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Words starting with but

3 letter words starting with but

  • but — You use but to introduce something which contrasts with what you have just said, or to introduce something which adds to what you have just said.
  • but and ben — a two-roomed cottage consisting of an outer room or kitchen (but) and an inner room (ben)
  • but for — You use but for to introduce the only factor that causes a particular thing not to happen or not to be completely true.
  • but that — about the fact that
  • but that's another story — You say 'but that's another story' when you have mentioned a subject that you are not going to talk about or explain in detail.

4 letter words starting with but

  • bute — the drug phenylbutazone, esp when used in the illegal doping of racehorses
  • buto — a contemporary expressionist dance form that originated in postwar Japan, first called Ankoku Butoh, or Dance of Utter Darkness.
  • buts — with the exception of; except; save: No one replied but me.
  • butt — Someone's butt is their bottom.
  • bute house — a house in Charlotte Square, Edinburgh: official residence of the First Minister of Scotland

5 letter words starting with but

  • 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

6 letter words starting with but

  • butane — Butane is a gas that is obtained from petroleum and is used as a fuel.
  • butchy — butch.
  • butene — a pungent colourless gas existing in four isomeric forms, all of which are used in the manufacture of organic compounds. Formula: C4H8
  • butler — A butler is the most important male servant in a wealthy house.
  • butter — Butter is a soft yellow substance made from cream. You spread it on bread or use it in cooking.

7 letter words starting with but

  • butanol — a colourless substance existing in four isomeric forms. The three liquid isomers are used as solvents for resins, lacquers, etc, and in the manufacture of organic compounds. Formula: C4H9OH
  • butcher — A butcher is a shopkeeper who cuts up and sells meat. Some butchers also kill animals for meat and make foods such as sausages and meat pies.
  • butlery — a butler's room
  • butlins — one of the two best-known traditional holiday camps in Britain
  • buttals — the boundary lines of a piece of land

8 letter words starting with but

  • butanone — a colourless soluble flammable liquid used mainly as a solvent for resins, as a paint remover, and in lacquers, cements, and adhesives. Formula: CH3COC2H5
  • butchery — You can refer to the cruel killing of a lot of people as butchery when you want to express your horror and disgust at this.
  • butchest — butch haircut.
  • butsudan — (in Buddhism) a small household altar
  • buttered — having had butter spread over or applied to it

9 letter words starting with but

  • butadiene — a colourless easily liquefiable flammable gas that polymerizes readily and is used mainly in the manufacture of synthetic rubbers. Formula: CH2:CHCH:CH2
  • butcher's — a look
  • butchered — a retail or wholesale dealer in meat.
  • butcherer — a person who butchers
  • butcherly — of or resembling a butcher

10 letter words starting with but

  • butlership — the skills of a butler
  • butt-naked — completely naked
  • butt-strap — (in metal construction) a plate which overlaps and fastens two pieces butted together.
  • butterball — a chubby or fat person
  • butterfish — an eel-like blennioid food fish, Pholis gunnellus, occurring in North Atlantic coastal regions: family Pholidae (gunnels). It has a slippery scaleless golden brown skin with a row of black spots along the base of the long dorsal fin

11 letter words starting with but

  • butcherbird — a shrike, esp one of the genus Lanius
  • butenedioic — designating a type of acid
  • butorphanol — a narcotic analgesic, C 21 H 29 NO 2 , administered by injection to treat moderate to severe pain.
  • butt-cheeks — the flesh of the buttocks
  • butterbread — bread spread with butter.

12 letter words starting with but

  • butterscotch — Butterscotch is a hard yellowish-brown sweet made from butter and sugar boiled together.
  • buttonholing — the hole, slit, or loop through which a button is passed and by which it is secured.
  • butabarbital sodium — a barbiturate, C 10 H 15 N 2 NaO 3 , used as a sedative and hypnotic.

13 letter words starting with but

  • butterfingers — a person who drops things inadvertently or fails to catch things
  • butterflyfish — 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
  • buttoned-down — conventional or conservative
  • butyraldehyde — a colourless flammable pungent liquid used in the manufacture of resins. Formula: CH3(CH2)2CHO
  • butyrophenone — a drug used to treat psychiatric disorders

14 letter words starting with but

  • butterfingered — a person who frequently drops things; clumsy person.
  • button-through — (of a dress or skirt) fastened with buttons from top to hem
  • butter-and-egg man — a prosperous businessman from a small town or a farmer who spends his money ostentatiously on visits to a big city.

15 letter words starting with but

  • butcher's-broom — a liliaceous evergreen shrub, Ruscus aculeatus, that has stiff prickle-tipped flattened green stems, which resemble and function as true leaves. The plant was formerly used for making brooms
  • butter-and-eggs — any of various plants, such as toadflax, the flowers of which are of two shades of yellow
  • butter-fingered — a person who frequently drops things; clumsy person.
  • butterfly-shell clam — coquina.

17 letter words starting with but

  • buttock-clenching — making one tighten the buttocks through extreme fear or embarrassment

On this page, we collect all words starting with BUT. To make easier to find the right word we have divided all 245 words to groups according to their length. So you should go to appropriate page if can’t find the word that beginning with BUT. that you are searching. Also you can use this page in Scrabble.

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