(transitive) To take away by force; to carry away (a human being) wrongfully and usually with violence or deception; to kidnap.
(transitive, anatomy) To draw away, as a limb or other part, from the median axis of the body.
ablaut
ablaut
noun
(phonology) The substitution of one root vowel for another, thus indicating a corresponding modification of use or meaning; vowel permutation, distinct from the phonetic influence of a succeeding vowel.
verb
(intransitive, linguistics, of a vowel-containing linguistic component) To undergo a change of vowel.
(transitive, linguistics) To cause to change a vowel.
ablute
ablute
verb
(intransitive, colloquial) To wash oneself.
(transitive, colloquial) To wash.
abouts
abouts
adv
(obsolete) About.
abrupt
abrupt
adj
(botany) Suddenly terminating, as if cut off; truncate.
(obsolete) Broken off.
(obsolete, rare) Broken away (from restraint).
Curt in manner.
Extremely steep or craggy as if broken up; precipitous.
Having sudden transitions from one subject or state to another; unconnected; disjointed.
Without notice to prepare the mind for the event; sudden; hasty; unceremonious.
noun
(poetic) Something which is abrupt; an abyss.
verb
(transitive, archaic) To tear off or asunder.
To interrupt suddenly.
aburst
aburst
adj
In a bursting condition.
arbust
arbust
noun
(not attested in dictionaries) a bush, shrub
arbute
arbute
noun
(archaic, countable) The strawberry tree.
(archaic, uncountable) The wood of the strawberry tree.
aubert
bagnut
baguet
baguet
noun
(architecture, zoology) Alternative form of baguette
bahuts
bahuts
noun
plural of bahut
bahutu
baktun
baktun
noun
Alternative spelling of b'ak'tun
bakutu
bannut
bannut
noun
(dialectal, England) The English walnut.
bantus
barbut
barbut
noun
Alternative form of barbute (“helmet”)
basuto
basuto
Noun
A member of the Basotho people.
bateau
bateau
noun
A small, flat-bottomed type of boat.
batful
batful
adj
(dialectal or obsolete) Rich; fertile, as in reference to land or soil.
batruk
battue
battue
noun
(countable, hunting) A hunt performed in this manner.
(uncountable, hunting, often attributively) A form of hunting in which game is forced into the open by the beating of sticks on bushes, etc.
battus
batule
batule
noun
A springboard in a circus or gymnasium.
batumi
batumi
Proper noun
A seaside city on the Black Sea coast and capital of Adjara, an autonomous republic in southwest Georgia.
bautta
beatus
beatus
noun
(religion) A person who has been beatified.
beauti
beauts
beauts
noun
plural of beaut
beauty
beauty
adj
(Canada) Of high quality, well done.
intj
(Canada) Cool!
(Canada) Thanks!
noun
(archaic, in the plural) Beautiful passages or extracts of poetry.
(obsolete) Prevailing style or taste; rage; fashion.
(physics, obsolete) A beauty quark (now called bottom quark).
(with the definite article) The excellence or genius of a scheme or decision.
An excellent or egregious example of something.
Beauty treatment; cosmetology.
Someone who is beautiful.
Something that is particularly good or pleasing.
The quality of being (especially visually) attractive, pleasing, fine or good-looking; comeliness.
verb
(obsolete, transitive) To make beautiful.
betula
bhutan
bhutia
bliaut
bliaut
noun
(historical) A unisex overgarment worn in 12th-century Western Europe, featuring voluminous skirts and horizontal puckering or sometimes pleating across a snugly fitted underbust abdomen.
bruant
brutal
brutal
adj
(music, figuratively) In extreme metal, to describe the speed of the music and the density of riffs.
Crude or unfeeling in manner or speech.
Direct and without attempt to disguise unpleasantness.
Disagreeably precise or penetrating.
Harsh; unrelenting.
Savagely violent, vicious, ruthless, or cruel.
buatti
budzat
budzat
noun
(India) A rogue; a scoundrel.
buntal
buntal
noun
A fibre obtained from palms of the genus Corypha.
buriat
buriat
Adjective
From, of, or pertaining to, Buryatia
Noun
Someone from Buryatia.
A Mongolic language spoken around Buryatia
buryat
buryat
Adjective
From, of, or pertaining to, Buryatia
Noun
Someone from Buryatia.
Proper noun
A Mongolic language spoken around Buryatia.
butane
butane
noun
(organic chemistry) A hydrocarbon (either of the two isomers of C₄H₁₀ n-butane, and 2-methyl-propane) found in gaseous petroleum fractions.
(organic chemistry, uncountable) The n-butane isomer only.
butcha
butcha
noun
(India, historical) The young of any animal.
(India, historical, slang, by extension) A child.
buttal
buttal
noun
Alternative form of abuttal (“the butting or boundary of land”)
crabut
gambut
hagbut
hagbut
noun
(obsolete) An arquebus, a firearm with a long barrel.
itauba
jubate
jubate
adj
Having a mane.
Having hair in the style of a mane.
ketuba
khutba
khutba
noun
Alternative form of khutbah
kuttab
mabuti
marbut
numbat
numbat
noun
A small marsupial carnivore, Myrmecobius fasciatus, endemic to western Australia, that eats almost exclusively termites.
outban
outbar
outbar
verb
To bar out.
outbat
rubato
rubato
noun
(music) A tempo in which strict timing is relaxed, the music being played near, but not on, the beat
rukbat
sacbut
sagbut
sagbut
noun
Alternative form of sackbut
straub
subact
subact
verb
(obsolete, transitive) To reduce; to subdue.
tabour
tabour
noun
(music) Alternative spelling of tabor
verb
Alternative spelling of tabor
tabued
tabued
adj
Alternative spelling of tabooed
tabula
tabula
noun
(uncountable, historical) An ancient Roman game similar to backgammon that was played on a board with 24 divisions.
(zoology) One of the transverse plants found in the calicles of certain corals and hydroids.
A frontal; a drapery for an altar.
A legal record.
A plate or frame on which a title or inscription is carved.
A table, index, or list of data.
A writing-tablet, slate, or similar medium on which to write.
tabule
tabuli
tambur
tambur
noun
Alternative form of tambour (“type of drum”)
tanbur
tanbur
noun
(music) In classical Turkish music, a long-necked, fretted, plucked lute, or various similar lutes of West and Central Asia.
thuban
thuban
Proper noun
A white giant star in the constellation Draco; Alpha (α) Draconis. It was the pole star 5000 years ago.
trabue
tubage
tubage
noun
(medicine) intubation
(military, historical) The process of lining a heavy gun by insertion of a tube of wrought iron, etc.
tubing; a system of tubes
tubate
tubbal
tubman
tubman
noun
(UK, law, obsolete) One of the two most experienced barristers in the Court of Exchequer (the other being the postman).
tumbak
tumboa
turban
turban
noun
A man's headdress made by winding a length of cloth round the head.
A woman's close-fitting hat with little or no brim.
The complete set of whorls of a spiral shell.
unbait
unbait
verb
(transitive) To remove the bait from.
unboat
upbeat
upbeat
adj
Having a fast pace, tempo, or beat.
Having a positive, lively, or perky tone, attitude, etc.
noun
An unaccented beat at the start of a musical phrase.