(law, obsolete) One who steals and drives away cattle or beasts by herds or droves; a cattle rustler.
abreact
abreact
verb
(transitive, psychoanalysis) To eliminate previously repressed emotions by reliving past experiences.
abricot
abroach
abroach
adj
Astir; moving about.
Tapped; broached.
adv
(obsolete) Broached; in a condition for letting out or yielding liquor, as a cask which is tapped.
(obsolete) In a state to be diffused or propagated.
verb
(transitive, obsolete) To set abroach; to let out, as liquor; to broach; to tap.
acerbas
acerber
acerber
adj
comparative form of acerb: more acerb
acerbic
acerbic
adj
(figurative) Sharp, harsh, biting.
Tasting sour or bitter.
acerbly
acerbly
adv
In an acerb manner.
acrobat
acrobat
noun
An athlete who performs acts requiring skill, agility and coordination, often as part of a circus performance.
verb
(figurative) To move like an acrobat (with agility, balance, long leaps, etc.).
To practise acrobatics.
aerobic
aerobic
adj
Living or occurring only in the presence of oxygen e.g. aerobic bacteria.
Of exercise, performed while maintaining a sufficient supply of oxygen to meet bodily energy needs.
Of or relating to aerobics.
albarco
alberca
alberic
ambreic
ambrica
arabica
arabica
noun
A species of coffee plant, Coffea arabica, native to Ethiopia.
Coffee made from these coffee beans.
The bean of this plant.
arbacia
arbacin
arbacin
noun
(organic chemistry) A substance prepared from the sea urchin of genus Arbacia.
arcubos
arecibo
ascribe
ascribe
verb
(nonstandard, with to) To believe in or agree with; subscribe.
(transitive) To attribute a book, painting or any work of art or literature to a writer or creator.
(transitive) To attribute a cause or characteristic to someone or something.
bacardi
baccara
baccara
noun
Alternative form of baccarat (“French card game”)
baccare
baccare
intj
(obsolete) Stand back! give place!
bacchar
backare
backare
intj
Alternative form of baccare
backbar
backers
backers
noun
plural of backer
backler
backrun
backrun
noun
A reverse flow, either of a fluid or of an anchor chain.
baconer
baconer
noun
A pig raised to produce bacon.
bactria
bactris
baecher
baldric
baldric
noun
A broad belt used to hold a sword, sometimes richly ornamented, worn diagonally from shoulder to hip (across the breast, and under the opposite arm); less properly, any belt.
baracoa
barbica
barchan
barchan
noun
An arc-shaped sand ridge comprising well-sorted sand.
barclay
barcone
barlach
barlock
barocco
barrace
barrace
noun
(obsolete) The lists in a tournament.
barrack
barrack
noun
(Ireland, colloquial, usually in the plural) A police station.
(US) A (structure with a) movable roof sliding on four posts, to cover hay, straw, etc.
(by extension, chiefly in the plural) Any very plain, monotonous, or ugly large building.
(chiefly in the plural) A primitive structure resembling a long shed or barn for (usually temporary) housing or other purposes.
(military, chiefly in the plural) A building for soldiers, especially within a garrison; originally referred to temporary huts, now usually to a permanent structure or set of buildings.
verb
(Australia, New Zealand, intransitive) To cheer for or support a team.
(Britain, transitive) To jeer and heckle; to attempt to disconcert by verbal means.
(intransitive) To live in barracks.
(transitive) To house military personnel; to quarter.
barrico
barvick
barwick
barytic
barytic
adj
Containing barium
Of or pertaining to baryta
batcher
batcher
noun
A machine for preparing batches, especially of concrete, of a fixed size or volume.
bawdric
baycuru
beacher
bearcat
bearcat
noun
(obsolete) A giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca, in the family Ursidae).
(obsolete) A red panda (Ailurus fulgens, in the family Ailuridae).
A binturong (Arctictis binturong, in the family Viverridae).
becarve
becarve
verb
(transitive) To cut; carve or cut up; cut in pieces; carve.
(transitive, obsolete) To cut off.
(transitive, obsolete, land) To cut up; cut open; open up.
becater
becharm
becharm
verb
(transitive, archaic) To charm; fascinate; hold by a charm or spell.
bechern
bechirp
bechler
beclart
beclart
verb
(transitive, UK dialectal) To besmear; bedaub; bemire; smear all over with dirt.
becolor
becolor
verb
Alternative form of becolour
becquer
becramp
becrawl
becrawl
verb
(transitive, intransitive) To crawl about; crawl all over.
becreep
becreep
verb
(transitive) To creep up on; stalk
becrime
becroak
becross
becross
verb
(transitive) To mark with the sign of the cross.
(transitive) To surround or decorate with crosses.
becrowd
becrowd
verb
(dated) To crowd.
becrown
becrown
verb
(transitive) To place a crown upon; crown.
becrush
becrust
becurry
becurse
becurse
verb
(transitive) To cover with curses; curse all over.
becurst
bedcord
bedcord
noun
A cord or rope interwoven in a bedstead so as to support the bed.
bedrock
bedrock
noun
(figurative) A basis or foundation.
(uncountable, geology, mining, engineering, construction) The solid rock that exists at some depth below the ground surface. Bedrock is rock "in place", as opposed to material that has been transported from another location by weathering and erosion.
verb
(transitive, figurative) To establish on a solid foundation.
beecher
begrace
begrace
verb
(transitive) To address (one) as "Grace".
(transitive) To grace or endue with grace; begift; endow.
belcher
belcher
noun
(dated) A dark blue neckerchief with white spots, each having a dark-blue spot in the centre.
Someone who belches.
bemercy
bemercy
verb
(transitive, obsolete) To treat with mercy; show mercy to; milse.
bencher
bencher
noun
(Britain, obsolete, law) One of the senior governing members of an Inn of Court.
(Canada, law) A senior member of a law society in a Canadian province (except New Brunswick).
(UK, obsolete) An alderman of a corporation.
(obsolete) A member of a court or council.
(obsolete) One who frequents the benches of a tavern; an idler.
beparch
berceau
berchta
bernice
berwick
berwick
Proper noun
Any of various towns, including:
a town in Maine, USA.
berycid
berycid
noun
(zoology) Any member of the family Berycidae, the squirrelfish.
bescarf
bescorn
bescorn
verb
(obsolete) To treat with scorn.
bescour
bescurf
betrace
bewreck
bewreck
verb
(transitive, dialectal) To wreck completely; ruin; destroy.
biacuru
biarchy
biarchy
noun
An alliance of two countries.
Synonym of diarchy: rule by two people.
bicarbs
bicarbs
noun
plural of bicarb
bichord
bichord
adj
(music, of a musical instrument) Having two strings
noun
(music) A chord of two notes played at the same time.
bickart
bickern
bickern
noun
An anvil with two projecting taper ends.
bickers
bickers
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bicker
bicolor
bicolor
adj
(American spelling) Alternative form of bicolour
bicorne
bicorne
noun
Alternative form of bicorn (“two-cornered hat”)
bicrons
bicrons
noun
plural of bicron
birched
birched
verb
simple past tense and past participle of birch
birchen
birchen
adj
Made from birch wood.
bircher
bircher
name
Misspelling of Bircher, especially when in combination with muesli
noun
A person who flogs using a birch rod.
birches
birches
noun
plural of birch
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of birch
blacher
blacker
blacker
adj
comparative form of black: more black
noun
One who blacks.
blocker
blocker
noun
(card games) A playing card, needed by one player, that is held by another.
(computing) A bug or issue that prevents software from being released.
(computing) An application that stops / impedes unauthorised access to a programme.
(computing) One who prevents another user from contacting them electronically.
(marketing) A gatekeeper who refuses the marketer access to the person they wish to contact.
(poker) A blocker bet.
(sports) One who blocks or impedes the movement of an opponent.
A close-fitting rectangular glove worn by a goalie in multiple forms of hockey.
A person who blocks (stretches or moulds) hats.
A puberty blocker.
blucher
blucher
noun
(historical) A form of horse-drawn carriage; a Blucher coach.
A sturdy laced leather half-boot.
bocardo
boccaro
boraces
boracic
boracic
adj
(Cockney rhyming slang) penniless
(dated, inorganic chemistry) Synonym of boric.
Relating to, or impregnated with borax.
borasca
borasco
boronic
boronic
adj
Of or pertaining to the boronic acids or their derivatives
borscht
borscht
noun
A beetroot soup that can be served hot or cold, usually with sour cream.
Any similar sour soup made of other ingredients such as sorrel, cabbage, hogweed
borszcz
bortsch
botcher
botcher
noun
(obsolete) A person who mends things, especially such a cobbler or tailor.
A clumsy or incompetent worker; a bungler.
A young salmon; a grilse.
boucher
bouncer
bouncer
noun
(Internet) An account or server (as with IRC and FTP) that invisibly redirects requests to another, used for anonymity or vanity.
(cricket) A short-pitched ball that bounces up towards, or above the height of the batsman’s head.
(dated) One who bounces; a large, heavy person who makes much noise in moving.
(informal) A member of security personnel employed by bars, nightclubs, etc to maintain order and deal with patrons who cause trouble.
(slang, archaic) A boaster; a bully.
(slang, archaic) A bold lie.
(slang, archaic) A liar.
A bouncy castle.
A kind of seat mounted in a framework in which a baby can bounce up and down.
Something big; a good stout example of the kind.
bourock
boxcars
boxcars
noun
(slang, dice games) Double six in a dice game with two dice.
plural of boxcar
braasch
braccae
braccae
noun
(historical) Shapeless trousers of wool or skin tied at the waist and ankles by cords, worn chiefly by the ancient Gauls.
braccia
braccia
noun
plural of braccio
braccio
braccio
noun
An Italian measure of length, varying from half a yard to a yard.
bracero
bracero
noun
(historical) A Mexican national working as an agricultural laborer in the United States from 1942-1964, or similarly a railroad worker from 1942-1945.
bracers
bracers
noun
plural of bracer
bracery
braches
braches
noun
plural of brach
brachet
brachet
noun
(obsolete) A female hunting hound that hunts by scent; a brach.
brachia
brachia
noun
plural of brachium
bracing
bracing
adj
Invigorating or stimulating.
noun
(US) A form of the military attention stance.
(countable) A brace.
(uncountable) That which braces.
verb
present participle of brace
bracked
bracken
bracken
noun
(uncountable) An area of countryside heavily populated by this fern.
(uncountable, countable) Any of several coarse ferns, of the genus Pteridium, that form dense thickets; often poisonous to livestock.
bracker
bracket
bracket
noun
(UK) "(" and ")" specifically, the other forms above requiring adjectives for disambiguation.
(US) "[" and "]" specifically - as opposed to the other forms, which have their own technical names.
(algebra) A pair of values that represent the smallest and largest elements of a range.
(engineering) Any intermediate object that connects a smaller part to a larger part, the smaller part typically projecting sideways from the larger part.
(land surveying, 19th century) a mark cut into a stone by land surveyors to secure a bench.
(military) The cheek or side of an ordnance carriage, supporting the trunnions.
(military) Typically of stationary weapons, the zone enclosed by one long and one short shot impact expected to be hit very accurately.
(nautical) A short crooked timber, resembling a knee, used as a support.
(sports) A prediction of the outcome of games in a tournament, used for betting purposes.
(sports) A printed diagram of games in a tournament.
(typography) The small curved or angular corner formed by a serif and a stroke in a letter.
A fixture attached to a wall to hold up a shelf.
Alternative form of bragget (“drink made with ale and honey”)
One of several ranges of numbers.
verb
(military) To gauge the range of a target by firing equally short and long of it and ranging the weapon between the two to achieve a very accurate hit.
(philosophy, phenomenology) In the philosophical system of Edmund Husserl and his followers, to set aside metaphysical theories and existential questions concerning what is real in order to focus philosophical attention simply on the actual content of experience.
(photography) To take multiple images of the same subject, using a range of exposure settings, in order to help ensure that a satisfactory image is obtained.
To bound on both sides, to surround, as enclosing with brackets.
To enclose in typographical brackets.
To mark distinctly for special treatment.
To place in the same category.
To set aside, discount, ignore.
To support by means of mechanical brackets.
bractea
bractea
noun
Alternative form of bract
bracted
bracted
Adjective
Having bracts.
brahmic
brahmic
Adjective
Related or belonging to a certain family of abugidas used to write many languages of South and Southeast Asia, descended from the
branchi
branchy
branchy
adj
Having many branches.
Tending to branch frequently.
brassic
brassic
adj
Alternative form of boracic (“penniless”)
Of or relating to brassicas.
breachy
breachy
adj
Apt to break fences or to break out of pasture; unruly.
breccia
breccia
noun
(petrology) A rock composed of angular fragments in a matrix that may be of a similar or a different material.