| quality control | maintenance of standards of quality of manufactured goods |
| butter dish | a small dish (often with a cover) for holding butter at the table |
| butter knife | a small knife with a dull blade, for cutting or spreading butter |
churn
butter churn | a vessel in which cream is agitated to separate butterfat from buttermilk |
| quality | an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone, the quality of mercy is not strained--Shakespeare |
quality caliber
calibre | a degree or grade of excellence or worth, the quality of students has risen, an executive of low caliber |
superiority
high quality | the quality of being superior |
inferiority
low quality | an inferior quality |
| parental quality | a quality appropriate to a parent |
motherliness
maternalism
maternal quality
maternity | the quality of having or showing the tenderness and warmth and affection of or befitting a mother, the girl's motherliness made her invaluable in caring for the children |
fatherliness
paternal quality | the benignity and protectiveness of or befitting a father, the gentleness and fatherliness of the strange old man eased her fears |
timbre
timber
quality tone | (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound), the timbre of her soprano was rich and lovely, the muffled tones of the broken bell summoned them to meet |
pocketbook issue
bread-and-butter issue | an issue whose settlement will affect financial resources |
quality
character
lineament | a characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something, each town has a quality all its own, the radical character of our demands |
| cocoa butter | the vegetable fat from the cacao that is extracted from chocolate liquor, the basis for white chocolate |
| butter cookie | cookie containing much butter |
| apple butter | thick dark spicy puree of apples |
sieva bean
butter bean
butterbean
civet bean | small flat green bean similar to lima beans |
| bread and butter pickle | thinly sliced sweet pickles |
Bercy
Bercy butter | butter creamed with white wine and shallots and parsley |
Colbert
Colbert butter | butter creamed with parsley and tarragon and beef extract |
| butter | an edible emulsion of fat globules made by churning milk or cream, for cooking and table use |
clarified butter
drawn butter | butter made clear by heating and removing the sediment of milk solids |
brown butter
beurre noisette | clarified butter browned slowly and seasoned with vinegar or lemon juice and capers |
Meuniere butter
lemon butter | clarified butter browned slowly and seasoned with lemon juice and parsley |
| nut butter | ground nuts blended with a little butter |
| peanut butter | a spread made from ground peanuts |
| onion butter | butter blended with minced onion |
| pimento butter | butter blended with mashed pimento |
| shrimp butter | butter blended with chopped shrimp or seasoned with essence from shrimp shells |
| lobster butter | butter blended with chopped lobster or seasoned with essence from lobster shells |
| yak butter | butter made from yaks' milk |
| anchovy butter | butter blended with mashed anchovies |
| garlic butter | butter seasoned with mashed garlic |
| snail butter | for preparing snails: butter seasoned with shallots and garlic and parsley |
| butter | a fighter who strikes the opponent with his head |
buttercup
butterflower
butter-flower
crowfoot
goldcup
kingcup | any of various plants of the genus Ranunculus |
cowpen daisy
golden crownbeard
golden crown beard
butter daisy
Verbesina encelioides
Ximenesia encelioides | coarse greyish-green annual yellow-flowered herb, southwestern United States to Mexico |
velvetleaf velvet-leaf velvetweed
Indian mallow butter-print
China jute
Abutilon theophrasti | tall annual herb or subshrub of tropical Asia having velvety leaves and yellow flowers and yielding a strong fiber, naturalized in southeastern Europe and United States |
sieva bean
butter bean
butter-bean plant
lima bean Phaseolus lunatus | bush bean plant cultivated especially in southern United States having small flat edible seeds |
toadflax
butter-and-eggs
wild snapdragon
devil's flax
Linaria vulgaris | common European perennial having showy yellow and orange flowers, a naturalized weed in North America |
witches' butter
Tremella lutescens | a yellow jelly fungus |
support
keep
livelihood
living
bread and butter
sustenance | the financial means whereby one lives, each child was expected to pay for their keep, he applied to the state for support, he could no longer earn his own livelihood |
deterioration
decline in quality
declension
worsening | process of changing to an inferior state |
| quality | high social status, a man of quality |
| quality of life | your personal satisfaction (or dissatisfaction) with the cultural or intellectual conditions under which you live (as distinct from material comfort), the new art museum is expected to improve the quality of life |
| cocoa butter | a yellow-white fat from cocoa beans |
butter up
brown-nose | flatter with the intention of getting something |
| butter | spread butter on, butter bread |
high-grade
top-quality
top-grade | surpassing in quality, top-grade ore |