(rare, nonstandard) The collective noun for a group of hawks.
A dish of boiled food, especially based on seafood.
A localized accumulation of pus in the skin, resulting from infection.
The point at which fluid begins to change to a vapour.
verb
(intransitive, informal, used only in progressive tenses) To feel uncomfortably hot.
(intransitive, informal, used only in progressive tenses, of weather) To be uncomfortably hot.
(intransitive, of liquids) To begin to turn into a gas, seethe.
(obsolete) To steep or soak in warm water.
(transitive) To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation.
(transitive, UK, informal) To bring to a boil, to heat so as to cause the contents to boil.
(transitive, intransitive) To cook in boiling water.
(transitive, of liquids) To heat to the point where it begins to turn into a gas.
To be agitated like boiling water; to bubble; to effervesce.
To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid.
bois
bois
noun
plural of boi
bojo
boke
boke
verb
(intransitive) To retch or vomit.
(transitive, intransitive, UK dialectal) To thrust or push out; butt; poke.
boko
boko
noun
(dated, West Midlands, originally boxing) The nose.
bola
bola
noun
A throwing weapon made of weights on the ends of a cord.
bold
bold
adj
(Ireland) Naughty; insolent; badly-behaved.
(Philippines) Pornographic; depicting nudity.
(typography, of typefaces) Having thicker strokes than the ordinary form of the typeface.
Courageous, daring.
Full-bodied.
Presumptuous, forward or impudent.
Steep or abrupt.
Visually striking; conspicuous.
noun
(obsolete) A dwelling; habitation; building.
verb
(intransitive, obsolete) To become bold or brave.
(transitive) To make (a font or some text) bold.
(transitive, obsolete) To make bold or daring.
bole
bole
noun
(Scotland) A small closet.
(Scotland) An aperture with a shutter in the wall of a house, to admit air or light.
(colour) The shade of reddish brown which resembles this clay.
(obsolete) A bolus; a dose.
Alternative form of boll (old unit of measure).
Any of several varieties of friable earthy clay, usually coloured red by iron oxide, and composed essentially of hydrous silicates of alumina, or more rarely of magnesia.
The trunk or stem of a tree.
bolk
bolk
verb
(intransitive) To belch.
(intransitive) To gush out.
(intransitive) To heave.
(intransitive) To vomit; retch.
(transitive) To belch out; give vent to; ejaculate.
boll
boll
noun
(Scotland) An old dry measure equal to six bushels.
The rounded seed-bearing capsule of a cotton or flax plant.
verb
To form a boll or seed vessel; to go to seed.
bolo
bolo
noun
(US law enforcement) A request for law enforcement officers to be on the lookout for a suspect.
(attributive) a type of punch; an uppercut.
A long, heavy, single-edged machete.
A soldier not capable of the minimum standards of marksmanship.
A string or leather necktie secured with an ornamental slide.
verb
(transitive, nonce word) To dress (somebody) in a bolo.
To attack or despatch with a bolo knife.
To fail to meet the minimum standards of marksmanship.
bolt
bolt
adv
Suddenly; straight; unbendingly.
noun
(US, politics) A refusal to support a nomination made by the party with which one has been connected; a breaking away from one's party.
(military, mechanical engineering) A sliding mechanism to chamber and unchamber a cartridge in a firearm.
(nautical) The standard linear measurement of canvas for use at sea: 39 yards.
A (usually) metal fastener consisting of a cylindrical body that is threaded, with a larger head on one end. It can be inserted into an unthreaded hole up to the head, with a nut then threaded on the other end; a heavy machine screw.
A bar of wood or metal dropped in horizontal hooks on a door and adjoining wall or between the two sides of a double door, to prevent the door(s) from being forced open.
A burst of speed or efficiency.
A large roll of fabric or similar material, as a bolt of cloth.
A lightning spark, i.e., a lightning bolt.
A sieve, especially a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter.
A sliding pin or bar in a lock or latch mechanism.
A small personal-armour-piercing missile for short-range use, or (in common usage though deprecated by experts) a short arrow, intended to be shot from a crossbow or a catapult.
A stalk or scape (of garlic, onion, etc).
A sudden event, action or emotion.
A sudden flight, as to escape creditors.
A sudden spring or start; a sudden leap aside.
An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner; a shackle; a fetter.
verb
(US, politics) To refuse to support a nomination made by a party or caucus with which one has been connected; to break away from a party.
(intransitive) To escape.
(intransitive) To flee, to depart, to accelerate suddenly.
(intransitive, botany, of lettuce, spinach, garlic, onion, etc) To produce flower stalks and flowers or seeds quickly or prematurely; to form a bolt (stalk or scape); to go to seed.
(law) To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law.
(transitive) To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge (an animal being hunted).
To connect or assemble pieces using a bolt.
To drink one's drink very quickly; to down a drink.
To secure a door by locking or barring it.
To separate, assort, refine, or purify by other means.
To sift the bran and germ from wheat flour.
To sift, especially through a cloth.
To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt.
To swallow food without chewing it.
To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out.
boma
boma
noun
(uncountable) A method of composting.
A hide.
A hut.
A military or police post or magistracy.
A stockade made of bushes and thorns.
A type of fertilizer rich in animal dung.
An enclosure usually made of thorn bushes, and latterly of steel fencing, for protection from marauders.
bomb
bomb
adj
(slang) Great, awesome.
noun
(American football, slang) A long forward pass.
(UK, Australia, slang) A large amount of money.
(US, Australia, informal) A car in poor condition.
(archaic) A mortar shell.
(basketball, slang) A throw into the basket from a considerable distance.
(chemistry) A heavy-walled container designed to permit chemical reactions under high pressure.
(chiefly Britain, India, slang) A very attractive woman.
(chiefly Britain, slang) A success; the bomb.
(colloquial) An act of jumping into water while keeping one's arms and legs tucked into the body, as in a squatting position, to maximize splashing.
(colloquial) Any explosive charge.
(dated, often with the) The atomic bomb.
(figurative) Events or conditions that have a speedy destructive effect.
(historical, archaic) Ellipsis of bomb ship.
(obsolete) A great booming noise; a hollow sound.
(often in combination) An action or statement that causes a strong reaction.
(professional wrestling) A professional wrestling throw in which an opponent is lifted and then slammed back-first down to the mat.
(rugby, soccer, slang) A high kick that sends the ball relatively straight up so players can get under it before it comes down.
(slang) A failure; an unpopular commercial product.
(slang) A recreational drug ground up, wrapped, and swallowed.
(slang) A woman’s breast.
A cyclone whose central pressure drops at an average rate of at least one millibar per hour for at least 24 hours.
An explosive device used or intended as a weapon, (especially) one dropped from an aircraft.
verb
(especially with along, down, up etc.) To move at high speed.
(intransitive, computing) To crash.
(obsolete) To sound; to boom; to make a humming or buzzing sound.
(reflexive) To make oneself drunk.
(transitive) To make a smelly mess in a toilet.
(transitive, figuratively, often with with) To attack or annoy in the manner of a bombing.
(transitive, intransitive) To attack using one or more bombs; to bombard.
(transitive, intransitive) To fail dismally.
To add an excessive amount of chlorine to a pool when it has not been maintained properly.
To cover an area in many graffiti tags.
To jump into water in a squatting position, with the arms wrapped around the legs.
bomi
bomu
bona
bona
adj
(Polari) Good.
adv
(Polari) Well.
bond
bond
adj
In a state of servitude or slavedom; not free.
Servile; slavish; pertaining to or befitting a slave.
Subject to the tenure called bondage.
noun
(Scotland) A mortgage.
(chemistry) A link or force between neighbouring atoms in a molecule.
(construction) In building, a specific pattern of bricklaying, based on overlapping rows or layers to give strength.
(finance) A documentary obligation to pay a sum or to perform a contract; a debenture.
(law) Evidence of a long-term debt, by which the bond issuer (the borrower) is obliged to pay interest when due, and repay the principal at maturity, as specified on the face of the bond certificate. The rights of the holder are specified in the bond indenture, which contains the legal terms and conditions under which the bond was issued. Bonds are available in two forms: registered bonds, and bearer bonds.
(often in the plural) A physical connection which binds, a band.
(railways) A heavy copper wire or rod connecting adjacent rails of an electric railway track when used as a part of the electric circuit.
A bail bond.
A binding agreement, a covenant.
A partial payment made to show a provider that the customer is sincere about buying a product or a service. If the product or service is not purchased the customer then forfeits the bond.
A peasant; churl.
A vassal; serf; one held in bondage to a superior.
An emotional link, connection or union; that which holds two or more people together, as in a friendship; a tie.
Any constraining or cementing force or material.
Moral or political duty or obligation.
verb
(transitive) To cause to adhere (one material with another).
(transitive) To connect, secure or tie with a bond; to bind.
(transitive) To guarantee or secure a financial risk.
(transitive) To put in a bonded warehouse; to secure (goods) until the associated duties are paid.
(transitive, chemistry) To form a chemical compound with.
(transitive, construction) To lay bricks in a specific pattern.
(transitive, electricity) To make a reliable electrical connection between two conductors (or any pieces of metal that may potentially become conductors).
To bail out by means of a bail bond.
To form a friendship or emotional connection.
bone
bone
adj
Of an off-white colour, like the colour of bone.
noun
(American football, informal) The wishbone formation.
(US, informal) A dollar.
(countable) Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of bone.
(figurative) A reward.
(figurative) The framework of anything.
(slang) A cannabis cigarette; a joint.
(slang) An erect penis; a boner.
(slang) Clipping of trombone.
(slang, chiefly in the plural) A domino or dice.
(uncountable) A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.
A bone of a fish; a fishbone.
A bonefish
An off-white colour, like the colour of bone.
Anything made of bone, such as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.
One of the fragments of bone held between the fingers of the hand and rattled together to keep time to music.
One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone.
verb
(Australia, dated, in Aboriginal culture) To perform "bone pointing", a ritual that is intended to bring illness or even death to the victim.
(carpentry, masonry, surveying) To sight along an object or set of objects to check whether they are level or in line.
(civil engineering) To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line.
(transitive, slang) To apprehend, steal.
(usually with "up") To study.
(vulgar, slang, usually of a man, transitive, intransitive) To have sexual intercourse (with).
To fertilize with bone.
To nag, especially for an unpaid debt.
To polish boots to a shiny finish.
To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.
To put whalebone into.
bong
bong
noun
(ethnic slur) An Australian Aboriginal person.
(slang) Doorbell chimes.
(slang) The clang of a large bell.
A device for rapidly consuming beer, usually consisting of a funnel or reservoir of beer and a length of tubing.
A very wide piton.
A vessel, usually made of glass or ceramic and filled with water, used in smoking various substances; especially marijuana.
Alternative spelling of bung (“purse”)
An act of smoking one serving of drugs from a bong.
verb
(slang) To pull a bell.
(slang) To ring a doorbell.
To smoke a bong.
boni
boni
noun
(nonstandard) plural of bonus
bonk
bonk
noun
(countable) An animal call resembling "bonk", for example, the call of the pobblebonk.
(informal, countable) A bump on the head.
(informal, countable) Any minor collision or blow.
(informal, countable, chiefly UK) An act of sexual intercourse.
(informal, uncountable) A condition of sudden, severe fatigue in an endurance sports event caused by glycogen depletion.
verb
(informal) To strike or collide with something.
(informal, chiefly UK) To have sexual intercourse.
(informal, sports) To experience sudden and severe fatigue in an endurance sports event due to glycogen depletion.
(skateboarding, snowboarding) To hit something with the front of the board, especially in midair.
bonn
bono
bons
bony
bony
adj
full of bones
having prominent bones
resembling, having the appearance or consistence of, or relating to bone; osseous.
with little flesh; skinny, thin
boob
boob
noun
(Australia, US) A prison; jail.
(colloquial, slang) A breast, especially that of an adult or adolescent female human.
(informal, Britain) A mistake.
(informal, derogatory, Canada, US) An idiot; a fool.
verb
(informal, intransitive) To make a mistake.
To behave stupidly; to act like a boob.
bood
boof
boof
intj
(colloquial) The sound of a blow or collision; wham.
(kayaking) A “jump” over hydraulic backwash in a high-gradient mountain river, an action analogous to a skier jumping a cliff.
verb
(intransitive) To make this sound.
(intransitive, fishing) (Of fish, especially barramundi) to surface quickly and catch prey by gulping, a behaviour which produces an audible sound.
(intransitive, kayaking) To make this kind of jump when whitewater kayaking.
(of hair) To puff out in a voluminous way.
(transitive, prison slang) To conceal (a prohibited item) in one's rectum.
(transitive, slang) To consume (drugs) rectally.
(transitive, slang) To have anal sex with someone, usually as the penetrative partner (possibly with negative connotations).
To get something wrong or make a mistake.
book
book
noun
(advertising, informal) A portfolio of one's previous work in the industry.
(cartomancy) The twenty-sixth Lenormand card.
(chess, uncountable) The sum of chess knowledge in the opening or endgame.
(figurative) Any source of instruction.
(gambling) A record of betting (from the use of a notebook to record what each person has bet).
(informal) A bookmaker (a person who takes bets on sporting events and similar); bookie; turf accountant.
(law, colloquial) A book award, a recognition for receiving the highest grade in a class (traditionally an actual book, but recently more likely a letter or certificate acknowledging the achievement).
(poker slang) Four of a kind.
(sports) A document, held by the referee, of the incidents happened in the game.
(sports, by extension) A list of all players who have been booked (received a warning) in a game.
(theater) The script of a musical or opera.
(usually in the plural) Records of the accounts of a business.
(whist) Six tricks taken by one side.
(with "the") The accumulated body of knowledge passed down among black pimps.
A collection of sheets of paper bound together to hinge at one edge, containing printed or written material, pictures, etc.
A convenient collection, in a form resembling a book, of small paper items for individual use.
A long work fit for publication, typically prose, such as a novel or textbook, and typically published as such a bound collection of sheets, but now sometimes electronically as an e-book.
A major division of a long work.
verb
(UK dialectal, Northern England) simple past tense of bake
(intransitive, slang) To leave.
(intransitive, slang) To travel very fast.
(law enforcement, transitive) To record the name and other details of a suspected offender and the offence for later judicial action.
(sports) To issue a caution to, usually a yellow card, or a red card if a yellow card has already been issued.
(transitive) To add a name to the list of people who are participating in something.
(transitive) To reserve (something) for future use.
(transitive) To write down, to register or record in a book or as in a book.
(transitive, law student slang) To receive the highest grade in a class.
To record bets as bookmaker.
bool
bool
noun
(programming) A Boolean variable, one whose value is either true or false.
verb
(slang) To relax.
boom
boom
intj
The sound of a bass drum beating.
The sound of a cannon firing.
Used to suggest something happening suddenly and unexpectedly.
Used to suggest the sound of an explosion.
noun
(aviation) Ellipsis of sonic boom.
(by extension) A microphone supported on such a pole.
(chess engines) An instance of booming.
(economics, business) A period of prosperity, growth, progress, or high market activity.
(electronics) The longest element of a Yagi antenna, on which the other, smaller ones are transversally mounted.
(nautical) A spar extending the foot of a sail; a spar rigged outboard from a ship's side to which boats are secured in harbour.
A floating barrier used to obstruct navigation, for military or other purposes; or used for the containment of an oil spill or to control the flow of logs from logging operations.
A gymnastics apparatus similar to a balance beam.
A horizontal member of a crane or derrick, used for lifting.
A low-pitched, resonant sound, such as of an explosion.
A movable pole used to support a microphone or camera.
A rapid expansion or increase.
A wishbone-shaped piece of windsurfing equipment.
One of the calls of certain monkeys or birds.
The section of the arm on a backhoe closest to the tractor.
verb
(aviation) To subject to a sonic boom.
(chess engines) To rapidly adjust the evaluation of a position away from zero, indicating a likely win or loss.
(intransitive) To flourish, grow, or progress.
(slang, US, obsolete) To publicly praise.
(transitive) To make something boom.
(transitive, dated) To cause to advance rapidly in price.
(transitive, figuratively, of speech) To exclaim with force, to shout, to thunder.
(usually with "up" or "down") To raise or lower with a crane boom.
Of a Eurasian bittern, to make its deep, resonant territorial vocalisation.
To extend, or push, with a boom or pole.
To make a loud, hollow, resonant sound.
To rush with violence and noise, as a ship under a press of sail, before a free wind.
boon
boon
adj
(archaic) Kind; bountiful; benign.
(now only in boon companion) gay; merry; jovial; convivial.
(obsolete) Good; prosperous.
noun
(Britain, dialectal) An unpaid service due by a tenant to his lord.
(archaic) That which is asked or granted as a benefit or favor; a gift or benefaction.
(obsolete) A prayer; petition.
(slang) Clipping of sheboon.
A good thing; a blessing or benefit; a thing to be thankful for.
The woody portion of flax, separated from the fiber as refuse matter by retting, braking, and scutching.
boor
boor
noun
A Boer, white South African of Dutch or Huguenot descent.
A peasant.
A yokel, country bumpkin.
An uncultured person.
boos
boos
noun
plural of boo
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of boo
boot
boot
noun
(Australia, Britain, New Zealand, South Africa, automotive) The luggage storage compartment of a sedan or saloon car.
(Britain, slang) An unattractive person, ugly woman.
(US) A crust end-piece of a loaf of bread.
(US) A parking enforcement device used to immobilize a car until it can be towed or a fine is paid; a wheel clamp.
(US, military, law enforcement, slang) A recently arrived recruit; a rookie.
(archaic) A place for baggage at either end of an old-fashioned stagecoach.
(archaic, dialectal) Remedy, amends.
(aviation) A rubber bladder on the leading edge of an aircraft’s wing, which is inflated periodically to remove ice buildup; a deicing boot.
(baseball) A bobbled ball.
(botany) The inflated flag leaf sheath of a wheat plant.
(computing) The act or process of bootstrapping; the starting or re-starting of a computing device.
(construction) A flexible cover of rubber or plastic, which may be preformed to a particular shape and used to protect a shaft, lever, switch, or opening from dust, dirt, moisture, etc.
(countable, uncountable) That which is given to make an exchange equal, or to make up for the deficiency of value in one of the things exchanged; compensation; recompense.
(firearms) A hard plastic case for a long firearm, typically moulded to the shape of the gun and intended for use in a vehicle.
(informal) A bootleg recording.
(informal, with definite article) The act or process of removing or firing someone (dismissing them from a job or other post).
(obsolete) A medicinal cure or remedy.
(obsolete) A place at the side of a coach, where attendants rode; also, a low outside place before and behind the body of the coach.
(obsolete) Profit; gain; advantage; use.
(obsolete) Repair work; the act of fixing structures or buildings.
(slang) A linear amplifier used with CB radio.
(slang, ethnic slur) A black person.
(slang, motorsports) A tyre.
(sports) A kind of sports shoe worn by players of certain games such as cricket and football.
(uncountable) Profit, plunder.
(usually preceded by definite article) A torture device used on the feet or legs, such as a Spanish boot.
A blow with the foot; a kick.
A heavy shoe that covers part of the leg.
verb
(MLE, criminal slang) To shoot, to kill by gunfire.
(colloquial, Canada, US, usually with it) To step on the accelerator of a vehicle for faster acceleration than usual or to drive faster than usual.
(computing) To bootstrap; to start a system, e.g. a computer, by invoking its boot process or bootstrap.
(computing, informal) To disconnect forcibly; to eject from an online service, conversation, etc.
(informal) To eject; kick out.
(often with up) To start or restart a computer or other electronic system; to bootstrap.
(transitive, obsolete) To avail, benefit, profit.
(transitive, obsolete) To benefit, to enrich; to give in addition.
To apply corporal punishment (compare slippering).
To kick.
To put boots on, especially for riding.
booz
bopp
bops
bops
noun
plural of bop
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bop
bora
bora
noun
A cold, often dry, northeasterly wind which blows, sometimes in violent gusts, down from mountains on the eastern shore of the Adriatic Sea. It also applies to cold, squally, downslope winds in other parts of the world.
A initiation ceremony for males among the Aborigines of New South Wales.
bord
bord
noun
(mining) The coalface parallel to the natural fissures.
Obsolete form of board.
Obsolete form of bourd.
bore
bore
noun
A capped well drilled to tap artesian water.
A hole drilled or milled through something, or (by extension) its diameter.
A sudden and rapid flow of tide occurring in certain rivers and estuaries which rolls up as a wave.
A tool, such as an auger, for making a hole by boring.
Calibre; importance.
One who inspires boredom or lack of interest; an uninteresting person.
Something dull or uninteresting.
The place where such a well exists.
The tunnel inside of a gun's barrel through which the bullet travels when fired, or (by extension) its diameter.
verb
(colloquial) past participle of bear
(intransitive) To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns.
(intransitive) To make a hole with, or as if with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool.
(intransitive) To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.
(obsolete) To fool; to trick.
(proscribed) simple past tense of bare
(transitive) To form or enlarge (something) by means of a boring instrument or apparatus.
(transitive) To inspire boredom in somebody.
(transitive) To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; to force a narrow and difficult passage through.
(transitive) To make a hole through something.
(transitive, sports, slang) To push or drive (a boxer into the ropes, a boat out of its course, etc.).
simple past tense of bear
borg
borg
noun
cyborg
verb
Alternative spelling of Borg
borh
bori
bork
bork
noun
(Internet slang, humorous) The sound a dog makes.
(informal) The bald notothen or bald rockcod (Pagothenia borchgrevinki), a species of cod icefish (Nototheniidae) native to the Southern Ocean.
verb
(Internet slang, humorous) (of a dog) To bark
(intransitive, slang) To become broken or damaged, especially of a computer or other complex device.
(transitive, intransitive, US politics, often derogatory) To defeat a person's appointment or election, judicial nomination, etc., through a concerted attack on the person's character, background, and philosophy.
(transitive, slang) To misconfigure, break, or damage, especially a computer or other complex device.
(vulgar, slang) To boink.
born
born
adj
Having from birth (or as if from birth) a certain quality or character; innate; inherited.
noun
(Tyneside) Alternative spelling of burn (a stream)
verb
(Tyneside) Alternative spelling of burn (with fire etc.)
(obsolete) past participle of bear in other senses.
past participle of bear; given birth to.
boro
boro
noun
(US) Alternative spelling of borough
verb
(Jamaica) borrow
bors
bors
noun
plural of bor
bort
bort
noun
Poor-quality diamond, used for industrial cutting or abrasion; a poorly crystallized diamond.
boru
bosc
bose
bose
verb
(usually archaeology) To strike the ground with an object in order to determine, from the resulting sounds, what lies underground.
bosh
bosh
intj
(Britain) An expression of speedy and satisfactory completion of a simple or straightforward task.
(chiefly Britain) An expression of disbelief or annoyance.
noun
(Britain, chiefly Norfolk, slang, archaic) A figure.
(chiefly Britain) Nonsense.
A fiddle (musical instrument).
The lower part of a blast furnace, between the hearth and the stack.
verb
(UK, slang, transitive) To consume (illicit drugs).
bosk
bosk
noun
(archaic) A thicket; a small wood.
(obsolete except dialectal) A bush.
bosn
boss
boss
adj
(slang, US, Canada, Liverpudlian) Of excellent quality, first-rate.
noun
(archery) A target block, made of foam but historically made of hay bales, to which a target face is attached.
(architecture) A knob or projection, usually at the intersection of ribs in a vault.
(geology) A lump-like mass of rock, especially one projecting through a stratum of different rock.
(humorous) Wife.
(informal, especially India and MLE) A term of address to a man.
(mechanics) A protrusion, frequently a cylinder of material that extends beyond a hole.
(obsolete) A hassock or small seat, especially made from a bundle of straw.
(video games) An enemy, often at the end of a level, that is particularly challenging and must be beaten in order to progress.
A convex protuberance in hammered work, especially the rounded projection in the centre of a shield.
A head or reservoir of water.
A leader, the head of an organized group or team.
A person in charge of a business or company.
A person who oversees and directs the work of others; a supervisor.
A swelling, lump or protuberance in an animal, person or object.
A wooden vessel for the mortar used in tiling or masonry, hung by a hook from the laths, or from the rounds of a ladder.
The head of a political party in a given region or district.
verb
(transitive) To decorate with bosses; to emboss.
(transitive) To exercise authoritative control over; to tell (someone) what to do, often repeatedly.
bota
bote
bote
noun
A privilege or allowance of necessaries, especially in feudal times.
A right to take wood from property not one's own.
Atonement, compensation, amends, satisfaction; as, manbote, a compensation for a man slain.
both
both
conj
(obsolete) Including all of (used with and).
Including both of (used with and).
det
Each of the two; one and the other; referring to two individuals or items.
pron
Each of the two, or of the two kinds.
boti
bots
bots
noun
plural of bot
bott
bott
noun
Alternative spelling of bot (the larva of the botfly)
boud
boud
noun
(obsolete) A weevil; a worm that breeds in malt, biscuit, etc.
bouk
bouk
noun
(UK dialectal or obsolete) The belly.
(UK dialectal) The carcass of a slaughtered animal.
(UK dialectal) The trunk or torso of the body, hence the body itself.
boul
boul
noun
A curved handle.
boun
boun
verb
(transitive, intransitive) To make or get ready; prepare.
bour
bout
bout
noun
(boxing) A boxing match.
(dated) The going and returning of a plough, or other implement used to mark the ground and create a headland, across a field.
(fencing) An assault (a fencing encounter) at which the score is kept.
(music) A bulge or widening in a musical instrument, such as either of the two characteristic bulges of a guitar.
(roller derby) A roller derby match.
A fighting competition.
A period of something, especially one painful or unpleasant.
prep
(colloquial) Aphetic form of about
verb
To contest a bout.
bouw
bove
bove
prep
(now colloquial or dialectal) Above.
bowe
bowe
noun
Obsolete spelling of bow
bowk
bowk
verb
(Tyneside) To belch, to burp.
(UK) To vomit.
bowl
bowl
noun
(American football) A postseason football competition, a bowl game (i.e. Rose Bowl, Super Bowl)
(cooking) A dish comprising a mix of different foods, not all of which need be cooked, served in a bowl.
(geography) A round crater (or similar) in the ground.
(in the plural, but used with a singular verb) The game of bowls.
(sports, theater) An elliptical-shaped stadium or amphitheater resembling a bowl.
(typography) A rounded portion of a glyph that encloses empty space, as in the letters d and o.
A haircut in which straight hair is cut at an even height around the edges, forming a bowl shape.
A part of a pipe or bong packed with marijuana for smoking
A roughly hemispherical container used to hold, mix or present food, such as salad, fruit or soup, or other items.
As much as is held by a bowl.
The action of bowling a ball.
The ball rolled by players in the game of lawn bowls.
The part of a spoon that holds content, as opposed to the handle.
The round hollow part of anything.
verb
(intransitive) To play bowling or a similar game.
(intransitive) To throw the ball (in cricket and similar games and sports).
(transitive) To roll or throw (a ball) in the correct manner in cricket and similar games and sports.
To pelt or strike with anything rolled.
To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels.
bown
bows
bows
noun
plural of bow
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bow
boxy
boxy
adj
Box-shaped, box-like, or otherwise suggestive of boxes (with right angles or at least blunt profiles).
boyd
boyd
Proper noun
name transferred from the surname.
boyg
boyg
noun
Formless hindrances personified as an enemy
boyo
boyo
noun
(Ireland) A boy or lad.
(sometimes derogatory) A stereotypically Welsh form of address for a man, usually younger than the speaker.
boys
boys
noun
(slang) The testicles.
plural of boy
boyt
boza
boza
noun
a fermented drink made from wheat or millet
bozo
bozo
noun
(slang) A stupid, foolish, or ridiculous person, especially a man.
bpoc
bpoe
brio
brio
noun
Vigour or vivacity.
brno
brno
Proper noun
a city in the south of the Czech Republic
brob
brob
noun
A wedge-shaped spike used to secure the end of a timber where it abuts another. Much used in earlier times in the construction of tunnelled box-timber headings.
verb
(obsolete) To poke or prick
brod
brog
brog
noun
A pointed instrument, such as a joiner's awl.
verb
(transitive) To prod with a pointed instrument, such as a lance; to prick or pierce.
To broggle.
brok
brom
bron
broo
broo
noun
(Scotland) broth
bros
bros
noun
plural of bro
brot
brow
brow
noun
(figurative) Aspect; appearance.
(mining) A gallery in a coal mine running across the face of the coal.
(nautical) The gangway from ship to shore when a ship is lying alongside a quay.
(nautical) The hinged part of a landing craft or ferry which is lowered to form a landing platform; a ramp.
The first tine of an antler's beam.
The forehead.
The projecting upper edge of a steep place such as a hill.
The ridge over the eyes; the eyebrow.
verb
To bound or limit; to be at, or form, the edge of.
broz
bsoc
bsot
btol
bubo
bubo
noun
(pathology) An inflamed swelling of a lymph node, especially in the armpit or groin, due to an infection such as bubonic plague, gonorrhea, tuberculosis, or syphilis.
bufo
bufo
noun
(Hawaii, slang) toad, frog
buoy
buoy
noun
(nautical) A float moored in water to mark a location, warn of danger, indicate a navigational channel or for other purposes
A life-buoy; a life preserver.
verb
(transitive) To keep afloat or aloft; used with up.
(transitive) To mark with a buoy.
(transitive) To support or maintain at a high level.
To maintain or enhance enthusiasm or confidence; to lift the spirits of.
buro
buro
noun
(US) a chest of drawers for clothes
a desk, usually with a cover and compartments for storing papers etc. located above the level of the writing surface rather than underneath.
an office
bygo
byon
caon
capo
capo
noun
A leader and organizer of supporters at a sporting event, particularly association football matches.
A leader in the Mafia; a caporegime.
A movable bar placed across the fingerboard of a guitar used to raise the pitch of all strings.
caro
cato
cero
cero
noun
A large scombroid food fish (Scomberomorus regalis) found chiefly in the West Indies.
ceto
chao
chlo
chob
chok
chol
chol
noun
(biochemistry, medicine) Abbreviation of cholesterol.
chon
chon
noun
Alternative spelling of jun
choo
choo
noun
(onomatopoeia) The sound of a locomotive whistle
chop
chop
noun
(Australia, New Zealand) A woodchopping competition.
(Internet) An IRC channel operator.
(chiefly in the plural) A jaw of an animal.
(colloquial, India, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei) A stamp or seal; a mark, imprint or impression on a document (or other object or material) made by stamping or sealing a design with ink or wax, respectively, or by other methods.
(colloquial, by extension, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei) The device used for stamping or sealing, which also contains the design to be imprinted.
(dated) A crack or cleft; a chap.
(informal, with "the") Termination, especially from employment; the sack.
(martial arts) A blow delivered with the hand rigid and outstretched.
(poker) A hand where two or more players have an equal-valued hand, resulting in the chips being shared equally between them.
A blow with an axe, cleaver, or similar utensil.
A complete shipment.
A cut of meat, often containing a section of a rib.
A license or passport that has been sealed.
A mark indicating nature, quality, or brand.
A movable jaw or cheek, as of a vice.
A turn of fortune; change; a vicissitude.
Ocean waves, generally caused by wind, distinguished from swell by being smaller and not lasting as long.
The land at each side of the mouth of a river, harbour, or channel.
verb
(computing, transitive, Perl) To remove the final character from (a text string).
(intransitive) To do something suddenly with an unexpected motion; to catch or attempt to seize.
(intransitive) To interrupt; with in or out.
(intransitive) To make a quick, heavy stroke or a series of strokes, with or as with an ax.
(nautical) To vary or shift suddenly.
(obsolete) To exchange, to barter; to swap.
(obsolete) To twist words.
(poker) To divide the pot (or tournament prize) between two or more players.
(transitive) To cut into pieces with short, vigorous cutting motions.
(transitive) To sever with an axe or similar implement.
(transitive) to give a downward cutting blow or movement, typically with the side of the hand.
(transitive, Hong Kong) To stab.
(transitive, baseball) To hit the ball downward so that it takes a high bounce.
(transitive, colloquial, India, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei) To stamp or seal (a document); to mark, impress or otherwise place a design or symbol on paper or other material, usually, but not necessarily, to indicate authenticity.
To chap or crack.
To converse, discuss, or speak with another.
To seal a license or passport.
chor
chor
verb
(Tyneside) Alternative form of chore (“to steal”).
chou
chou
noun
(baking) Choux pastry, usually in the form of a small round cake with a sweet filling.
(fashion) A bunch, knot, or rosette of ribbon or other material, used as an ornament in women's clothing.
chow
chow
noun
(Trinidad and Tobago) Unripe, or partially ripened, fruit seasoned and served as a dish, e.g. pineapple chow or mango chow.
(chiefly Australia, slang, now rare) A Chinese person.
(mahjong) A run of three consecutive tiles of the same suit.
(slang, uncountable) Food, especially snacks.
A Chow Chow.
A prefecture or district of the second rank in China, or the chief city of such a district.
verb
(mahjong) To call a discarded tile to produce a chow.
(slang, South Africa) To eat.
choy
ciao
ciao
intj
bye, goodbye.
hello, hi.
noun
A greeting or farewell using the word "ciao".
cilo
cion
cion
noun
(chiefly botany) Alternative spelling of scion
cipo
ciro
cixo
cleo
clio
clod
clod
noun
A lump of something, especially of earth or clay.
A stupid person; a dolt.
Part of a shoulder of beef, or of the neck piece near the shoulder.
The ground; the earth; a spot of earth or turf.
verb
(transitive) To pelt with clods.
(transitive, Scotland) To throw violently; to hurl.
To collect into clods, or into a thick mass; to coagulate; to clot.
cloe
cloe
Proper noun
name, an spelling of
clof
clog
clog
noun
(UK, colloquial) A shoe of any type.
A blockage.
A type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel.
A weight, such as a log or block of wood, attached to a person or animal to hinder motion.
That which hinders or impedes motion; an encumbrance, restraint, or impediment of any kind.
verb
(intransitive) To perform a clog dance.
(law) To enforce a mortgage lender right that prevents a borrower from exercising a right to redeem.
To block or slow passage through (often with 'up').
To burden; to trammel; to embarrass; to perplex.
To encumber or load, especially with something that impedes motion; to hamper.
clon
clop
clop
noun
(onomatopoeia) The sound of a horse's shod hoof striking the ground.
(slang) My Little Pony-themed pornography.
verb
(slang) To masturbate to My Little Pony-themed pornography.
To make this sound; to walk so as to make this sound.
clos
clot
clot
noun
A silly person.
A solidified mass of any liquid.
A thrombus, solidified mass of blood.
verb
(intransitive) To form a clot or mass.
(transitive) To cause to clot or form into a mass.
clou
clou
noun
Something which holds the greatest attention; the chief point of interest.
clow
cloy
cloy
verb
(transitive) To clog, to glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate.
(transitive) To fill to loathing; to surfeit.
(transitive) To fill up or choke up; to stop up.
clyo
cmon
cmon
abbrev
Alternative spelling of c'mon
cmos
cmot
coad
coak
coak
noun
(nautical) the brass bearing in the sheave of a block
A wooden dowel.
Obsolete spelling of coke (coal fuel)
verb
To unite (timbers etc.) by means of tenons or dowels in the edges or face.
coal
coal
noun
(countable) A glowing or charred piece of coal, wood, or other solid fuel.
(countable) A piece of coal used for burning (this use is less common in American English)
(countable) A type of coal, such as bituminous, anthracite, or lignite, and grades and varieties thereof, as a fuel commodity ready to buy and burn.
(uncountable) A black or brownish black rock formed from prehistoric plant remains, composed largely of carbon and burned as a fuel.
charcoal.
verb
(intransitive) To be converted to charcoal.
(intransitive) To take on a supply of coal (usually of steam ships).
(transitive) To burn to charcoal; to char.
(transitive) To mark or delineate with charcoal.
(transitive) To supply with coal.
coam
coan
coat
coat
noun
(countable) A covering of material, such as paint.ᵂᵖ
(countable) An outer garment covering the upper torso and arms.ᵂᵖ
(countable) The fur or feathers covering an animal's skin.ᵂᵖ
(obsolete) A petticoat.
(uncountable, nautical) Canvas painted with thick tar and secured round a mast or bowsprit to prevent water running down the sides into the hold (now made of rubber or leather).
A coat card.
A coat of arms.ᵂᵖ
The habit or vesture of an order of men, indicating the order or office; cloth.
verb
(transitive) To cover like a coat.
(transitive) To cover with a coating of some material.