An aborted fetus, especially one aborted in early pregnancy.
An abortion.
abought
abought
verb
simple past tense and past participle of aby
aburton
aburton
adv
(nautical) With the length athwartship.
autobus
autobus
noun
(by extension, cycle racing) A large group of cyclists who have fallen behind the peloton (“main group of riders”) in a race.
(road transport, dated) A bus that is a motor vehicle, as opposed to earlier horse-drawn buses.
autocab
autocab
noun
(dated) A motor vehicle operating as a cab, as opposed to earlier horse-drawn cabs.
backout
backout
noun
(aerospace) A reversed countdown (i.e. ascending numbers) in response to problems leading up to a launch.
A reversal or undoing of tasks previously done (often in reverse order).
bailout
bailout
noun
(underwater diving) A backup supply of air in scuba diving.
A rescue, especially a financial rescue.
The process of exiting an aircraft while in flight.
bakeout
bakeout
noun
The act of heating a material in a vacuum in order to drive off volatile components
barbuto
barthou
basutos
battuto
beclout
beclout
verb
(transitive) To cover with a clout or cloth.
(transitive, figuratively) To dress up.
beflout
bemoult
bemouth
bemouth
verb
(transitive) To mouth the praises of (a person); talk grandiloquently; declaim.
(transitive) To place in the mouth; to put one's mouth on; (by extension) to eat.
beothuk
beothuk
Noun
A member of one of the historical aboriginal peoples of Canada.
Proper noun
The extinct language of these people.
bequote
bequote
verb
(transitive) To quote frequently or much.
beshout
beshout
verb
(obsolete, transitive) To shout at.
besouth
bespout
bespout
verb
(transitive) To pester with excessive oratory or spouting.
(transitive) To spout about; recite in a pompous or affected manner.
betutor
blautok
blowout
blowout
noun
(Australia) An extreme and unexpected increase in costs, such as in government estimates for a project.
(geology) A sandy depression in a sand dune ecosystem caused by the removal of sediments by wind.
(slang) A large or extravagant meal.
(slang) A social function, especially one with large quantities of food.
(slang) An argument; an altercation.
(slang, sports) A sporting contest that is decidedly one-sided and whose outcome is no longer in doubt.
A sudden puncturing of a pneumatic tyre/tire.
A sudden release of oil and gas from a well.
An instance of having one's hair blow-dried and styled.
An unsightly flap of skin caused by an ear piercing that is too large.
The cleaning of the flues of a boiler from scale, etc., by a blast of steam.
bluetop
bluetop
noun
(US, construction) A stake or other marker set into the subgrade to indicate the desired grade elevation.
boatful
boatful
noun
Enough of something to fill a boat, or a boat filled with the thing in question
boeotus
boetius
boletus
boletus
noun
An edible mushroom of genus Boletus.
bootful
bootful
noun
As much as a boot will hold.
bosquet
bosquet
noun
Alternative spelling of bosket
bossuet
botulin
botulin
noun
An extremely potent nerve toxin produced by the anaerobic bacteria Clostridium botulinum. Ingesting botulin results in the serious medical condition of botulism.
boultel
boultel
noun
(architecture) A moulding with quarter-circle convexity, found just below the abacus in the Tuscan and Roman Doric capital; a torus; an ovolo.
(architecture) One of the shafts of a clustered column.
boulter
boulter
noun
A long, stout fishing line with many hooks attached.
One who boults or sifts.
bouquet
bouquet
noun
(card games) The reserve of cards in the game of Flower Garden and variations.
(cartomancy) The ninth Lenormand card, sometimes called Flowers instead.
(mathematics) A bouquet of circles.
A bunch of cut flowers.
A compliment or expression of praise.
A decoratively arranged bunch of something.
The heart note of a perfume.
The scent of a particular wine.
bourget
bourout
boutade
boutade
noun
A sudden outbreak or outburst; a caprice, a whim.
boutell
boutons
boutons
noun
plural of bouton
brotula
brotula
noun
A family of ophidiiform fishes, of the taxonomic family Bythitidae, who bear live young.
brought
brought
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bring
brulots
buckpot
buffont
buffont
noun
(chiefly historical) An item of neckwear (a neckerchief), usually of linen, gauze, or lace, worn around the neck and puffed out over the bosom, popular from the 1750s to 1790s.
Alternative form of bouffant
bugwort
bugwort
noun
The plant bugbane.
bultong
bultong
noun
Alternative form of biltong
bumboat
bumboat
noun
(nautical) A small boat used for carrying provisions to ships lying at anchor in a harbour.
buoyant
buoyant
adj
(figuratively) Lighthearted and lively.
(of an economy, business etc.) Involving or engaged in much successful trade or activity.
Having buoyancy; able to float.
burbolt
burbolt
noun
Obsolete form of birdbolt.
burbots
burbots
noun
plural of burbot
burgout
burgout
noun
Alternative form of burgoo
burnout
burnout
noun
(US, slang) A marijuana addict; one whose brains have been burned out.
(aerospace) The shutoff of a rocket motor following the complete exhaustion of its fuel supply, or having been irreversibly throttled after the application of a planned delta-v.
(automotive) Use of the throttle to spin the wheels of a vehicle being held stationary, causing the spinning tires to produce smoke and burn rubber.
(psychology) The experience of long-term exhaustion and diminished interest, especially in one's career.
The failure of an electrical device, usually through overheating due to the application of excessive power.
burrito
burrito
noun
A Mexican dish consisting of a flour tortilla wrapped around a filling of meat and/or beans, cheese etc.
verb
(slang) To wrap someone or something up like a burrito.
burrton
burtons
burtons
noun
plural of burton
bushton
butanol
butanol
noun
1,1-dimethyl-ethanol or tert-butanol - (CH₃)₃C-OH
2-methyl-propan-1-ol or iso-butanol - (CH₃)₂CHCH₂-OH
butan-1-ol or n-butanol or butyl alcohol - CH₃(CH₂)₃-OH
butan-2-ol or sec-butanol - CH₃CH₂CH(CH₃)-OH
butomus
butoxyl
buttaro
buttock
buttock
noun
(nautical) The convexity of a ship behind, under the stern.
(usually in the plural) Each of the two large fleshy halves of the posterior part of the body between the base of the back, the perineum and the top of the legs.
buttons
buttons
noun
(colloquial) A remote control.
(colloquial) Synonym of marbles (“sanity; mental faculties”)
(colloquial, dated) A boy servant, or page.
The dung of sheep.
plural of button
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of button
buttony
buttony
adj
(of berries) Not fully grown and matured; overly small and insufficiently juicy.
(of hops) Full-berried.
Having a large number of buttons.
Resembling a button or buttons.
noun
(Scotland, games) A children’s game played with buttons.
The manufacture of buttons.
buyouts
buyouts
noun
plural of buyout
clotbur
clotbur
noun
(UK, dialect) The burdock.
The cocklebur.
cobnuts
cobnuts
noun
plural of cobnut
combust
combust
adj
(astrology) In close conjunction with the sun (so that its astrological influence is "burnt up"), sometimes specified to be within 8 degrees 30'.
(obsolete) Burnt.
noun
(obsolete) That which undergoes burning.
verb
(intransitive, figuratively) To erupt with enthusiasm or boisterousness.
To burn; to catch fire.
conturb
conturb
verb
(transitive) To disturb or perturb greatly.
cottbus
cottbus
Proper noun
An independent city in Brandenburg, Germany
courbet
courtby
doublet
doublet
noun
(botany) A very small flowering plant, Dimeresia howellii.
(computing) A word (or rather, a halfword) consisting of two bytes.
(historical) A man’s waistcoat.
(lapidary) An imitation gem made of two pieces of glass or crystal with a layer of color between them.
(linguistics) One of two or more different words in a language derived from the same etymological root but having different phonological forms (e.g., toucher and toquer in French or shade and shadow in English).
(literature) In textual criticism, two different narrative accounts of the same actual event.
(printing, US) A word or phrase set a second time by mistake.
(quantum mechanics) A quantum state of a system with a spin of ½, such that there are two allowed values of the spin component, −½ and +½.
(radio) Dipole antenna.
(uncountable, obsolete) A game somewhat like backgammon.
A man’s close-fitting jacket, with or without sleeves, worn by European men from the 1400s to the 1600s.
A pair of two similar or equal things; couple.
A word ladder puzzle.
An arrangement of two lenses for a microscope, designed to correct spherical aberration and chromatic dispersion, thus rendering the image of an object more clear and distinct.
Either of two dice, each of which, when thrown, has the same number of spots on the face lying uppermost.
doubted
doubted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of doubt
doubter
doubter
noun
One who doubts.
dustbox
endoubt
gumboot
gumboot
noun
(New Zealand) Generic black tea.
(New Zealand, Britain, Australia) A type of boot made of rubber.
(South Africa, uncountable) A style of popular music traditionally associated with gold miners.
A chiton (kind of marine mollusc).
gunboat
gunboat
noun
(nautical) Any of the various types of small armed vessels.
hautboy
hautboy
noun
(dated, music) An oboe or similar treble double reed instrument.
(music) A reed stop on an organ giving a similar sound.
A tall-growing strawberry, Fragaria elatior, having a musky flavour.
holibut
holibut
noun
Archaic form of halibut.
huberto
itoubou
jibouti
joubert
molebut
molebut
noun
The sunfish.
obitual
obitual
adj
Of or relating to obits.
obtrude
obtrude
verb
(intransitive) To become apparent in an unwelcome way, to be forcibly imposed; to jut in, to intrude (on or into).
(reflexive) To impose (oneself) on others; to cut in.
(transitive) To proffer (something) by force; to impose (something) on someone or into some area.
obtunds
obtunds
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of obtund
obtuser
obtuser
adj
comparative form of obtuse: more obtuse
oubliet
outback
outback
adj
Characteristic of the most remote and desolate areas of Australia; very remote from urban areas.
adv
To or towards the most remote and desolate areas of Australia.
noun
(Australia) The most remote and desolate areas of Australia; the desert and areas too arid for growing crops.
outbade
outbake
outbake
verb
(transitive) To heat (equipment) at low pressure to remove adsorbed gas from surfaces.
(transitive) To surpass in baking; to bake better than.
outbark
outbark
verb
(transitive) To surpass in barking.
outbawl
outbawl
verb
(transitive) To bawl louder or longer than.
outbeam
outbeam
verb
(transitive) To beam more brightly than; to outshine.
outbear
outbear
verb
(transitive) To bear out; support.
outbegs
outbegs
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outbeg
outbend
outbent
outbent
adj
bent outwards
outbids
outbids
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outbid
outbled
outbled
verb
simple past tense and past participle of outbleed
outblew
outblew
verb
simple past tense of outblow
outblot
outblot
verb
(transitive, literary) To blot out.
outblow
outblow
verb
(transitive) To blow out (all senses)
(transitive) To exceed in blowing; blow more or better than (all senses)
outbond
outbond
adj
(construction) Of a brick or stone: laid with its length parallel to the face of the wall.
outbook
outbook
verb
(transitive) To achieve more bookings than.
(transitive, chess) To surpass in one's knowledge of book moves.
outbore
outbore
verb
simple past tense of outbear
outborn
outborn
adj
(archaic) Foreign; not native.
outbowl
outbowl
verb
(transitive) To beat at bowling.
My little brother gets upset when I outbowl him.
outbrag
outbrag
verb
(transitive) To surpass in beauty or splendor.
(transitive) To surpass in bragging.
outbray
outbray
verb
(obsolete, transitive) To emit with great noise; bray out.
(obsolete, transitive) To exceed in braying.
(obsolete, transitive) To exhale; outbreathe.
(obsolete, transitive) To take out (e.g. a sword).
outbred
outbred
verb
simple past tense and past participle of outbreed
outbulk
outbulk
verb
(transitive) To exceed in bulk.
outburn
outburn
verb
(intransitive) To burn away; be consumed by fire.
(transitive) To exceed in burning; burn longer than.
outbuzz
outbuzz
verb
(transitive) To buzz louder or better than; to surpass in buzzing.
outlimb
redoubt
redoubt
noun
(rare) The return of doubt.
A reinforced refuge; a fort.
A small, temporary, military fortification.
verb
(archaic) To dread.
(rare) To doubt again.
(transitive) To fortify, to make into a stronghold.
rubatos
rubatos
noun
plural of rubato
rubouts
rubouts
noun
plural of rubout
stubboy
stubboy
intj
Alternative form of steboy
subatom
subatom
noun
Any particle that is smaller than an atom.
subcoat
sublots
sublots
noun
plural of sublot
subnote
subplot
subplot
noun
A plot within a story, subsidiary to the main plot.
A subdivision of a plot of land, especially one used for an agricultural experiment.
verb
(transitive) To provide (a story) with a subplot.
subport
subpost
subpost
noun
A subsidiary post or station.
subroot
subroot
noun
(computing) A secondary or subsidiary root.
subslot
subsort
subsort
noun
The sorting of a subset of already sorted elements.
verb
(transitive) To sort a subset of already sorted elements (by some secondary criterion).
subtone
subtone
noun
A secondary or lesser tone (in sound or colour).
tabouli
tabours
tabours
noun
plural of tabour
tambour
tambour
noun
(architecture) Synonym of drum (“cylindrical stone in the shaft of a column”)
(architecture) The capital of a Corinthian column.
(biology) A shallow metallic cup or drum, with a thin elastic membrane supporting a writing lever. Two or more of these are connected by a rubber tube and used to transmit and register the movements of the pulse or of any pulsating artery.
(military) A work usually in the form of a redan, to enclose a space before a door or staircase, or at the gorge of a larger work. It is arranged like a stockade.
(music) A small shallow drum.
(sports) In real tennis, a buttress-like obstruction in the main wall.
A circular frame for embroidery.
A rich kind of gold and silver embroidery.
A rolling top or front (as of a rolltop desk) of narrow strips of wood glued on canvas.
Silk or other material embroidered on a tambour.
verb
(transitive, intransitive) To embroider on a tambour (circular frame).
tiburon
tiburon
noun
A shark; now specifically, Sphyrna tiburo or Negaprion brevirostris.
tiebout
trabuco
trouble
trouble
noun
(Cockney rhyming slang) Wife. Clipping of trouble and strife.
(mining) A fault or interruption in a stratum.
A difficulty, problem, condition, or action contributing to such a situation.
A distressing or dangerous situation.
A malfunction.
A violent occurrence or event.
Efforts taken or expended, typically beyond the normal required.
Liability to punishment; conflict with authority.
verb
(intransitive) To worry; to be anxious.
(reflexive or intransitive) To take pains to do something.
(transitive) In weaker sense: to bother or inconvenience.
(transitive) To mentally distress; to cause (someone) to be anxious or perplexed.
(transitive, now rare) To disturb, stir up, agitate (a medium, especially water).
troubly
tubaron
tugboat
tugboat
noun
A small, powerful boat used to push or pull barges or to help maneuver larger vessels.
turbots
turbots
noun
plural of turbot
ulberto
umberto
unbegot
unbegot
adj
Archaic form of unbegotten.
unbesot
unbolts
unbolts
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of unbolt