(intransitive) To undergo ablation; to become melted or evaporated and removed at a high temperature.
(transitive) To remove or decrease something by cutting, erosion, melting, evaporation, or vaporization.
ablest
ablest
adj
superlative form of able: most able
ablute
ablute
verb
(intransitive, colloquial) To wash oneself.
(transitive, colloquial) To wash.
acetal
acetal
noun
(organic chemistry) Any diether of a geminal diol, R₂C(OR')₂ (where R' is not H).
acetla
acetol
acetol
noun
(organic chemistry) hydroxyacetone
acetyl
acetyl
noun
(organic chemistry) The univalent radical CH₃CO- derived from acetic acid.
achtel
achtel
noun
(historical) An old German measure of capacity.
afetal
afetal
adj
Not fetal
aglets
aglets
noun
plural of aglet
aiglet
aiglet
noun
A tip, originally of metal and often decorative, on a ribbon or cord that makes lacing two parts of a garment or garments together easier, as in corset lacings, "points" (lacing hose or trousers to jacket or doublet) or sleeves to a bodice.
An ornament worn on clothing, consisting of a metal tag on a fringe, or a small metallic plate or spangle.
alaite
alatea
alated
alated
adj
Alate.
alates
alates
noun
plural of alate
albeit
albeit
conj
Although, despite (it) being.
albert
albite
albite
noun
(mineralogy) A plagioclase feldspar, the first member of the Albite-Anorthite solid solution series.
alecto
alecto
Proper noun
One of the Furies
alepot
alepot
noun
(historical) A drinking-vessel in which ale is served.
alerta
alerts
alerts
noun
plural of alert
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of alert
aletap
aletes
aletha
aletha
Proper noun
A female given name.
aletta
alette
algate
algate
adv
(obsolete) Altogether; entirely.
(obsolete) Always.
(obsolete) By any means; at all events.
(obsolete) In any way; at all.
(obsolete) Notwithstanding; nevertheless.
aliter
aliter
adv
otherwise
allect
allect
verb
(obsolete) To allure; to entice.
almeta
alpert
altern
altern
adj
(obsolete) Acting by turns; alternate.
alters
alters
noun
plural of alter
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of alter
alteza
althea
althea
noun
Any of several plants of the genus Althaea; the hollyhocks and mallows, native to Eurasia.
althee
alture
alulet
alveta
alvite
alvite
noun
(mineralogy) A silicate of hafnium, thorium and zirconium
alwite
alwite
Adjective
Composed entirely of polished steel plates without fabric or other such covering, white.
Noun
Polished plate armour worn uncovered by cloth.
alytes
amelet
amulet
amulet
noun
A kind of protective charm or ornament, often bearing magical symbols, worn for protection against ill will, negative influences, or evil spirits.
anklet
anklet
noun
A piece of jewelry/jewellery, resembling a bracelet but worn around the ankle.
An ankle sock.
anteal
anteal
adj
Located before, or in front.
antler
antler
noun
A branching and bony structure on the head of deer, moose and elk, normally in pairs. They are grown and shed each year. (Compare with horn, which is generally not shed.)
apelet
apelet
noun
(uncommon) A small species of ape.
(uncommon) A young ape.
aplite
aplite
noun
(geology) A fine-grained granitic rock composed mostly of quartz and feldspars.
arleta
armlet
armlet
noun
A band worn on the arm for ornamental or identification purposes.
A small arm.
artels
artels
noun
plural of artel
arthel
artlet
astely
astely
noun
(botany) Absence of steles.
atalee
atalie
ateles
atelic
atelic
adj
(linguistics) Presenting an action or event as being incomplete.
atglen
atteal
attlee
atweel
auklet
auklet
noun
Any of several small seabirds in the genera Aethia, Cerorhinca and Ptychoramphus of the auk family Alcidae.
aulete
aulete
noun
(historical) An aulos player.
Synonym of flautist
axtell
aylett
baetyl
baetyl
noun
(historical) A meteorite or similar-looking rough stone thought to be of divine origin and worshipped as sacred.
balate
balete
ballet
ballet
noun
(figurative) Any intricate series of operations involving coordination between individuals.
(heraldry) A bearing in coats of arms representing one or more balls, called bezants, plates, etc., according to colour.
(music) A light part song, frequently with a fa-la-la chorus, common among Elizabethan and Italian Renaissance composers.
A classical form of dance.
A theatrical presentation of such dancing, usually with music, sometimes in the form of a story.
The company of persons who perform this dance.
verb
To perform an action reminiscent of ballet dancing.
baltei
baltei
noun
plural of balteus
balter
balter
verb
(intransitive) To tumble; dance clumsily.
(intransitive, UK dialectal) To become tangled or matted.
(transitive) To tread down in a clumsy manner.
(transitive, UK dialectal) To tangle; clot; mat (as in the hair).
bartel
bartle
batell
batler
batlet
batlet
noun
A short bat for beating clothes when washing them.
batley
battel
battel
adj
(obsolete) fertile; fruitful; productive
noun
(UK, Eton College, obsolete) A small allowance of food collegers receive from their dames (matrons) in addition to their college allowance
(UK, Oxford University, chiefly in the plural) Fees charged by a college for accommodation and living expenses.
(UK, Oxford University, chiefly in the plural, obsolete) Provisions ordered from the kitchen and buttery.
(UK, law, obsolete) A single combat.
Archaic spelling of battle.
verb
(intransitive, Oxford University) To stand indebted in the college-books for provisions and drink from the buttery.
(intransitive, Yeshivish) To waste, especially time.
(transitive) To make fertile.
(transitive, Yeshivish) To nullify.
(transitive, intransitive, Oxford University) To supply with provisions from the buttery.
(military) A general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the divisions of an army are or may be engaged; a combat, an engagement.
(military, clipping of) battle buddy
(military, now rare) A division of an army; a battalion.
(military, obsolete) The main body of an army, as distinct from the vanguard and rear; the battalia.
A contest, a struggle.
verb
(intransitive) To join in battle; to contend in fight
(transitive) To fight or struggle; to enter into a battle with.
To feed or nourish (someone or something).
To render (land, soil, etc.) fertile or fruitful.
batule
batule
noun
A springboard in a circus or gymnasium.
baylet
baylet
noun
A little bay.
beblot
beblot
verb
(transitive) To blot all over; stain.
bedolt
beetle
beetle
adj
Protruding, jutting, overhanging.
noun
(uncountable) A game of chance in which players attempt to complete a drawing of a beetle, different dice rolls allowing them to add the various body parts.
A machine in which fabrics are subjected to a hammering process while passing over rollers, as in cotton mills; a beetling machine.
A type of mallet with a large wooden head, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc.
Alternative letter-case form of Beetle (“car”)
Any of numerous species of insect in the order Coleoptera characterized by a pair of hard, shell-like front wings which cover and protect a pair of rear wings when at rest.
verb
To beat with a heavy mallet.
To finish by subjecting to a hammering process in a beetle or beetling machine.
To loom over; to extend or jut.
To move (away) quickly, to scurry away.
belait
belast
belast
adj
(obsolete) burdened, charged, bound.
belate
belate
verb
(transitive) To impede; cause something to be late; delay; benight.
beleft
beleft
verb
simple past tense and past participle of beleave
belita
belite
bellot
beloit
beloit
Proper noun
A city in Kansas, USA, and the county seat of Mitchell County.
A village in Ohio
A city and town in Wisconsin
belout
belout
verb
(transitive, obsolete) To address or speak of with contemptuous language.
(transitive, obsolete) To call (someone) a lout.
belted
belted
adj
(of a garment) Fitted with a belt.
(of animals etc.) Characterized by a white band around the body.
Wearing a belt.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of belt
belter
belter
noun
(Britain, informal) A very good-looking person.
(Britain, informal) Anything that is particularly good of its class.
(science fiction) A person who mines asteroids for minerals or lives in the vicinity of an asteroid belt.
A song suitable for forceful singing.
One who sings forcefully.
One who uses the specific vocal technique of belting.
beltie
beltir
beltis
belton
belton
Proper noun
an unincorporated community in Kentucky, USA.
a city in Missouri, USA.
a city in South Carolina, USA.
a city in Texas, USA
a community in Ontario, Canada.
a village in England
a village in Lincolnshire, England
a village in England
belute
belute
verb
(transitive) To bespatter, as with mud.
bemolt
bently
bepelt
bepelt
verb
(transitive) To pelt soundly.
bertle
betail
betail
verb
(transitive) To furnish with a tail.
(transitive, humorous) To take the tail off.
betalk
betalk
verb
(intransitive, dialectal) To talk repeatedly.
(transitive, chiefly dialectal, sometimes reflexive) To talk about; discuss; tell; count; give an account (of).
betell
betell
verb
(transitive) To lay claim to; win; rescue.
(transitive) To speak for; answer for; justify.
(transitive) To speak or tell about; declare; narrate; describe.
(transitive, rare) To talk about negatively; slander; calumniate; deride; deceive.
betels
betels
noun
plural of betel
bethel
bethel
noun
A chapel, especially one for sailors, converted from an old ship.
A holy place.
betoil
betoil
verb
(transitive) To worry or exercise with toil.
betula
bietle
billet
billet
noun
(architecture) An ornament in Norman work, resembling a billet of wood, either square or round.
(figurative) Berth; position.
(heraldry) A rectangle used as a charge on an escutcheon.
(metallurgy) A semi-finished length of metal.
(saddlery) A strap that enters a buckle.
A loop that receives the end of a buckled strap.
A place where a soldier is assigned to lodge.
A sealed ticket for a draw or lottery.
A short cutting of sugar cane produced by a harvester or used for planting.
A short informal letter.
A short piece of wood, especially one used as firewood.
A written order to quarter soldiers.
Alternative form of billard (“coalfish”)
An allocated space or berth in a boat or ship.
Temporary lodgings in a private residence, such as is organised for members of a visiting sports team.
verb
(intransitive, of a soldier) To lodge, or be quartered, in a private house.
(transitive) To direct, by a ticket or note, where to lodge.
(transitive, of a householder etc.) To lodge soldiers, or guests, usually by order.
bitely
bleats
bleats
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bleat
bleaty
bleaty
adj
Having a bleating sound.
blethe
bletia
bliest
blites
blites
noun
plural of blite
blithe
blithe
adj
(chiefly Scotland, elsewhere dated or literary) Cheerful, happy.
Casually careless or indifferent; showing a lack of concern.
bluest
bluest
adj
superlative form of blue: most blue
blueth
blueth
noun
(rare) The state of being blue; blueness.
bluets
bluets
noun
plural of bluet
blythe
blythe
adj
Obsolete spelling of blithe
boatel
boatel
noun
(nautical) A ship, normally moored alongside a quay, used as a hotel
boblet
boglet
boglet
noun
A kind of supernatural being.
A small patch of boggy ground.
bolete
bolete
noun
A type of fruiting body produced by certain fungus species in the order Boletales, especially those of genus Boletus, many of which are prized for their flavour; any species of said order that produces such a fruiting body.
boleti
boleti
noun
plural of boletus
bolted
bolted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bolt
boltel
boltel
noun
Alternative form of boultel
bolten
bolter
bolter
noun
(Australia, horseracing) A horse that wins at long odds.
(Australia, sports) An obscure athlete who wins an upset victory.
(New Zealand, sports) In team sports, a relatively little-known or inexperienced player who inspires the team to greater success.
(US, politics) A member of a political party who does not support the party's nominee.
(botany, horticulture) A plant that grows larger and more rapidly than usual.
(flour milling) A machine or mechanism that automatically sifts milled flour.
(military, aviation) A missed landing on an aircraft carrier; an aircraft that has made a missed landing.
(petroleum refining) A filter mechanism.
A kind of fishing line; a boulter.
A person or thing that bolts, or runs suddenly.
A person who sifts flour or meal.
verb
(dialect) To smear or become smeared with a grimy substance.
(military, aviation) To miss a landing on an aircraft carrier by failing to catch the arresting gear wires with the aircraft's tailhook.
(of a whale) To swim or turn sideways while eating.
To fish using a bolter.
To pound rapidly.
To sift or filter through a sieve or bolter.
bootle
bootle
noun
Alternative spelling of boodle
botels
botels
noun
plural of botel
bottle
bottle
noun
(Britain, informal) (originally "bottle and glass" meaning "ass") Nerve, courage.
(UK, dialectal or obsolete) A dwelling; habitation.
(UK, dialectal) A building; house.
(attributive, of a person with a particular hair color) A container of hair dye, hence with one’s hair color produced by dyeing.
(figurative) Intoxicating liquor; alcohol.
(obsolete) A bundle, especially of hay; something tied in a bundle.
A container with a rubber nipple used for giving liquids to infants, a baby bottle.
A container, typically made of glass or plastic and having a tapered neck, used primarily for holding liquids.
The contents of such a container.
verb
(Britain, slang) To pelt (a musical act on stage, etc.) with bottles as a sign of disapproval.
(Britain, slang) To refrain from doing (something) at the last moment because of a sudden loss of courage.
(Britain, slang) To strike (someone) with a bottle.
(Britain, slang, sports) To throw away a leading position.
(printing, intransitive) Of pages printed several on a sheet: to rotate slightly when the sheet is folded two or more times.
(transitive) To seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption. Also fig.
(transitive, Britain) To feed (an infant) baby formula.
boutel
bowtel
brotel
budlet
budlet
noun
A little bud springing from a parent bud.
buglet
buglet
noun
(computing, informal) A minor bug in a program.
(music) A small bugle.
bullet
bullet
noun
(Australia) A roughly bullet-shaped sweet consisting of a cylinder of liquorice covered in chocolate.
(Ireland, particularly in Northern Ireland) The heavy projectile thrown in a game of road bowling.
(banking, finance) A large scheduled repayment of the principal of a loan; a balloon payment.
(chess, Internet) chess played at an extremely fast time control, with one minute given to each player. (Short for bullet chess.)
(figuratively) Anything that is projected extremely fast.
(fishing) A plumb or sinker.
(in attributive use) Very fast (speedy).
(informal) An entire round of unfired ammunition for a firearm, including the projectile, the cartridge casing, the propellant charge, etc.
(obsolete) A cannonball.
(obsolete) A small ball.
(obsolete) The fetlock of a horse.
(slang) An ace (the playing card).
(slang) One year of prison time.
(typography) A printed symbol in the form of a solid circle, “•”, often used to mark items in a list.
A notation used on pop music charts to indicate that a song is climbing in the rankings.
A projectile, usually of metal, shot from a gun at high speed.
A rejection letter, as for employment, admission to a school or a competition.
A young or little bull; a male calf.
Ammunition for a sling or slingshot which has been manufactured for such use.
verb
(intransitive, informal) To speed, like a bullet.
(transitive, informal) To draw attention to (text) by, or as if by, placing a graphic bullet in front of it.
(transitive, informal) To make a shot, especially with great speed.
bulten
bulter
bultey
burlet
bustle
bustle
noun
(computing, countable) A cover to protect and hide the back panel of a computer or other office machine.
(countable, uncountable) An excited activity; a stir.
(historical, countable) A frame worn underneath a woman's skirt, typically only protruding from the rear as opposed to the earlier more circular hoops.
verb
(transitive) To push around, to importune.
To move busily and energetically with fussiness (often followed by about).
To teem or abound (usually followed by with); to exhibit an energetic and active abundance (of a thing).
butled
butled
verb
simple past tense and past participle of butle
butler
butler
noun
A manservant having charge of wines and liquors.
A valet, a male personal attendant.
The chief male servant of a household who has charge of other employees, receives guests, directs the serving of meals, and performs various personal services.
verb
To buttle, to dispense wines or liquors; to take the place of a butler.
butles
butles
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of butle