(literary) Not disconcerted or embarrassed; not concealed; not eliciting shame.
abashment
abashment
noun
The state of being abashed; embarrassment from shame.
abbotship
abbotship
noun
The state, term, or office of an abbot; abbacy.
abhenries
abhenries
noun
plural of abhenry
abhorrers
abhorrers
noun
plural of abhorrer
abkhasian
abolished
abolished
verb
simple past tense and past participle of abolish
abolisher
abolisher
noun
Agent noun of abolish; one who abolishes.
abolishes
abolishes
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of abolish
abrachias
abrachias
noun
plural of abrachia
absinthes
absinthes
noun
plural of absinthe
absinthic
absinthic
adj
(chemistry) Relating to the common wormwood or to an acid obtained from it.
absinthin
absinthin
noun
(organic chemistry) The principal compound found in wormwood (Artemisia absinthium), having a bitter taste: C₁₅H₂₀O₄
absinthol
absinthol
noun
(organic chemistry) A monoterpene ketone that is a major constituent of the essential oil of wormwood, C₁₀H₁₆O; thujone.
alphabets
alphabets
noun
plural of alphabet
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of alphabet
amberfish
amberfish
noun
An amberjack.
ambushers
ambushers
noun
plural of ambusher
ambushing
ambushing
verb
present participle of ambush
archbancs
arrowbush
ashburton
ashburton
Proper noun
a small town on the edge of Dartmoor, Devon, England.
a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria.
a river in Western Australia, which flows into the Indian Ocean.
a large town in Canterbury, New Zealand.
a river (with two branches) in Canterbury which flows past the town to the Pacific Ocean.
a town in Natal, South Africa.
a neighbourhood in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
ashkhabad
ashtabula
athabasca
athabasca
Proper noun
A town in Alberta, Canada.
athabaska
autobahns
autobahns
noun
plural of autobahn
babbishly
baboonish
baboonish
adj
Like a baboon.
babushkas
babushkas
noun
plural of babushka
babyhoods
babyhoods
noun
plural of babyhood
babyhouse
babyhouse
Noun
A doll's house.
babyishly
babyishly
adv
In a babyish manner.
bacchants
bacchants
noun
plural of bacchant
baccharis
bacchides
bachelors
bachelors
noun
plural of bachelor
backaches
backaches
noun
plural of backache
backchats
backchats
noun
plural of backchat
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backchat
backflash
backflash
noun
Synonym of flashback (“dramatic device”)
The hazardous situation where the flame propagates backward down the hose of an oxyfuel welding and cutting system.
backhands
backhands
noun
plural of backhand
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backhand
backhauls
backhauls
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backhaul
backhouse
backhouse
noun
(US, Canada, euphemistic) An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
(now dialect) An outbuilding behind the main building.
backshift
backshift
noun
(grammar) The changing of the tense of a verb from present to past in reported speech.
(statistics) A function on a stochastic process whose value on any random variable is the preceding random variable in the process.
verb
(grammar, transitive) To change the tense of a verb from present to past in reported speech.
backshish
backshish
noun
Alternative spelling of baksheesh
backsight
backsight
noun
(surveying) A measurement of a previously shot point, used to set the angle to zero when occupying a new position.
(surveying) A measurement or reading taken back towards a point of known elevation, used to calculate the height of the surveying instrument (theodolite, transit, total station).
The rear sight of a firearm.
verb
(surveying) To shoot a backsight.
backslash
backslash
noun
(computing, rare, proscribed) Used erroneously in reference to, or in reading out, the ordinary slash, that is, the punctuation mark /.
The punctuation mark \.
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verb
(computing, transitive) To escape (a metacharacter) by prepending a backslash that serves as an escape character, thereby forming an escape sequence.
baddishly
badmouths
badmouths
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of badmouth
bahamians
bakehouse
bakehouse
noun
(UK dialectal) Bakery.
A building or an apartment used for the preparing and baking of bread and other baked goods.
A building principally containing ovens.
bakership
bakership
noun
The role or status of a baker.
bakeshops
bakeshops
noun
plural of bakeshop
bakshaish
baksheesh
baksheesh
noun
(military slang) A minor wound that is severe enough to get a soldier sent away from the front.
in the Middle East, southwest Asia and Eastern Europe: a bribe or tip.
verb
To bribe with a baksheesh.
baldheads
baldheads
noun
plural of baldhead
ballhawks
ballhawks
noun
plural of ballhawk
ballyhoos
ballyhoos
noun
plural of ballyhoo
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ballyhoo
balthasar
banishers
banishers
noun
plural of banisher
banishing
banishing
noun
A magical ritual intended to remove negative spiritual influences.
verb
present participle of banish
bankshall
bankshall
noun
(India, historical) A warehouse.
(India, historical) The office of a harbormaster or other port authority.
baraithas
baratheas
baratheas
noun
plural of barathea
barberish
barberish
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a barber.
barghests
barghests
noun
plural of barghest
baronship
baronship
noun
The rank or position of a baron.
barouches
barouches
noun
plural of barouche
bashalick
bashawdom
bashawism
bashawism
noun
The behaviour of a bashaw.
bashemath
bashemeth
bashfully
bashfully
adv
In a bashful manner.
bashkiria
bashkiria
Proper noun
A republic of Russia in the south of the country, with capital Ufa.
bashmuric
basihyoid
basihyoid
noun
(anatomy) The central tongue bone.
basophile
basophile
noun
Alternative form of basophil
basophils
basophils
noun
plural of basophil
batfishes
batfishes
noun
plural of batfish
bathhouse
bathhouse
noun
A building where swimmers can change clothes.
A building with baths for communal use.
A business with bath-like facilities, which chiefly serves as a place for sexual encounters, especially among men.
bathrobes
bathrobes
noun
plural of bathrobe
bathrooms
bathrooms
noun
plural of bathroom
bathsheba
bathsheba
Proper noun
In the Old Testament, the wife of Uriah and later of David.
name of biblical origin.
bathsheeb
bathybius
bathybius
Noun
A gelatinous substance found in mud dredged from the Atlantic and once supposed to be a free living protoplasm, later found to be the result of precipitation.
bathysmal
bauhinias
bauhinias
noun
plural of bauhinia
beachboys
beachboys
noun
plural of beachboy
beachiest
beachiest
adj
superlative form of beachy: most beachy
beachless
beachless
adj
Without a beach or beaches.
beachside
beachside
adj
(rare) Bordering a beach
noun
The land bordering a beach.
beadflush
beadhouse
beadhouse
noun
(historical) An almshouse for poor people who pray daily for their benefactors.
beamhouse
beamishly
beamishly
adv
In a beamish manner.
beardfish
beardfish
noun
Any of various deep-sea fish, of the family Polymixiidae, that have a pair of long hyoid barbels.
bearishly
bearishly
adv
In a bearish manner.
beasthood
beasthood
noun
The property or state of being a beast.
beastship
beastship
noun
The quality of being a beast, or beastly.
beaverish
beaverish
adj
Characteristic of a beaver.
bechamels
bechamels
noun
plural of bechamel
bechances
bechances
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bechance
bechuanas
bedchairs
bedchairs
noun
plural of bedchair
beersheba
begarnish
behaviors
behaviors
noun
plural of behavior
behusband
bequeaths
bequeaths
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bequeath
berdaches
berdaches
noun
plural of berdache
bescratch
bescratch
verb
(transitive) To scratch; scratch about; scratch all over.
beshackle
beshadows
beshadows
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of beshadow
beshaming
beshaming
verb
present participle of beshame
beshawled
beshawled
adj
Wearing a shawl.
bethesdas
bethsabee
bethsaida
bhutanese
biathlons
biathlons
noun
plural of biathlon
billheads
billheads
noun
plural of billhead
bipaschal
bipaschal
adj
Including two Passovers.
birdbaths
birdbaths
noun
plural of birdbath
birthdays
birthdays
noun
plural of birthday
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of birthday
bishareen
bismillah
bismillah
intj
Alternative letter-case form of Bismillah.
bismuthal
bismuthal
adj
Containing bismuth.
blackbush
blackfish
blackfish
noun
(Australia, New Zealand) Any of various dark-coloured fishes of Australasia, especially the luderick, Girella tricuspidata, and a freshwater fish, Gadopsis marmoratus.
(Canada, US) Either of two dark-coloured fish of the west Atlantic, the tautog of New England (Tautoga onitis) and the black sea bass (Centropristis striata).
(chiefly Scotland) The Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, especially a female after spawning.
A pilot whale, genus Globicephalus (occasionally also used for various other whales).
Any of various dark-coloured fish of the Old World, especially the rudderfish (Centrolophus niger).
verb
(Internet slang, derogatory, of a white person) To adopt signifiers of black identity (for example, by darkening the skin, or wearing traditionally black hairstyles).
(fishing) To go fishing for blackfish.
blackwash
blackwash
noun
(chiefly politics) A villainization campaign.
(medicine) A lotion made by mixing calomel and limewater.
(slang, New Zealand) A whitewash victory for any New Zealand national sporting team.
(slang, cricket) A whitewash victory for the West Indies cricket team. Started in the 1984–86 "Blackwash" series of the West Indian cricket team in England in 1984.
(slang, mining) Public campaigns and advertising funded by the coal industry to draw attention away from environmentally unsustainable practices or to justify exclusion from carbon taxes.
verb
(transitive) To blacken, to cover with a black color.
(transitive) To portray in a revisionist fashion as belonging to a black race of people.
(transitive) To villainize, to present in a damaging light.
blanchers
blanchers
noun
plural of blancher
blaspheme
blaspheme
noun
Obsolete spelling of blasphemy
verb
(intransitive) To commit blasphemy; to speak against God or religious doctrine.
(transitive) To calumniate; to revile; to abuse.
(transitive) To speak of, or address, with impious irreverence; to revile impiously (anything sacred).
blasphemy
blasphemy
noun
(by extension) An act of irreverence towards anything considered inviolable; the act of disregarding a convention.
An act of irreverence or contempt toward a god or toward something considered sacred; an impious act, utterance, view, etc.
blasthole
blasthole
noun
A hole in the bottom of a pump through which water enters.
The hole created by an explosion, for example in mining.
The hole into which a blasting charge is inserted
bleachers
bleachers
noun
plural of bleacher
blowhards
blowhards
noun
plural of blowhard
blueheads
blueheads
noun
plural of bluehead
boarishly
boarishly
adv
in a boarish manner
boathouse
boathouse
noun
A building at the edge of a river, lake or other body of water in which boats are kept.
bohemians
bohemians
noun
plural of bohemian
boltheads
boltheads
noun
plural of bolthead
boneheads
boneheads
noun
plural of bonehead
boneshave
boschvark
boshvarks
brachials
brachials
noun
plural of brachial
brachinus
brahmanis
brahmoism
brahmoism
Proper noun
A religious movement of Bengal in the late 18th century.
brahmsian
brahmsian
Adjective
Of or pertaining to (1833–1897), German composer and pianist, or his compositions.
brahmsite
brainwash
brainwash
noun
A distorting effect upon one's memory, belief, or ideas, as by propaganda.
verb
(figuratively, dated) To take from an electronically controlled machine its stored-up information; to erase a computer's programming. (1960)
(psychology) To affect one's mind by using extreme mental pressure or any other mind-affecting process. (e.g. hypnosis)