A soil bacterium, of the genus Agrobacterium, which can fix nitrogen, and causes the formation of crown galls in plants.
angurboda
antibourgeois
antibourgeois
adj
(sociology) Opposed to the bourgeoisie.
arnoldsburg
attenborough
attenborough
Proper noun
A village in Broxtowe borough, Nottinghamshire, England.
autobiographal
autobiographal
adj
(archaic) autobiographical
autobiographer
autobiographer
noun
One who writes his or her own life or biography.
autobiographers
autobiographers
noun
plural of autobiographer
autobiographic
autobiographic
Adjective
Of or relating to a person's life or an account of a person's life, as told by the subject.
autobiographical
autobiographical
adj
Of or relating to a person's life or an account of a person's life, as told by the subject.
autobiographically
autobiographically
adv
In an autobiographical manner.
autobiographies
autobiographies
noun
plural of autobiography
autobiographist
autobiographist
noun
An autobiographer.
autobiography
autobiography
noun
(countable) A self-written biography; the story of one's own life.
(uncountable) Biographies of this kind regarded as a literary genre.
background
background
adj
Less important or less noticeable in a scene or system.
noun
(computing) A type of activity on a computer that is not normally visible to the user.
(computing) The image or color over which a computer's desktop items are shown (e.g. icons or application windows).
(physics) Clipping of background radiation.
A less important feature of scenery (as opposed to foreground).
A part of the picture that depicts scenery to the rear or behind the main subject; context.
Information relevant to the current situation about past events; history.
One's social heritage, or previous life; what one did in the past.
verb
(journalism) To gather and provide background information (on).
To put in a position that is not prominent.
simple past tense and past participle of backgrind
backgrounded
backgrounded
adj
(computing) (of a task) Made non-interactive
Moved to the background
verb
simple past tense and past participle of background
backgrounder
backgrounder
noun
(chiefly US) A briefing or document typically provided prior to a meeting or other event that gives basic details on subjects that are likely to be mentioned.
A cattle farmer or rancher who runs a backgrounding operation.
A person employed to draw backgrounds for a comic or cartoon.
backgrounds
backgrounds
noun
plural of background
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of background
bacterioagglutinin
bacterioagglutinin
noun
(medicine) An antibody which causes agglutination of bacteria.
(uncountable, specifically, historical) A pidgin spoken by French and First Nations people in the 17th century in the region of North America now called Montreal.
baragouinish
barbigerous
barbigerous
adj
(rare, humorous) Having a beard; bearded; hairy.
barbouillage
bargehouse
barrigudo
barrigudo
noun
(archaic) The brown woolly monkey
barrigudos
barrigudos
noun
plural of barrigudo
batrachophagous
batrachophagous
adj
Feeding on frogs.
battleground
battleground
noun
(US politics) Ellipsis of battleground state.
(figurative) Any place or situation of dispute or contention
(figurative) Any subject of dispute or contention.
A location where a battle may be fought, or has been fought.
battlegrounds
battlegrounds
noun
plural of battleground
beardtongue
beardtongue
noun
A flowering plant in the genus Penstemon with a prominent, often hairy, staminode.
beardtongues
beardtongues
noun
plural of beardtongue
beartongue
beaugregories
beaugregory
beglamour
beglamour
verb
To bedazzle; to deceive as if by magic.
To make glamorous.
beglamoured
beglamoured
verb
simple past tense and past participle of beglamour
beglamouring
beglamouring
verb
present participle of beglamour
belabouring
belabouring
verb
present participle of belabour
beliquoring
belowground
belowground
adj
beneath the surface of the ground; underground
benzophloroglucinol
berogue
berouged
berouged
adj
Wearing rouge.
bescourge
bescouring
beshrouding
beshrouding
verb
present participle of beshroud
betrough
bewrought
bewrought
adj
(obsolete) embroidered
bildungsroman
bildungsroman
noun
A novel tracing the spiritual, moral, psychological, or social development and growth of the main character, usually from childhood to maturity.
binturong
binturong
noun
A large species of civet, Arctictis binturong, of southern Asia.
bistournage
bleachground
blockaderunning
blocksburg
bloodcurdling
bloodcurdling
adj
Causing great horror or terror.
bloodcurdlingly
bloodcurdlingly
adv
in a bloodcurdling manner
bloomburg
bloomingburg
bloomsburg
bloomsburg
Proper noun
A town in Pennsylvania
blossburg
bludgeoneer
bludgeoner
bludgeoner
noun
One who bludgeons.
boalsburg
boardinghouse
boardinghouse
noun
Alternative spelling of boarding house
boardinghouses
boardinghouses
noun
plural of boardinghouse
bodyguard
bodyguard
noun
A person or group of persons, often armed, responsible for protecting an individual.
verb
(transitive) To act as bodyguard for (someone); figuratively, to protect.
bodyguarded
bodyguarded
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bodyguard
bodyguarding
bodyguarding
noun
The profession of a bodyguard, protecting another from harm.
bodyguards
bodyguards
noun
plural of bodyguard
bodysurfing
bodysurfing
verb
present participle of bodysurf
bogsucker
bogsucker
noun
The American woodcock.
boltuprightness
boraginaceous
boraginaceous
adj
(botany) Of, relating to, or resembling the Boraginaceae, a plant family which includes the borage, heliotrope, beggar's lice, and many pestiferous plants.
boragineous
boragineous
adj
(botany) Relating to the borage tribe; boraginaceous.
borborygmus
borborygmus
noun
(figurative) Something resembling borborygmus.
A rumbling sound made by the movement of gas in the intestines.
borgerhout
borglum
borotungstate
borotungstic
borough
borough
noun
(historical, Britain, law) An association of men who gave pledges or sureties to the king for the good behaviour of each other.
(obsolete) A fortified town.
(rare) A town or city.
A district in Alaska having powers similar to a county.
A town having a municipal corporation and certain traditional rights.
An administrative district in some cities, e.g., London.
An administrative unit of a city which, under most circumstances according to state or national law, would be considered a larger or more powerful entity; most commonly used in American English to define the five counties that make up New York City.
Other similar administrative units in cities and states in various parts of the world.
boroughlet
boroughmaster
boroughmaster
noun
The mayor, governor, or bailiff of a borough.
boroughmonger
boroughmonger
noun
One who buys or sells the parliamentary seats of boroughs.
boroughmongering
boroughmongering
noun
The practices of a boroughmonger.
boroughmongery
boroughmongery
Noun
The practices of a boroughmonger.
boroughs
boroughs
noun
plural of borough
boroughship
boroughwide
boroughwide
adj
Throughout a borough.
borroughs
bougar
bougar
noun
(chiefly in the plural) A rafter or cross spar of a roof especially of a cottage.
bougeron
bouguer
bouguereau
boulanger
boulanger
noun
(Guyana) eggplant; aubergine
boulangerite
boulangerite
noun
(mineralogy) A lead antimony sulfide mineral that forms metallic grey monoclinic crystals.
bouldering
bouldering
noun
(climbing) Climbing, without ropes, on large boulders or boulder-sized objects.
verb
present participle of boulder
bourage
bourg
bourg
noun
Obsolete form of borough.
Obsolete form of burgh.
bourgade
bourgeois
bourgeois
adj
(Marxism) Of or relating to the capitalist class, (usually derogatory) the capitalist exploitation of the proletariat.
(historical) Of or relating to the bourgeoisie, the third estate of the French Ancien Regime.
Of or relating to the middle class, (often derogatory) their presumed overly conventional, conservative, and materialistic values.
noun
(Marxism) A capitalist, (usually derogatory) an exploiter of the proletariat.
(history) An individual member of the bourgeoisie, the third estate of the French Ancien Regime.
(politics, collectively, usually in the plural) The middle class.
(printing, dated) A size of type between brevier and long primer, standardized as 9-point.
(rare) An individual member of the middle class.
(usually derogatory) A person of any class with bourgeois (i.e., overly conventional and materialistic) values and attitudes.
verb
(transitive) To make bourgeois.
bourgeoise
bourgeoise
noun
A female member of the bourgeoisie; a wealthy woman
bourgeoises
bourgeoises
noun
plural of bourgeoise
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bourgeois
bourgeoisie
bourgeoisie
noun
(Marxism) The capitalist class.
(historical) A class of citizens who were wealthier members of the third estate.
bourgeoisies
bourgeoisies
noun
plural of bourgeoisie
bourgeoisify
bourgeoisify
Verb
To make bourgeois.
bourgeoisitic
bourgeoisitic
adj
(rare) bourgeois
bourgeon
bourgeon
verb
Obsolete form of burgeon.
bourgeoned
bourgeoned
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bourgeon
bourgeoning
bourgeoning
adj
That bourgeons
noun
sprouting or blossoming
verb
present participle of bourgeon
bourgeons
bourgeons
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bourgeon
bourges
bourget
bourgogne
bourgs
bourgs
noun
plural of bourg
bourguiba
bourguignon
bourguignon
noun
Beef bourguignon, or a similar dish replacing beef with some other ingredient.
bourguignonne
bourignian
bourignianism
bourignianist
bourignonism
bourignonist
bowstrung
bowstrung
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bowstring
brabagious
brachigerous
brachiofaciolingual
brachygnathous
brachygnathous
adj
Relating to brachygnathia
branchiogenous
branchiostegous
branchiostegous
adj
branchiostegal
breakthrough
breakthrough
adj
(immunology) Involving the contraction of a disease by a person with a decreased susceptibility, such as a person who has been vaccinated to help prevent that disease.
(medicine) The emergence or one or more symptoms of a condition despite medication or other medical treatment.
Characterized by major progress or overcoming some obstacle.
noun
(construction) The penetration of a separating wall or the remaining distance to an adjacent hollow (a crosscut in mining) or between two parts of a tunnel build from both ends; knockthrough.
(military) An advance through and past enemy lines.
(sports) The penetration of the opposition's defence.
Any major progress; such as a great innovation or discovery that overcomes a significant obstacle.
breakthroughes
breakthroughs
breakthroughs
noun
plural of breakthrough
breastplough
breastplough
noun
A kind of plough, worked by handles near the worker's breast, and in some types by pushing with the breast/chest, by which ploughing can be done by hand (without a draft animal), albeit more slowly and difficultly, or by which turf (peat) can be cut for fuel; the type commonly used in preindustrial Britain is analogous to a spade with a large T-shaped handle gripped with both hands.
brighouse
brigous
brogue
brogue
noun
(dated) A heavy shoe of untanned leather.
A strong Oxford shoe, with ornamental perforations and wing tips.
A strong dialectal accent. In Ireland it used to be a term for Irish spoken with a strong English accent, but gradually changed to mean English spoken with a strong Irish accent as English control of Ireland gradually increased and Irish waned as the standard language.
verb
(dialect) to fish for eels by disturbing the waters.
(intransitive) To walk.
(transitive) To kick.
(transitive) To punch a hole in, as with an awl.
(transitive, intransitive) To speak with a brogue (accent).
brogued
brogued
adj
Decorated with brogueing.
Having a brogue (accent).
Shod with brogues (type of shoe).
verb
simple past tense and past participle of brogue
brogueful
brogueneer
broguer
brogueries
broguery
broguery
noun
The presence of a brogue in speech.
brogues
brogues
noun
plural of brogue
broguing
broguing
noun
Alternative spelling of brogueing
broguish
broguish
adj
Pertaining to or marked by a brogue, a thick accent.
bronaugh
broncobusting
brough
brougham
brougham
noun
A four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage, designed in 1839. It had an open seat for the driver in front of the closed cabin for two or four passengers.
An automobile, a sedan without a roof over the driver's seat.