the act of the British parliament of 1962 that transferred to the Canadian federal government complete control over the constitution of Canada.
- canal boat — A canal boat is a long, narrow boat used for travelling on canals.
- cancel out — If one thing cancels out another thing, the two things have opposite effects, so that when they are combined no real effect is produced.
- cancerroot — any parasitic plant of the genus Orobanche, especially O. uniflora, of North America, having pale, leafless stalks bearing a single white or purplish flower.
- candescent — glowing or starting to glow with heat
- candy-coat — sugarcoat (def 2).
- cankerroot — goldthread.
- cannot but — You use cannot but, could not but, and cannot help but when you want to emphasize that you believe something must be true and that there is no possibility of anything else being the case.
- cantonment — A cantonment is a group of buildings or a camp where soldiers live.
- cantor set — the set obtained from the closed interval from 0 to 1 by removing the middle third from the interval, then the middle third from each of the two remaining sets, and continuing the process indefinitely.
- cape coast — a seaport in S Ghana, on the Gulf of Guinea, 75 miles (121 km) SW of Accra.
- capitalist — A capitalist country or system supports or is based on the principles of capitalism.
- capitulant — a person who capitulates
- caravanist — a group of travelers, as merchants or pilgrims, journeying together for safety in passing through deserts, hostile territory, etc.
- cargo cult — a religious movement of the SW Pacific, characterized by expectation of the return of spirits in ships or aircraft carrying goods that will provide for the needs of the followers
- cartoonist — A cartoonist is a person whose job is to draw cartoons for newspapers and magazines.
- cartwright — a person who makes carts
- cash audit — an audit confined to cash transactions for a prescribed period, for the purpose of determining the amount of cash on hand or on deposit in a bank.
- cash limit — a limit imposed as a method of curtailing overall expenditure without specifying the precise means of budgetary control
- cashew nut — edible nut
- cast about — to make a mental or visual search
- castle nut — a hexagonal nut with six slots in the head, two of which take a locking pin to hold it firmly in position
- cat basket — a basket used for transporting a cat
- cat's-foot — a European plant, Antennaria dioica, with whitish woolly leaves and heads of typically white flowers: family Asteraceae (composites)
- catalogist — a list or record, as of items for sale or courses at a university, systematically arranged and often including descriptive material: a stamp catalog.
- cataphract — a defensive armour, often made of link mail, used for the entire body
- catch-colt — the offspring of a mare bred accidentally.