What it means
- (noun) A brick or stone structure built against another structure to support it.
- (noun) Anything that serves to support something; a prop.
- (noun) A buttress-root.
- (noun) A feature jutting prominently out from a mountain or rock; a crag, a bluff.
- (noun) Anything that supports or strengthens.
- (verb) To support something physically with, or as if with, a prop or buttress.
- (verb) (by extension) To support something or someone by supplying evidence; to corroborate or substantiate.
Letter analysis
- Buttresses contains 10 letters: 3 vowel(s) and 7 consonant(s).
- It uses 6 unique letters.
- Estimated syllable count: 3.
- Scrabble-style letter score: 12.
Sub-words
- buttress
- trustees
- betters
- busters
- butters
- rebuses
- russets
- setters
- streets
- subsets
- tersest
- testers
- tresses
- trusses
- trustee
- berets
- besets
- better
- brutes
- bursts
- busses
- buster
- butter
- buttes
- esters
- rebuts
- resets
- reuses
- russet
- serest
- setter
- steers
- street
- stress
- struts
- subset
- surest
- tester
- testes
- truest
- trusts
- tubers
- utters
- beers
- beets
- beret
- beset
- bests
- brute
- burst
- buses
- busts
- butte
- butts
- ester
- rebus
- rebut
- reset
- rests
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Other 10-letter words
- abandoning
- abbreviate
- abdicating
- abdication
- abductions
- aberration
- abhorrence
- abjuration
- abnegating
- abnegation
- abnormally
- abolishing
- abominable
- abominably
- abominated
- abominates
- aboriginal
- aborigines
Words starting with BUT
- but
- butane
- butch
- butcher
- butchered
- butcheries
- butchering
- butchers
- butchery
- butches
- butler
- butlers
- buts
- butt
- butte
- butted
- butter
- buttercup
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Words ending with SES
Common questions
What does Buttresses mean?
A brick or stone structure built against another structure to support it.
How many letters are in Buttresses?
Buttresses has 10 letters.
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