Third-person singular simple present indicative form of blunt
bounty
bounty
noun
(countable) A reward for some specific act, especially one given by an authority or a government.
(countable) Something given liberally; a gift.
(countable, figuratively) An abundance or wealth.
(military, historical) Money paid to a person when becoming a member of the armed forces, or as a reward for some service therein.
(specifically) A monetary reward for capturing (or, in the past, killing) a person accused or convicted of a crime and who is at large; also, a similar reward for capturing or killing an animal which is dangerous or causing a nuisance.
(uncountable) Generosity; also (countable) an act of generosity.
verb
(transitive) To offer a monetary reward for the capturing or killing of.
bouton
bouton
noun
A bud-like swelling, especially one at the end of an axon
bruant
brunet
brunet
adj
(rare) Of a man or boy, having brown or black hair.
(rare) Of a man's or boy's hair: brown or black.
noun
(rare) A man or boy with brown or black hair.
brunts
brunts
noun
plural of brunt
bulten
bundts
bundts
noun
plural of bundt
buntal
buntal
noun
A fibre obtained from palms of the genus Corypha.
bunted
bunted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bunt
bunter
bunter
noun
(archaic) A female prostitute.
(archaic) A woman who picks up rags in the streets.
(archaic, by extension) A low, vulgar woman.
(baseball) One who bunts.
bunton
bunton
noun
A wooden cross-stay in a shaft; a support for shaft slides.
burnet
burnet
noun
Any of several species of moths of the family Zygaenidae, typically having black forewings with red spots.
Any of the herbs of genus Sanguisorba (syn. Poterium), including salad burnet (Sanguisorba minor), an herb used in salads and herbal teas.
burnut
burton
burton
noun
(archaic) An arrangement of blocks and pulleys, especially for tightening rigging on a ship.
(archaic) Storage of cargo athwartships.
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.
butein
butene
butene
noun
(chemistry) Any of several forms of butylene.
butine
butner
button
button
noun
(South Africa, slang) A methaqualone tablet (used as a recreational drug).
(UK, archaic) A unit of length equal to ¹⁄₁₂ inch.
(US) A badge worn on clothes, fixed with a pin through the fabric.
(archaic) A person who acts as a decoy.
(aviation) The end of a runway.
(botany) A bud.
(comedy) The final joke at the end of a comedic act (such as a sketch, set, or scene).
(curling) The center (bullseye) of the house.
(dated, Southern US) A clove (of garlic).
(fencing) The soft circular tip at the end of a foil.
(generally with the) The means for initiating a nuclear strike or similar cataclysmic occurrence.
(graphical user interface) An on-screen control that can be selected as an activator of an attached function.
(lutherie) In an instrument of the violin family, the near-semicircular shape extending from the top of the back plate of the instrument, meeting the heel of the neck.
(lutherie) Synonym of endbutton, part of a violin-family instrument.
(lutherie, bowmaking) Synonym of adjuster.
(poker) A plastic disk used to represent the person in last position in a poker game; also dealer's button.
(poker) The player who is last to act after the flop, turn and river, who possesses the button.
(slang) A button man; a professional assassin.
(slang) The clitoris.
(television) The punchy or suspenseful line of dialogue that concludes a scene.
(zoology) Pedicle; the attachment point for antlers in cervids.
A globule of metal remaining on an assay cupel or in a crucible, after fusion.
A knob or disc that is passed through a loop or (buttonhole), serving as a fastener.
A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass.
A mechanical device meant to be pressed with a finger in order to open or close an electric circuit or to activate a mechanism.
A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, such as a door.
A raised pavement marker to further indicate the presence of a pavement-marking painted stripe.
A small white blotch on a cat's coat.
The final segment of a rattlesnake's rattle.
The head of an unexpanded mushroom.
The least amount of care or interest; a whit or jot.
verb
(informal) To stop talking.
(intransitive) To be fastened by a button or buttons.
(transitive) To fasten with a button.
butung
butyne
butyne
noun
(organic chemistry) Either of two isomeric acetylenes containing four carbon atoms and a triple bond, with the empirical formula (C₄H₆)
buxton
cobnut
cobnut
noun
A game played by children with nuts.
A specific cultivated variety of hazelnut, also known as the Kentish cobnut.
The nut of the common hazel (Corylus avellana); hazelnut.
ethbun
guntub
intube
intube
verb
Synonym of intubate
nobbut
nobbut
adv
(UK, northern) nothing but; only; just
numbat
numbat
noun
A small marsupial carnivore, Myrmecobius fasciatus, endemic to western Australia, that eats almost exclusively termites.
obtund
obtund
verb
(transitive, chiefly medicine) To reduce the edge or effects of; to mitigate; to dull.
outban
subnet
subnet
noun
(networking) A portion of a network that shares a network address in which each component is identified by a number.
(topology) The abstraction of a sequence.
verb
(transitive, networking) To break (a network) into subnets.
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.
tubing
tubing
noun
a length of tube, or a system of tubes
the recreation of riding down a river on an inner tube
the recreation of tobogganing down a snowy slope or toboggan run on an inner tube
tubes, considered as a group
verb
present participle of tube
tubman
tubman
noun
(UK, law, obsolete) One of the two most experienced barristers in the Court of Exchequer (the other being the postman).
tubmen
tubmen
noun
plural of tubman
tunebo
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.
tyburn
tyburn
Proper noun
A village in Middlesex where public hangings were carried out until 1783.
unbait
unbait
verb
(transitive) To remove the bait from.
unbelt
unbelt
verb
(figuratively) to relax, unwind
To remove a belt
unbent
unbent
adj
Erect, upright, or straight
Not bent
verb
simple past tense and past participle of unbend
unbitt
unbitt
verb
(nautical, transitive) To remove from the bitts.
unboat
unbolt
unbolt
verb
(transitive) To unlock by undoing the bolts of.
unboot
unboot
verb
(computing) To cause a component to be unbootable.
(transitive) To remove a wheel clamp from
(transitive) To take off the boots from.
untomb
untomb
verb
(transitive) To take (something) from a tomb; to disinter, to exhume.