(US) The early stages of; the beginning process; the start.
(informal) abdominal muscle.
(slang) An abscess caused by injecting an illegal drug, usually heroin.
Abbreviation of abortion.
prep
Abbreviation of about.
verb
(climbing, informal) To abseil.
Abbreviation of abort.
ba
ba
noun
(Egyptian mythology) A being's soul or personality, represented as a bird-headed figure, which survives after death but must be sustained with offerings of food.
(colloquial and in direct address) Father, baba.
(historical) A medieval football game played in parts of Scotland around Christmas and New Year.
bb
bb
noun
(Internet slang) Abbreviation of baby.
Alternative spelling of BB
bc
bc
adv
Alternative letter-case form of BC (Before Christ)
conj
(Internet slang) Alternative form of b/c: because.
noun
(law enforcement) bodycam
(music) basso continuo
Initialism of blind copy, a shortening of blind carbon copy
bd
bd
noun
Abbreviation of bed. (bedroom, used in apartment listings)
be
be
noun
The name of the Cyrillic script letter Б / б.
prep
(dialectal, possibly dated) Alternative form of by. Also found in compounds, especially oaths, e.g. begorra.
verb
(African-American Vernacular, Caribbean, auxiliary, not conjugated) To tend to do, often do; marks the habitual aspect.
(With since) Used to indicate passage of time since the occurrence of an event.
(auxiliary) Used to form the continuous aspect.
(auxiliary) Used to form the passive voice.
(auxiliary) Used to form the perfect aspect with certain intransitive verbs; this was more common in archaic use, especially with verbs indicating motion. "He is finished", and "He is gone" are common, but "He is come" is archaic.
(copulative) Used to indicate that the subject and object are the same.
(copulative) Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or noun phrase.
(copulative) Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by an adjective.
(copulative) Used to indicate that the subject is an instance of the predicate nominal.
(copulative) Used to indicate that the subject plays the role of the predicate nominal.
(copulative) Used to link a subject to a measurement.
(copulative, mathematics) Used to indicate that the values on either side of an equation are the same.
(copulative, with a cardinal numeral) Used to state the age of a subject in years.
(dynamic / lexical "be", especially in progressive tenses, conjugated non-suppletively in the present tense, see usage notes) To exist or behave in a certain way.
(formal, auxiliary) Used to express future action as well as what is due to, intended to, or should happen.
(intransitive) To occupy a place.
(intransitive) To occur, to take place.
(intransitive, in perfect tenses) Elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from" or similar, also extending to certain other senses of "go".
(intransitive, now usually literary) To exist; to have real existence, to be alive.
(often impersonal, with it as a dummy subject) Used to indicate weather, air quality, or the like.
(rare and regional, chiefly in the past tense) Used to link two noun clauses, the first of which is a day of the week, recurring date, month, or other specific time (on which the event of the main clause took place), and the second of which is a period of time indicating how long ago that day was.
(with a dummy subject it) Used to indicate the time of day.
(with there, or dialectally it, as dummy subject) To exist.
bf
bf
noun
(Internet slang) Initialism of best friend.
(Internet slang) Initialism of boyfriend.
(proofreading) Initialism of boldface.
bg
bg
noun
Abbreviation of background.
verb
(stenoscript) Abbreviation of begin and inflections beginning, began, begun.
bh
bi
bi
adj
(LGBT, slang) Bisexual.
(LGBT, slang, uncommon) Bigender.
noun
(LGBT, slang) A bisexual person.
(bodybuilding, colloquial, uncommon) A biceps muscle.
A type of jade disk produced in ancient China.
bk
bk
noun
(video games, slang) Initialism of bad kid, an inexperienced player or noob.
Abbreviation of black.
Abbreviation of book.
bl
bm
bm
noun
Abbreviation of Builder's Old Measurement.
bn
bn
adj
Initialism of brand new.
bo
bo
intj
An exclamation used to startle or frighten.
noun
(US, slang) Fellow, chap, boy.
(martial arts) A quarterstaff, especially in an oriental context.
bp
bp
noun
(finance) Initialism of basis point.
(genetics) Initialism of base pair.
br
bs
bs
noun
plural of b
bt
bt
conj
(Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of but.
bu
bu
noun
Abbreviation of bushel. (a unit of weight or dry measure)
Clipping of bureau.
bv
bw
bw
noun
Abbreviation of birth weight.
Abbreviation of bodyweight.
bx
by
by
adj
Out of the way, off to one side.
Subsidiary, incidental.
adv
Along a path which runs past the speaker.
Aside, away.
In the vicinity, near.
To or at a place, as a residence or place of business.
intj
Alternative spelling of bye.
noun
Alternative form of bye.
prep
(chiefly Yeshivish) At, with, among
(horse breeding) Designates a horse's male parent (sire); cf. out of.
(not in common modern use) Following an adjective.
(with the) Acted on in units of the specified size or measure. (Sometimes hyperbolically)
Following a noun.
Following a passive verb.
From one side of something to the other, passing close by; past.
In the formulae X by X and by Xs, indicates a steady progression, one X after another.
Indicates a means of achieving something: Involving/using the means of.
Indicates a means of classification or organisation.
Indicates a referenced source: According to.
Indicates an authority according to which something is done.
Indicates the amount of change, difference or discrepancy
Indicates the creator of a work: Existing through the authorship etc. of.
Invokes an authority in an oath.
Near or next to.
Not later than (the given time); not later than the end of (the given time interval).
Used to separate dimensions when describing the size of something.
per; with or in proportion to each.
bz
cb
db
eb
fb
gb
hb
ib
kb
kb
noun
(computing) Abbreviation of keyboard.
(genetics) Abbreviation of kilobase.
symbol
(computing) kilobit
(physics) kilobar
lb
lb
noun
(cricket) leg bye
A pound (unit of weight).
mb
mb
adv
Alternative letter-case form of MB (“maybe”)
intj
Alternative letter-case form of MB (“my bad”)
nb
nb
adj
Alternative form of NB: initialism of non-binary.
noun
(cricket) Initialism of no ball.
phrase
Initialism of nota bene.
ob
ob
noun
(archaic) an objection
(genetics) the obese gene
(historical) a halfpenny
pb
qb
rb
sb
sb
pron
Abbreviation of somebody.
tb
ub
ub
Proper noun
of, a branch of the secret police in communist Poland.
Noun
of, behavior not defined in the language standard.