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
bbb
bbc
bbl
bbl
noun
Abbreviation of barrel, notably for oil.
phrase
(Internet) Alternative form of BBL
bbn
bbs
bbs
noun
plural of bb
phrase
Alternative letter-case form of BBS (be back soon).
bcc
bcc
adj
Initialism of body-centered cubic.
noun
Initialism of blind carbon copy.
verb
To send something by blind carbon copy.
bcd
bcd
Noun
binary-coded decimal
blue compact dwarf, blue compact dwarf galaxy
bolt circle diameter, a measurement of the various sizes of chainring
bce
bcf
bch
bcl
bcm
bcm
noun
Initialism of billions of cubic metres.
bcp
bcr
bcr
Noun
B cell receptor
bcs
bda
bdc
bdd
bde
bdf
bdl
bds
bds
noun
plural of bd
bdt
bea
bec
bed
bed
noun
(computing) The flat surface of a scanner on which a document is placed to be scanned.
(darts) Any of the sections of a dartboard with a point value, delimited by a wire.
(figurative) Marriage.
(figurative, uncountable) Sexual activity.
(geology) The smallest division of a geologic formation or stratigraphic rock series marked by well-defined divisional planes (bedding planes) separating it from layers above and below.
(masonry) A course of stone or brick in a wall.
(masonry) The horizontal surface of a building stone.
(masonry) The lower surface of a brick, slate, or tile.
(printing, dated) The flat part of the press, on which the form is laid.
(trampoline) The taut surface of a trampoline.
(uncountable) Time spent in a bed.
(uncountable, usually after a preposition) Sleep; rest; getting to sleep.
(uncountable, usually after a preposition) The time for going to sleep or resting in bed; bedtime.
(usually after a preposition) One's place of sleep or rest.
A deposit of ore, coal, etc.
A foundation or supporting surface formed of a fluid.
A garden plot.
A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, on which to rest or sleep.
A piece of music, normally instrumental, over which a radio DJ talks.
A place, or flat surface or layer, on which something else rests or is laid.
A prepared spot in which to spend the night.
A shaped piece of timber to hold a cask clear of a ship’s floor; a pallet.
Abbreviation of bedroom.
An area where a large number of oysters, mussels, other sessile shellfish, or a large amount of seaweed is found.
The bottom of a body of water, such as an ocean, sea, lake, or river.
The platform of a truck, trailer, railcar, or other vehicle that supports the load to be hauled.
The superficial earthwork, or ballast, of a railroad.
verb
(intransitive) To go to bed.
(transitive) To dress or prepare the surface of (stone) so it can serve as a bed.
(transitive) To furnish with a bed or bedding.
(transitive) To lay flat; to lay in order; to place in a horizontal or recumbent position.
(transitive) To lay or put in any hollow place, or place of rest and security, surrounded or enclosed; to embed.
(transitive) To place in a bed.
(transitive) To set in a soft matrix, as paving stones in sand, or tiles in cement.
(transitive) To set out (plants) in a garden bed.
(transitive, intransitive) To have sexual intercourse with.
To put oneself to sleep.
To settle, as machinery.
bee
bee
noun
(nautical, usually in the plural) Any of the pieces of hard wood bolted to the sides of the bowsprit, to reeve the fore-topmast stays through.
(obsolete) A ring or torque; a bracelet.
A community gathering to share labour, e.g. a sewing bee or a quilting bee.
A contest, especially for spelling; see spelling bee.
A flying insect, of the clade Anthophila within the hymenopteran superfamily Apoidea, known for its organised societies (though only a minority have them), for collecting pollen and (in some species) producing wax and honey.
The name of the Latin-script letter B.
verb
(obsolete) past participle of be; been
Obsolete spelling of be
bef
beg
beg
noun
(knitting) Abbreviation of beginning.
A provincial governor under the Ottoman Empire; a bey.
The act of begging; an imploring request.
verb
(intransitive) To request the help of someone, often in the form of money.
(transitive) In the phrase beg the question: to assume.
(transitive) To plead with someone for help, a favor, etc.; to entreat.
(transitive, law, obsolete) To ask to be appointed guardian for, or to ask to have a guardian appointed for.
(transitive, proscribed) In the phrase beg the question: to raise (a question).
bel
bel
noun
A measure of relative power, defined as log₁₀(P ₁/P ₂), where P₁ and P₂ are the measured and reference power respectively.
Alternative form of bael (“Indian tree”)
bem
ben
ben
adj
(obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) Alternative spelling of bene; good.
Inner, interior.
adv
(Scotland, Northern England) Inside.
noun
(Scotland, Northern England) Ben-room: The inner room of a two-room hut or shack (as opposed to the but).
(UK, theater, slang, obsolete) A benefit (performance to raise funds).
(obsolete) A prayer; a petition.
(usually capitalised) Son of (used with Hebrew and Arabic surnames).
A Scottish or Irish mountain or high peak.
A tree, Moringa oleifera or horseradish tree of Arabia and India, which produces oil of ben.
The oil of the ben seed.
The winged seed of the ben tree.
prep
(Scotland, Northern England) In, into.
bep
ber
ber
noun
A fruit-bearing tree (Ziziphus mauritiana); the jujube.
bes
bes
noun
(historical, numismatics) A bronze coin of the Roman Republic, worth two thirds of an as.
plural of be (Cyrillic letter)
verb
(dialectal, nonstandard) Present tense inflected form of be: am or are.
(now chiefly dialectal) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of be
bet
bet
intj
Exclamation indicating acceptance of a challenge or an absurd proposal.
Exclamation of joy at good fortune.
Expression of general agreement or acceptance.
noun
(Philippines, figuratively, informal, by extension) A candidate (for elections and pageants).
A degree of certainty.
A wager, an agreement between two parties that a stake (usually money) will be paid by the loser to the winner (the winner being the one who correctly forecast the outcome of an event).
Alternative form of beth
prep
(knitting) between
verb
(poker) To place money into the pot in order to require others do the same, usually only used for the first person to place money in the pot on each round.
To be sure of something; to be able to count on something.
To stake or pledge upon the outcome of an event; to wager.
bev
bev
noun
(abbreviation or slang) Clipping of beverage.
bew
bey
bey
noun
(historical) A governor of a province or district in the Turkish dominions
in various other places, a prince or nobleman
bfa
bfd
bfr
bfs
bfs
noun
plural of bf
bft
bge
bge
noun
Abbreviation of beige.
bgp
bha
bhc
bhd
bhl
bhp
bhp
noun
(automotive) Initialism of brake horsepower.
bht
bia
bib
bib
noun
(cycling) Shorts which are held up by suspenders.
(sports) A colourful polyester or plastic vest worn over one's clothes, usually to mark one's team during group activities.
(sports) A rectangular piece of material, carrying a bib number, worn as identification by entrants in a race.
A bibcock.
A north Atlantic fish (Trisopterus luscus), allied to the cod.
A patch of colour around an animal's upper breast and throat.
An item of clothing for people (especially babies) tied around their neck to protect their clothes from getting dirty when eating.
Similar items of clothing such as the Chinese dudou and Vietnamese yem.
The upper part of an apron or overalls.
verb
(informal) To beep (e.g. a car horn).
(intransitive, archaic) To drink heartily; to tipple.
(transitive) To dress (somebody) in a bib.
bid
bid
noun
(ultimate frisbee) A (failed) attempt to receive or intercept a pass.
An attempt, effort, or pursuit (of a goal).
An offer at an auction, or to carry out a piece of work.
verb
(intransitive) To make an attempt.
(intransitive) To make an offer to pay or accept a certain price.
(obsolete) To proclaim (a bede, prayer); to pray.
(transitive) To invite; to summon.
(transitive) To issue a command; to tell.
(transitive) To offer as a price.
(transitive) To utter a greeting or salutation.
(transitive, intransitive, card games) To announce (one's goal), before starting play.
bie
big
big
adj
(informal) Adult; (of a child) older.
(informal) Fat.
(informal) Important or significant.
(informal) Used as an intensifier, especially of negative-valence nouns
(informal) Well-endowed, possessing large breasts in the case of a woman or a large penis in the case of a man.
(informal, slang, rare, of somebody's age) Old, mature. Used to imply that somebody is too old for something, or acting immaturely.
(informal, transitive with of) Mature, conscientious, principled; generous.
(informal, with on) Enthusiastic (about).
(of a city) Populous.
(of an industry or other field, or institution(s) therein, often capitalized) Operating on a large scale, especially if therefore having undue or sinister influence.
(sometimes figurative) Large with young; pregnant; swelling; ready to give birth or produce.
Of great size, large.
Popular.
adv
Hard.
In a boasting manner.
In a large amount or to a large extent.
In a loud manner.
On a large scale, expansively.
You've got to think big to succeed at Amalgamated Plumbing.
noun
(BDSM) The participant in ageplay who acts out the older role.
(in the plural) The big leagues, big time.
(university slang) A initiated member of a sorority who acts as a mentor to a new member (the little).
An important or powerful person; a celebrity; a big name.
One or more kinds of barley, especially six-rowed barley.
verb
(intransitive, archaic, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To dwell; have a dwelling.
(reflexive, archaic, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To locate oneself.
(transitive, archaic, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To build; erect; fashion.
(transitive, archaic, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To inhabit; occupy.
bik
bil
bil
num
Abbreviation of billion.
bim
bim
noun
(slang) woman
bin
bin
abbrev
(text messaging) Contraction of being.
noun
(MLE, slang, uncommon) Jail or prison.
(computing) Clipping of binary.
(in Arabic names) son of; equivalent to Hebrew בן (ben).
(statistics) Any of the discrete intervals in a histogram, etc
A box, frame, crib, or enclosed place, used as a storage container.
A container for rubbish or waste.
Any of the fixed-size chunks into which airspace is divided for the purposes of radar.
verb
(Britain, informal) To throw away, reject, give up.
(chiefly Britain, informal) To dispose of (something) by putting it into a bin, or as if putting it into a bin.
(obsolete, dialectal and text messaging) Alternative form of been
(statistics) To convert continuous data into discrete groups.
(transitive) To place into a bin for storage.
bio
bio
adj
(informal) biological.
noun
(South Africa, informal) bioscope; cinema
(informal) Clipping of biology.
Clipping of biography.
biographical sketch
bis
bis
adv
Twice; showing that something is, or is to be, repeated, such as a passage of music, or an item in accounts.
noun
plural of bi
bit
bit
adj
(chiefly in combination) Having been bitten.
noun
(BDSM) A gag of a style similar to a bridle.
(MLE) A gun.
(computing) The smallest unit of storage in a digital computer, consisting of a binary digit.
(dated, Britain) A coin of a specified value.
(historical, US) In the southern and southwestern states, a small silver coin (such as the real) formerly current; commonly, one worth about 12½ cents; also, the sum of 12½ cents.
(in the plural, informal, sports) Fractions of a second.
(informal) Specifically, a small amount of time.
(information theory) A unit of measure for information entropy.
(information theory, cryptography) Any datum that may take on one of exactly two values.
(mathematics, computing) A binary digit, generally represented as a 1 or 0.
(now US) A unit of currency or coin in the Americas worth a fraction of a Spanish dollar; now specifically, an eighth of a US dollar.
(obsolete, Canada) A ten-cent piece, dime.
(slang) A prison sentence, especially a short one.
A microbitcoin, or a millionth of a bitcoin (0.000001 BTC).
A piece of metal placed in a horse's mouth and connected to the reins to direct the animal.
A portion of something.
A rotary cutting tool fitted to a drill, used to bore holes.
A small amount of something.
An excerpt of material making up part of a show, comedy routine, etc.
Short for bit part.
Somewhat; something, but not very great; also used like jot and whit to express the smallest degree. See also a bit.
The bevelled front edge of an axehead along which the cutting edge runs.
The cutting iron of a plane.
The part of a key which enters the lock and acts upon the bolt and tumblers.
verb
(informal in US, archaic in UK) past participle of bite, bitten
(transitive) To put a bridle upon; to put the bit in the mouth of (a horse).
simple past tense of bite
biu
bix
bix
noun
(UK, informal) biscuits
biz
biz
noun
(slang) Business.
bkg
bks
bks
noun
plural of bk
bkt
bla
bld
ble
blf
bli
blk
bll
blm
blo
bls
blt
blt
Noun
A sandwich with bacon, lettuce and tomato as the main ingredients.
(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.
bob
bob
noun
(Australia, dated slang) A 10-cent coin.
(Kenya, slang; UK and Australia, historical, dated) A shilling.
(computer graphics, demoscene) A graphical element, resembling a hardware sprite, that can be blitted around the screen in large numbers.
(obsolete) A jeer; a sharp jest or taunt.
(obsolete) A knot or short curl of hair; also, a bob wig.
(obsolete) The refrain of a song.
(slang) An unspecified amount of money.
A blow; a shake or jog; a rap, as with the fist.
A bob haircut.
A bobber (buoyant fishing device).
A bobbing motion; a quick up and down movement.
A bobsleigh.
A curtsy.
A particular style of ringing changes on bells.
A short line ending a stanza of a poem.
A small wheel, made of leather, with rounded edges, used in polishing spoons, etc.
A working beam in a steam engine.
Abbreviation of shishkabob.
Any round object attached loosely to a flexible line, a rod, a body part etc., so that it may swing when hanging from it.
The dangling mass of a pendulum or plumb line.
The docked tail of a horse.
The short runner of a sled.
verb
(intransitive) To move gently and vertically, in either a single motion or repeatedly up and down, at or near the surface of a body of water, or similar medium.
(transitive) To cut (hair) into a bob haircut.
(transitive) To move (something) as though it were bobbing in water.
(transitive) To shorten by cutting; to dock; to crop.