Phrase Hound found 75 phrases and 12 compound words that contain buttons. The most common are listed below. Open buttons in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 75
- buzz buttonsplural of buzz button: An edible flower from the plant paracress (Acmella oleracea).
- radio buttonsplural of radio button: Any of a line of preset buttons on a car radio used to select the station to be listened to; pressing one releases the others.
- campaign buttonsplural of campaign button: A pin used during an election as political advertising for (or against) a candidate or political party.
- electric buttonsplural of electric button: An edible flower from the plant paracress (Acmella oleracea).
- red buttonsplural of red button: A clerk employed in the settling room of the stock exchange.
- billy buttonsAny of many species of daisy-like plants in the tribe Gnaphalieae native to Australia and New Zealand
- shoulder buttonsplural of shoulder button: A button placed on the upper corner of a gamepad or handheld console, typically providing analogue input.
- Benjamin Buttonsthird-person singular simple present indicative of Benjamin Button: To seemingly age in reverse; to appear younger, either through changes in appearance or one's personality and lifestyle.
- belly buttonsplural of belly button: The navel.
- placebo buttonsplural of placebo button: A push-button with apparent functionality that actually has no effect when pressed.
- push someone's buttonsTo do specific things to anger someone (or, less commonly, to sexually arouse or otherwise elicit a strong reaction from them), especially intentionally or maliciously.
- Quaker buttonsThe seeds of nux vomica.
- bachelors buttonsplural of bachelors button: Any one of a number of plants with daisylike, button shaped flowers.
- Szechuan buttonsplural of Szechuan button: An edible flower from the plant paracress (Acmella oleracea).
- bachelor's buttonsplural of bachelor's button: Any one of a number of plants with daisy-like, button-shaped flowers of the genus Centaurea, especially the species Centaurea cyanus.
- Barbara's buttonsAny of various plants in the genus Marshallia.
- beggar's buttonsThe plant Arctium lappa.
- wild bachelor's-buttonsplural of wild bachelor's-button: Common chicory (Cichorium intybus).
- sew buttonsUsed in response to someone asking "so?"
- bell buttonsplural of bell button: A small, round mechanical device which, when pressed, rings a bell to announce one's presence or call a servant, assistant, etc.
- blue buttonsplural of blue button: A colony of hydrozoan polyps of the species Porpita porpita
- buttons upthird-person singular simple present indicative of button up: To fasten with a button or buttons.
- call buttonsplural of call button: A button used to request assistance.
- cheese buttonsplural of cheese button: A side dish of German origin, made with cottage cheese, flour and eggs, topped with sauteed onions.
- chicken buttonsplural of chicken button: An emergency switch or button used to abort a process in case of failure.
Compound words 12
- pushbuttonsplural of pushbutton: Which can be initiated or activated at the push of a button.
- bellybuttonsplural of bellybutton: The navel or umbilicus.
- coatbuttonsAn herb, Tridax procumbens, native to tropical America and invasive elsewhere.
- collarbuttonsplural of collarbutton: A button for fastening a collar.
- disbuttonsthird-person singular simple present indicative of disbutton: To remove the button from (fruit).
- endbuttonsplural of endbutton: In a violin-family instrument, the carved wooden plug which sits in the bottom block of the instrument.
- fussbuttonsplural of fussbutton: One who complains or fusses a great deal, especially about unimportant matters.
- hotbuttonsplural of hotbutton
- misbuttonsthird-person singular simple present indicative of misbutton: To button wrongly.
- prebuttonsplural of prebutton: A precursor to a rattle found on newborn rattlesnakes.