(Roman Catholicism) A stationary podium used for readings and homilies.
(informal) An ambulance driver.
(informal) An ambulance.
A raised platform in an early Christian church, as well as in the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and Eastern Catholic churches.
baco
bafo
bago
baho
baor
bcom
bego
bego
noun
That which besets, surrounds, compasses, or affects; situation; circumstance.
verb
(archaic) To go about; encompass; surround; beset, surround with hostile intent; to overrun.
(obsolete except in set phrases) To affect, usually as a good or bad influence, or as a circumstance.
(obsolete) To clothe, dress.
(rare, humoristic or faux-archaic) To go away, to disappear.
beno
beno
noun
An alcoholic drink distilled from the fermented sap of palm trees, originating from the Philippines.
beyo
bhoy
bhoy
intj
(dated, fandom slang, humorous) Exclamation of surprise, pleasure or longing.
noun
(dated, fandom slang, humorous) Boy.
(dialect, West Coast Scottish, Ireland) Boy.
A tough, a thug.
bilo
bilo
noun
Half a coconut shell, used in Fiji as a cup for drinking alcohol.
bino
bino
noun
(physics) The superpartner of the gauge boson corresponding to weak hypercharge.
bioc
biod
biog
biog
noun
(informal) A biography.
biol
bion
bion
noun
(science fiction) A cyborg or robot.
The smallest microscopic unit of orgone.
bios
bios
noun
(obsolete) A vitamin essential for the growth of yeast, since found to be several B vitamins.
In the philosophy of Giorgio Agamben, a particular mode of life; "qualified life", as opposed to the bare life or zoe.
plural of bio
biot
biot
noun
(physics, dated) Synonym of abampere
(science fiction) A robot composed of living components
biro
biro
noun
(by extension, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland) Any ballpoint pen.
(uncountable, by extension) Ink from a ballpoint pen.
A BIRO brand ballpoint pen.
bito
bleo
blob
blob
noun
(astronomy) A large cloud of gas.
(dialect) A bubble; a bleb.
(sports, slang) A score of zero.
A shapeless or amorphous mass; a vague shape or amount, especially of a liquid or semisolid substance; a clump, group or collection that lacks definite shape.
A small freshwater fish (Cottus bairdii); the miller's thumb.
Alternative spelling of BLOB
Ellipsis of extended Lyman-Alpha blob (a huge body of gas that may be the precursor to a galaxy).
The partially inflated air bag used in the sport of blobbing.
verb
(intransitive) To fall in the form of a blob or blobs.
(intransitive, slang) To relax idly and mindlessly; to veg out.
(transitive) To drop a blob or blobs onto; to cover with blobs.
(transitive) To drop in the form of a blob or blobs.
bloc
bloc
noun
A group of countries acting together for political or economic goals, an alliance: e.g., the eastern bloc, the western bloc, a trading bloc, the Eurozone, the European Union.
A group of voters or politicians who share common goals.
blok
blot
blot
noun
(backgammon) An exposed piece in backgammon.
(biochemistry) A method of transferring proteins, DNA or RNA, onto a carrier.
(by extension) A stain on someone's reputation or character; a disgrace.
A blemish, spot or stain made by a coloured substance.
verb
(intransitive) to soak up or absorb liquid.
(transitive) To dry (writing, etc.) with blotting paper.
(transitive) To impair; to damage; to mar; to soil.
(transitive) To obliterate, as writing with ink; to cancel; to efface; generally with out.
(transitive) To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow.
(transitive) To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink.
(transitive) To stain with infamy; to disgrace.
(transitive) to cause a blot (on something) by spilling a coloured substance.
blow
blow
adj
(now chiefly dialectal, Northern England) Blue.
noun
(Australia, New Zealand) An outcrop of quartz from surrounding rock, thought to indicate mineral deposits below.
(Australia, shearing, historical) A cut made to a sheep's fleece by a shearer using hand-shears.
(informal) A chance to catch one's breath.
(informal, vulgar) A blowjob; fellatio.
(nautical) An instance of using high-pressure air to empty water from the ballast tanks of a submarine, increasing the submarine's buoyancy and causing it to surface.
(television) Synonym of button (“the punchy or suspenseful line of dialogue that concludes a scene”)
(uncountable, UK, slang) Cannabis.
(uncountable, US Chicago Regional, slang) Heroin.
(uncountable, US, slang) Cocaine.
A bloom, state of flowering.
A damaging occurrence.
A display of anything brilliant or bright.
A mass or display of flowers; a yield.
A strong wind.
A sudden or forcible act or effort; an assault.
The act of striking or hitting.
verb
(Scientology, intransitive) To leave the Church of Scientology in an unauthorized manner.
(UK, slang, archaic) To expose, or inform on.
(dated) To talk loudly; boast; brag.
(figurative) To direct or move, usually of a person to a particular location.
(intransitive) (of a fly) To lay eggs; to breed.
(intransitive) (used to express displeasure or frustration) Damn.
(intransitive) To be propelled by an air current.
(intransitive) To breathe hard or quick; to pant; to puff.
(intransitive) To burst or explode; to occur suddenly
(intransitive) To make a sound as the result of being blown.
(intransitive) To produce an air current.
(intransitive) To suddenly fail destructively.
(intransitive, of a cetacean) To exhale visibly through the spout the seawater which it has taken in while feeding.
(intransitive, stative, slang, sometimes considered vulgar) To be very undesirable.
(obsolete) To inflate, as with pride; to puff up.
(obsolete) To spread by report; to publish; to disclose.
(slang, colloquial) To flatulate or defecate.
(slang, informal, African-American Vernacular) To sing.
(transitive) To cause the sudden destruction of.
(transitive) To cause to make sound by blowing, as a musical instrument.
(transitive) To clear of contents by forcing air through.
(transitive) To create or shape by blowing; as in to blow bubbles, to blow glass.
(transitive) To force a current of air upon with the mouth, or by other means.
(transitive) To make flyblown, to defile, especially with fly eggs.
(transitive) To propel by an air current (or, if under water, a water current), usually with the mouth.
(transitive) To put out of breath; to cause to blow from fatigue.
(transitive, historical, military, of a person) To blow from a gun.
(transitive, informal, idiomatic) To fail at something; to mess up; to make a mistake.
(transitive, slang) To leave, especially suddenly or in a hurry.
(transitive, slang) To recklessly squander.
(transitive, vulgar) To fellate; to perform oral sex on (usually a man).
(transitive, with "up" or with prep phrase headed by "to") To cause to explode, shatter, or be utterly destroyed.
To blossom; to cause to bloom or blossom.
bmoc
bmoc
Noun
Big Man On Campus; a popular or high-profile high school or college student.
boac
boak
boak
verb
(Scotland) To retch or vomit.
(obsolete) To burp.
boar
boar
noun
A male bear.
A male boar (sense 1).
A male guinea pig.
A male pig.
A wild boar (Sus scrofa), the wild ancestor of the domesticated pig.
boas
boas
noun
plural of boa
boat
boat
noun
(Australian politics, informal) The refugee boats arriving in Australian waters, and by extension, refugees generally.
(chemistry) One of two possible conformations of cyclohexane rings (the other being chair), shaped roughly like a boat.
(poker slang) A full house.
A craft used for transportation of goods, fishing, racing, recreational cruising, or military use on or in the water, propelled by oars or outboard motor or inboard motor or by wind.
A vehicle, utensil, or dish somewhat resembling a boat in shape.
verb
(intransitive) To travel by boat.
(transitive) To place in a boat.
(transitive) To transport in a boat.
boaz
boaz
Proper noun
The second husband of Ruth.
name of biblical origin, in occasional use.
boba
boba
noun
Short for boba tea.
Synonym of tapioca pearl.
bobo
bobo
noun
(Louisiana, Montreal) A boo-boo (minor injury)
A materialistic person who affects an anti-materialistic persona.
A self-styled bodyguard or groupie of the nouveau riche (such as a professional athlete or musician)
An imitation of something, particularly a well known product, usually lower in quality than the original.
bobs
bobs
noun
plural of bob
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bob
boca
boce
bock
bock
noun
A strong dark beer brewed in the fall and aged through the winter for spring consumption.
bodb
bode
bode
noun
(obsolete or dialect) A bid; an offer.
A herald; a messenger.
A stop; a halting; delay.
An omen; a foreshadowing.
verb
(intransitive, followed by "well", "ill", "no good", etc.) To betoken or augur something good or bad that will happen in the future.
(transitive, intransitive) To indicate by signs, as future events; to be an omen of; to portend or foretell.
simple past tense of bide
bodi
bodi
noun
(Trinidad and Tobago) Asparagus beans.
bodo
bods
bods
noun
plural of bod
body
body
noun
(archaic or informal except in compounds) A person.
(archaic) The section of a dress extending from the neck to the waist, excluding the arms.
(geometry) A three-dimensional object, such as a cube or cone.
(printing) The shank of a type, or the depth of the shank (by which the size is indicated).
(programming) The code of a subroutine, contrasted to its signature and parameters.
(sociology) A human being, regarded as marginalized or oppressed.
(uncountable) Comparative viscosity, solidity or substance (in wine, colours etc.).
(uncountable) Substance; physical presence.
A bodysuit.
A corpse.
A group of people having a common purpose or opinion; a mass.
A unified collection of details, knowledge or information.
An agglomeration of some substance, especially one that would be otherwise uncountable.
An organisation, company or other authoritative group.
Any physical object or material thing.
The content of a letter, message, or other printed or electronic document, as distinct from signatures, salutations, headers, and so on.
The fleshly or corporeal nature of a human, as opposed to the spirit or soul.
The largest or most important part of anything, as distinct from its appendages or accessories.
The physical structure of a human or animal seen as one single organism.
The torso, the main structure of a human or animal frame excluding the extremities (limbs, head, tail).
What's a body gotta do to get a drink around here?
verb
(transitive) To embody.
(transitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) To murder someone.
(transitive, slang, African-American Vernacular, by extension) To utterly defeat someone.
(transitive, slang, video games) to hard counter a particular character build or play style. Frequently used in the passive voice form, get bodied by.
To construct the bodywork of a car.
To give body or shape to something.
boer
boff
boff
noun
(entertainment, slang) A big laugh.
(entertainment, slang) A great success; a hit.
(entertainment, slang) A line in a film etc that elicits such a laugh.
(slang) A hit or smack.
(slang, derogatory) A pupil who works hard; a swot.
verb
(slang) to have sexual intercourse (with someone)
(slang, transitive) To hit; to strike.
boga
bogo
bogs
bogs
noun
plural of bog
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bog
bogy
bogy
noun
Alternative form of bogey
Alternative form of bogie
bohi
bohm
boho
boho
adj
(informal) Bohemian.
noun
(informal) A bohemian.
A style of female fashion drawing on various bohemian and hippie influences, popular in the mid-2000s.
bohr
bohr
noun
(physics, chemistry) Synonym of Bohr radius
bohs
boid
boid
noun
A computer simulation of an animal that flies in flocks or swarms.
Any member of the family Boidae of non-venomous snakes.
Nonstandard spelling of bird representing the old-fashioned New York City pronunciation
boii
boil
boil
noun
(Scotland, archaic) A bubbling.
(rare, nonstandard) The collective noun for a group of hawks.
A dish of boiled food, especially based on seafood.
A localized accumulation of pus in the skin, resulting from infection.
The point at which fluid begins to change to a vapour.
verb
(intransitive, informal, used only in progressive tenses) To feel uncomfortably hot.
(intransitive, informal, used only in progressive tenses, of weather) To be uncomfortably hot.
(intransitive, of liquids) To begin to turn into a gas, seethe.
(obsolete) To steep or soak in warm water.
(transitive) To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation.
(transitive, UK, informal) To bring to a boil, to heat so as to cause the contents to boil.
(transitive, intransitive) To cook in boiling water.
(transitive, of liquids) To heat to the point where it begins to turn into a gas.
To be agitated like boiling water; to bubble; to effervesce.
To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid.
bois
bois
noun
plural of boi
bojo
boke
boke
verb
(intransitive) To retch or vomit.
(transitive, intransitive, UK dialectal) To thrust or push out; butt; poke.
boko
boko
noun
(dated, West Midlands, originally boxing) The nose.
bola
bola
noun
A throwing weapon made of weights on the ends of a cord.
bold
bold
adj
(Ireland) Naughty; insolent; badly-behaved.
(Philippines) Pornographic; depicting nudity.
(typography, of typefaces) Having thicker strokes than the ordinary form of the typeface.
Courageous, daring.
Full-bodied.
Presumptuous, forward or impudent.
Steep or abrupt.
Visually striking; conspicuous.
noun
(obsolete) A dwelling; habitation; building.
verb
(intransitive, obsolete) To become bold or brave.
(transitive) To make (a font or some text) bold.
(transitive, obsolete) To make bold or daring.
bole
bole
noun
(Scotland) A small closet.
(Scotland) An aperture with a shutter in the wall of a house, to admit air or light.
(colour) The shade of reddish brown which resembles this clay.
(obsolete) A bolus; a dose.
Alternative form of boll (old unit of measure).
Any of several varieties of friable earthy clay, usually coloured red by iron oxide, and composed essentially of hydrous silicates of alumina, or more rarely of magnesia.
The trunk or stem of a tree.
bolk
bolk
verb
(intransitive) To belch.
(intransitive) To gush out.
(intransitive) To heave.
(intransitive) To vomit; retch.
(transitive) To belch out; give vent to; ejaculate.
boll
boll
noun
(Scotland) An old dry measure equal to six bushels.
The rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant.
verb
To form a boll or seed vessel; to go to seed.
bolo
bolo
noun
(US law enforcement) A request for law enforcement officers to be on the lookout for a suspect.
(attributive) a type of punch; an uppercut.
A long, heavy, single-edged machete.
A soldier not capable of the minimum standards of marksmanship.
A string or leather necktie secured with an ornamental slide.
verb
(transitive, nonce word) To dress (somebody) in a bolo.
To attack or despatch with a bolo knife.
To fail to meet the minimum standards of marksmanship.
bolt
bolt
adv
Suddenly; straight; unbendingly.
noun
(US, politics) A refusal to support a nomination made by the party with which one has been connected; a breaking away from one's party.
(military, mechanical engineering) A sliding mechanism to chamber and unchamber a cartridge in a firearm.
(nautical) The standard linear measurement of canvas for use at sea: 39 yards.
A (usually) metal fastener consisting of a cylindrical body that is threaded, with a larger head on one end. It can be inserted into an unthreaded hole up to the head, with a nut then threaded on the other end; a heavy machine screw.
A bar of wood or metal dropped in horizontal hooks on a door and adjoining wall or between the two sides of a double door, to prevent the door(s) from being forced open.
A burst of speed or efficiency.
A large roll of fabric or similar material, as a bolt of cloth.
A lightning spark, i.e., a lightning bolt.
A sieve, especially a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter.
A sliding pin or bar in a lock or latch mechanism.
A small personal-armour-piercing missile for short-range use, or (in common usage though deprecated by experts) a short arrow, intended to be shot from a crossbow or a catapult.
A stalk or scape (of garlic, onion, etc).
A sudden event, action or emotion.
A sudden flight, as to escape creditors.
A sudden spring or start; a sudden leap aside.
An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner; a shackle; a fetter.
verb
(US, politics) To refuse to support a nomination made by a party or caucus with which one has been connected; to break away from a party.
(intransitive) To escape.
(intransitive) To flee, to depart, to accelerate suddenly.
(intransitive, botany, of lettuce, spinach, garlic, onion, etc) To produce flower stalks and flowers or seeds quickly or prematurely; to form a bolt (stalk or scape); to go to seed.
(law) To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law.
(transitive) To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge (an animal being hunted).
To connect or assemble pieces using a bolt.
To drink one's drink very quickly; to down a drink.
To secure a door by locking or barring it.
To separate, assort, refine, or purify by other means.
To sift the bran and germ from wheat flour.
To sift, especially through a cloth.
To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt.
To swallow food without chewing it.
To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out.
boma
boma
noun
(uncountable) A method of composting.
A hide.
A hut.
A military or police post or magistracy.
A stockade made of bushes and thorns.
A type of fertilizer rich in animal dung.
An enclosure usually made of thorn bushes, and latterly of steel fencing, for protection from marauders.
bomb
bomb
adj
(slang) Great, awesome.
noun
(American football, slang) A long forward pass.
(UK, Australia, slang) A large amount of money.
(US, Australia, informal) A car in poor condition.
(archaic) A mortar shell.
(basketball, slang) A throw into the basket from a considerable distance.
(chemistry) A heavy-walled container designed to permit chemical reactions under high pressure.
(chiefly Britain, India, slang) A very attractive woman.
(chiefly Britain, slang) A success; the bomb.
(colloquial) An act of jumping into water while keeping one's arms and legs tucked into the body, as in a squatting position, to maximize splashing.
(colloquial) Any explosive charge.
(dated, often with the) The atomic bomb.
(figurative) Events or conditions that have a speedy destructive effect.
(historical, archaic) Ellipsis of bomb ship.
(obsolete) A great booming noise; a hollow sound.
(often in combination) An action or statement that causes a strong reaction.
(professional wrestling) A professional wrestling throw in which an opponent is lifted and then slammed back-first down to the mat.
(rugby, soccer, slang) A high kick that sends the ball relatively straight up so players can get under it before it comes down.
(slang) A failure; an unpopular commercial product.
(slang) A recreational drug ground up, wrapped, and swallowed.
(slang) A woman’s breast.
A cyclone whose central pressure drops at an average rate of at least one millibar per hour for at least 24 hours.
An explosive device used or intended as a weapon, (especially) one dropped from an aircraft.
verb
(especially with along, down, up etc.) To move at high speed.
(intransitive, computing) To crash.
(obsolete) To sound; to boom; to make a humming or buzzing sound.
(reflexive) To make oneself drunk.
(transitive) To make a smelly mess in a toilet.
(transitive, figuratively, often with with) To attack or annoy in the manner of a bombing.
(transitive, intransitive) To attack using one or more bombs; to bombard.
(transitive, intransitive) To fail dismally.
To add an excessive amount of chlorine to a pool when it has not been maintained properly.
To cover an area in many graffiti tags.
To jump into water in a squatting position, with the arms wrapped around the legs.
bomi
bomu
bona
bona
adj
(Polari) Good.
adv
(Polari) Well.
bond
bond
adj
In a state of servitude or slavedom; not free.
Servile; slavish; pertaining to or befitting a slave.
Subject to the tenure called bondage.
noun
(Scotland) A mortgage.
(chemistry) A link or force between neighbouring atoms in a molecule.
(construction) In building, a specific pattern of bricklaying, based on overlapping rows or layers to give strength.
(finance) A documentary obligation to pay a sum or to perform a contract; a debenture.
(law) Evidence of a long-term debt, by which the bond issuer (the borrower) is obliged to pay interest when due, and repay the principal at maturity, as specified on the face of the bond certificate. The rights of the holder are specified in the bond indenture, which contains the legal terms and conditions under which the bond was issued. Bonds are available in two forms: registered bonds, and bearer bonds.
(often in the plural) A physical connection which binds, a band.
(railways) A heavy copper wire or rod connecting adjacent rails of an electric railway track when used as a part of the electric circuit.
A bail bond.
A binding agreement, a covenant.
A partial payment made to show a provider that the customer is sincere about buying a product or a service. If the product or service is not purchased the customer then forfeits the bond.
A peasant; churl.
A vassal; serf; one held in bondage to a superior.
An emotional link, connection or union; that which holds two or more people together, as in a friendship; a tie.
Any constraining or cementing force or material.
Moral or political duty or obligation.
verb
(transitive) To cause to adhere (one material with another).
(transitive) To connect, secure or tie with a bond; to bind.
(transitive) To guarantee or secure a financial risk.
(transitive) To put in a bonded warehouse; to secure (goods) until the associated duties are paid.
(transitive, chemistry) To form a chemical compound with.
(transitive, construction) To lay bricks in a specific pattern.
(transitive, electricity) To make a reliable electrical connection between two conductors (or any pieces of metal that may potentially become conductors).
To bail out by means of a bail bond.
To form a friendship or emotional connection.
bone
bone
adj
Of an off-white colour, like the colour of bone.
noun
(American football, informal) The wishbone formation.
(US, informal) A dollar.
(countable) Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of bone.
(figurative) A reward.
(figurative) The framework of anything.
(slang) A cannabis cigarette; a joint.
(slang) An erect penis; a boner.
(slang) Clipping of trombone.
(slang, chiefly in the plural) A domino or dice.
(uncountable) A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.
A bone of a fish; a fishbone.
A bonefish
An off-white colour, like the colour of bone.
Anything made of bone, such as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.
One of the fragments of bone held between the fingers of the hand and rattled together to keep time to music.
One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone.
verb
(Australia, dated, in Aboriginal culture) To perform "bone pointing", a ritual that is intended to bring illness or even death to the victim.
(carpentry, masonry, surveying) To sight along an object or set of objects to check whether they are level or in line.
(civil engineering) To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line.
(transitive, slang) To apprehend, steal.
(usually with "up") To study.
(vulgar, slang, usually of a man, transitive, intransitive) To have sexual intercourse (with).
To fertilize with bone.
To nag, especially for an unpaid debt.
To polish boots to a shiny finish.
To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.
To put whalebone into.
bong
bong
noun
(ethnic slur) An Australian Aboriginal person.
(slang) Doorbell chimes.
(slang) The clang of a large bell.
A device for rapidly consuming beer, usually consisting of a funnel or reservoir of beer and a length of tubing.
A very wide piton.
A vessel, usually made of glass or ceramic and filled with water, used in smoking various substances; especially marijuana.
Alternative spelling of bung (“purse”)
An act of smoking one serving of drugs from a bong.
verb
(slang) To pull a bell.
(slang) To ring a doorbell.
To smoke a bong.
boni
boni
noun
(nonstandard) plural of bonus
bonk
bonk
noun
(countable) An animal call resembling "bonk", for example, the call of the pobblebonk.
(informal, countable) A bump on the head.
(informal, countable) Any minor collision or blow.
(informal, countable, chiefly UK) An act of sexual intercourse.
(informal, uncountable) A condition of sudden, severe fatigue in an endurance sports event caused by glycogen depletion.
verb
(informal) To strike or collide with something.
(informal, chiefly UK) To have sexual intercourse.
(informal, sports) To experience sudden and severe fatigue in an endurance sports event due to glycogen depletion.
(skateboarding, snowboarding) To hit something with the front of the board, especially in midair.
bonn
bono
bons
bony
bony
adj
full of bones
having prominent bones
resembling, having the appearance or consistence of, or relating to bone; osseous.
with little flesh; skinny, thin
boob
boob
noun
(Australia, US) A prison; jail.
(colloquial, slang) A breast, especially that of an adult or adolescent female human.
(informal, Britain) A mistake.
(informal, derogatory, Canada, US) An idiot; a fool.
verb
(informal, intransitive) To make a mistake.
To behave stupidly; to act like a boob.
bood
boof
boof
intj
(colloquial) The sound of a blow or collision; wham.
(kayaking) A “jump” over hydraulic backwash in a high-gradient mountain river, an action analogous to a skier jumping a cliff.
verb
(intransitive) To make this sound.
(intransitive, fishing) (Of fish, especially barramundi) to surface quickly and catch prey by gulping, a behaviour which produces an audible sound.
(intransitive, kayaking) To make this kind of jump when whitewater kayaking.
(of hair) To puff out in a voluminous way.
(transitive, prison slang) To conceal (a prohibited item) in one's rectum.
(transitive, slang) To consume (drugs) rectally.
(transitive, slang) To have anal sex with someone, usually as the penetrative partner (possibly with negative connotations).
To get something wrong or make a mistake.
book
book
noun
(advertising, informal) A portfolio of one's previous work in the industry.
(cartomancy) The twenty-sixth Lenormand card.
(chess, uncountable) The sum of chess knowledge in the opening or endgame.
(figurative) Any source of instruction.
(gambling) A record of betting (from the use of a notebook to record what each person has bet).
(informal) A bookmaker (a person who takes bets on sporting events and similar); bookie; turf accountant.
(law, colloquial) A book award, a recognition for receiving the highest grade in a class (traditionally an actual book, but recently more likely a letter or certificate acknowledging the achievement).
(poker slang) Four of a kind.
(sports) A document, held by the referee, of the incidents happened in the game.
(sports, by extension) A list of all players who have been booked (received a warning) in a game.
(theater) The script of a musical or opera.
(usually in the plural) Records of the accounts of a business.
(whist) Six tricks taken by one side.
(with "the") The accumulated body of knowledge passed down among black pimps.
A collection of sheets of paper bound together to hinge at one edge, containing printed or written material, pictures, etc.
A convenient collection, in a form resembling a book, of small paper items for individual use.
A long work fit for publication, typically prose, such as a novel or textbook, and typically published as such a bound collection of sheets, but now sometimes electronically as an e-book.
A major division of a long work.
verb
(UK dialectal, Northern England) simple past tense of bake
(intransitive, slang) To leave.
(intransitive, slang) To travel very fast.
(law enforcement, transitive) To record the name and other details of a suspected offender and the offence for later judicial action.
(sports) To issue a caution to, usually a yellow card, or a red card if a yellow card has already been issued.
(transitive) To add a name to the list of people who are participating in something.
(transitive) To reserve (something) for future use.
(transitive) To write down, to register or record in a book or as in a book.
(transitive, law student slang) To receive the highest grade in a class.
To record bets as bookmaker.
bool
bool
noun
(programming) A Boolean variable, one whose value is either true or false.
verb
(slang) To relax.
boom
boom
intj
The sound of a bass drum beating.
The sound of a cannon firing.
Used to suggest something happening suddenly and unexpectedly.
Used to suggest the sound of an explosion.
noun
(aviation) Ellipsis of sonic boom.
(by extension) A microphone supported on such a pole.
(chess engines) An instance of booming.
(economics, business) A period of prosperity, growth, progress, or high market activity.
(electronics) The longest element of a Yagi antenna, on which the other, smaller ones are transversally mounted.
(nautical) A spar extending the foot of a sail; a spar rigged outboard from a ship's side to which boats are secured in harbour.
A floating barrier used to obstruct navigation, for military or other purposes; or used for the containment of an oil spill or to control the flow of logs from logging operations.
A gymnastics apparatus similar to a balance beam.
A horizontal member of a crane or derrick, used for lifting.
A low-pitched, resonant sound, such as of an explosion.
A movable pole used to support a microphone or camera.
A rapid expansion or increase.
A wishbone-shaped piece of windsurfing equipment.
One of the calls of certain monkeys or birds.
The section of the arm on a backhoe closest to the tractor.
verb
(aviation) To subject to a sonic boom.
(chess engines) To rapidly adjust the evaluation of a position away from zero, indicating a likely win or loss.
(intransitive) To flourish, grow, or progress.
(slang, US, obsolete) To publicly praise.
(transitive) To make something boom.
(transitive, dated) To cause to advance rapidly in price.
(transitive, figuratively, of speech) To exclaim with force, to shout, to thunder.
(usually with "up" or "down") To raise or lower with a crane boom.
Of a Eurasian bittern, to make its deep, resonant territorial vocalisation.
To extend, or push, with a boom or pole.
To make a loud, hollow, resonant sound.
To rush with violence and noise, as a ship under a press of sail, before a free wind.
boon
boon
adj
(archaic) Kind; bountiful; benign.
(now only in boon companion) gay; merry; jovial; convivial.
(obsolete) Good; prosperous.
noun
(Britain, dialectal) An unpaid service due by a tenant to his lord.
(archaic) That which is asked or granted as a benefit or favor; a gift or benefaction.
(obsolete) A prayer; petition.
(slang) Clipping of sheboon.
A good thing; a blessing or benefit; a thing to be thankful for.
The woody portion of flax, separated from the fiber as refuse matter by retting, braking, and scutching.
boor
boor
noun
A Boer, white South African of Dutch or Huguenot descent.
A peasant.
A yokel, country bumpkin.
An uncultured person.
boos
boos
noun
plural of boo
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of boo
boot
boot
noun
(Australia, Britain, New Zealand, South Africa, automotive) The luggage storage compartment of a sedan or saloon car.
(Britain, slang) An unattractive person, ugly woman.
(US) A crust end-piece of a loaf of bread.
(US) A parking enforcement device used to immobilize a car until it can be towed or a fine is paid; a wheel clamp.
(US, military, law enforcement, slang) A recently arrived recruit; a rookie.
(archaic) A place for baggage at either end of an old-fashioned stagecoach.
(archaic, dialectal) Remedy, amends.
(aviation) A rubber bladder on the leading edge of an aircraft’s wing, which is inflated periodically to remove ice buildup; a deicing boot.
(baseball) A bobbled ball.
(botany) The inflated flag leaf sheath of a wheat plant.
(computing) The act or process of bootstrapping; the starting or re-starting of a computing device.
(construction) A flexible cover of rubber or plastic, which may be preformed to a particular shape and used to protect a shaft, lever, switch, or opening from dust, dirt, moisture, etc.
(countable, uncountable) That which is given to make an exchange equal, or to make up for the deficiency of value in one of the things exchanged; compensation; recompense.
(firearms) A hard plastic case for a long firearm, typically moulded to the shape of the gun and intended for use in a vehicle.
(informal) A bootleg recording.
(informal, with definite article) The act or process of removing or firing someone (dismissing them from a job or other post).
(obsolete) A medicinal cure or remedy.
(obsolete) A place at the side of a coach, where attendants rode; also, a low outside place before and behind the body of the coach.
(obsolete) Profit; gain; advantage; use.
(obsolete) Repair work; the act of fixing structures or buildings.
(slang) A linear amplifier used with CB radio.
(slang, ethnic slur) A black person.
(slang, motorsports) A tyre.
(sports) A kind of sports shoe worn by players of certain games such as cricket and football.
(uncountable) Profit, plunder.
(usually preceded by definite article) A torture device used on the feet or legs, such as a Spanish boot.
A blow with the foot; a kick.
A heavy shoe that covers part of the leg.
verb
(MLE, criminal slang) To shoot, to kill by gunfire.
(colloquial, Canada, US, usually with it) To step on the accelerator of a vehicle for faster acceleration than usual or to drive faster than usual.
(computing) To bootstrap; to start a system, e.g. a computer, by invoking its boot process or bootstrap.
(computing, informal) To disconnect forcibly; to eject from an online service, conversation, etc.
(informal) To eject; kick out.
(often with up) To start or restart a computer or other electronic system; to bootstrap.
(transitive, obsolete) To avail, benefit, profit.
(transitive, obsolete) To benefit, to enrich; to give in addition.
To apply corporal punishment (compare slippering).
To kick.
To put boots on, especially for riding.
booz
bopp
bops
bops
noun
plural of bop
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bop
bora
bora
noun
A cold, often dry, northeasterly wind which blows, sometimes in violent gusts, down from mountains on the eastern shore of the Adriatic Sea. It also applies to cold, squally, downslope winds in other parts of the world.
A initiation ceremony for males among the Aborigines of New South Wales.
bord
bord
noun
(mining) The coalface parallel to the natural fissures.
Obsolete form of board.
Obsolete form of bourd.
bore
bore
noun
A capped well drilled to tap artesian water.
A hole drilled or milled through something, or (by extension) its diameter.
A sudden and rapid flow of tide occurring in certain rivers and estuaries which rolls up as a wave.
A tool, such as an auger, for making a hole by boring.
Calibre; importance.
One who inspires boredom or lack of interest; an uninteresting person.
Something dull or uninteresting.
The place where such a well exists.
The tunnel inside of a gun's barrel through which the bullet travels when fired, or (by extension) its diameter.
verb
(colloquial) past participle of bear
(intransitive) To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns.
(intransitive) To make a hole with, or as if with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool.
(intransitive) To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.
(obsolete) To fool; to trick.
(proscribed) simple past tense of bare
(transitive) To form or enlarge (something) by means of a boring instrument or apparatus.
(transitive) To inspire boredom in somebody.
(transitive) To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; to force a narrow and difficult passage through.
(transitive) To make a hole through something.
(transitive, sports, slang) To push or drive (a boxer into the ropes, a boat out of its course, etc.).
simple past tense of bear
borg
borg
noun
cyborg
verb
Alternative spelling of Borg
borh
bori
bork
bork
noun
(Internet slang, humorous) The sound a dog makes.
(informal) The bald notothen or bald rockcod (Pagothenia borchgrevinki), a species of cod icefish (Nototheniidae) native to the Southern Ocean.
verb
(Internet slang, humorous) (of a dog) To bark
(intransitive, slang) To become broken or damaged, especially of a computer or other complex device.
(transitive, intransitive, US politics, often derogatory) To defeat a person's appointment or election, judicial nomination, etc., through a concerted attack on the person's character, background, and philosophy.
(transitive, slang) To misconfigure, break, or damage, especially a computer or other complex device.
(vulgar, slang) To boink.
born
born
adj
Having from birth (or as if from birth) a certain quality or character; innate; inherited.
noun
(Tyneside) Alternative spelling of burn (a stream)
verb
(Tyneside) Alternative spelling of burn (with fire etc.)
(obsolete) past participle of bear in other senses.
past participle of bear; given birth to.
boro
boro
noun
(US) Alternative spelling of borough
verb
(Jamaica) borrow
bors
bors
noun
plural of bor
bort
bort
noun
Poor-quality diamond, used for industrial cutting or abrasion; a poorly crystallized diamond.
boru
bosc
bose
bose
verb
(usually archaeology) To strike the ground with an object in order to determine, from the resulting sounds, what lies underground.
bosh
bosh
intj
(Britain) An expression of speedy and satisfactory completion of a simple or straightforward task.
(chiefly Britain) An expression of disbelief or annoyance.
noun
(Britain, chiefly Norfolk, slang, archaic) A figure.
(chiefly Britain) Nonsense.
A fiddle (musical instrument).
The lower part of a blast furnace, between the hearth and the stack.
verb
(UK, slang, transitive) To consume (illicit drugs).
bosk
bosk
noun
(archaic) A thicket; a small wood.
(obsolete except dialectal) A bush.
bosn
boss
boss
adj
(slang, US, Canada, Liverpudlian) Of excellent quality, first-rate.
noun
(archery) A target block, made of foam but historically made of hay bales, to which a target face is attached.
(architecture) A knob or projection, usually at the intersection of ribs in a vault.
(geology) A lump-like mass of rock, especially one projecting through a stratum of different rock.
(humorous) Wife.
(informal, especially India and MLE) A term of address to a man.
(mechanics) A protrusion, frequently a cylinder of material that extends beyond a hole.
(obsolete) A hassock or small seat, especially made from a bundle of straw.
(video games) An enemy, often at the end of a level, that is particularly challenging and must be beaten in order to progress.
A convex protuberance in hammered work, especially the rounded projection in the centre of a shield.
A head or reservoir of water.
A leader, the head of an organized group or team.
A person in charge of a business or company.
A person who oversees and directs the work of others; a supervisor.
A swelling, lump or protuberance in an animal, person or object.
A wooden vessel for the mortar used in tiling or masonry, hung by a hook from the laths, or from the rounds of a ladder.
The head of a political party in a given region or district.
verb
(transitive) To decorate with bosses; to emboss.
(transitive) To exercise authoritative control over; to tell (someone) what to do, often repeatedly.
bota
bote
bote
noun
A privilege or allowance of necessaries, especially in feudal times.
A right to take wood from property not one's own.
Atonement, compensation, amends, satisfaction; as, manbote, a compensation for a man slain.
both
both
conj
(obsolete) Including all of (used with and).
Including both of (used with and).
det
Each of the two; one and the other; referring to two individuals or items.
pron
Each of the two, or of the two kinds.
boti
bots
bots
noun
plural of bot
bott
bott
noun
Alternative spelling of bot (the larva of the botfly)
boud
boud
noun
(obsolete) A weevil; a worm that breeds in malt, biscuit, etc.
bouk
bouk
noun
(UK dialectal or obsolete) The belly.
(UK dialectal) The carcass of a slaughtered animal.
(UK dialectal) The trunk or torso of the body, hence the body itself.
boul
boul
noun
A curved handle.
boun
boun
verb
(transitive, intransitive) To make or get ready; prepare.
bour
bout
bout
noun
(boxing) A boxing match.
(dated) The going and returning of a plough, or other implement used to mark the ground and create a headland, across a field.
(fencing) An assault (a fencing encounter) at which the score is kept.
(music) A bulge or widening in a musical instrument, such as either of the two characteristic bulges of a guitar.
(roller derby) A roller derby match.
A fighting competition.
A period of something, especially one painful or unpleasant.
prep
(colloquial) Aphetic form of about
verb
To contest a bout.
bouw
bove
bove
prep
(now colloquial or dialectal) Above.
bowe
bowe
noun
Obsolete spelling of bow
bowk
bowk
verb
(Tyneside) To belch, to burp.
(UK) To vomit.
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.
bown
bows
bows
noun
plural of bow
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bow
boxy
boxy
adj
Box-shaped, box-like, or otherwise suggestive of boxes (with right angles or at least blunt profiles).
boyd
boyd
Proper noun
name transferred from the surname.
boyg
boyg
noun
Formless hindrances personified as an enemy
boyo
boyo
noun
(Ireland) A boy or lad.
(sometimes derogatory) A stereotypically Welsh form of address for a man, usually younger than the speaker.
boys
boys
noun
(slang) The testicles.
plural of boy
boyt
boza
boza
noun
a fermented drink made from wheat or millet
bozo
bozo
noun
(slang) A stupid, foolish, or ridiculous person, especially a man.
bpoc
bpoe
brio
brio
noun
Vigour or vivacity.
brno
brno
Proper noun
a city in the south of the Czech Republic
brob
brob
noun
A wedge-shaped spike used to secure the end of a timber where it abuts another. Much used in earlier times in the construction of tunnelled box-timber headings.
verb
(obsolete) To poke or prick
brod
brog
brog
noun
A pointed instrument, such as a joiner's awl.
verb
(transitive) To prod with a pointed instrument, such as a lance; to prick or pierce.