a small town on the edge of Dartmoor, Devon, England.
a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria.
a river in Western Australia, which flows into the Indian Ocean.
a large town in Canterbury, New Zealand.
a river (with two branches) in Canterbury which flows past the town to the Pacific Ocean.
a town in Natal, South Africa.
a neighbourhood in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
astoundable
astoundable
adj
Capable of being astounded.
atrabilarious
atrabilarious
adj
(medicine, historical) Having black bile as the prevalent humor.
Characterized by melancholy or gloom.
atrabiliarious
atrabiliarious
adj
atrabilious
atrabilious
atrabilious
adj
(medicine, obsolete) Having an excess of black bile.
Characterized by melancholy.
Ill-natured; malevolent; cantankerous.
atrabiliousness
atrabiliousness
noun
(medicine, obsolete) The state or quality of having an excess of black bile.
Grumpiness, irritability, melancholy, moroseness.
atrorubent
attenborough
attenborough
Proper noun
A village in Broxtowe borough, Nottinghamshire, England.
attribution
attribution
noun
(law) A legal doctrine by which liability is extended to a defendant who did not actually commit the tortious or criminal act.
An explicit or formal acknowledgment of ownership or authorship.
The act of attributing something.
attributional
attributional
adj
Of or pertaining to attribution
attributions
attributions
noun
plural of attribution
attributor
attributor
noun
One who attributes; an imputer.
auberon
auburntown
aubusson
audubon
audubonistic
aulophobia
aulophobia
noun
fear of flutes
aummbulatory
auribromide
aurobromide
aurophobia
aurophobia
noun
The fear of gold; by extension, the fear of wealth.
ausubo
ausubo
noun
balata tree
ausubos
ausubos
noun
plural of ausubo
authorisable
authorisable
adj
Alternative spelling of authorizable
authorizable
authorizable
adj
Capable of being authorized.
autoabstract
autoabstract
noun
(computing) An abstract (abridgement or summary of a publication) generated automatically by a computer.
autoantibody
autoantibody
noun
An antibody formed in response to an agent (autoantigen) produced by the organism itself
autobahn
autobahn
noun
By analogy, any wide, high-speed road.
The high-speed intercity highways of Germany and Austria.
autobahnen
autobahns
autobahns
noun
plural of autobahn
autobasidia
autobasidia
noun
plural of autobasidium
autobasidiomycetes
autobasidiomycetous
autobasidium
autobasidium
noun
(mycology) Synonym of holobasidium
autobasisii
autobiographal
autobiographal
adj
(archaic) autobiographical
autobiographer
autobiographer
noun
One who writes his or her own life or biography.
autobiographers
autobiographers
noun
plural of autobiographer
autobiographic
autobiographic
Adjective
Of or relating to a person's life or an account of a person's life, as told by the subject.
autobiographical
autobiographical
adj
Of or relating to a person's life or an account of a person's life, as told by the subject.
autobiographically
autobiographically
adv
In an autobiographical manner.
autobiographies
autobiographies
noun
plural of autobiography
autobiographist
autobiographist
noun
An autobiographer.
autobiography
autobiography
noun
(countable) A self-written biography; the story of one's own life.
(uncountable) Biographies of this kind regarded as a literary genre.
autobiology
autoblast
autoboat
autoboating
autobolide
autobus
autobus
noun
(by extension, cycle racing) A large group of cyclists who have fallen behind the peloton (“main group of riders”) in a race.
(road transport, dated) A bus that is a motor vehicle, as opposed to earlier horse-drawn buses.
autobuses
autobuses
noun
plural of autobus
autobusses
autobusses
noun
(dated) plural of autobus
autocab
autocab
noun
(dated) A motor vehicle operating as a cab, as opposed to earlier horse-drawn cabs.
autocoenobium
autocombustible
autocombustible
adj
Capable of spontaneous combustion.
autocombustion
autocombustion
noun
spontaneous combustion
autohybridization
autoinhibited
autoinhibited
adj
Subject to, or produced by autoinhibition
verb
simple past tense and past participle of autoinhibit
autoinoculable
autoinoculable
adj
Capable of autoinoculation
automatable
automatable
adj
able to be automated
automateable
automobile
automobile
adj
Self-moving; self-propelled.
noun
(US, Canada) A type of vehicle designed to move on the ground under its own stored power and intended to carry a driver, a small number of additional passengers, and a very limited amount of other load. A car or motorcar.
automobiled
automobiled
verb
simple past tense and past participle of automobile
automobiles
automobiles
noun
plural of automobile
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of automobile
automobiling
automobiling
verb
present participle of automobile
automobilism
automobilism
noun
(dated) The use of automobiles.
automobilist
automobilist
noun
(archaic) The driver of a motor vehicle.
automobilistic
automobilistic
adj
(dated) Relating to automobiles.
automobilists
automobilists
noun
plural of automobilist
automobility
automobility
noun
The utilization of automobiles as the major means of transportation and mobility.
automysophobia
automysophobia
noun
An abnormal fear of being dirty.
autophobia
autophobia
noun
Fear or dislike of automobiles.
The morbid fear of being alone or of oneself.
self-hatred
autophoby
autophoby
noun
Archaic form of autophobia.
autostability
autostability
noun
(engineering) Ability to keep a stable poise, either by virtue of shape and proportions, or by some mechanism.
autosuggestibility
autosuggestibility
noun
The quality of being autosuggestible.
autosuggestible
autosuggestible
adj
Prone to autosuggestion.
autosymbiontic
autosymbolic
autosymbolical
autosymbolically
autotuberculin
autoxidizability
autoxidizability
noun
Alternative form of autoxidisability
autoxidizable
autoxidizable
adj
Alternative form of autoxidisable
auxoblast
auxobody
auxosubstance
avouchable
avouchable
adj
Capable of being avouched.
azoisobutyronitrile
azorubine
azorubine
noun
(organic chemistry) a red azo dye used as a food colouring, mostly in baked goods
babirousa
babirousa
noun
Archaic form of babirusa.
babiroussa
babiroussa
noun
A large hoglike quadruped, of the genus Babyrousa, found in the East Indies, sometimes domesticated; the Indian hog. Its upper canine teeth or tusks are large and recurved.
babouche
babouche
noun
A Turkish or Moroccan slipper having no heel.
babouvism
babouvism
Noun
Babouvist beliefs generally
babouvist
babouvist
Noun
A supporter or follower of or his ideas, including universal equal income and the abolition of private property.
babudom
babudom
noun
Administrative bureaucracy, or red tape, in India.
babyhouse
babyhouse
Noun
A doll's house.
baccaceous
baccaceous
adj
Resembling a berry.
bacciferous
bacciferous
adj
Producing berries.
baccivorous
baccivorous
adj
(zoology) Eating, or having a diet based on, berries
bacillariaceous
bacillariaceous
adj
Belonging to the Bacillariaceae; rod-shaped.
bacilliparous
bacillogenous
backcountry
backcountry
noun
A remote region; countryside that is relatively inaccessible; the boondocks.
backcourt
backcourt
noun
(basketball) A team's defensive half of the court; the part of the court where the other team's basket is located, or the guards playing in that area.
(chiefly Scotland) A courtyard behind a housing block or tenement building.
backcourtman
backcourtman
noun
(basketball) A backcourt player.
backcourtmen
backcourtmen
noun
plural of backcourtman
backfurrow
backfurrow
noun
(agriculture) The line of piled soil thrown up beside a furrow when it is created by a plow
verb
(agriculture) To throw or turn the soil in alternating directions for every other row that is plowed, so that every pair of furrows has a single backfurrow with clear areas on the outside.
background
background
adj
Less important or less noticeable in a scene or system.
noun
(computing) A type of activity on a computer that is not normally visible to the user.
(computing) The image or color over which a computer's desktop items are shown (e.g. icons or application windows).
(physics) Clipping of background radiation.
A less important feature of scenery (as opposed to foreground).
A part of the picture that depicts scenery to the rear or behind the main subject; context.
Information relevant to the current situation about past events; history.
One's social heritage, or previous life; what one did in the past.
verb
(journalism) To gather and provide background information (on).
To put in a position that is not prominent.
simple past tense and past participle of backgrind
backgrounded
backgrounded
adj
(computing) (of a task) Made non-interactive
Moved to the background
verb
simple past tense and past participle of background
backgrounder
backgrounder
noun
(chiefly US) A briefing or document typically provided prior to a meeting or other event that gives basic details on subjects that are likely to be mentioned.
A cattle farmer or rancher who runs a backgrounding operation.
A person employed to draw backgrounds for a comic or cartoon.
backgrounds
backgrounds
noun
plural of background
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of background
backhouse
backhouse
noun
(US, Canada, euphemistic) An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
(now dialect) An outbuilding behind the main building.
backhouses
backhouses
noun
plural of backhouse
backout
backout
noun
(aerospace) A reversed countdown (i.e. ascending numbers) in response to problems leading up to a launch.
A reversal or undoing of tasks previously done (often in reverse order).
backouts
backouts
noun
plural of backout
bacteriaceous
bacterioagglutinin
bacterioagglutinin
noun
(medicine) An antibody which causes agglutination of bacteria.
(archaic, medicine) Of bacterial origin or causation.
bacteriophagous
bacteriophagous
adj
Pertaining to the predation and consumption of bacterium.
bacteriopurpurin
bacteriopurpurin
noun
(organic chemistry) A red pigment found in certain sulfur bacteria.
bacteriotherapeutic
bacteriotherapeutic
adj
Relating to bacteriotherapy.
bacterious
baculiferous
baculiform
baculiform
adj
Shaped like a bacillus; rod-shaped.
baculiticone
baculoid
badious
badious
adj
(formal) Chestnut-coloured.
badious:
badmouth
badmouth
verb
(informal) To criticize or malign, especially unfairly or spitefully.
badmouthed
badmouthed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of badmouth
badmouthing
badmouthing
verb
present participle of badmouth
badmouths
badmouths
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of badmouth
baghouse
baghouse
noun
A fabric filter; an air pollution control device that removes particulates out of air or gas released from commercial processes or combustion for electricity generation.
baguio
baguio
noun
(Philippines) A typhoon.
baguios
baguios
noun
plural of baguio
baikonur
baikonur
Proper noun
A city in Kazakhstan, rented and administered by Russia, constructed to service Baikonur Cosmodrome, since 1995 also called Baikonur.
bailout
bailout
noun
(underwater diving) A backup supply of air in scuba diving.
A rescue, especially a financial rescue.
The process of exiting an aircraft while in flight.
bailouts
bailouts
noun
plural of bailout
bajour
bakehouse
bakehouse
noun
(UK dialectal) Bakery.
A building or an apartment used for the preparing and baking of bread and other baked goods.
A building principally containing ovens.
bakehouses
bakehouses
noun
plural of bakehouse
bakeout
bakeout
noun
The act of heating a material in a vacuum in order to drive off volatile components
balaniferous
balaniferous
adj
(nonce word) Bearing or producing acorns.
balanoglossus
balanophoraceous
balanophoraceous
adj
(botany) Belonging to the Balanophoraceae.
balanopreputial
balanopreputial
adj
(anatomy) Relating to the glans penis and the foreskin