HANGMAN SOLVER

adj

1. (obsolete) Joyous; riotously gay.

noun

1. (now archaic or historical) A person who keeps a house of prostitution, or procures women for prostitution; a procurer, a madame.
2. A lewd person.

verb

1. (archaic) To procure women for lewd purposes.

noun

1. A loud, intense shouting or wailing.

verb

1. (intransitive) To wail; to give out a blaring cry.
2. (intransitive) To weep profusely.
3. (transitive) To shout or utter in a loud and intense manner.

noun

1. A cattle-fort; a building used to shelter cattle.
2. A defensive wall built around a tower house. It was once used to protect livestock during an attack.

verb

1. Pronunciation spelling of born.

noun

1. Ploceus philippinus, a weaverbird of southern Asia.

noun

1. (obsolete) Baize.
2. plural of bay

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bay

verb

1. (transitive, obsolete) To stupefy; frighten; alarm.

noun

1. plural of bbl

noun

1. (archaic) Prayer, later especially with a rosary.
2. (architecture) A narrow molding with semicircular section.
3. (by extension) Knowledge sufficient to direct one's activities to a purpose.
4. (chemistry, dated) A glassy drop of molten flux, as borax or microcosmic salt, used as a solvent and color test for several mineral earths and oxides, as of iron, manganese, etc., before the blowpipe.
5. A bubble, in spirits.
6. A rigid edge of a tire that mounts it on a wheel; tire bead.
7. A small drop of water or other liquid.
8. A small, round ball at the end of a barrel of a gun used for aiming.
9. A small, round object with a hole to allow it to be threaded on a cord or wire, particularly for decorative purposes.
10. Each in a string of small balls making up the rosary or paternoster.
11. Various small, round solid objects.

verb

1. (intransitive) To form into a bead.
2. (transitive) To apply beads to.
3. (transitive) To cause beads to form on (something).
4. (transitive) To form into a bead.

noun

1. (architecture) A continuous slight projection ending in an arris or narrow fillet; that part of a drip from which the water is thrown off.
2. (botany) Any process somewhat like the beak of a bird, terminating the fruit or other parts of a plant.
3. (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Libythea, notable for the beak-like elongation on their heads.
4. (farriery) A toe clip.
5. (nautical) A beam, shod or armed at the end with a metal head or point, and projecting from the prow of an ancient galley, used as a ram to pierce the vessel of an enemy; a beakhead.
6. (nautical) That part of a ship, before the forecastle, which is fastened to the stem, and supported by the main knee.
7. (slang) The human nose, especially one that is large and pointed.
8. (slang, Britain) A justice of the peace; a magistrate.
9. (slang, British public schools) A schoolmaster (originally, at Eton).
10. (slang, Southern England) cocaine.
11. A rigid structure projecting from the front of a bird's face, used for pecking, grooming, foraging, carrying items, eating food, etc.
12. A similar structure forming the jaws of an octopus, turtle, etc.
13. Anything projecting or ending in a point like a beak, such as a promontory of land.
14. The long projecting sucking mouth of some insects and other invertebrates, as in the Hemiptera.
15. The prolongation of certain univalve shells containing the canal.
16. The upper or projecting part of the shell, near the hinge of a bivalve.

verb

1. (intransitive, Northern Ireland) To play truant.
2. (transitive) Seize with the beak.
3. (transitive) Strike with the beak.

noun

1. (dialectal or obsolete) A small inflammatory tumor; pustule.

verb

1. (dialectal, chiefly Scotland, Western Pennsylvania) To gather matter; swell; come to a head, as a pimple; fester; suppurate.

noun

1. (figuratively) A ray; a gleam.
2. (gymnastics) Ellipsis of balance beam.
3. (literary) The pole of a carriage or chariot.
4. (music) A horizontal bar which connects the stems of two or more notes to group them and to indicate metric value.
5. (nautical) The direction across a vessel, perpendicular to fore-and-aft.
6. (nautical) The maximum width of a vessel (note that a vessel with a beam of 15 foot can also be said to be 15 foot abeam).
7. (railway) An elevated rectangular dirt pile used to cheaply build an elevated portion of a railway.
8. (textiles) A cylinder of wood, making part of a loom, on which weavers wind the warp before weaving and the cylinder on which the cloth is rolled, as it is woven.
9. A ray or collection of approximately parallel rays emitted from the sun or other luminous body.
10. Any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use.
11. In steam engines, a heavy iron lever having an oscillating motion on a central axis, one end of which is connected with the piston rod from which it receives motion, and the other with the crank of the wheel shaft.
12. One of the long feathers in the wing of a hawk.
13. One of the principal horizontal structural members, usually of steel, timber, or concrete, of a building; one of the transverse members of a ship's frame on which the decks are laid — supported at the sides by knees in wooden ships and by stringers in steel ones.
14. The central bar of a plow, to which the handles and colter are secured, and to the end of which are attached the oxen or horses that draw it.
15. The crossbar of a mechanical balance, from the ends of which the scales are suspended.
16. The principal stem of the antler of a deer.
17. The straight part or shank of an anchor.

verb

1. (intransitive, figuratively) To smile broadly or especially cheerfully.
2. (transitive) To furnish or supply with beams.
3. (transitive) To give the appearance of beams to.
4. (transitive, computing) To transmit, especially by direct wireless means such as infrared.
5. (transitive, currying) To stretch something (for example, an animal hide) on a beam.
6. (transitive, intransitive) To emit beams of light; to shine; to radiate.
7. (transitive, music) To connect (musical notes) with a beam, or thick line, in music notation.
8. (transitive, science fiction) To transmit matter or information via a high-tech wireless mechanism.
9. (transitive, weaving) To put (something) on a beam.

noun

1. (Britain, slang, archaic) A guinea coin.
2. (Britain, slang, chiefly in the negative) Money.
3. (by extension) An object resembling a pea or bean in shape, often made from plastic or styrofoam and used in large numbers as packing material or as stuffing for beanbags and similar items.
4. (by extension) The bean-like seed of certain other plants, such a a vanilla bean or (especially) a coffee bean.
5. (slang) The head or brain.
6. (slang, often endearing) A person.
7. (software) Clipping of JavaBean.
8. Any plant of several genera of the taxonomic family Fabaceae that produces large edible seeds or edible seedpods.
9. The edible seedpod of such a plant.
10. The large edible seed of such a plant (for example, a broad bean, navy bean, or garbanzo bean).

verb

1. (chiefly baseball) To hit deliberately with a projectile, especially in the head.

adj

1. (finance, investments) Characterized by declining prices in securities markets or by belief that the prices will fall.

noun

1. (CB radio, slang, US) A state policeman (short for smokey bear).
2. (cartomancy) The fifteenth Lenormand card.
3. (colloquial, US) Something difficult or tiresome; a burden or chore.
4. (cooking, uncountable) The meat of this animal.
5. (engineering) A portable punching machine.
6. (figuratively) A rough, unmannerly, uncouth person.
7. (finance) An investor who sells commodities, securities, or futures in anticipation of a fall in prices.
8. (gay slang) A large, hairy man, especially one who is homosexual.
9. (nautical) A block covered with coarse matting, used to scour the deck.
10. (obsolete) A pillowcase; a fabric case or covering as for a pillow.
11. A large, generally omnivorous mammal (a few species are purely carnivorous or herbivorous), related to the dog and raccoon, having shaggy hair, a very small tail, and flat feet; a member of the family Ursidae.
12. Alternative spelling of bere (“barley”).

verb

1. (chiefly transitive) To carry or convey, literally or figuratively.
2. (finance, transitive) To endeavour to depress the price of, or prices in.
3. (intransitive, figuratively) To take effect; to have influence or force; to be relevant.
4. (intransitive, military, usually with on or upon) Of a weapon, to be aimed at an enemy or other target.
5. (intransitive, obsolete) To carry a burden or burdens.
6. (intransitive, originally nautical) To be, or head, in a specific direction or azimuth (from somewhere).
7. (intransitive, usually with on, upon, or against) To push, thrust, press.
8. (now transitive outside certain set patterns such as 'bear with'; formerly also intransitive) To endure or withstand (hardship, scrutiny, etc.); to tolerate; to be patient (with).
9. (reflexive, transitive) To behave or conduct (oneself).
10. (transitive) To admit or be capable of (a meaning); to suffer or sustain without violence, injury, or change.
11. (transitive) To afford, to be something to someone, to supply with something.
12. (transitive) To carry on, or maintain; to have.
13. (transitive) To carry or hold in the mind; to experience, entertain, harbour (an idea, feeling, or emotion).
14. (transitive) To display (a particular heraldic device) on a shield or coat of arms; to be entitled to wear or use (a heraldic device) as a coat of arms.
15. (transitive) To give (written or oral testimony or evidence); (figurative) to provide or constitute (evidence or proof), give witness.
16. (transitive) To have (a certain meaning, intent, or effect).
17. (transitive) To have (a name, title, or designation).
18. (transitive) To have or display (a mark or other feature).
19. (transitive) To possess inherently (a quality, attribute, power, or capacity); to have and display as an essential characteristic.
20. (transitive) To possess or enjoy (recognition, renown, a reputation, etc.); to have (a particular price, value, or worth).
21. (transitive) To present or exhibit (a particular outward appearance); to have (a certain look).
22. (transitive) To support or sustain; to hold up.
23. (transitive) To sustain, or be answerable for (blame, expense, responsibility, etc.).
24. (transitive) To warrant, justify the need for.
25. (transitive, ditransitive) To give birth to (someone or something) (may take the father of the direct object as an indirect object).
26. (transitive, less commonly intransitive) To produce or yield something, such as fruit or crops.
27. (transitive, obsolete) To gain or win.
28. (transitive, obsolete, rare) To take or bring (a person) with oneself; to conduct.
29. (transitive, of a person or animal) To have (an appendage, organ, etc.) as part of the body; (of a part of the body) to have (an appendage).
30. (transitive, of a thing) To have (a relation, correspondence, etc.) to something else.
31. (transitive, of an investment, loan, etc.) To have (interest or a specified rate of interest) stipulated in its terms.
32. (transitive, of garments, pieces of jewellery, etc.) To wear.
33. (transitive, of weapons, flags or symbols of rank, office, etc.) To carry upon one's person, especially visibly; to be equipped with.
34. (transitive, rare) To feel and show (respect, reverence, loyalty, etc.) to, towards, or unto a person or thing.
35. (transitive, rare) To possess and use, to exercise (power or influence); to hold (an office, rank, or position).
36. (transitive, rarely intransitive, of a woman or female animal) To carry (offspring in the womb), to be pregnant (with).

adj

1. (African-American Vernacular and gay slang) Having impressively attractive makeup.
2. (US slang) Exhausted.
3. (slang) Boring.
4. (slang, of a person) Ugly.
5. Dilapidated, beat up.
6. Relating to the Beat Generation.

noun

1. (Australia) An area frequented by gay men in search of sexual activity. See gay beat.
2. (archaic) A low cheat or swindler.
3. (authorship) A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
4. (colloquial, dated) That which beats, or surpasses, another or others.
5. (dated or obsolete, Southern US) A precinct.
6. (dated) A place of habitual or frequent resort.
7. (dated) An act of reporting news or scientific results before a rival; a scoop.
8. (fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
9. (hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.
10. (journalism) The primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business etc.).
11. (music) A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is the basic time unit of a piece.
12. (music) The rhythm signalled by a conductor or other musician to the members of a group of musicians.
13. (slang) A makeup look; compare beat one's face.
14. A beatnik.
15. A pulsation or throb.
16. A rhythm.
17. A stroke; a blow.
18. The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
19. The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency
20. The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.

verb

1. (especially colloquial) past participle of beat
2. (intransitive) To move with pulsation or throbbing.
3. (intransitive) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
4. (intransitive, MLE, MTE, slang, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse.
5. (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
6. (military, intransitive) To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
7. (transitive) To arrive at a place before someone.
8. (transitive) To hit; to strike.
9. (transitive) To indicate by beating or drumming.
10. (transitive) To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.
11. (transitive) To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
12. (transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do or be better than (someone); to excel in a particular, competitive event.
13. (transitive, UK, in haggling for a price of a buyer) To persuade the seller to reduce a price.
14. (transitive, slang) To rob.
15. To be in agitation or doubt.
16. To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
17. To make a sound when struck.
18. To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
19. To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and lesser intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; said of instruments, tones, or vibrations not perfectly in unison.
20. To tread, as a path.
21. simple past tense of beat

noun

1. (dated) A male lover; a boyfriend.
2. (dated) A man with a reputation for fine dress and etiquette; a dandy or fop.
3. A male escort.
4. A suitor of a lady.

noun

1. (chiefly Canada, US, slang) The pubic hair near a vulva or a vulva itself.

noun

1. (Norfolk, Northern English dialect) A stream or small river.
2. A significant nod, or motion of the head or hand, especially as a call or command.
3. A vat.
4. Obsolete form of beak.

verb

1. (archaic) To nod or motion with the head.

noun

1. (mining) A kind of pickaxe.
2. Prayer, request, supplication
3. Rosary.

verb

1. pray, offer, proffer
2. present, counsel, advise, rede, exhort
3. proclaim, declare
4. request, demand, order, command, forbid

noun

1. plural of bed

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bed

Proper noun

1. The BBC

Noun

1. A BBC Micro (early British home computer).

adj

1. (slang) Beefy; powerful; robust.
2. Being a bovine animal that is being raised for its meat.
3. Consisting of or containing beef as an ingredient.
4. Producing or known for raising lots of beef.

noun

1. (Dorset) Fibrous calcite or limestone, especially when occurring in a jagged layer between shales in Dorset.
2. (by extension, slang, uncountable) Muscle or musculature; size, strength or potency.
3. (figurative, slang, uncountable) Essence, content; the important part of a document or project.
4. (in the meat industry, on product packaging) The edible portions of a cow (including those which are not meat).
5. (now chiefly Canada, US, countable, now uncommon, plural beeves) A bovine (cow or bull) being raised for its meat.
6. (slang, uncountable or countable, plural beefs) A grudge; dislike (of something or someone); lack of faith or trust (in something or someone); a reason for a dislike or grudge. (often + with)
7. (uncountable) Bovine animals.
8. (uncountable) The meat from a cow, bull, or other bovine.

verb

1. (African-American Vernacular, MLE, MTE, intransitive, slang) To feud or hold a grudge against.
2. (intransitive) To complain.
3. (intransitive, chiefly Yorkshire) To cry.
4. (intransitive, slang) To fart; break wind.
5. (transitive) To add weight or strength to.
6. (transitive, slang) To fail or mess up.

noun

1. (informal) Clipping of beekeeper.

noun

1. (UK dialectal) plural of bee

verb

1. (Southern US or African-American Vernacular) remote past form of be.
2. (Southern US or African-American Vernacular, rare) Synonym of be (infinitival sense).
3. (obsolete) plural simple present of be.
4. past participle of be.

noun

1. A message sent to a pager device.
2. A short, electronically produced tone.
3. The sound produced by the horn of a car, or any similar sound.

verb

1. (intransitive) To produce a beep.
2. (transitive) To contact (someone via) a pager device.
3. (transitive) To sound (something that makes a beep).
4. (transitive, informal, euphemistic) To have sexual intercourse with - referring to the bleep tone used to censor obscene words in broadcasts

noun

1. (countable) A glass, bottle, or can of any of the above beverages.
2. (countable) A variety of the above beverages.
3. (nonstandard) One who is or exists.
4. (uncountable) A fermented extract of the roots and other parts of various plants, as spruce, ginger, sassafras, etc.
5. (uncountable) A solution produced by steeping plant materials in water or another fluid.
6. (uncountable) An alcoholic drink fermented from starch material, commonly barley malt, often with hops or some other substance to impart a bitter flavor.

verb

1. (informal, transitive) To give beer to (someone)

noun

1. plural of bee

noun

1. (US, Canada) A beetroot, a swollen root of such a plant.
2. Beta vulgaris, a plant with a swollen root which is eaten or used to make sugar.

verb

1. (transitive, obsolete, dialect) To improve; to mend.
2. (transitive, obsolete, dialect) To kindle a fire.
3. (transitive, obsolete, dialect) To rouse.

noun

1. Alternative form of bigha

noun

1. That which besets, surrounds, compasses, or affects; situation; circumstance.

verb

1. (archaic) To go about; encompass; surround; beset, surround with hostile intent; to overrun.
2. (obsolete except in set phrases) To affect, usually as a good or bad influence, or as a circumstance.
3. (obsolete) To clothe, dress.
4. (rare, humoristic or faux-archaic) To go away, to disappear.

noun

1. plural of beg

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of beg

adj

1. (Now chiefly dialectal) Wealthy; well-to-do.
2. (Now chiefly dialectal) Well provided; comfortable; cosy.

adv

1. (Now chiefly dialectal) Comfortably.

verb

1. (transitive, Scotland) To dry.
2. (transitive, Scotland) To render or make comfortable.

noun

1. an ancient Biblical unit of weight, half a shekel

noun

1. (Scotland, archaic) A bubble.
2. (architecture) The part of the capital of a column included between the abacus and neck molding; also used for the naked core of nearly cylindrical shape, assumed to exist within the leafage of a capital.
3. (chiefly Britain, informal) A telephone call.
4. (computing) The bell character.
5. (music) The flared end of a brass or woodwind instrument.
6. (nautical) Any of a series of strokes on a bell (or similar), struck every half hour to indicate the time (within a four hour watch)
7. A percussive instrument made of metal or other hard material, typically but not always in the shape of an inverted cup with a flared rim, which resonates when struck.
8. A signal at a school that tells the students when a class is starting or ending.
9. An instrument that emits a ringing sound, situated on a bicycle's handlebar and used by the cyclist to warn of his or her presence.
10. Anything shaped like a bell, such as the cup or corolla of a flower.
11. The bellow or bay of certain animals, such as a hound on the hunt or a stag in rut.
12. The flared end of a pipe, designed to mate with a narrow spigot.
13. The sounding of a bell as a signal.

verb

1. (intransitive) To bellow or roar.
2. (intransitive) To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom.
3. (slang, transitive) To telephone.
4. (transitive) To attach a bell to.
5. (transitive) To shape so that it flares out like a bell.
6. (transitive) To utter in a loud manner; to thunder forth.

noun

1. plural of bel

noun

1. (astronomy) A collection of small bodies (such as asteroids) which orbit a star.
2. (astronomy) One of certain girdles or zones on the surface of the planets Jupiter and Saturn, supposed to be of the nature of clouds.
3. (baseball) The part of the strike zone at the height of the batter's waist.
4. (military, nautical) A band of armor along the sides of a warship, protecting the ship's vital spaces.
5. (music) A vocal tone produced by singing with chest voice above the break (or passaggio), in a range typically sung in head voice.
6. (usually capitalized) A geographical region known for a particular product, feature or demographic (Corn Belt, Bible Belt, Black Belt, Green Belt).
7. (weaponry) A device that holds and feeds cartridges into a belt-fed weapon.
8. A band that is used in a machine to help transfer motion or power.
9. A band used as a restraint for safety purposes, such as a seat belt.
10. A band worn around the waist to hold clothing to one's body (usually pants), hold weapons (such as a gun or sword), or serve as a decorative piece of clothing.
11. A powerful blow, often made with a fist or heavy object.
12. A quick drink of liquor.
13. A trophy in the shape of a belt, generally awarded for martial arts.
14. Anything that resembles a belt, or that encircles or crosses like a belt; a strip or stripe.

verb

1. (transitive) To drink quickly, often in gulps.
2. (transitive) To encircle.
3. (transitive) To fasten a belt on.
4. (transitive) To hit with a belt.
5. (transitive) To invest (a person) with a belt as part of a formal ceremony such as knighthood.
6. (transitive, baseball) To hit a pitched ball a long distance, usually for a home run.
7. (transitive, colloquial) To hit someone or something.
8. (transitive, informal, normally belt out) To scream or sing in a loud manner.

noun

1. Obsolete spelling of belly

verb

1. Obsolete spelling of belie

noun

1. A platform from which speakers addressed an assembly.
2. Raised area of worship in a synagogue upon which rests the Holy Ark containing Scrolls of Torah.

noun

1. (historical) A mediaeval trumpet, usually used in hunting or warfare.

noun

1. (heraldry) One of the honourable ordinaries formed by two diagonal lines drawn from the dexter chief to the sinister base; it generally occupies a fifth part of the shield if uncharged, but if charged one third.
2. (in the plural, medicine, underwater diving, with the) A severe condition caused by excessively quick decompression, causing bubbles of nitrogen to form in the blood; decompression sickness.
3. (mining) Hard, indurated clay; bind.
4. (music) A glissando, or glide between one pitch and another.
5. (nautical, in the plural) The frames or ribs that form the ship's body from the keel to the top of the sides.
6. (nautical, in the plural) The thickest and strongest planks in a ship's sides, more generally called wales, which have the beams, knees, and futtocks bolted to them.
7. (obsolete) Turn; purpose; inclination; ends.
8. A curve.
9. Any of the various knots which join the ends of two lines.
10. In the leather trade, the best quality of sole leather; a butt; sometimes, half a butt cut lengthwise.

verb

1. (intransitive) To apply oneself to a task or purpose.
2. (intransitive) To be inclined; to direct itself.
3. (intransitive) To become curved.
4. (intransitive) To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.
5. (intransitive) To change direction.
6. (intransitive) To submit.
7. (intransitive, nautical) To swing the body when rowing.
8. (intransitive, usually with "down") To stoop.
9. (transitive) To adapt or interpret to for a purpose or beneficiary.
10. (transitive) To apply to a task or purpose.
11. (transitive) To cause (something) to change its shape into a curve, by physical force, chemical action, or any other means.
12. (transitive) To cause to change direction.
13. (transitive) To force to submit.
14. (transitive, music) To smoothly change the pitch of a note.
15. (transitive, nautical) To tie, as in securing a line to a cleat; to shackle a chain to an anchor; make fast.

adj

1. (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) Good.

noun

1. (now chiefly dialectal) A prayer, especially to God; a petition; a boon.
2. (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) Tongue.
3. Alternative form of benne (“sesame”)

noun

1. Obsolete form of bhang (“cannabis”).

noun

1. An alcoholic drink distilled from the fermented sap of palm trees, originating from the Philippines.

noun

1. (job advertisements) benefits
2. plural of ben

adj

1. (Of a person) leading a life of crime.
2. (Of something that is usually straight) Folded, dented.
3. (colloquial, chiefly UK) Corrupt, dishonest.
4. (colloquial, chiefly US) Suffering from the bends.
5. (derogatory, colloquial, chiefly UK) Homosexual.
6. (slang) High from both marijuana and alcohol.
7. (slang, soccer) Inaccurately aimed.
8. Determined or insistent.

noun

1. A declivity or slope, as of a hill.
2. A grassy area, grassland.
3. A predisposition to act or react in a particular way.
4. An inclination or talent.
5. Any of various stiff or reedy grasses.
6. Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course.
7. Such a subunit as a component of a barn's framing, joined to other bents by girts and summer beams.
8. Such a subunit as a reinforcement to, or integral part of, a bridge's framing.
9. Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus.
10. The old dried stalks of grasses.
11. The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bend

noun

1. (chiefly Scotland) Barley, especially four-rowed barley or six-rowed barley.

noun

1. (chiefly South Africa) mountain
2. An iceberg.

noun

1. (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, slang, derogatory, vulgar) Synonym of cunt in its various senses, (now especially somewhat endearing) a fool, a prat, a twit, etc.

noun

1. (Indiana, Ohio) A strip of land between a street and sidewalk.
2. (Western Pennsylvania) Edge of a road.
3. A ledge between the parapet and the moat in a fortification.
4. A mound or bank of earth, used especially as a barrier or to provide insulation.
5. A narrow ledge or shelf, as along the top or bottom of a slope.
6. A raised bank or path, especially the bank of a canal opposite the towpath.
7. A terrace formed by wave action along a beach.

verb

1. To provide something with a berm

adj

1. Most superior; most favorable.
2. Most; largest.
3. superlative form of good: most good.

adv

1. To the most advantage; with the most success, cause, profit, benefit, or propriety.
2. superlative form of well: most well

noun

1. (countable) The person (or persons; or thing or things) that is (are) most excellent.
2. (uncountable) One's best behavior.
3. (uncountable) The supreme effort one can make, or has made.

verb

1. (modal verb, colloquial) Had best.
2. (transitive) To beat in a contest.
3. To surpass in skill or achievement.

adj

1. (computing) Preliminary; prerelease. Refers to an incomplete version of a product released for initial testing.
2. (of a person, object or action) Associated with the beta male/female archetype.
3. Designates the second in an order of precedence.
4. Identifying a molecular position in an organic chemical compound.

noun

1. (aviation) Sideslip angle.
2. (aviation) The range of engine power settings in which the blade pitch angle of a constant-speed propeller is controlled directly by the angle of the engine's throttle lever (rather than varying with engine torque and airspeed to maintain a constant propeller RPM), allowing the propeller to be disked to generate high drag and slow the aircraft quickly.
3. (climbing) Information about a route which may aid someone in climbing it.
4. (computing, video games, countable) Software in such a phase; a preliminary version.
5. (computing, video games, uncountable) The phase of development after alpha testing and before launch, in which software, while not complete, has been released to potential users for testing.
6. (fandom slang) In omegaverse fiction, a person of a secondary sex similar to normal humans, lacking the biological drives of alphas and omegas but generally capable of bonding and mating with either.
7. (finance) Average sensitivity of a security's price to overall securities market prices.
8. (physics) A beta particle or beta ray.
9. (slang, manosphere, masculism) Ellipsis of beta male, a man who is less competent or desirable than an alpha male.
10. Alternative spelling of betta (“fish in the genus Betta”)
11. The second letter of the Greek alphabet (Β, β), preceded by alpha (Α, α) and followed by gamma, (Γ, γ). In modern Greek it represents the voiced labiodental fricative sound of v found in the English words have and vase.
12. Used in marking scheme: α, β, γ or α+, α, α-, β etc.

verb

1. (chiefly Internet) To beta-read a text.
2. (computing) To preliminarily release computer software for initial testing prior to final release.

verb

1. Obsolete spelling of beat
2. Obsolete spelling of beet

noun

1. The second letter of the Aramaic alphabet, 𐡁
2. The second letter of the Hebrew alphabet, ב
3. The second letter of the Syriac alphabet, ܒ

noun

1. plural of bet

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bet

noun

1. (collective) A group of animals, in particular quail.
2. (collective) A large group or collection.
3. (collective) A small group of persons, especially of girls and women.

noun

1. plural of bey

noun

1. (India) friend, dude, man
2. brother

Proper noun

1. that is common in many ethnicities in India.
2. Traditionally among Brahmins, a Brahmin who has learned all the four Vedas.

intj

1. (dated, fandom slang, humorous) Exclamation of surprise, pleasure or longing.

noun

1. (dated, fandom slang, humorous) Boy.
2. (dialect, West Coast Scottish, Ireland) Boy.
3. A tough, a thug.

Proper noun

1. A small island north of New Guinea.
2. A language spoken on this island and others near it.

adj

1. Cut slanting or diagonally, as cloth.
2. Inclined to one side; swelled on one side.

adv

1. In a slanting manner; crosswise; obliquely; diagonally.

noun

1. (South Korean idol fandom) A person's favourite member of a K-pop band.
2. (countable, textiles) A wedge-shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment (such as the waist of a dress) to diminish its circumference.
3. (countable, textiles) The diagonal line between warp and weft in a woven fabric.
4. (countable, uncountable) Inclination towards something.
5. (electronics) A voltage or current applied to an electronic device, such as a transistor electrode, to move its operating point to a desired part of its transfer function.
6. (sports) In the games of crown green bowls and lawn bowls: a weight added to one side of a bowl so that as it rolls, it will follow a curved rather than a straight path; the oblique line followed by such a bowl; the lopsided shape or structure of such a bowl. In lawn bowls, the curved course is caused only by the shape of the bowl. The use of weights is prohibited.
7. (statistics) The difference between the expectation of the sample estimator and the true population value, which reduces the representativeness of the estimator by systematically distorting it.

verb

1. (electronics) To give a bias to.
2. (transitive) To place bias upon; to influence.

noun

1. (India) grandmother

noun

1. another name for overalls
2. plural of bib

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bib

noun

1. A cobalt blue pigment.
2. A pale blue pigment, prepared from the native blue carbonate of copper, or from smalt.

verb

1. (intransitive, archaic or dialectal) To dwell or reside in a location; to abide.
2. (intransitive, archaic or dialectal) To wait; to be in expectation; to stay; to remain.
3. (transitive, archaic) To face with resistance; to encounter; to withstand.
4. (transitive, archaic) To wait for; to await.
5. (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To bear; to endure; to tolerate.

adj

1. Clipping of bidirectional.

noun

1. Alternative form of beedi.

noun

1. plural of bid

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bid

noun

1. A count of forty threads in the warp or chain of woollen cloth.
2. A litter to transport the corpse of a dead person.
3. A platform or stand where a body or coffin is placed.

intj

1. The sound of a person being punched or hit.

noun

1. (informal) A sudden, sharp blow or punch.
2. (informal, sports) A wipeout.

verb

1. (New Zealand, slang, transitive) To discard; to throw out; to throw away.
2. (informal, sports) To wipe out; to faceplant; to fall.
3. (informal, transitive) To punch or hit.

noun

1. (historical) A Roman racing chariot drawn by two horses abreast.

noun

1. A kind of barley.

verb

1. (transitive, obsolete, Scotland, Northumbria) To build.

noun

1. (Hinduism, Buddhism) The origin or cause of things.

noun

1. (Scotland, Northern England) A hive of bees, or a nest of wasps, hornets, or ants.
2. (chiefly Scotland, by extension, collective) A crowd of people.
3. (slang, derogatory) Ellipsis of village bike.
4. Clipping of bicycle.
5. Clipping of motorbike.

verb

1. (intransitive) To ride a bike.
2. (intransitive) To travel by bike.
3. (transitive) To transport by bicycle.

noun

1. A virulent poison extracted from Aconitum ferox or other species of aconite.
2. The plant itself.

noun

1. (obsolete) A boil (kind of swelling).
2. A bitter brownish-yellow or greenish-yellow secretion produced by the liver, stored in the gall bladder, and discharged into the duodenum where it aids the process of digestion.
3. Bitterness of temper; ill humour; irascibility.
4. Two of the four humours, black bile or yellow bile, in ancient and medieval physiology.

verb

1. Pronunciation spelling of boil.

noun

1. (medicine, informal) Clipping of bilirubin.

noun

1. (cribbage) The spoiling of someone's score in the crib.
2. (obsolete) A cheat or swindler.
3. (obsolete) A deception, a hoax.

verb

1. (intransitive, UK) To steal fuel from a self-service filling station by driving away without paying after filling the fuel tank or other container; to commit a drive-off.
2. (transitive) To do someone out of their due; to deceive or defraud, to cheat (someone).
3. (transitive) To spoil the score of (someone) in cribbage.
4. (transitive, archaic) To evade, elude.

noun

1. (US, Canada) A piece of paper money; a banknote.
2. (nautical) The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke (also called the peak).
3. (obsolete, law) A declaration made in writing, stating some wrong the complainant has suffered from the defendant, or a fault committed by some person against a law.
4. (slang, Canada, US) One hundred dollars.
5. A beak-like projection, especially a promontory.
6. A cutting instrument, with hook-shaped point, and fitted with a handle, used in pruning, etc.; a billhook.
7. A document, originally sealed; a formal statement or official memorandum. (Now obsolete except with certain qualifying words; bill of health, bill of sale etc.)
8. A draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law.
9. A paper, written or printed, and posted up or given away, to advertise something, as a lecture, a play, or the sale of goods
10. A pickaxe, or mattock.
11. A set of items presented together.
12. A writing binding the signer or signers to pay a certain sum at a future day or on demand, with or without interest, as may be stated in the document; a bill of exchange. In the United States, it is usually called a note, a note of hand, or a promissory note.
13. A written list or inventory. (Now obsolete except in specific senses or set phrases; bill of lading, bill of goods, etc.)
14. A written note of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, with the price or charge; an invoice.
15. Any of various bladed or pointed hand weapons, originally designating an Anglo-Saxon sword, and later a weapon of infantry, especially in the 14th and 15th centuries, commonly consisting of a broad, heavy, double-edged, hook-shaped blade, with a short pike at the back and another at the top, attached to the end of a long staff.
16. Of a cap or hat: the brim or peak, serving as a shade to keep sun off the face and out of the eyes.
17. Somebody armed with a bill; a billman.
18. The beak of a bird, especially when small or flattish; sometimes also used with reference to a platypus, turtle, or other animal.
19. The bell, or boom, of the bittern.

verb

1. (obsolete) to peck
2. (transitive) To advertise by a bill or public notice.
3. (transitive) To charge; to send a bill to.
4. (transitive) To dig, chop, etc., with a bill.
5. to stroke bill against bill, with reference to doves; to caress in fondness

noun

1. Half a coconut shell, used in Fiji as a cup for drinking alcohol.

noun

1. (Judaism) The raised platform in the front of a synagogue where the Torah is read on a podium.

noun

1. (chess) A strong grip or stranglehold on a position, which is difficult for the opponent to break.
2. (music) A ligature or tie for grouping notes.
3. A troublesome situation; a problem; a predicament or quandary.
4. Any twining or climbing plant or stem, especially a hop vine; a bine.
5. That which binds or ties.
6. The indurated clay of coal mines.

verb

1. (UK, dialect) To complain; to whine about something.
2. (figuratively) To oblige, restrain, or hold, by authority, law, duty, promise, vow, affection, or other social tie.
3. (intransitive) To be restrained from motion, or from customary or natural action, as by friction.
4. (intransitive) To cohere or stick together in a mass.
5. (intransitive) To exert a binding or restraining influence.
6. (intransitive) To tie; to confine by any ligature.
7. (intransitive, LGBT) To wear a binder so as to flatten one's chest to give the appearance of a flat chest, usually done by trans men.
8. (law) To place under legal obligation to serve.
9. (law) To put (a person) under definite legal obligations, especially, under the obligation of a bond or covenant.
10. (transitive) To confine, restrain, or hold by physical force or influence of any kind.
11. (transitive) To couple.
12. (transitive) To cover, as with a bandage.
13. (transitive) To protect or strengthen by applying a band or binding, as the edge of a carpet or garment.
14. (transitive) To put together in a cover, as of books.
15. (transitive) To tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.
16. (transitive, archaic) To make fast (a thing) about or upon something, as by tying; to encircle with something.
17. (transitive, archaic) To prevent or restrain from customary or natural action, as by producing constipation.
18. (transitive, chemistry) To make two or more elements stick together.
19. (transitive, programming) To associate an identifier with a value; to associate a variable name, method name, etc. with the content of a storage location.
20. (transitive, programming) To process one or more object modules into an executable program.

noun

1. (UK, slang) cigarette
2. (botany) A climbing plant which climbs by its shoots growing in a helix around a support (distinct from a vine, which climbs using tendrils or suckers).

intj

1. (onomatopoeia) The high-pitched sound made by a bell being struck
2. (onomatopoeia) The sound made by a bounce, or by striking a metallic surface

noun

1. (Britain, chiefly Scotland) A heap or pile, especially of metallic ore
2. (chiefly Scotland) A slag heap, i.e. a man-made mound or heap formed with the waste material (slag) as a by-product of coal mining or the shale oil industry
3. (chiefly Scotland) The waste by-product from a foundry or furnace, formed into such a mound
4. (prison slang, with "the") Solitary confinement
5. A bounce.
6. The sound made by a bell, an onomatopœia.
7. The sound made by a bounce.

verb

1. (dated slang or dialectal) To go; walk; come; run
2. To bounce.

noun

1. (UK, Northern England, Scotland, dialect) A bench.

noun

1. (physics) The superpartner of the gauge boson corresponding to weak hypercharge.

noun

1. (birding, slang) Binoculars.
2. (slang) Eyeglasses or spectacles.
3. plural of bin

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bin

noun

1. (Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, derogatory) A woman, a girl.

noun

1. (informal) A biography.

noun

1. (science fiction) A cyborg or robot.
2. The smallest microscopic unit of orgone.

noun

1. (obsolete) A vitamin essential for the growth of yeast, since found to be several B vitamins.
2. In the philosophy of Giorgio Agamben, a particular mode of life; "qualified life", as opposed to the bare life or zoe.
3. plural of bio

noun

1. (physics, dated) Synonym of abampere
2. (science fiction) A robot composed of living components

adj

1. (Canada, colloquial, of a school or university course) Able to be passed with very little work; having the nature of a bird course.

noun

1. (UK, Ireland, slang) A girlfriend.
2. (UK, US, Australia, Ireland, slang) A girl or woman, especially one considered sexually attractive.
3. (UK, with definite article, especially in expressions such as 'give someone the bird') Booing and jeering, especially as done by an audience expressing displeasure at a performer.
4. (cooking, slang) A chicken or turkey used as food.
5. (obsolete) A chicken; the young of a fowl; a young eaglet; a nestling.
6. (slang) A man, fellow.
7. (slang) A prison sentence.
8. (slang) A satellite.
9. (slang) An airplane.
10. (slang, Canada, Philippines) A penis.
11. (slang, US) A kilogram of cocaine.
12. (with definite article) The vulgar hand gesture in which the middle finger is extended.
13. A member of the class of animals Aves in the phylum Chordata, characterized by being warm-blooded, having feathers and wings usually capable of flight, having a beaked mouth, and laying eggs.
14. A yardbird.

verb

1. (intransitive) To catch or shoot birds; to hunt birds.
2. (intransitive) To observe or identify wild birds in their natural environment.
3. (intransitive, figuratively) To seek for game or plunder; to thieve.
4. (transitive, slang) To bring into prison, to roof.
5. (transitive, television) To transmit via satellite.

noun

1. (Britain, slang) Alternative spelling of berk
2. (Northern England) A birch tree.
3. A Eurasian minnow (Phoxinus phoxinus, syn. Leuciscus phoxinus).