(intransitive, infinitive, Britain, uncommon) To be.
bae
bae
noun
(slang) Darling (term of endearment).
Asian pear.
verb
(intransitive) To make the sound of a wild animal, to bay.
bce
bde
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
bge
bge
noun
Abbreviation of beige.
bie
ble
bme
boe
bpe
bre
bse
bte
bve
bye
bye
adj
Out of the way; remote.
Secondary; supplementary.
intj
(colloquial) Goodbye.
noun
(Scotland) An unspecified way or place.
(card games) A pass.
(cricket) An extra scored when the batsmen take runs after the ball has passed the striker without hitting either the bat or the batsman.
(obsolete) A thing not directly aimed at; a secondary or subsidiary object, course, path, undertaking, issue, etc.
A male person.
Craig's Crew plays the bye next week.
Obsolete spelling of bee
The position of a person or team in a tournament or competition who draws no opponent in a particular round so advances to the next round unopposed, or is awarded points for a win in a league table; also the phantom opponent of such a person or team.
prep
Obsolete spelling of by
cbe
cbe
Adjective
can't be everywhere
Proper noun
Commander of the
Noun
Component Boolean Expression
Calculated Best Estimate
Command Budget Estimate
Common Base Event
ceb
dbe
dbe
Proper noun
Dame Commander of the
Noun
disadvantaged business enterprise
deb
deb
noun
(informal) Clipping of debutante.
(informal) Debutante ball or debut.
eba
eba
noun
A stiff dough made by soaking garri in hot water and kneading it with a baton.
ebb
ebb
adj
low, shallow
noun
(especially in the phrase 'at a low ebb') A low state; a state of depression.
A European bunting, the corn bunting (Emberiza calandra, syns. Emberiza miliaria, Milaria calandra).
A gradual decline.
The receding movement of the tide.
verb
(intransitive) to fall away or decline
(intransitive) to fish with stakes and nets that serve to prevent the fish from getting back into the sea with the ebb
(intransitive) to flow back or recede
(transitive) To cause to flow back.
ebi
ebn
ebs
ecb
edb
eib
elb
erb
esb
feb
gbe
geb
heb
jeb
kbe
kbe
Proper noun
Knight Commander of the
Noun
Knowledge-Based Engineering
Knowledge Based Economy
keb
keb
noun
(Northern England, dialect) A still-born lamb.
verb
(Northern England, dialect) Of a ewe, to abort a lamb.
mbe
nbe
neb
neb
noun
(now dialectal) A bird's beak or bill.
(now dialectal) A nib, as of a pen.
(now dialectal) A person's nose.
(now dialectal) A projecting extremity; a point or sharp projection.
(now dialectal) The nose or snout of an animal, now especially of a fish.
(now dialectal) The peak of a flat cap.
(obsolete) A person's mouth.
obe
obe
noun
(historical) A particular subdivision of ancient Laconia.
Obsolete form of obeah.
rbe
reb
reb
noun
(US, historical) Clipping of rebel: a Confederate, especially a Confederate soldier.
An honorific used by traditional Jews, much like sir and mister/Mr.
Shortened form of Rebbe.
sbe
teb
ube
ube
noun
The purple yam, Dioscorea alata.
web
web
name
Alternative letter-case form of Web: the World Wide Web.
noun
(architecture) A section of a groin vault, separated by ribs.
(baseball) The part of a baseball mitt between the forefinger and thumb, the webbing.
(by extension) Any interconnected set of persons, places, or things, which, when diagrammed, resembles a spider's web.
(dated) A band of webbing used to regulate the extension of the hood of a carriage.
(dated, US, radio, television) A major broadcasting network.
(lithography) A long sheet of paper which is fed from a roll into a printing press, as opposed to individual sheets of paper.
(manufacturing) A continuous strip of material carried by rollers during processing.
(rail transport) The thinner vertical section of a railway rail between the top (head) and bottom (foot) of the rail.
(usually with "spin", "weave", or similar verbs) A tall tale with more complexity than a myth or legend.
A fold of tissue connecting the toes of certain birds, or of other animals.
A latticed or woven structure.
A plot or scheme.
A thin metal sheet, plate, or strip, as of lead.
The bit of a key.
The blade of a saw.
The blade of a sword.
The interconnection between flanges in structural members, increasing the effective lever arm and so the load capacity of the member.
The series of barbs implanted on each side of the shaft of a feather, whether stiff and united together by barbules, as in ordinary feathers, or soft and separate, as in downy feathers.
The silken structure which a spider builds using silk secreted from the spinnerets at the caudal tip of its abdomen; a spiderweb.