Words and phrases whose definition contains but:  (2160 results)
1 letter:
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2 letters:
au, cu, fe, ga, gp, kr, md, mn, mv, pb, po, pu, sa, tb, tl, uv, zn, zr
3 letters:
act, air, arm, asp, bar, bay, bib, bog, coy, des, eel, emu, fcs, few, fun, gum, gun, hot, job, jot, leg, lot, nay, one, opv, pda, psf, rat, rna, rom, rue, saw, soy, tnf, use, wac, war, yea, yon, zed, zee
8 letters:
acanthus, achilles, actually, adjacent, adjuvant, allosaur, anatoxin, ancestor, aqueduct, aranyaka, argonaut, assorted, autosome, babinski, ballgame, borodino, bromidic, buckskin, burgoyne, bushnell, cabochon, cardinal, certaina, chechnya, cherokee, chimeric, close to, coenzyme, colombia, comanche, come out, conflict, continue, contrary, converso, corn-fed, coventry, cowberry, crawfish, crayfish, creatine, credible, darius i, dejected, detached, devilish, dialogue, dish out, distress, djibouti, dolomite, dormancy, duckpins, earphone, ebionite, edward v, eggplant, einstein, entoloma, enzootic, epiphyte, esquimau, exorcist, exploded, eye mask, feminine, fish-fly, fish fly, forceful, formless, forsooth, franklin, get over, gleaming, gnetales, haggadah, handsome, hannibal, hayastan, hemipode, henry vi, how come, hypnosis, ice milk, illusory, impishly, indecent, indirect, inexpert, infrared, inherent, intelnet, interior, keelboat, kerensky, king nut, kirgizia, klondike, ladyfish, lambkill, latterly, leaf bud, leathery, lippizan, lookdown, lovebird, mannikin, match-up, mcintosh, methadon, moldavia, moluccas, monkfish, monopoly, nazarene, nematode, non vult, not only, obligato, obsidian, old-time, oleander, optional, ordnance, overdone, pale ale, particle, parvenue, peat bog, petchary, phase iv, pheasant, picayune, pilewort, pleasure, polonium, polygene, probable, psaltery, pulassan, quaintly, ram disk, remotely, reserves, rose bay, roughage, rounding, saprobic, savoring, sea lion, seeminga, separate, serve up, severala, shaddock, shooting, shouting, skillful, skipjack, solo man, solution, sol rojo, specious, spheroid, sprinkle, spurious, squiggle, stabroek, stirring, subdural, sycamore, sympatry, syzygium, tear gas, temporal, thallium, thracian, transfer, turndown, twilight, ungulate, unstated, upstarta, utilitya, warhorse, well-set, xerxes i, yogacara
9 letters:
abstinent, accessory, acyclovir, aerophyte, air plant, aizoaceae, al-tawhid, aliterate, alliaceae, alligator, allograft, all right, aloeaceae, al tawhid, amphibian, analogous, ancillary, angelfish, apocrypha, apparenta, arriviste, artillery, ascendant, ascendent, asp viper, ateliosis, aubergine, auxiliary, balaclava, bass drum, belonidae, big stick, blackjack, blackseed, black ice, bluepoint, b complex, b vitamin, cacoethes, canticles, cassandra, cast iron, chechenia, clustered, cold feet, coltsfoot, come down, commensal, compactly, conceptus, consolida, continent, contusion, crane fly, credulous, crispness, crossover, damselfly, dead axle, debenture, destroyer, detergent, devilfish, dry nurse, duct tape, dysthymia, eagle ray, edmund ii, edward iv, effectual, encainide, entremots, evasively, exclusive, excrement, excretion, expletive, eye candy, fairyland, fairytale, flashback, formalism, forsythia, funkaceae, goldbrick, gramineae, gran casa, groupware, half mask, hamartoma, haphazard, hardheads, heteronym, high sign, hollyhock, homograft, homograph, homologic, homophone, horsebean, hostaceae, hypertext, ice shelf, insidious, insincere, irredenta, irridenta, jacksonia, jadestone, junk food, kick turn, kirghizia, lame duck, langouste, larghetto, las vegas, laughably, leathered, let it go, long shot, mad apple, manganese, manta ray, masculine, may apple, meanwhile, meningism, methadone, microwave, mid-water, misguided, monolatry, monopsony, moray eel, mujahidin, near beer, neolithic, non-ugric, novitiate, obbligato, organiser, organizer, ornithine, ostiarius, pantomime, partridge, pasternak, pecuniary, perfected, ping-pong, planetary, plausible, pleasance, plurality, plutonium, polyphase, polyphone, pragmatic, prix fixe, prudishly, psithyrus, pubescent, puckishly, puka inti, pyongyang, raceabout, raspberry, reach out, roosevelt, roughness, roundworm, ruscaceae, salientip, schlesien, sea bream, seemingly, sei whale, shelf ice, side dish, sightread, silk vine, small cap, snake oil, sociopath, soja bean, sometimes, sophistic, south sea, soya bean, spearfish, staghound, subdeacon, subjacent, sumpsimus, swordfish, symbiotic, syncytium, tank iron, tape deck, tarantula, tenacious, theophany, threshing, tolerably, tree fern, true toad, unengaged, unifacial, untwisted, variation, vermilion, vibraharp, virtually, vitamin b, voiceless, zirconium
10 letters:
acanthosis, acceptably, allegretto, allosaurus, alpha wave, antecedent, antitrades, apophatism, ateleiosis, atmosphere, basic slag, beau geste, blue goose, blue point, body waste, boy scouts, broad-bean, broad bean, budgerigar, budgerygah, carry-over, chardonnay, chimerical, chinchilla, chinquapin, cinderella, circassian, citrulline, clavichord, coelacanth, collateral, common eel, compendium, congenital, contingent, continuant, copperhead, coriaceous, crispiness, dark horse, devilishly, doorkeeper, enantiomer, ethanediol, fairy tale, farfetched, field bean, flugelhorn, fly agaric, fraser fir, garden egg, gas engine, genus rhea, georgetown, gift horse, grass poly, gray alder, grievously, himantopus, homologous, homunculus, hypothesis, imbecility, imposition, indecision, injunction, insatiably, in reality, irrational, isometrics, isomorphic, jaboticaba, jackanapes, jumby bead, just about, kafir corn, kidney pie, kirgizstan, kyrgyzstan, lacrimator, lemon tree, limitation, logic gate, lymphocyte, lymph cell, materially, mercifully, morganatic, multiphase, nominalism, nutmeg-yew, old codger, orange red, ostensible, overweight, peculation, peripheral, pig laurel, pinguecula, pipe dream, plasticine, polybotria, polybotrya, polyphonic, population, procaryote, prokaryote, pronucleus, psychopath, quiescence, quiescency, refracture, richard ii, right hand, roughdried, sakartvelo, savonarola, scorpaenid, seasonable, semidesert, semitrance, settlement, shamefaced, siren call, siren song, small slam, smut grass, sorb apple, squash pie, stone crab, stravinsky, subsidiary, sufficient, tall order, tantaliser, tantalizer, tenpounder, theta wave, time scale, tourmaline, transitory, trifoliata, tunaburger, turnicidae, twenty-one, type genus, tyrannidae, uninspired, unquotable, unsatiably, vibraphone, vicia faba, vital sign, washington, well-meant, wordfinder, wrathfully
11 letters:
accessorial, acute angle, adversative, agglomerate, albuminuria, aloe family, androgenous, angel shark, anguillidae, anise plant, approximate, appurtenant, arthrospore, assault gun, at any rate, averageness, balloonfish, big science, blank check, blank shell, blood serum, bridle path, bridle road, brittleness, budgereegah, burmese cat, cattle grid, civil death, combination, common cold, cor anglais, cosmography, customarily, dark matter, day boarder, defalcation, designateip, disobliging, don quixote, doublespeak, eye contact, fairy story, first blush, flight line, fluegelhorn, fulsomeness, genus madia, genus mnium, german iris, giant squid, glycine max, gondola car, graminaceae, gray poplar, guinea fowl, gyrocompass, henry james, hepatitis a, hepatitis c, homological, hsuan chiao, hulsea nana, hyoscyamine, implausible, implication, importunity, iris kochii, irradiation, isomorphous, john huston, julian bond, jumbie bead, kaffir corn, khmer rouge, king arthur, kirghizstan, lachrymator, leatherlike, left-handed, lightweight, light brown, lingonberry, little slam, lord nelson, manichaeism, materialist, mendelevium, meningocele, mithridates, musa ensete, nathan hale, november 11, obliqueness, olde worlde, open letter, open secret, overweening, paper tiger, paradoxical, passed ball, perestroika, permissible, planography, planthopper, poisonberry, possibility, practically, proteinuria, pulling out, puritanical, quasi-royal, rudolf hess, rue anemone, runner bean, sea anemone, sex-starved, smilacaceae, sophistical, speculation, spin doctor, subartesian, subjunctive, subterminal, succeedinga, superfamily, swamp birch, swing music, tangier pea, translation, trench foot, ultraviolet, undedicated, upper volta, ural-altaic, uranium 238, vingt-et-un, water birch, water vapor, whitethroat, wild orange, wood hoopoe, word finder, xanthomonas
12 letters:
accouterment, accoutrement, accumulation, adapid group, agglomerated, alnus incana, alpha rhythm, ancient pine, antiparallel, antiparticle, aplacophoran, appeal board, architeuthis, a couple ofa, backroom boy, bengal light, big shagbark, blank cheque, bluefin tuna, book of ruth, broad-minded, burkina faso, button-quail, button quail, canis aureus, carpet grass, cattle guard, chytridiales, circumscribe, citrus limon, cladorhyncus, colchicaceae, cold comfort, color of law, commonwealth, conciliation, condemnation, contrapuntal, dimpled chad, divine unity, domestic ass, drain basket, dramatically, dwarf hulsea, ecclesiastes, elops saurus, embezzlement, enantiomorph, english bean, english horn, equivocation, equus asinus, false gavial, frank harris, gateway drug, genus viscum, good-hearted, grace of god, gracie allen, grass family, great millet, green dragon, heavy weapon, hemophilia b, henry hudson, heterologous, homo erectus, horneophyton, idiot savant, infundibulum, ingrown hair, levallorphan, liothyronine, longfin mako, loose cannon, martyniaceae, more or less, mulberry fig, new ballgame, night terror, nikola tesla, nonviolently, north island, on the books, open primary, organization, paleogeology, patient role, penicillin o, penicillin v, plant hopper, platitudinal, poison-berry, precancerous, premium bond, presentation, prime number, propoxyphene, protectorate, prunus avium, pseudocyesis, pulasan tree, quantum leap, reflex angle, relationship, ribbed vault, river limpet, rock lobster, salesmanship, schizothymia, scopes trial, sea crawfish, selene vomer, semiabstract, semiliterate, service tree, sheep laurel, shell entity, shelter deck, significance, silver maple, solar energy, solenogaster, south island, spider plant, stilbesterol, storm troops, strophanthin, sub-assembly, substitution, sweet cherry, sweet pepper, sycamore fig, table d'hote, table tennis, tertium quid, theta rhythm, trojan horse, trombiculiid, tuberculosis, tuscan order, uncharitable, unexcitingly, uniat church, untheatrical, vipera aspis, water vapour, weather deck, well-meaning
13 letters:
abies fraseri, administrivia, affected role, agglomerative, appeals board, approximately, arbutus unedo, arctic circle, arctium minus, armillariella, armistice day, babinski sign, beta software, big shellbark, blind gentian, brain truster, bustard quail, cephaloglycin, close-fitting, colour of law, common teasel, complainingly, confabulation, conspicuously, corresponding, dead metaphor, direct flight, dundathu pine, eggplant bush, european bean, false vampire, fantasy world, fifth crusade, finnan haddie, fixed storage, foster-parent, foster-sister, free electron, function word, gastroboletus, genus pogonia, goat antelope, god knows how, gray kingbird, haemophilia b, heavy lifting, hemiramphidae, high-mindedly, hoofed mammal, hyacinthaceae, idiom neutral, imperceptibly, indispensable, irreligionist, isurus paucus, jimmy stewart, john burgoyne, judeo-spanish, klammath weed, little office, lookdown fish, manichaeanism, melanthiaceae, metastability, monomorphemic, nanophthalmos, narrow-minded, nematode worm, neoclassicism, neolithic age, new stone age, nouveau-riche, omomyid group, oral contract, palaeogeology, paramagnetism, paternalistic, picture plane, platitudinous, popular music, pragmatically, pregnant chad, pseudoscience, rhodesian man, robert bunsen, sabin vaccine, salvadoraceae, semipolitical, skipjack tuna, skunk cabbage, slipper plant, small capital, song of songs, soul-stirring, soybean plant, spice islands, spider flower, spinal fusion, spiny lobster, stage whisper, strobilomyces, such-and-such, trace element, twilight zone, unambitiously, unconcernedly, uniate church, unselfishness, unspectacular, utility-grade, veterans' day, victorian age, welsh terrier, western birch, wilton carpet, winter cherry
14 letters:
achilles' heel, acknowledgment, adjoining room, admiral nelson, atlantic manta, black knapweed, boletus edulis, brain mushroom, caprine animal, chammy leather, childbed fever, chondrichthian, closed gentian, clytocybe alba, coffea robusta, common burdock, corporate bond, coxsackievirus, daddy longlegs, david bushnell, debenture bond, diatonic scale, dramatic irony, english walnut, existentialist, family poaceae, fenusa pusilla, fertilized egg, finnan haddock, fluent aphasia, folk etymology, fool's parsley, foster-brother, freshwater eel, frozen custard, genus alocasia, genus entoloma, genus spadella, genus syzygium, gilded flicker, grass parakeet, here and there, herpes simplex, horatio nelson, horse mackerel, house of cards, immersion foot, immune carrier, infrared light, kangaroo mouse, lesser burdock, lesser hemlock, medical extern, misapplication, mithridates vi, mountain birch, naturalisation, naturalization, norway lobster, order gnetales, panic disorder, partial breach, passive source, paternity test, phantasy world, pinus longaeva, placebo effect, plain wanderer, prime quantity, pseudepigrapha, psycholinguist, raspberry bush, read-only file, reform judaism, rhea americana, richard leakey, rickettsiaceae, robusta coffee, roman republic, rounding error, scarlet runner, self-confident, semiconducting, semiconductive, shammy leather, sheep polypore, shell parakeet, shooting stick, sicilian mafia, slipper spurge, smoked haddock, soft ice cream, solanum nigrum, song and dance, spanish dagger, spitting cobra, sylvia curruca, tecophilaeacea, tetragoniaceae, treasury stock, underpopulated, unsecured bond, virginia beach, whippersnapper, yucca gloriosa
16 letters:
acer saccharinum, aethusa cynapium, aliterate person, allegheny spurge, alpine goldenrod, alstroemeriaceae, amanita muscaria, aralia stipulata, artificial joint, associated state, association area, atomic number 25, atomic number 26, atomic number 29, atomic number 30, atomic number 31, atomic number 40, atomic number 79, atomic number 81, atomic number 82, atomic number 84, atomic number 94, aversion therapy, balaclava helmet, battle of shiloh, birch leaf miner, black nightshade, board of appeals, bohemian waxwing, boletus pallidus, boletus variipes, broad-bean plant, bromus secalinus, chechen republic, chinese angelica, cholera infantum, coffea canephora, conservative jew, darius the great, distribution law, dwarf pocket rat, end of the world, essential tremor, ethiopian banana, european lobster, family aizoaceae, family alliaceae, family aloeaceae, family belonidae, family funkaceae, family gramineae, family hostaceae, family ruscaceae, fellow traveller, fictionalisation, fictionalization, flash in the pan, freshwater bream, gentleman johnny, genus himantopus, genus polybotria, genus polybotrya, heir presumptive, infantile autism, irish strawberry, jerusalem cherry, king nut hickory, korean lespedeza, labour-intensive, lesser celandine, little black ant, military machine, military reserve, misappropriation, naja nigricollis, numida meleagris, okapia johnstoni, old world rabbit, ozark chinquapin, paraprofessional, periploca graeca, personal effects, pinot chardonnay, planetary nebula, preferred shares, queensland kauri, reacquired stock, read-only memory, ribonucleic acid, rio nunez coffee, salvadora family, smooth earthball, sorbus domestica, special olympics, state capitalism, subjunctive mood, syncategorematic, synthetic heroin, triiodothyronine, unearned revenue, victimless crime, well-intentioned, whited sepulcher, whited sepulchre, xanthorrhoeaceae, xerxes the great

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