The rind of the fruit of several East Indian species of acacia, especially Vachellia nilotica, formerly Acacia arabica; neb-neb. It contains gallic acid and tannin, and is used for dyeing drab.
babloh
bachel
baghla
balche
balche
noun
Alternative form of balché
baloch
baloch
Noun
A member of an Iranian people who primarily speak the Balochi language and inhabit Balochistan and other nearby areas.
baluch
barhal
bathyl
behale
behalf
behalf
noun
(when adopted by someone else) One's role or rightful place; stead or authority.
The interest, benefit, or wellbeing of someone or something.
behlau
belash
belash
verb
(transitive, archaic) To strike or flog with a lash; take a lash to
beulah
bharal
bharal
noun
A blue sheep, being any species of the genus Pseudois, goatlike bovids of the Himalayas and western China with a bluish-grey coat; Himalayan blue sheep (Pseudois nayaur).
bhopal
bhopal
Proper noun
State capital of Madhya Pradesh (India).
bilhah
bilhah
Proper noun
A handmaid of Rachel and mother of Dan and Naphtali.
name of biblical origin.
blanch
blanch
verb
(intransitive) To cover (sheet iron) with a coating of tin.
(intransitive) To grow or become white.
(transitive) To bleach by excluding the light, for example the stalks or leaves of plants, by earthing them up or tying them together
(transitive) To give a white lustre to (silver, before stamping, in the process of coining)
(transitive) To make white by removing the skin of, for example by scalding
(transitive) To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach.
(transitive) To whiten, for example the surface of meat, by plunging into boiling water and afterwards into cold, so as to harden the surface and retain the juices
(transitive, cooking) To cook by dipping briefly into boiling water, then directly into cold water.
(transitive, figuratively) To give a favorable appearance to; to whitewash; to whiten;
To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed.
To cause to turn aside or back.
To use evasion.
blashy
blashy
adj
(of food) watery
(of weather) windy and rainy
blatch
blatch
noun
(obsolete) Blacking, blackening.
verb
(transitive, archaic) To blacken; to smear with blacking; to stain or mark with soot or coal.
bleach
bleach
adj
(archaic) Pale; bleak.
noun
(countable) A variety of bleach.
(uncountable) A chemical, such as sodium hypochlorite or hydrogen peroxide, or a preparation of such a chemical, used for disinfecting or whitening.
A disease of the skin.
An act of bleaching; exposure to the sun.
verb
(intransitive) To be whitened or lightened (by the sun, for example).
(intransitive, biology, of corals) To lose color due to stress-induced expulsion of symbiotic unicellular algae.
(transitive) To treat with bleach, especially so as to whiten (fabric, paper, etc.) or lighten (hair).
(transitive, figurative) To make meaningless; to divest of meaning; to make empty.
habble
habble
noun
(Scotland) A squabble.
(Scotland) A state of perplexity.
verb
(Scotland, intransitive) To stutter or stammer.
(Scotland, transitive) To perplex.
habile
habile
adj
Generally able or adroit; handy.
halbur
halebi
hamble
hamble
verb
(intransitive) To walk lame; limp.
(obsolete, transitive) To mutilate; hamstring; cut away.
(transitive) To cut out the balls of the feet of (dogs) so as to render them unfit for hunting.
helban
herbal
herbal
adj
Made from natural herbs specifically as opposed to from synthetic materials.