(phonology) The substitution of one root vowel for another, thus indicating a corresponding modification of use or meaning; vowel permutation, distinct from the phonetic influence of a succeeding vowel.
verb
(intransitive, linguistics, of a vowel-containing linguistic component) To undergo a change of vowel.
(transitive, linguistics) To cause to change a vowel.
ablude
ablude
verb
(obsolete, intransitive) To be unlike; to differ.
ablush
ablush
adj
Blushing; ruddy.
ablute
ablute
verb
(intransitive, colloquial) To wash oneself.
(transitive, colloquial) To wash.
abulia
abulia
noun
(psychiatry) Absence of willpower or decisiveness, especially as a symptom of mental illness.
abulic
abulic
adj
(psychiatry) Relating to, characterized by, or affected with abulia.
noun
Person afflicted with abulia.
albuca
albugo
albugo
noun
(dated) A leucoma.
albums
albums
noun
plural of album
albuna
alburg
alburn
alburn
noun
The bleak, a small European fish with silvery scales.
albury
babuls
babuls
noun
plural of babul
bacula
bacula
noun
plural of baculum
bacule
bacule
noun
(palynology) A rod-like element on the surface of some pollen.
(rare, dated) Alternative form of bascule
baculi
bagful
bagful
noun
A large assortment.
An amount; the contents of one full bag.
bakula
bakula
noun
(India) The tree Mimusops elengi.
balawu
balbur
baldur
balius
ballou
ballup
baluba
baluba
noun
(Ireland) Unruly or wild person.
baluch
baluga
banjul
banjul
Proper noun
The capital of the Gambia.
barful
barful
adj
(archaic) Full of obstructions.
noun
Enough people to fill a bar.
batful
batful
adj
(dialectal or obsolete) Rich; fertile, as in reference to land or soil.
batule
batule
noun
A springboard in a circus or gymnasium.
bauble
bauble
noun
(figurative, by extension) Anything trivial and worthless.
A cheap showy ornament piece of jewellery; a gewgaw.
A club or sceptre carried by a jester.
A small shiny spherical decoration, commonly put on Christmas trees.
baulea
baulks
baulks
noun
plural of baulk
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of baulk
baulky
baulky
adj
Alternative spelling of balky
becurl
becurl
verb
(transitive) To cover or deck out with curls.
(transitive, archaic) To curl; make curly.
bedull
beflum
befoul
befoul
verb
(figuratively) To stain or mar (for example with infamy or disgrace).
(specifically) To defecate on, to soil with excrement.
To entangle or run against so as to impede motion.
To make foul; to soil; to contaminate, pollute.
begluc
beglue
beglue
verb
(transitive, rare) To smear with glue; (by extension) to stick,
begulf
behlau
beilul
belaud
belaud
verb
(transitive, rare) To load with praise; praise greatly; extol.
bellum
belout
belout
verb
(transitive, obsolete) To address or speak of with contemptuous language.
(transitive, obsolete) To call (someone) a lout.
beluga
beluga
noun
A cetacean, Delphinapterus leucas, found in the Arctic Ocean.
A fish found in the Caspian Sea and the Black Sea (Huso huso), that is a source of caviar.
belute
belute
verb
(transitive) To bespatter, as with mud.
belvue
bemaul
bemaul
verb
(transitive) To maul thoroughly or completely.
beslur
besoul
besoul
verb
(transitive) To imbue or endow with a soul.
betula
beulah
biblus
binful
binful
noun
Enough to fill a bin.
bisulc
blaeuw
blague
blague
noun
mendacious boasting; falsehood; humbug
bliaut
bliaut
noun
(historical) A unisex overgarment worn in 12th-century Western Europe, featuring voluminous skirts and horizontal puckering or sometimes pleating across a snugly fitted underbust abdomen.
blitum
blount
blount
Proper noun
A town in
blouse
blouse
noun
(India) A short garment worn under a sari.
(fashion) A shirt for women or girls, particularly a shirt with buttons and often a collar; a dress shirt tailored for women.
(fashion, obsolete) A shirt, typically loose and reaching from the neck to the waist.
(military fashion) A loose-fitting uniform jacket.
Alternative form of blouze
Alternative form of blowess
Alternative form of blowze
verb
(military) To tuck one's pants/trousers (into one's boots).
To hang a garment in loose folds.
blousy
blousy
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a blouse; loose, flowing.
blowup
blowup
noun
(photography) An enlargement
An explosion, or violent outburst
bludge
bludge
noun
(Australia, New Zealand, slang) Easy work.
(Australia, New Zealand, slang) The act of bludging.
verb
(Australia, New Zealand, slang) To avoid one's responsibilities; to leave it to others to perform duties that one is expected to perform.
(Australia, New Zealand, slang) To do nothing, to be idle, especially when there is work to be done.
(Australia, New Zealand, slang) To not earn one's keep, to live off someone else or off welfare when one could be working.
(Australia, New Zealand, slang) To take some benefit and give nothing in return.
(Australia, obsolete, slang) To live off the earnings of a prostitute.
bluely
bluely
adv
In a blue manner; bluishly.
noun
(UK dialectal, Sussex, obsolete) Porpoise.
bluest
bluest
adj
superlative form of blue: most blue
bluesy
bluesy
adj
(music, informal) Characteristic of, or similar to, the blues (a genre of music).
blueth
blueth
noun
(rare) The state of being blue; blueness.
bluets
bluets
noun
plural of bluet
blueys
blueys
noun
plural of bluey
bluffs
bluffs
noun
plural of bluff
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bluff
Any of several processes to protect steel against rust.
verb
present participle of blue
bluish
bluish
adj
(figuratively) Somewhat depressed; sad.
Having a tint or hue similar to the colour blue.
bluism
bluism
noun
Alternative form of blueism
blumea
blumed
blumes
blunge
blunge
verb
(pottery) To mix clay and water.
blunks
blunks
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of blunk
blunts
blunts
noun
plural of blunt
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of blunt
blurbs
blurbs
noun
plural of blurb
blurry
blurry
adj
(figuratively) Not clear; lacking well-defined boundaries.
(of an image) Not clear, crisp, or focused; having fuzzy edges.
blurts
blurts
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of blurt
blusht
blusht
verb
(obsolete) simple past tense and past participle of blush
blushy
blushy
adj
(of a person) Embarrassed, blushing; feeling as though one might blush.
Suffused with blushes or blushlike hues.
boelus
boucle
boucle
noun
Alternative spelling of bouclé
boules
boules
noun
bowls; a game played with metal balls.
plural of boule
bouley
boulez
boulle
boutel
bowlus
boxful
boxful
noun
as much as a box will hold
braula
bruell
brulee
brules
brulot
brumal
brumal
adj
Belonging to winter; winterlike; wintry.
Occurring in winter.
brunel
brusly
brutal
brutal
adj
(music, figuratively) In extreme metal, to describe the speed of the music and the density of riffs.
Crude or unfeeling in manner or speech.
Direct and without attempt to disguise unpleasantness.
Disagreeably precise or penetrating.
Harsh; unrelenting.
Savagely violent, vicious, ruthless, or cruel.
bubale
bubale
noun
Any of several African buffalos of the genus Bubalus.
Any of several North African antelopes of the genus Alcelaphus.
bubalo
bubals
bubals
noun
plural of bubal
bubble
bubble
noun
(Cockney rhyming slang) A Greek.
(Cockney rhyming slang) A laugh.
(by extension) Anything resembling a hollow sphere.
(computing, historical) Any of the small magnetized areas that make up bubble memory.
(economics) A period of intense speculation in a market, causing prices to rise quickly to irrational levels as the metaphorical bubble expands, and then fall even more quickly as the bubble bursts.
(figurative) Anything lacking firmness or solidity; a cheat or fraud; an empty project.
(figurative) The emotional and/or physical atmosphere in which the subject is immersed.
(obsolete) Someone who has been ‘bubbled’ or fooled; a dupe.
(poker) The point in a poker tournament when the last player without a prize loses all their chips and leaves the game, leaving only players that are going to win prizes. (e.g., if the last remaining 9 players win prizes, then the point when the 10th player leaves the tournament)
(television, slang) A bulb or lamp; the part of a lighting assembly that actually produces the light.
A group of people who are in quarantine together.
A small spherical cavity in a solid material.
A small, hollow, floating bead or globe, formerly used for testing the strength of spirits.
A spherically contained volume of air or other gas, especially one made from soapy liquid.
An officer's station in a prison dormitory, affording views on all sides.
Short for travel bubble.
The globule of air in the chamber of a spirit level.
verb
(computing) To apply a filter bubble, as to search results.
(intransitive) To join together in a support bubble
(intransitive) To produce bubbles, to rise up in bubbles (such as in foods cooking or liquids boiling).
(intransitive, Scotland and Northern England) To cry, weep.
(intransitive, figurative) To churn or foment, as if wishing to rise to the surface.
(intransitive, figurative) To rise through a medium or system, similar to the way that bubbles rise in liquid.
(transitive) To bubble in; to mark a response on a form by filling in a circular area (‘bubble’).
(transitive) To cause to feel as if bubbling or churning.
(transitive) To cover with bubbles.
(transitive) To express in a bubbly or lively manner.
(transitive) To form into a protruding round shape.
(transitive) To pat a baby on the back so as to cause it to belch.
(transitive, archaic) To cheat, delude.
Rage bubbled inside him.
bubbly
bubbly
adj
(economics) Having the characteristics of economic bubbles.
(informal) Cheerful, lively.
Full of bubbles.
Having the characteristics of bubbles.
noun
(informal) Champagne.
buccal
buccal
adj
(anatomy, dentistry, relational) Of, relating to, near, involving, or supplying the cheek.
(pharmacology) Administered in the mouth, not by swallowing but by absorption through the skin of the cheek; often by placing between the top gum and the inside of the lip.
Of, relating to, or lying in the mouth.
buckle
buckle
noun
(Canada, heraldry) The brisure of an eighth daughter.
(US, baking) A cake baked with fresh fruit and a streusel topping.
(countable) A clasp used for fastening two things together, such as the ends of a belt, or for retaining the end of a strap.
(roofing) An upward, elongated displacement of a roof membrane frequently occurring over insulation or deck joints. A buckle may be an indication of movement with the roof assembly.
A contorted expression, as of the face.
A curl of hair, especially a kind of crisp curl formerly worn; also, the state of being curled.
A distortion, bulge, bend, or kink, as in a saw blade or a plate of sheet metal.
verb
(Scotland) To unite in marriage.
(intransitive) To distort or collapse under physical pressure; especially, of a slender structure in compression.
(intransitive) To yield; to give way; to cease opposing.
(intransitive, figuratively) To give in; to react suddenly or adversely to stress or pressure (of a person).
(obsolete, intransitive) To enter upon some labour or contest; to join in close fight; to contend.
(transitive) To fasten using a buckle.
(transitive) To make bend; to cause to become distorted.
To buckle down; to apply oneself.
buddle
buddle
noun
An apparatus on which crushed ore is washed.
verb
(transitive) To wash (ore) in a buddle.
budlet
budlet
noun
A little bud springing from a parent bud.
buffle
buffle
noun
(obsolete) A buffalo.
verb
(intransitive) To puzzle; to be at a loss.
bugala
bugled
bugled
adj
Ornamented with bugles.
Played by a bugle.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bugle
bugler
bugler
noun
Someone who plays a bugle.
bugles
bugles
noun
plural of bugle
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bugle
buglet
buglet
noun
(computing, informal) A minor bug in a program.
(music) A small bugle.
buhler
builds
builds
noun
plural of build
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of build
bulbar
bulbar
adj
Relating to, or having the form of a bulb; used especially of the medulla oblongata.
bulbed
bulbed
Adjective
Shaped like a bulb.
bulbel
bulbel
noun
(botany) A separable bulb formed on some flowering plants.
bulbil
bulbil
noun
(anatomy) A small hollow bulb, such as an enlargement in a small vessel or tube.
(botany) A bulb-shaped bud in the place of a flower or in a leaf axil.
bulbul
bulbul
noun
Any of several passerine songbirds, of the family Pycnonotidae (currently, 27 genera recognized), native to Africa and parts of Asia, sometimes known as the ‘nightingale of the East’.
bulbus
bulder
bulder
noun
Obsolete form of boulder.
bulgar
bulgar
noun
Alternative spelling of bulgur
bulged
bulged
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bulge
bulger
bulger
noun
(dated, slang) Anything very large; a whopper.
(electronics) A capacitor with a bulging top.
(golf) A driver or a brassy with a convex face.
bulges
bulges
noun
plural of bulge
bulgur
bulgur
noun
Wheat grains that have been steamed, dried, and crushed; a staple of Middle Eastern cooking.
bulies
bulimy
bulimy
noun
Archaic form of bulimia.
bulked
bulked
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bulk
bulker
bulker
noun
(nautical) A bulk dry goods cargo ship.
(nautical) A person employed to ascertain the bulk or size of goods, in order to fix the amount of freight or dues payable on them.
A person who bulks (gains body mass).
Anything, such as a dietary supplement or an exercise, that helps a person to gain body mass.
bulkin
bullae
bullan
bulled
bulled
adj
Swollen.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bull
bullen
buller
buller
noun
(Caribbean, Jamaica, derogatory) A homosexual man.
A steer that allows itself to be mounted by bulls when in the crowded conditions of a feedlot.
The bubbling or seething of a torrent.
verb
To boil or seethe.
To force one's way; to be pushy.
To make a lot of noise.
bullet
bullet
noun
(Australia) A roughly bullet-shaped sweet consisting of a cylinder of liquorice covered in chocolate.
(Ireland, particularly in Northern Ireland) The heavy projectile thrown in a game of road bowling.
(banking, finance) A large scheduled repayment of the principal of a loan; a balloon payment.
(chess, Internet) chess played at an extremely fast time control, with one minute given to each player. (Short for bullet chess.)
(figuratively) Anything that is projected extremely fast.
(fishing) A plumb or sinker.
(in attributive use) Very fast (speedy).
(informal) An entire round of unfired ammunition for a firearm, including the projectile, the cartridge casing, the propellant charge, etc.
(obsolete) A cannonball.
(obsolete) A small ball.
(obsolete) The fetlock of a horse.
(slang) An ace (the playing card).
(slang) One year of prison time.
(typography) A printed symbol in the form of a solid circle, “•”, often used to mark items in a list.
A notation used on pop music charts to indicate that a song is climbing in the rankings.
A projectile, usually of metal, shot from a gun at high speed.
A rejection letter, as for employment, admission to a school or a competition.
A young or little bull; a male calf.
Ammunition for a sling or slingshot which has been manufactured for such use.
verb
(intransitive, informal) To speed, like a bullet.
(transitive, informal) To draw attention to (text) by, or as if by, placing a graphic bullet in front of it.
(transitive, informal) To make a shot, especially with great speed.