(chiefly law) The act of abetting or assisting in a crime, wrongdoing etc.
Encouragement or assistance.
abutment
abutment
noun
(architecture) That element that shares a common boundary or surface with its neighbor.
(dentistry) The tooth that supports a denture or bridge.
(engineering) A construction that supports the ends of a bridge; a structure that anchors the cables on a suspension bridge.
(engineering) The part of a valley or canyon wall against which a dam is constructed.
(engineering, architecture) The solid portion of a structure that supports the lateral pressure of an arch or vault.
A fixed point or surface where resistance is obtained.
Something that abuts, or on which something abuts.
The point of junction between two things, in particular a support, that abuts.
The state of abutting.
alembert
amatembu
amberite
amberite
noun
A kind of smokeless powder.
ambients
ambients
noun
plural of ambient
ambition
ambition
noun
(countable) An object of an ardent desire.
(obsolete) The act of going about to solicit or obtain an office, or any other object of desire; canvassing.
(uncountable) A personal quality similar to motivation, not necessarily tied to a single goal.
(uncountable, countable) Eager or inordinate desire for some object that confers distinction, as preferment, honor, superiority, political power, or fame; desire to distinguish one's self from other people.
A desire, as in (sense 1), for another person to achieve these things.
verb
To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet.
ambivert
ambivert
noun
(psychology) A person who is neither clearly extroverted nor introverted, but has characteristics of each.
amblotic
amblotic
adj
Causing or relating to amblosis; abortifacient.
ambonite
ambreate
ambreate
noun
(chemistry) A salt of ambreic acid.
ambrette
ambrette
noun
The essential oil produced from the seeds of the musk mallow.
The musk mallow plant (Abelmoschus moschatus).
ambulant
ambulant
adj
Able to walk.
Designed for use by somebody with a disability that impairs, but does not prevent, walking.
noun
A patient who is able to walk.
ambulate
ambulate
verb
(intransitive) To walk; to relocate oneself under the power of one's own legs.
amitabha
amoibite
antibalm
arbustum
armbrust
atremble
atremble
adj
Trembling.
backmost
backmost
adj
farthest back
badmouth
badmouth
verb
(informal) To criticize or malign, especially unfairly or spitefully.
bailment
bailment
noun
(law) The handing over of control over, or possession of, personal property by one person, the bailor, to another, the bailee, for a specific purpose upon which the parties have agreed.
(obsolete) Bail.
bakemeat
bakemeat
noun
(obsolete) Any baked product (such as a pie)
balmiest
balmiest
adj
superlative form of balmy: most balmy
baphomet
baphomet
Proper noun
A deity which medieval Christians mistakenly imagined that pagans, the Knights Templar and (sometimes) Muslims worshipped, and which figures into some modern occultist and Satanic religions.
baptisms
baptisms
noun
plural of baptism
barmiest
barmiest
adj
superlative form of barmy: most barmy
barometz
barometz
noun
(mythology) A purported zoophyte, half-animal and half-plant, said to grow in the form of a sheep.
The golden chicken fern or woolly fern (Cibotium barometz), the rhizomes of which are covered in furry brown hair; the legend (sense 1) is supposed to have arisen because, when inverted, the rhizomes with stalks growing out of them resemble lambs.
bartlemy
basement
basement
noun
(geology) A mass of igneous or metamorphic rock forming the foundation over which a platform of sedimentary rocks is laid.
(sports, informal) Last place in a sports conference standings.
A floor of a building below ground level.
bashment
bashment
noun
(slang, countable, especially Jamaican) A party or rave.
(slang, uncountable, music, especially Jamaican) Dancehall music.
batamote
batement
batement
noun
abatement; diminution
bathmats
bathmats
noun
plural of bathmat
bathmism
bathmism
noun
(obsolete) A supposed "growth force" in vitalism.
bathroom
bathroom
noun
(chiefly US, South Africa, Canada, euphemistic) A lavatory: a room containing a toilet and (typically but not necessarily) a bathtub.
A room containing a shower and/or bathtub, and (typically but not necessarily) a toilet.
batwoman
batwoman
noun
(UK, military) A female batman (servant)
batwomen
batwomen
noun
plural of batwoman
baysmelt
beamiest
beamiest
adj
superlative form of beamy: most beamy
beamster
beamster
noun
A workman engaged in beaming or slicking hides.
beastdom
beastdom
noun
The condition of a beast; beasthood.
beastman
beastman
noun
(fantasy) An intelligent man-sized beast with varying characteristics.
beaumont
beaumont
Proper noun
An English habitational surname from any of several places in France.
A city in Texas, USA
bedmates
bedmates
noun
plural of bedmate
beltrami
beltrami
Proper noun
a tiny "city" in Polk County, Minnesota, USA
a neighbourhood in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
bemantle
bemartyr
bemaster
bemaster
verb
(obsolete) To master throughly; dominate.
bergamot
bergamot
noun
A coarse tapestry, manufactured from flock of cotton or hemp, mixed with ox's or goat's hair.
A tree of the orange family (Citrus × limon, syn. Citrus bergamia), having a roundish or pear-shaped fruit, from the rind of which an essential oil of delicious odor is extracted, much prized as a perfume.
A variety of pear.
A variety of snuff perfumed with bergamot.
Mentha × piperita, nothosubspecies citrata, more commonly known as bergamot mint
Monarda didyma, also known as American bergamot or bee balm.
The essence or perfume made from the fruit.
The fruit from the bergamot tree
bestream
bestream
verb
(intransitive) To stream around, about, or all over; flood.
(transitive) To drench; mark by streams of.
(transitive) To flow in a stream; stream down.
(transitive, by extension) To cover or be covered in; adorn; wear.
betacism
betacism
noun
(phonology) A sound change in which [b] (the voiced bilabial plosive) shifts to [v] (the voiced labiodental fricative).
A speech disorder involving excessive use of the [b] sound, or conversion of other sounds into it.
betjeman
biamonte
biatomic
biatomic
adj
(chemistry, nonstandard) diatomic
bigamist
bigamist
noun
One who practices bigamy.
bihamate
bimastic
bimetals
bimetals
noun
plural of bimetal
blastema
blastema
noun
(physiology) A clump of undifferentiated cells or blasts, from which an organ or body part will develop, either during the normal growth of an embryo or in the regeneration of a lost body part.
blastman
blastoma
blastoma
noun
(pathology) A tumour that is caused by malignancies in precursor cells or blasts.
boatsman
boatsman
noun
A boatman.
boatsmen
boatsmen
noun
plural of boatsman
bombasts
bombasts
noun
plural of bombast
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bombast
bombazet
bombazet
noun
A kind of thin woollen cloth that may be either plain or twilled.
bookmate
bookmate
noun
A schoolfellow; an associate in studying.
boomboat
boothman
boothman
noun
(archaic or chiefly dialectal) A corn merchant, especially one in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
(rare) One who mans a booth, such as at a fair or (historically) a Thing.
A projectionist at a movie theater.
bramante
bregmata
bregmata
noun
plural of bregma
bregmate
bromated
bromated
adj
(chemistry) brominated
bromates
bromates
noun
plural of bromate
brottman
bultmann
bumbaste
bumboats
bumboats
noun
plural of bumboat
bunkmate
bunkmate
noun
Especially, one who shares a bunk bed.
One who sleeps in the same area as another person.
burgamot
burgamot
noun
Archaic form of bergamot.
buttyman
buttyman
noun
(mining) Synonym of butty (“miner who works under contract”)
cambiata
cambists
cambists
noun
plural of cambist
catacomb
catacomb
noun
(often plural) An underground system of tunnels and chambers with recesses for graves, used (in former times) as a cemetery; a tunnel system used for burying the dead, as in Paris or Ancient Rome.
clubmate
clubmate
noun
A person who is in the same club as another person
combated
combated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of combat
combater
combater
noun
One who combats.
[…] in that great day of the Lord hee shall come to iudge the quicke and dead, bringing these Garlands in hand as the prises for the combaters […]
crabmeat
crabmeat
noun
The meat of a crab.
crampbit
demibath
drumbeat
drumbeat
noun
(by extension) A repetitive beating sound.
(figuratively) A driving force.
The beating of a drum.
The sound of a beating drum.
embattle
embattle
noun
(heraldry) A merlon, or a single one of the series of solid projections of a battlement.
verb
(intransitive) To be arrayed for battle.
(transitive) To arrange in order of battle; to array for battle.
(transitive) To furnish with battlements; to give the form of battlements to.
To prepare or arm for battle; to equip as for battle.
entameba
entameba
noun
Any of many parasitic amoebas, of the genus Entamoeba, that cause dysentery etc.
flambant
gambetta
gambette
guatambu
guatambu
noun
The flowering tree Balfourodendron riedelianum.
hecatomb
hecatomb
noun
(Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome) A great feast and public sacrifice to the gods, originally of a hundred oxen.
(by extension) Any great sacrifice; a great number of people, animals or things, especially as sacrificed or destroyed; a large amount.
imitable
imitable
adj
Capable of being imitated or copied.
Worthy of imitation.
jambarts
lambaste
lambaste
verb
(dated in UK English but not US English) To give a thrashing to; to beat severely.
To scold, reprimand or criticize harshly.
lambasts
lambasts
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lambast
lamberto
lamberts
lamberts
noun
plural of lambert
libament
libament
noun
(obsolete) libation
mableton
mabscott
maegbote
maegbote
noun
(historical) Compensation for the injury done by slaying a kinsman.
makebate
makebate
noun
A plant, bush jasmine (Chrysojasminum fruticans, syn. Jasminum fruticans).
One who excites contentions and quarrels; an instigator.
maltable
maltable
adj
Able to be malted.
manitoba
manitoba
Proper noun
A province in Western Canada.
marabout
marabout
noun
A Muslim holy man or mystic, especially in parts of North Africa.
The tomb or shrine of such a person.
marabuto
maribeth
martaban
martaban
noun
(historical) A large glazed pottery vessel of a kind exported from Martaban, used to hold water, rice, fish, etc.
marybeth
mastabah
mastabah
noun
Alternative form of mastaba
mastabas
mastabas
noun
plural of mastaba
matabele
matabele
Noun
The Ndebele people.
matboard
matboard
noun
Synonym of mountboard
matchbox
matchbox
noun
A small cardboard box in which matches are kept.
Any small die-cast toy car, usually collectible.
matrisib
meatball
meatball
noun
(aviation) An optical landing system.
(baseball) An easy pitch to hit, especially thrown right down the middle of the plate.
(graphical user interface) A menu icon of three horizontal dots.
A ball of minced or ground meat, seasoned and cooked.
meatbird
meetable
meetable
adj
(of a person) Possible to meet face to face.
(of a target, goal etc) Reachable, able to be met or reached.
megabits
megabits
noun
plural of megabit
megabyte
megabyte
noun
(computing) 1,048,576 bytes; a mebibyte.
One million (10⁶) bytes.
meltable
meltable
adj
Capable of being melted.
mesabite
metabits
metabola
metabola
noun
(in the plural, entomology) Insects that metamorphose.
(medicine) A change or mutation of disease, symptoms, or treatment.
metabole
metabole
noun
Alternative spelling of metabola
metaboly
metaboly
noun
(biology) The change in shape undergone by euglenids as they move or evolve
moabitic
moabitic
Adjective
Of or relating to the Moabites.
mobocrat
mobocrat
noun
One who favours a form of government in which the unintelligent populace rules without restraint.
monobath
monobath
adj
(photography) Such that the development process involves immersion in only one chemical bath.
montabyn
mootable
mootable
adj
Capable of being mooted.
mothball
mothball
noun
(usually in the plural) A small ball of chemical pesticide (typically naphthalene) and deodorant placed in or around clothing and other articles susceptible to damage from mold or moth larvae in order to protect them from this damage.
verb
(transitive) To store or shelve something no longer used.
(transitive, figuratively) To stop using (something), but keep it in good condition.
motorcab
motorcab
noun
(dated) A taxi.
myoblast
myoblast
noun
An undifferentiated stem cell that develops into muscle tissue.
nembutal
nembutal
noun
(pharmacology) A trade name of pentobarbital.
nimbated
nimbated
adj
Alternative form of nimbate
outbeams
outbeams
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outbeam
plumbate
plumbate
noun
(chemistry) Any compound containing the plumbate ion PbO₃²⁻ or Pb(OH)₆²⁻.