(grammar) Of, or relating to the grammatical case used in some languages to indicate absence.
noun
(grammar) The abessive case, or a word in this case.
ablative
ablative
adj
(archaic) Pertaining to taking away or removing.
(engineering, nautical, astronautics) Sacrificial, wearing away or being destroyed in order to protect the underlying material, as in ablative paints used for antifouling, or ablative heat shields used to protect spacecraft during reentry. .
(geology) Relating to the erosion of a land mass; relating to the melting or evaporation of a glacier.
(grammar) Applied to one of the cases of the noun in some languages, the fundamental meaning of the case being removal, separation, or taking away, and to a lesser degree, instrument, place, accordance, specifications, price, or measurement.
(medicine) Relating to the removal of a body part, tumor, or organ.
noun
(grammar) The ablative case.
An ablative material.
abluvion
abluvion
noun
(obsolete, rare) That which is washed off.
abnerval
abnerval
adj
(anatomy, of an electric current in a muscle, rare) Away from the nerve.
aborsive
aborsive
adj
(obsolete) abortive from the first.
abortive
abortive
adj
(biology) Imperfectly formed or developed; rudimentary; sterile.
(medicine) Cutting short; acting to halt or slow the progress (of a disease).
(obsolete) Produced by abortion; born prematurely and therefore unnatural.
(obsolete) A medicine to which is attributed the property of causing abortion, abortifacient.
(obsolete) Someone or something born or brought forth prematurely; an abortion.
verb
(transitive, obsolete) To cause an abortion; to render without fruit.
abrasive
abrasive
adj
Being rough and coarse in manner or disposition; overly aggressive and causing irritation.
Producing abrasion; rough enough to wear away the outer surface.
noun
(geology) Rock fragments, sand grains, mineral particles, used by water, wind, and ice to abrade a land surface.
A hard inorganic substance or material consisting in powder or granule form such as sandpaper, pumice, or emery, used for cleaning, smoothing, or polishing.
absolved
absolved
verb
simple past tense and past participle of absolve
absolver
absolver
noun
Agent noun of absolve; one who absolves.
absolves
absolves
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of absolve
ambivert
ambivert
noun
(psychology) A person who is neither clearly extroverted nor introverted, but has characteristics of each.
amovable
amovable
adj
removable
arbovale
avowable
avowable
adj
Capable of being avowed or openly acknowledged with confidence.
avowably
avowably
adv
In an avowable manner.
backveld
backveld
noun
(southern Africa) Backward and unsophisticated rural areas.
bakeoven
baklavas
baklavas
noun
plural of baklava
bandhava
banovina
banovina
noun
(historical) Any of the provinces or banates into which the Kingdom of Yugoslavia was subdivided during the period 1929–1941.
banville
batavian
batavian
Adjective
From Batavia; Jakartan.
From the ancient Germanic tribe of the Batavi, living in the region of Batavia around Nijmegen.
Noun
Someone from Batavia; Jakartan.
Someone from the tribe of the Batavi.
batsheva
bavarian
bavarian
noun
A type of custard-like food, made with fruit.
bavarois
bavarois
noun
A pudding similar to pastry cream but thickened with gelatin or isinglass instead of flour or cornstarch, and flavoured with liqueur.
bavenite
bavenite
noun
(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-pyramidal mineral containing aluminum, beryllium, calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, and silicon.
bayville
beauvais
beauvoir
beavered
beavered
adj
(historical) Having or wearing a beaver (part of a helmet covering the lower face).
Covered with, or wearing, a beaver or hat.
Synonym of bearded.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of beaver
bedcover
bedcover
noun
A decorative cover for a bed; a bedspread or counterpane
bedevils
bedevils
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bedevil
bedivere
bedravel
bedrivel
bedrivel
verb
(transitive) to drivel on, to put or spill saliva on
beehives
beehives
noun
plural of beehive
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of beehive
beetrave
beetrave
noun
(archaic) The common beet, Beta vulgaris.
beeville
befavour
behalves
behalves
noun
plural of behalf
behavers
behavers
noun
plural of behaver
behaving
behaving
noun
Behaviour.
verb
present participle of behave
behavior
behavior
noun
(countable) An instance of the way a living creature behaves.
(countable, uncountable, biology, psychology) Observable response produced by an organism.
(uncountable) Human conduct relative to social norms.
(uncountable) The way a device or system operates.
(uncountable) The way a living creature behaves or acts generally.
(uncountable, informal) A state of probation about one's conduct.
behooved
behooved
verb
simple past tense and past participle of behoove
behooves
behooves
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of behoove
behovely
behovely
adj
(archaic) Necessary; advantageous.
(archaic) Useful.
adv
(archaic) Usefully.
behoving
behoving
verb
present participle of behove
beknived
believed
believed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of believe
believer
believer
noun
A person who believes; especially regarding religion.
believes
believes
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of believe
bellevue
bellevue
Proper noun
a suburb of Perth, Western Australia.
a locality in northern Queensland, Australia.
an urban community in the municipality of Crowsnest Pass, Alberta, Canada.
a neighbourhood in Edmonton, Alberta.
a community at Trinity Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
a community in Kawartha Lakes, Ontario, Canada.
a village in French Guiana.
a neighbourhood in Kristiansand, Norway.
a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa.
a neighbourhood in Malmö, Sweden.
a municipality in the Canton of Geneva, Switzerland.
settlements on the islands of Saint Croix and Saint Thomas, United States Virgin Islands.
various places in the United States of America:
a former settlement in Merced County, California.
an unincorporated community in New Castle County, Delaware.
a neighbourhood in Georgia.
a city in Blaine County, Idaho.
a village in Peoria County, Illinois.
a city in Jackson County, Iowa.
a home-rule class city in Campbell County, Kentucky.
unincorporated communities in Bossier, Calcasieu, Caldwell and Plaquemines Parishes, Louisiana.
an unincorporated community in Talbot County, Maryland.
a village in Eaton County, Michigan.
an unincorporated community in Lamar County, Mississippi.
a city in Sarpy County, Nebraska.
a neighbourhood in Schenectady, New York.
a city in Erie, Huron and Sandusky Counties, Ohio.
an unincorporated community in Yamhill County, Oregon.
a borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
a neighbourhood in Nashville, Tennessee.
a small city in Clay County, Texas.
a city in King County, Washington State.
a neighbourhood in Washington, D.C.
a village in Brown County, Wisconsin.
bellvale
beloveds
beloveds
noun
plural of beloved
berdyaev
bereaved
bereaved
adj
having suffered the death of a loved one
bereaven
bereaven
adj
(obsolete) bereft
bereaver
bereaver
noun
Someone who bereaves.
bereaves
bereaves
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bereave
berreave
bescurvy
beshiver
besilver
besilver
verb
(transitive) To cover with or as with silver.
beslaved
beslaved
verb
simple past tense and past participle of beslave
beslaver
beslaver
verb
(transitive) To cover with slaver, or anything suggesting slaver.
(transitive, figuratively) To cover with fulsome flattery.
besleeve
besleeve
verb
(transitive, obsolete) To take the sleeves from (a bishop).
besnivel
bestarve
betravel
betravel
verb
(transitive) To travel over; overrun with travellers.
bevaring
bevatron
bevatron
noun
A particle accelerator of the 1950s, capable of imparting energies of billions of electron volts.
bevelers
bevelers
noun
plural of beveler
beveling
beveling
noun
Alternative spelling of bevelling
bevelled
bevelled
adj
Having a bevel, especially at an edge
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bevel
beveller
beveller
noun
A tool or machine used for bevelling.
One who bevels.
beverage
beverage
noun
(Britain, slang, archaic) (A gift of) drink money.
(chiefly Canada, US) A liquid to consume; a drink, such as tea, coffee, liquor, beer, milk, juice, or soft drinks, usually excluding water.
beverlee
beverley
beverley
Proper noun
name, a mostly British spelling variant of Beverly.
a market town, and county town of the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.
beverlie
bevilled
bevilled
adj
(heraldry) Notched with an angle like that enclosed by a carpenter's bevel; said of a partition line of a shield.
bevoiled
bevomits
bevomits
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bevomit
bhagavat
bhairava
bhairavi
biconvex
biconvex
adj
Having both sides convex.
bienvenu
biovular
biovular
adj
(of twins) derived from two separate ova; non-identical or fraternal
bivalent
bivalent
adj
(chemistry) Having a valence of 2; having two ligands
(genetics) Of, or relating to a pair of homologous synapsed chromosomes that occur during meiosis.
(of a vaccine) Protecting against two different viruses.
noun
(genetics) Any bivalent chromosome.
bivalved
bivalved
adj
Having two valves.
bivalves
bivalves
noun
plural of bivalve
bivalvia
bivector
bivector
noun
(mathematics) An antisymmetric tensor of second rank.
biventer
biventer
noun
(anatomy) Any digastric part or organ.
biverbal
biverbal
adj
Of or pertaining to two verbs
Of or pertaining to two words
punning
bivinyls
bivouacs
bivouacs
noun
plural of bivouac
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bivouac
blauvelt
bloviate
bloviate
verb
(intransitive, US) To speak or discourse at length in a pompous or boastful manner.
boastive
boastive
adj
(archaic) presumptuous
bohuslav
boilover
boilover
noun
A hazardous situation where an attempt is made to extinguish semi-enclosed oil- or petrochemical-fuelled fire with water, generating steam which propels the burning fuel outwards.
bolivars
bolivian
bolivias
bolivias
noun
plural of bolivia
bonavist
bonnyvis
borislav
boshvark
bouviers
bouvines
bovarism
bovarism
noun
Alternative spelling of bovarysm
bovarist
bovarysm
bovarysm
noun
(psychology) An anxiety to escape from a social or sentimental condition judged to be unsatisfactory, sometimes by building a fictitious personality.
An imagined or unrealistic conception of oneself.
bovicide
bovicide
noun
One who kills cows.
The killing of a cow.
boviform
boviform
adj
Shaped like an ox.
bovinely
bovinely
adv
In a bovine manner
sluggishly
bovinity
bovinity
noun
The condition of being bovine.
bowstave
bowstave
noun
The stave of a bow, to which the string is attached.
bozovich
bratstva
bratstva
noun
plural of bratstvo
bratstvo
bratstvo
noun
(historical) A union of Eastern Orthodox citizens or lay brothers affiliated with individual churches in cities throughout the Ruthenian part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
bravados
bravoing
bravoing
verb
present participle of bravo
bravoite
bravuras
brevetcy
brevetcy
noun
(military) The rank or condition of a brevet officer.
breveted
breveted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of brevet
breviary
breviary
noun
(obsolete) A brief statement or summary.
A book containing prayers, hymns, and so on for everyday use at the canonical hours.
breviate
breviate
noun
A brief missive or dispatch; a note.
A lawyer's brief.
A short account, brief statement; a summary, abridgement or precis
breviers
breviger
breviped
breviped
adj
(zoology) Having short feet or legs.
brevipen
brevipen
noun
(zoology) A brevipennate bird.
brezhnev
bromvoel
bucorvus
bucovina
bukovina
buplever
buplever
noun
A bupleurum.
burgrave
burgrave
noun
(historical) The military governor of a town or castle in the Middle Ages, especially in German-speaking Europe; a nobleman of the same status.
One who holds a hereditary title, with an associated domain, descended from an ancestor who commanded a burg, especially in German-speaking Europe.
burnover
burnover
noun
The situation in which a fire overtakes the firefighters who are attempting to deal with it.
bushveld
bushveld
noun
(South Africa) A terrain of thick scrubby trees and bush in dense thickets, with grassy groundcover between.
cabreuva
cabreuva
noun
The flowering plant Myrocarpus frondosus.
deverbal
deverbal
adj
(grammar, linguistics) Derived from a verb.
noun
(grammar, linguistics) A word, especially a substantive, that is derived from a verb.
deviable
divebomb
divebomb
verb
(auto racing) To attempt an overtake by braking very late on corner entry.
(of a bird) To attack (especially the head of) a person or animal that strays into their territory.
(of a motorist) To overtake slower traffic by way of a more circuitous route, such as a pair of freeway exit and entrance ramps.
(of an aircraft) To bomb whilst in a steep dive.
dobrovir
drivable
drivable
adj
Capable of being driven (as a vehicle).
Capable of being driven on safely or successfully (as a road or other surface).