Phrase Hound found 148 phrases and 60 compound words that contain button. The most common are listed below. Open button in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 148
- radio buttonAny of a line of preset buttons on a car radio used to select the station to be listened to; pressing one releases the others.
- push-buttonWhich can be initiated or activated at the push of a button.
- hit the buttonTo be very satisfying; to be just the thing needed or desired in some particular situation.
- Mouse button
- hot-buttonAlternative form of hot button.
- Back Button
- reset buttonA button that resets something.
- belly buttonThe navel.
- Start buttonA labeled button in some versions of the Windows operating system that opens the Start menu.
- button-downOf a collar, able to be buttoned down to the shirt, as over a necktie.
- red buttonA clerk employed in the settling room of the stock exchange.
- call buttonA button used to request assistance.
- button upTo fasten with a button or buttons.
- blue buttonA colony of hydrozoan polyps of the species Porpita porpita
- button manA contract killer; a professional assassin.
- power buttonA button that switches an electrical device on or off.
- button mushroomThe mushroom species Agaricus bisporus in its white immature state.
- button dayA day on which money is raised for a group or cause by selling buttons for people to wear.
- Search button
- nuclear buttonThe means (not likely literally a button) of quickly and easily launching nuclear warheads.
- hitting the buttonpresent participle and gerund of hit the button
- hits the buttonthird-person singular simple present indicative of hit the button: To be very satisfying; to be just the thing needed or desired in some particular situation.
- held by the buttonsimple past and past participle of hold by the button
- button cellA small coin cell.
- button menplural of button man: A contract killer; a professional assassin.
Compound words 60
- pushbuttonAlternative spelling of push-button: Which can be initiated or activated at the push of a button.
- unbuttonTo open (something) by undoing its buttons.
- buttonwoodThe common name given to at least three species of shrub or tree.
- buttonweedAny of numerous species of plants with button-like flowers, especially:
- buttonwillowA shrub with round flower heads found near water in California, the Eastern US, and Central America, Cephalanthus occidentalis.
- buttonologyThe study of buttons (clothing fasteners and badges).
- buttonyHaving a large number of buttons.
- buttonquailAny of several species of small terrestrial birds, principally in the genus Turnix of the family Turnicidae.
- buttonhookA hook for pulling the buttons of gloves and shoes through the buttonholes.
- buttonlikeResembling a button.