A coarse, often striped, felted fabric from the Middle East, woven from goat or camel hair.
A loose-fitting sleeveless garment, made from aba or silk, worn by Arabs.
An altazimuth used for astronomy on either land or water.
An outer garment made of the above, very simple in form, worn by the Arabs of the desert. The illustration shows such an aba, made of two breadths of stuff sewed together to make an oblong about four by nine feet.
The electric fish Gymnarchus niloticus (frankfish, freshwater rat-tail, African knifefish), found in swamps, lakes and rivers in Africa.
abb
abb
noun
(UK) A filling pick used in weaving.
A rough wool from the inferior parts of the fleece, used for the woof or weft.
A type of yarn for the warp.
abc
abd
abe
abe
verb
(intransitive, infinitive, Britain, uncommon) To be.
abi
abl
abm
abn
abo
abo
noun
(Australia, offensive, ethnic slur, slang) An aborigine; aboriginal.
abp
abr
abs
abs
adj
Abbreviation of abstract.
noun
(informal) The abdominal muscles. plural of ab
(mathematics) Initialism of absolute value function.
Acronym of absolute temperature.
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ab
abt
abt
adj
(academics) all but thesis: A description of the status of a masters, doctoral, or (infrequently) undergraduate student who has completed all degree requirements except the culminating thesis.
prep
(text messaging) Abbreviation of about.
abu
abv
abv
noun
Alternative letter-case form of ABV (“alcohol by volume”).
aby
aby
verb
(archaic) To pay the penalty for (something); to atone for, to make amends.
(archaic, figuratively) To pay (something) as a penalty; to suffer (something).
(obsolete except Scotland) To endure or tolerate (something); to experience.
(obsolete) To pay for (something); to buy.
To endure; to remain.
To pay the penalty; to atone.
acb
adb
afb
alb
alb
noun
(Christianity, chiefly Anglicanism, Roman Catholicism) A long, white robe worn by priests and other ministers, underneath most of the other vestments.
amb
amb
noun
(palynology) The outline of a spore or pollen grain, as seen in a polar view.
aob
apb
arb
arb
noun
(countable, finance, trading) One who engages in arbitrage; an arbitrageur.
(countable, informal) An arboretum.
(finance, trading) The act of or potential for arbitrage.
verb
(finance, trading, transitive) To engage in arbitrage.
asb
atb
atb
Noun
active time battle (gaming)
awb
baa
baa
intj
(onomatopoeia) The characteristic cry of a sheep.
noun
(onomatopoeia) The characteristic cry or bleating of a sheep.
The letter ب in the Arabic script.
verb
To make the characteristic cry of a sheep.
bab
bab
noun
(UK, informal) Baby
(fishing, East Anglia) A bait for eels, consisting of a bundle of live worms.
verb
(intransitive, fishing, East Anglia) To fish for eels using a bab.
bac
bac
noun
A broad, flat-bottomed ferryboat, usually worked by a rope.
A vat or cistern.
Clipping of baccalaureate.
bad
bad
adj
(US, slang) Overly promiscuous, licentious.
(chiefly applied to a person's state of health) Sickly, unhealthy, unwell.
(informal) Bold and daring.
(of a need, want, or pain) Severe, urgent.
(of breath) Malodorous; foul.
(of food) Spoiled, rotten, overripe.
(often childish) Not behaving; behaving badly; misbehaving; mischievous or disobedient.
(originally African-American Vernacular, slang, of a woman) Very attractive; hot, sexy.
(slang) Good, superlative, excellent, cool.
(sometimes childish) Evil; wicked.
False; counterfeit; illegitimate.
Faulty; not functional.
Not appropriate, of manners etc.
Not suitable or fitting.
Of poor physical appearance.
Tricky; stressful; unpleasant.
Unfavorable; negative; not good.
Unhealthy; liable to cause health problems.
Unskilled; of limited ability; not good.
adv
(now colloquial) Badly.
intj
Used to scold a misbehaving child or pet.
noun
(countable, uncountable, economics) An item (or kind of item) of merchandise with negative value; an unwanted good.
(slang, with possessive determiner) Error; mistake.
Something that is bad; a harm or evil.
verb
(Britain, dialect, transitive) To shell (a walnut).
(archaic) alternative past of bid. See bade.
bae
bae
noun
(slang) Darling (term of endearment).
Asian pear.
verb
(intransitive) To make the sound of a wild animal, to bay.
bag
bag
noun
(LGBT, slang, US, derogatory) A fellow gay man.
(MLE, slang) £1000, a grand.
(UK) A unit of measure of cement equal to 94 pounds.
(baseball) First, second, or third base.
(baseball) The cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base.
(chiefly in the plural) A dark circle under the eye, caused by lack of sleep, drug addiction etc.
(colloquial) One's preference.
(derogatory) An ugly woman.
(informal) A large number or amount.
(mathematics) A collection of objects, disregarding order, but (unlike a set) in which elements may be repeated.
(now historical) A pouch tied behind a man's head to hold the back-hair of a wig; a bag wig.
(preceded by "the") A breathalyzer, so named because it formerly had a plastic bag over the end to measure a set amount of breath.
(slang) A small envelope that contains drugs, especially narcotics.
(slang, vulgar) A scrotum.
A container made of leather, plastic, or other material, usually with a handle or handles, in which you carry personal items, or clothes or other things that you need for travelling. Includes shopping bags, schoolbags, suitcases, and handbags.
A sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance.
A soft container made out of cloth, paper, thin plastic, etc. and open at the top, used to hold food, commodities, and other goods.
The quantity of game bagged in a hunt.
verb
(Australia, slang) To criticise sarcastically.
(informal) To catch or kill, especially when fishing or hunting.
(nautical, intransitive) To drop away from the correct course.
(obsolete, intransitive) To become pregnant.
(obsolete, intransitive) To swell with arrogance.
(obsolete, transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) swell or hang down like a full bag.
(slang) To arrest.
(slang) To steal.
(slang, African American Vernacular) To laugh uncontrollably.
(slang, African-American Vernacular) To take a woman away with one as a romantic or sexual interest.
(transitive) To furnish or load with a bag.
(transitive) To put into a bag.
(transitive, medicine) To fit with a bag to collect urine.
(transitive, medicine) To provide with artificial ventilation via a bag valve mask (BVM) resuscitator.
To forget, ignore, or get rid of.
To gain possession of something, or to make first claim on something.
To hang like an empty bag.
bah
bah
intj
(sometimes humorous) Expressing contempt, disgust, or bad temper.
noun
Alternative spelling of baa (the cry of a sheep or goat).
particle
(Singlish) Used to express emphasis.
bai
bai
intj
(Internet slang) Eye dialect spelling of bye.
noun
A marshy meadow in sub-Saharan Africa.
A people of the Yunnan province of China.
bak
bak
adv
(text messaging) Abbreviation of back.
bal
bam
bam
intj
Representing a loud noise or heavy impact.
Representing a sudden or abrupt occurrence.
noun
(Scotland, slang) A ned; a bampot.
(slang, archaic) An imposition; a cheat; a hoax.
Abbreviation of bare-arse minimum.
verb
(slang, archaic) To impose on (someone) by a falsehood; to cheat.
(slang, archaic) To jeer or make fun of.
ban
ban
noun
(obsolete) A curse or anathema.
A pecuniary mulct or penalty laid upon a delinquent for offending against a ban, such as a mulct paid to a bishop by one guilty of sacrilege or other crimes.
A public proclamation or edict; a summons by public proclamation. Chiefly, in early use, a summons to arms.
A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Moldovan leu.
A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Romanian leu.
A title used in several states in central and south-eastern Europe between the 7th century and the 20th century.
A unit measuring information or entropy based on base-ten logarithms, rather than the base-two logarithms that define the bit.
Prohibition.
The gathering of the (French) king's vassals for war; the whole body of vassals so assembled, or liable to be summoned; originally, the same as arrière-ban: in the 16th c., French usage created a distinction between ban and arrière-ban, for which see the latter word.
verb
(transitive) To anathematize; to pronounce an ecclesiastical curse upon; to place under a ban.
(transitive) To curse; to execrate.
(transitive) To prohibit; to interdict; to proscribe; to forbid or block from participation.
(transitive, intransitive) To curse; to utter curses or maledictions.
(transitive, obsolete) To summon; to call out.
bao
bao
noun
A mancala board game played in East Africa.
A sandwich or stuffed bun made with this bread
Any of various types of steamed bread or bun used in Chinese cuisine
bap
bap
intj
(informal) The sound of a light blow or slap.
noun
(Britain, Ireland, slang, chiefly in the plural) A woman's breast.
A soft bread roll, originally from Ireland.
verb
(informal, transitive) To hit lightly.
bar
bar
noun
(UK, Parliament) A dividing line (physical or notional) in the chamber of a legislature beyond which only members and officials may pass.
(UK, law) The railing surrounding the part of a courtroom in which the judges, lawyers, defendants and witnesses stay.
(US, Philippines, law, usually with the) The bar exam, the legal licensing exam.
(architecture) A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.
(backgammon) The central divider between the inner and outer table of a backgammon board, where stones are placed if they are hit.
(by extension, in combinations such as coffee bar, juice bar, etc.) Premises or a counter serving any type of beverage.
(countable, uncountable, metallurgy) A solid metal object with uniform (round, square, hexagonal, octagonal or rectangular) cross-section; in the US its smallest dimension is ¹⁄₄ inch or greater, a piece of thinner material being called a strip.
(farriery) The part of the crust of a horse's hoof which is bent inwards towards the frog at the heel on each side, and extends into the centre of the sole.
(farriery, in the plural) The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed.
(figurative) Any level of achievement regarded as a challenge to be overcome.
(geography, nautical, hydrology) A ridge or succession of ridges of sand or other substance, especially a formation extending across the mouth of a river or harbor or off a beach, and which may obstruct navigation. (FM 55-501).
(heraldry) One of the ordinaries in heraldry; a diminutive of a fess.
(law, metonymically, "the Bar", "the bar") Collectively, lawyers or the legal profession; specifically applied to barristers in some countries, but including all lawyers in others.
(mathematics) The sign indicating that the characteristic of a logarithm is negative, conventionally placed above the digit(s) to show that it applies to the characteristic only and not to the mantissa.
(mining) A drilling or tamping rod.
(mining) A vein or dike crossing a lode.
(music) A vertical line across a musical staff dividing written music into sections, typically of equal durational value.
(music) One of those musical sections.
(physics) A similar sign indicating that the charge on a particle is the negative of its usual value (and that consequently the particle is in fact an antiparticle).
(programming, whimsical, derived from fubar) A metasyntactic variable representing an unspecified entity, often the second in a series, following foo.
(slang) A measure of drugs, typically one ounce.
(soccer, most codes) The crossbar.
(sports) A horizontal pole that must be crossed in the high jump and pole vault.
(telecommunications, electronics) One of an array of bar-shaped symbols that display the level of something, such as wireless signal strength or battery life remaining.
(typography) Any of various lines used as punctuation or diacritics, such as the pipe ⟨|⟩, fraction bar (as in 12), and strikethrough (as in Ⱥ), formerly (obsolete) including oblique marks such as the slash.
A broad shaft, band, or stripe.
A business selling alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves; a public house.
A city gate, in some British place names.
A counter, or simply a cabinet, from which alcoholic drinks are served in a private house or a hotel room.
A cuboid piece of any solid commodity.
A linear shoaling landform feature within a body of water.
A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar chart.
A non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals, approximately equal to atmospheric pressure at sea level.
A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.
An addition to a military medal, on account of a subsequent act.
An establishment offering cosmetic services.
An establishment where alcohol and sometimes other refreshments are served.
An informal establishment selling food to be consumed on the premises.
An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity.
Anything that obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier.
The counter of such premises.
prep
(horse racing) Denotes the minimum odds offered on other horses not mentioned by name.
Except, other than, besides.
verb
(transitive) To lock or bolt with a bar.
(transitive) To obstruct the passage of (someone or something).
(transitive) To prohibit.
To imprint or paint with bars, to stripe.
bas
bas
noun
plural of ba
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ba
bat
bat
noun
(Caribbean, MLE) Clipping of batty (“buttocks or anus”).
(Kent, Sussex) A rough walking stick.
(UK, Scotland, dialect) A stroke of work.
(UK, Scotland, dialect) Manner; rate; condition; state of health.
(UK, dialect, obsolete) A child's shoe without a welt.
(UK, slang, obsolete) A boot that is badly made or in poor condition.
(US, slang, dated) A spree; a jollification.
(derogatory) An old woman.
(informal) Rate of motion; speed.
(mining) Shale or bituminous shale.
(obsolete) A packsaddle.
(two-up) The piece of wood on which the spinner places the coins and then uses for throwing them.
A club made of wood or aluminium used for striking the ball in sports such as baseball, softball and cricket.
A part of a brick with one whole end.
A sheet of cotton used for filling quilts or comfortables; batting.
A stroke; a sharp blow.
A turn at hitting the ball with a bat in a game.
Any of the flying mammals of the order Chiroptera, usually small and nocturnal, insectivorous or frugivorous.
Dated form of baht (“Thai currency”).
verb
(UK, dialect, obsolete) To bate or flutter, as a hawk.
(US, UK, dialect) To wink.
(intransitive) To strike or swipe as though with a bat.
(intransitive) To take a turn at hitting a ball with a bat in sports like cricket, baseball and softball, as opposed to fielding.
(intransitive, usually with 'around' or 'about') To flit quickly from place to place.
(transitive) To flutter
(transitive) To hit with a bat or (figuratively) as if with a bat.
bau
bau
noun
Alternative form of bao: Any of various types of steamed bread used in Chinese cuisine
bav
baw
bax
bay
bay
adj
Of a reddish-brown colour (especially of horses).
noun
(US, dialect) A tract covered with bay trees.
(by extension) The climactic confrontation between hunting-dogs and their prey.
(figuratively) A state of being obliged to face an antagonist or a difficulty, when escape has become impossible.
(geography) A body of water (especially the sea) more-or-less three-quarters surrounded by land.
(in the plural, now rare) The leaves of this shrub, woven into a garland used to reward a champion or victor; hence, fame, victory.
(nautical) Each of the spaces, port and starboard, between decks, forward of the bitts, in sailing warships.
(obsolete) A berry.
(rail transport) A bay platform.
A bank or dam to keep back water.
A bay window.
A brown colour of the coat of some horses.
A horse of this colour.
A kind of mahogany obtained from Campeche in Mexico.
An internal recess; a compartment or area surrounded on three sides.
An opening in a wall, especially between two columns.
Bay leaf, the leaf of this or certain other species of tree or shrub, used as a herb.
Laurus nobilis, a tree or shrub of the family Lauraceae, having dark green leaves and berries.
The distance between two supports in a vault or building with a pitched roof.
The excited howling of dogs when hunting or being attacked.
verb
(intransitive) To howl.
(transitive) To bark at; hence, to follow with barking; to bring or drive to bay.
(transitive) To pursue noisily, like a pack of hounds.
bba
bda
bea
bfa
bha
bia
bla
bma
boa
boa
noun
(plural "boas") A type of long scarf; typically made from synthetic or real feathers (or occasionally fur), and usually worn by being draped across the shoulders with the ends hanging low, sometimes also with a loop around the neck.
Any of a group of large American snakes, of the genus Boa, subfamily Boinae, or family Boidae, including the boa constrictor and the emperor boa of Mexico.
bpa
bra
bra
noun
(physics) One of the two vectors in the standard notation for describing quantum states in quantum mechanics, the row vector; the other (column) vector being its complex conjugate, the ket.
(slang) Alternative form of bro; friend, mate
An item of underwear worn to support the breasts.
bsa
bva
cab
cab
noun
(historical units of measure) A former Hebrew unit of volume, about equal to 1.3 L as a dry measure or 1.25 L as a liquid measure.
(software, Windows) Alternative form of CAB; Clipping of cabinet file.; a compress library archive file.
(video games, informal) An arcade cabinet, the unit in which a video game is housed in a gaming arcade.
Alternative form of Cab
Any of several four-wheeled carriages; a cabriolet.
Compartment at the front of a truck or train for the driver.
Shelter at the top of an air traffic control tower or fire lookout tower.
Synonym of taxi
verb
To travel by taxicab.
dab
dab
adj
(obsolete, costermongers) Bad.
adv
With a dab, or sudden contact.
noun
(African-American Vernacular) A soft, playful box given in greeting or approval.
(US) A sand dab, a small flatfish of genus Citharichthys.
(chiefly in the plural, dated, Britain) Fingerprint.
(dance) A hip hop dance move in which the dancer simultaneously drops the head while raising an arm, briefly resting their face in the elbow, as if sneezing into their elbow.
(obsolete) A dabbler.
(slang) A small amount of hash oil.
A small amount, a blob of some soft or wet substance.
A small flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae, especially Limanda limanda; a flounder.
A soft tap or blow; a blow or peck from a bird's beak; an aimed blow.
One skilful or proficient; an expert; an adept.
verb
(dance, intransitive) To perform the dab dance move, by moving both arms to one side of the body parallel with your head.
(slang) To apply hash oil to a heated surface for the purpose of efficient combustion.
(transitive) To apply a substance in this way.
(transitive) To press lightly in a repetitive motion with a soft object without rubbing.
To strike by a thrust; to hit with a sudden blow or thrust.
dba
dba
noun
(business) A business doing business under such an alias.
(business) An alias of a business entity.
prep
(business) Doing business as; used to indicate the public alias of a business legally constituted under a different name
eba
eba
noun
A stiff dough made by soaking garri in hot water and kneading it with a baton.
fab
fab
adj
(informal) fabulous (great or spectacular).
noun
A manufacturing plant which fabricates items, particularly silicon chips.
verb
To fabricate, especially in the context of fabbers
fba
gab
gab
noun
Idle chatter.
One of the open-forked ends of rods controlling reversing in early steam engines.
The mouth or gob.
verb
(intransitive) To talk or chatter a lot, usually on trivial subjects.
(intransitive, obsolete) To jest; to tell lies in jest; exaggerate; lie.
(transitive, obsolete) To speak or tell falsely.
gba
hab
hab
noun
(informal) A habanero.
A habitation or habitation facility.
hba
iab
iba
jab
jab
noun
(Britain) A medical hypodermic injection (vaccination or inoculation)
(Britain, Australia, New Zealand) A vaccination, whether or not delivered via conventional injection.
(US, figurative) A mild verbal insult.
(boxing) A short straight punch.
A quick stab or blow; a poking or thrusting motion.
verb
(slang, UK) To give someone an injection
To deliver a quick punch.
To poke or thrust abruptly, or to make such a motion.
kab
kab
noun
(historical units of measure) Alternative form of cab: a former Hebrew unit of volume.
lab
lab
noun
(colloquial) A Labrador retriever.
(colloquial) A laboratory.
(colloquial) Laboratory experiment, test, investigation or result.
(obsolete) A telltale; a blabber.
mab
mab
noun
(obsolete) A slattern.
verb
(obsolete) To dress untidily.
mba
nab
nab
noun
(locksmithing) The keeper, or box into which the lock is shot.
The cock of a gunlock.
The summit of a hill.
verb
(informal, transitive) To grab or snatch something.
(informal, transitive) To seize, arrest or take into custody (a criminal or fugitive).
nba
oba
oba
noun
A king of a Yoruba polity.
rab
sab
sab
noun
(UK, slang) A sabbatical officer.
(heraldry) Abbreviation of sable.
(informal) A saboteur, especially of fox hunts.
verb
(informal) To sabotage, especially fox hunts in opposition to blood sports.
sba
tab
tab
noun
(British Army, military slang) A fast march or run with full kit.
(Oxbridge slang) A student of Cambridge University.
(Tyneside and Mackem) A cigarette.
(by extension) The cost or bill for anything.
(by extension, graphical user interface) A navigational widget, resembling a physical tab, for switching between documents or sets of controls.
(colloquial) A tabloid newspaper.
(computing) A space character that extends to the next aligned column, traditionally used for tabulation.
(graphical user interface) The page or form associated with such a navigational widget.
(informal) A tablet, especially one containing illicit drugs.
(informal, chiefly Canada, US) A restaurant bill.
(informal, chiefly Canada, US) Credit account, e.g., in a shop or bar; slate
(informal, theater) A tableau curtain.
(slang) An ear.
A small flap or strip of material attached to something, for holding, manipulation, identification, opening etc.
verb
(computing) To use the Tab key on a computer to advance the cursor or move the input focus, or on a typewriter to advance the carriage.
(transitive) To affix with tabs; to label.
tba
uab
uba
vab
vab
verb
(slang) To wear one's own vaginal fluid as perfume, as a purported aphrodisiac.