The larvae of any of various species of moth that are pests to cotton.
bollworms
bollworms
noun
plural of bollworm
bolsterwork
boltwork
bondelswarts
boneflower
boonfellow
borlow
borowolframic
borrowable
borrowable
adj
Capable of being borrowed; available to be borrowed.
boswall
boswell
boswell
Proper noun
of Norman origin from Beuzeville in France.
James Boswell, biographer of Samuel Johnson.
Noun
A devoted admirer and recorder of a person's words and deeds.
boswellia
boswellian
boswellian
Adjective
Of or pertaining to (1740–1795), Scottish lawyer and writer, best known for his biography of
boswelliana
boswellism
boswellism
Noun
The writing style of (1740–1795), Scottish lawyer and writer, best known for his biography of
boswellize
boswellize
Verb
To eulogize.
boswellized
boswellizing
bothwell
bottleflower
boulework
boulework
noun
(woodworking) Obsolete form of buhl work.
boullework
bourlaw
boutwell
bowable
bowable
adj
(obsolete) Capable of being bowed or bent; flexible; yielding.
bowbells
bowdle
bowdlerisation
bowdlerisation
noun
The action or instance of bowdlerising; the omission or removal of material considered vulgar or indecent.
bowdlerise
bowdlerise
verb
Alternative form of bowdlerize
bowdlerised
bowdlerised
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bowdlerise
bowdlerises
bowdlerises
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bowdlerise
bowdlerising
bowdlerising
verb
present participle of bowdlerise
bowdlerism
bowdlerism
noun
A policy of bowdlerization, or censorship by removing what is considered indecent.
bowdlerization
bowdlerization
noun
The action or instance of bowdlerizing; the omission or removal of material considered vulgar or indecent.
bowdlerizations
bowdlerizations
noun
plural of bowdlerization
bowdlerize
bowdlerize
verb
To remove or alter those parts of a text considered offensive, vulgar, or otherwise unseemly.
bowdlerized
bowdlerized
adj
Expurgated, especially in a comprehensive way (such as systematically throughout an entire work).
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bowdlerize
bowdlerizer
bowdlerizer
noun
One who bowdlerizes.
bowdlerizers
bowdlerizers
noun
plural of bowdlerizer
bowdlerizes
bowdlerizes
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bowdlerize
bowdlerizing
bowdlerizing
verb
present participle of bowdlerize
bowdrill
bowel
bowel
noun
(chiefly medicine) A part or division of the intestines, usually the large intestine.
(in the plural) The entrails or intestines; the internal organs of the stomach.
(in the plural, archaic) The seat of pity or the gentler emotions; pity or mercy.
(in the plural, figuratively) The (deep) interior of something.
(obsolete, in the plural) offspring
verb
(now rare) To disembowel.
boweled
boweling
bowell
bowelled
bowelled
adj
Having bowels; hollow.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bowel
bowelless
bowelless
adj
(obsolete) Without pity.
bowellike
bowelling
bowelling
verb
present participle of bowel
bowels
bowels
noun
(obsolete) The body as the source of offspring.
Compassion, sympathy.
The concept or quality that defines something at its very core.
The deepest or innermost part.
The intestines.
plural of bowel
bowerlet
bowerlet
noun
A little bower.
bowerlike
bowerly
bowersville
bowieful
bowingly
bowingly
adv
in a bowing manner
bowkail
bowl
bowl
noun
(American football) A postseason football competition, a bowl game (i.e. Rose Bowl, Super Bowl)
(cooking) A dish comprising a mix of different foods, not all of which need be cooked, served in a bowl.
(geography) A round crater (or similar) in the ground.
(in the plural, but used with a singular verb) The game of bowls.
(sports, theater) An elliptical-shaped stadium or amphitheater resembling a bowl.
(typography) A rounded portion of a glyph that encloses empty space, as in the letters d and o.
A haircut in which straight hair is cut at an even height around the edges, forming a bowl shape.
A part of a pipe or bong packed with marijuana for smoking
A roughly hemispherical container used to hold, mix or present food, such as salad, fruit or soup, or other items.
As much as is held by a bowl.
The action of bowling a ball.
The ball rolled by players in the game of lawn bowls.
The part of a spoon that holds content, as opposed to the handle.
The round hollow part of anything.
verb
(intransitive) To play bowling or a similar game.
(intransitive) To throw the ball (in cricket and similar games and sports).
(transitive) To roll or throw (a ball) in the correct manner in cricket and similar games and sports.
To pelt or strike with anything rolled.
To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels.
bowla
bowlder
bowlder
noun
Dated form of boulder.
bowlderhead
bowldering
bowlders
bowlders
noun
plural of bowlder
bowldery
bowldery
adj
Archaic form of bouldery.
bowlds
bowle
bowle
noun
Obsolete form of bowl.
bowled
bowled
adv
(cricket) (Dismissed) by the bowled ball hitting and breaking the batsman's wicket.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bowl
bowleg
bowleg
noun
A leg that curves outward at the knee. It might refer to the leg of a human, animal or even a piece of furniture.
bowlegged
bowlegged
adj
Alternative spelling of bow-legged
bowleggedness
bowleggedness
noun
The quality of being bow-legged.
bowlegs
bowlegs
noun
plural of bowleg
bowler
bowler
noun
(baseball, slang, 1800s) The pitcher.
(bowling) One who engages in the sport of bowling.
(cricket) A player selected mainly for his bowling ability.
(cricket) The player currently bowling.
A bowler hat; a round black hat formerly popular among British businessmen.
bowlers
bowlers
noun
plural of bowler
bowles
bowles
noun
plural of bowle
bowless
bowless
adj
Without a bow.
bowlful
bowlful
Noun
As much as is held by a bowl.
bowlfuls
bowlfuls
noun
plural of bowlful
bowlike
bowlike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a bow (bent frame for firing arrows).
bowlin
bowline
bowline
noun
(nautical) A knot tied so as to produce an eye or loop in the end of a rope that will not slip or jam.
(nautical) A rope fastened near the middle of the leech or perpendicular edge of the square sails.
bowlines
bowlines
noun
plural of bowline
bowling
bowling
noun
(Ireland) Road bowling.
(New England) Candlepin bowling.
(cricket) The action of propelling the ball towards the batsman.
(gerund) The action of the verb bowl.
(slang) A particular style of walking associated with urban street culture.
A game played by rolling a ball down an alley and trying to knock over a triangular group of ten pins; ten-pin bowling/five-pin bowling
Any of several similar games played indoors or outdoors.
verb
present participle of bowl
bowlings
bowllike
bowllike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a bowl.
bowlmaker
bowlmaker
noun
A manufacturer of bowls.
bowls
bowls
noun
A ball used in the game of bowls
A precision sport where the goal is to roll biased balls (weighted on one side, and called bowls) closer to a smaller white ball (the jack or kitty) than one's opponent is able to do.
plural of bowl
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bowl
bowlus
bowly
bowmansdale
bowmansville
bowralite
bowtel
bowtell
boxwallah
boxwallah
noun
(India, historical) An Indian pedlar who sold goods from a box or trunk.
brailowsky
brawlsome
brawlsome
adj
Inclined to brawl; quarrelsome.
brazilwood
brazilwood
noun
A Brazilian timber tree (Paubrasilia echinata, syn. Caesalpinia echinata), used primarily to make bows for string instruments.
brazilwoods
brazilwoods
noun
plural of brazilwood
breastplow
breechesflower
bretwaldadom
bridebowl
brigalow
brigalow
noun
Any of various Australian acacia trees, especially Acacia harpophylla of New South Wales and Queensland.
brinklow
bristlewort
brittlewood
brittlewort
broadwell
brockwell
bronislaw
brookflower
brooklawn
browallia
browallia
noun
Any of the flowering plants of the genus Browallia
browerville
browless
browless
adj
(obsolete) Without shame.
Without a brow or eyebrows.
brownell
brownfield
brownfield
adj
(software engineering) Being a development that has to integrate with legacy systems.
noun
(often attributive) A site, to be used for housing or commerce, that has been previously used for industry and may be contaminated or need extensive clearing
brownfields
brownfields
noun
plural of brownfield
brownistical
brownlee
brownley
brownly
brownly
adv
With a brown colour.
brownsdale
brownsville
brownsville
Proper noun
The name of many places in the United States of America:
a former settlement in California.
an unincorporated community in California.
a CDP in Florida.
an unincorporated community in Florida.
a ghost town in Illinois. It was the former county seat.
an unincorporated community in Illinois.
an unincorporated community in Indiana.
a small home-rule class city in Kentucky
an unincorporated community and CDP in Louisiana.
an unincorporated community and CDP in Maryland.
a small city in Minnesota.
an unincorporated community in Mississippi.
a neighbourhood in New York City.
a CDP in Ohio.
a city in Oregon.
a borough in Pennsylvania.
an unincorporated community in Pennsylvania.
an unincorporated community in South Dakota.
a city in Tennessee
a city in Texas
an unincorporated community in Vermont.
an unincorporated community in Washington.
an unincorporated community in West Virginia.
a village in Wisconsin.
a former community in British Columbia, Canada.
a community in Ontario, Canada.
a suburb of New South Wales, Australia.
browntail
brownville
browsability
browsability
noun
The quality or state of being browsable.
bubblebow
buglewort
buhlwork
buhlwork
noun
(woodworking) Alternative form of buhl work
buhlworks
bulawayo
bulawayo
Proper noun
the second-largest city in Zimbabwe.
bullamacow
bulletwood
bulletwood
noun
A flowering tree, Spanish cherry or medlar (Mimusops elengi), whose flowers are used in Thai herbal medicine.
A tropical hardwood tree, Manilkara bidentata, grown commercially in Puerto Rico.
The timber of this tree.
bullflower
bullswool
bullswool
noun
(euphemistic) bullshit; nonsense
bullwork
bullwort
bullwort
noun
A plant, bishop's weed, Ammi majus.
bulow
bultow
bultow
noun
A trawl; a boulter.
The mode of fishing with a boulter or spiller.
bunchflower
bunchflower
noun
A perennial herb, Melanthium virginicum, having a branched cluster of pale flowers
bungalow
bungalow
noun
A single-storey house, typically with rooms all on one level, or sometimes also with upper rooms set into the roof space.
A thatched or tiled one-story house in India surrounded by a wide veranda; a similar house in this style.
bungalows
bungalows
noun
plural of bungalow
bushelwoman
bushelwoman
noun
(US, dialect) A tailor's female assistant for repairing garments.
butterflower
buttonwillow
buttonwillow
noun
(US) A shrub with round flower heads found near water in California, the Eastern US, and Central America, Cephalanthus occidentalis.
caldoracaldwell
callow
callow
adj
(by extension) Immature, lacking in life experience.
(by extension, life-cycle developmental stage) Newly emerged or hatched, juvenile.
(of a brick) Unburnt.
Bald, hairless, bare.
Lacking color or firmness (of some kinds of insects or other arthropods, such as spiders, just after ecdysis); teneral.
Of land: low-lying and liable to be submerged.
Shallow or weak-willed.
Unfledged (of a young bird), featherless.
noun
A callow or teneral phase of an insect or other arthropod, typically shortly after ecdysis, while the skin still is hardening, the colours have not yet become stable, and as a rule, before the animal is able to move effectively.