A short, heavy club, often of wood, which is thicker or loaded at one end.
verb
(transitive) To coerce someone, as if with a bludgeon.
(transitive) To strike or hit with something hard, usually on the head; to club.
bludging
bludging
verb
present participle of bludge
bluegown
bluegown
Noun
One of a class of paupers or pensioners, or licensed beggars, in Scotland, who received certain alms every year on the king's birthday, including a blue gown.
blueings
blueings
noun
plural of blueing
bluewing
bluewing
noun
(usually in the plural) Torenia (wishbone flower)
Anas discors (syn. Spatula discors), the blue-winged teal.
bluffing
bluffing
noun
A bluff; a false expression of the strength of one's position in order to intimidate.
verb
present participle of bluff
blungers
blungers
noun
plural of blunger
blunging
blunging
verb
present participle of blunge
blunting
blunting
noun
The process by which something is made blunt.
verb
present participle of blunt
blurbing
blurbing
verb
present participle of blurb
blurping
blurring
blurring
noun
A blurry patch.
verb
present participle of blur
blurting
blurting
noun
Something that is blurted, or spoken hastily without thinking.
verb
present participle of blurt
blushing
blushing
adj
Showing blushes; rosy red.
noun
The act of one who blushes; a blush.
verb
present participle of blush
boulogne
boulogne
Proper noun
A commune in the Vendée department in the Pays de la Loire region
Boulogne-sur-Mer
Boulogne-Billancourt
bubbling
bubbling
noun
The action or motion of something that bubbles.
verb
present participle of bubble
buckling
buckling
adj
Wavy; curly, as hair.
noun
(geology) A folding into hills and valleys.
A young male domestic goat of between one and two years.
Smoked herring.
The act of fastening a buckle.
The action of collapsing under pressure or stress.
verb
present participle of buckle
buddling
buddling
verb
present participle of buddle
building
building
noun
(countable) A closed structure with walls and a roof.
(uncountable) The act or process by which something is built; construction.
verb
present participle of build
bulganin
bullgine
bullgine
noun
(US, slang, obsolete) A steam locomotive.
bullring
bullring
noun
Alternative form of bull ring (“area where a bullfight takes place”)
bullying
bullying
noun
An act of intimidating a person to do something, especially such repeated coercion.
Persistent acts intended to make life unpleasant for another person.
verb
present participle of bully
bumbling
bumbling
adj
Acting in a confused or ineffectual way; incompetent; showing little or no skill.
noun
The act of one who bumbles; a mistake or error, especially through clumsiness.
verb
present participle of bumble
bundling
bundling
noun
(countable, uncountable) Arrangement in a bundle or collection.
(uncountable, historical) An old custom in Wales, New England, and elsewhere for sweethearts to sleep on the same bed without undressing.
verb
present participle of bundle
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.
bungerly
bungfull
bunghole
bunghole
noun
Alternative spelling of bung-hole
bunglers
bunglers
noun
plural of bungler
bungling
bungling
adj
Incompetent or inept.
noun
An act of incompetence or ineptitude.
verb
present participle of bungle
bungwall
bungwall
noun
A species of fern, Telmatoblechnum indicum, native to Australia and Southeast Asia.
burbling
burbling
noun
A burble, the sounds of a burble.
verb
present participle of burble
burgling
burgling
verb
present participle of burgle
bustling
bustling
adj
Busy; full of energy and noisy activity.
noun
A bustle; a busy stir.
verb
present participle of bustle
buttling
buttling
verb
present participle of buttle
clubbing
clubbing
noun
(countable) An instance of using a club.
(countable, medicine) A thickening of the ends of fingers and toes.
(uncountable) The practice of frequenting nightclubs.
The development of clubroot in a plant.
verb
present participle of club
cubangle
doubling
doubling
noun
(archaic) A trick; double-dealing.
A pleat or fold. [from 17th c.]
The act of turning around, or doubling back. [from 16th c.]
The process or an instance of making something double; a multiplication by two. [from 14th c.]
verb
present participle of double
flubbing
flubbing
verb
present participle of flub
fumbling
fumbling
noun
An instance of clumsiness, especially of the hands or fingers.
verb
present participle of fumble
fungible
fungible
adj
(finance and commerce) Able to be substituted for something of equal value or utility.
noun
(chiefly in the plural) Any fungible item.
galbanum
galbanum
noun
A bitter, aromatic resin or gum, extracted from plants of the genus Ferula, that resembles assafoetida and has been used in incense and in aromatherapy
glenburn
globulin
globulin
noun
(biochemistry) Any of a group of simple proteins, soluble in water only in the presence of salts, that are coagulated by heat
greenbul
greenbul
noun
Any of various birds in the bulbul family Pycnonotidae.
humbling
humbling
adj
Of higher rank, status, quality, strength, etc.; inducing a feeling of inferiority.
noun
An event which causes humbleness; a set-down.
verb
present participle of humble
jumbling
jumbling
noun
The act by which something is jumbled or confused.
verb
present participle of jumble
laneburg
lenzburg
lundberg
mumbling
mumbling
noun
An act in which someone mumbles something
verb
present participle of mumble
nibelung
nibelung
Noun
A person of the under ground dwelling people that guarded treasures and gold searched for and eventually seized by Siegfried.
niblungs
nubbling
nubbling
verb
present participle of nubble
plumbing
plumbing
noun
(countable) A Murasugi sum where each disk summed along has its boundary subdivided into four segments.
(informal) A system of vessels or ducts in the human body, especially the genitourinary system.
(informal, figurative) Practical, concrete work serving to support other work.
The pipes, together with the joints, tanks, stopcocks, taps, and other fixtures of a water, gas, or sewage system in a house or other building.