(automotive) A protective system in automobiles in which when a crash occurs, a bag containing nitrogen, formed by the explosive decomposition of sodium azide, quickly inflates in front of the driver or passenger, preventing injury to the head. Side air bags, including the back seat passengers, also prevent injury.
(slang) A person who talks too much; a windbag or gossip.
A similar inflated bag used in performing stunts, etc.
albugo
albugo
noun
(dated) A leucoma.
alburg
ambage
ambage
noun
(especially in plural) ambiguity; circumlocution
amberg
ambigu
ambigu
noun
(dated) An entertainment at which a medley of dishes is set on at the same time; a buffet.
atabeg
atabeg
noun
(historical) A high medieval Turkish feudal title, originally charged with the caretaking and mentoring of the realm's crown prince.
baaing
baaing
noun
The bleating of a sheep.
verb
present participle of baa
badaga
badaga
Proper noun
A Dravidian language spoken primarily in the Nilgri Hills of southern India.
The indigenous people of the Nilgri Hills of southern India.
badged
badged
verb
simple past tense and past participle of badge
badger
badger
noun
(in the plural, obsolete, cant) A crew of desperate villains who robbed near rivers, into which they threw the bodies of those they murdered.
(obsolete) A brush made of badger hair.
(obsolete) An itinerant licensed dealer in commodities used for food; a hawker; a huckster; -- formerly applied especially to one who bought grain in one place and sold it in another.
A native or resident of the American state, Wisconsin.
Any mammal of three subfamilies, which belong to the family Mustelidae: Melinae (Eurasian badgers), Mellivorinae (ratel or honey badger), and Taxideinae (American badger).
verb
To pester, to annoy persistently; press.
badges
badges
noun
plural of badge
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of badge
badgir
badgir
noun
(India, historical) A windcatcher.
bagani
bagass
bagass
noun
Alternative form of bagasse
bagdad
bagels
bagels
noun
plural of bagel
bagful
bagful
noun
A large assortment.
An amount; the contents of one full bag.
bagged
bagged
adj
(colloquial) Having been caught or successfully hunted.
Having been placed in a bag.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bag
bagger
bagger
noun
A retail employee who bags customers' purchases and carries them to the customers' vehicles.
A touring motorcycle equipped with saddlebags.
One who bags.
baggie
baggie
noun
(US) A small bag, especially a small, clear, plastic bag.
baggit
baggit
noun
A salmon that has just spawned.
baghla
bagios
bagley
bagley
Proper noun
an area in north-west Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England.
a village in Hordley parish, Shropshire
a hamlet in parish, district, Somerset, England
a village in the City of borough, West Yorkshire, England
a small city in Iowa, USA.
a small city in Minnesota, USA
a village in Wisconsin, USA.
a town in Wisconsin.
bagman
bagman
noun
(Australia, slang) A bookmaker.
(US, politics, slang) An officer assigned to travel with the president and carry the "nuclear football".
(dated, slang) A travelling salesman.
(golf) A caddy.
(informal) A person who collects, transports, or distributes illicit money, especially for the purpose of bribery, extortion, or the making of other improper payments.
(politics, informal) A prominent fundraiser for a political party or similar cause
An assistant to a police detective, most commonly in the British police force.
bagmen
bagmen
noun
plural of bagman
bagnes
bagnet
bagnet
noun
(Philippines) crispy pork belly
bagnio
bagnio
noun
(obsolete) A building for bathing, sweating.
(obsolete) In Turkey, a prison for slaves.
bagnut
bagobo
bagong
bagpod
bagram
baguet
baguet
noun
(architecture, zoology) Alternative form of baguette
baguio
baguio
noun
(Philippines) A typhoon.
bagwig
bagwig
noun
Alternative form of bag wig
bagwyn
bagwyn
noun
An imaginary heraldic animal, like an antelope but with the tail of a horse and two curved horns.
baking
baking
adj
(figuratively) Of a person, an object, or the weather: very hot; boiling, broiling, roasting.
That bakes.
noun
(countable) The production of a batch of baked product.
An action in which something is baked.
The way in which something is baked.
verb
present participle of bake.
baling
baling
noun
A collection of material packaged into a bale.
verb
present participle of bale
baluga
banago
bandog
bandog
noun
(archaic) A dog that has been tied up; a mastiff or other kind of guard dog.
(figurative, literary) Anything that behaves like a bandog; something or someone who pursues doggedly.
(obsolete, slang, cant) A bailiff or prison guard.
(specifically) A type of large, ferocious dog, bred by crossing American pit bull terriers with Neapolitan mastiffs.
banged
banged
adj
Alternative form of bhanged
Having the hair styled in bangs.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bang
banger
banger
noun
(Britain) A firework that makes a bang.
(Britain, New Zealand, Australia, food, slang) A sausage.
(Britain, music, slang) A powerfully energetic piece of music, especially dance music.
(Britain, sexuality, slang) A man's penis.
(Britain, sexuality, slang) A woman's breast.
(Britain, slang, by extension) Any particularly good or pleasing thing.
(US, automotive, slang) A car or an engine; referring to the cylinders of an engine in a car. From the explosive bangs on every cylinder firing.
(US, crime, slang) Clipping of gangbanger; a member of a gang.
(automotive, slang) An old, worn-out car. From a stereotypical one backfiring, making banging noises.
(curling) One of the rocks that end up crashing against another, making banging sounds, after a throw.
(curling) One of the rocks that results in a score at the finish of an end.
(military, slang) A Bangalore torpedo.
(sexuality, slang) A person who has sex.
banghy
bangia
bangka
bangle
bangle
noun
(dialectal) The cut branch of a tree; a large, rough stick; the largest piece of wood in a bundle of twigs
A rigid bracelet or anklet, especially one with no clasp.
verb
(intransitive) (falconry) to beat about in the air; flutter: said of a hawk which does not rise steadily and then swoop down upon its prey.
(intransitive) to flap or hang down loosely, as a hat brim or an animal's ear.
(obsolete or dialectal) to waste away little by little; squander carelessly; fritter (away).
(transitive, obsolete) to beat about or beat down, as corn by the wind.
If we bangle away the legacy of peace left us by Christ, it is a sign of our want of regard for him. — Duty of Man.
bangor
bangor
Proper noun
A city in Gwynedd, Wales.
A town in County Northern Ireland.
Any of several other places named after the city in Wales, or the town in Northern Ireland.
a city in Maine, USA
bangos
bangui
bangui
Proper noun
The capital of the Central African Republic.
bangup
baning
baning
verb
present participle of bane
baraga
baraga
Proper noun
A village in Michigan.
barege
barege
noun
Alternative spelling of barège
barged
barged
verb
simple past tense and past participle of barge
bargee
bargee
noun
A crewman of a working barge.
barger
barger
noun
(obsolete) The manager of a barge.
One who barges or shoves.
barges
barges
noun
plural of barge
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of barge
bargir
bargir
noun
(India, historical) A trooper of irregular cavalry who is (unlike a silladar) not the owner of his troop horse and arms, but either is put in by another person, perhaps a native officer in the regiment who takes part of his pay, or has his horse from the state he serves.
baring
baring
noun
The act by which something is laid bare.
verb
present participle of bare
barong
barong
noun
A cutting weapon similar to a cleaver, with a thick back and thin razor-like edge, used by the Moros of the Philippines.
basing
basing
noun
The storage or housing of something within a base.
verb
present participle of base
basoga
bating
bating
adj
(Cornwall, Devon, dialect) Of the moon, when it is waning.
prep
(now rare) Apart from; except.
verb
present participle of bate
baying
baying
noun
Action of the verb to bay; howling.
An instance of baying; a howl.
verb
present participle of bay
bayong
bayong
noun
A kind of bag made from woven dried leaves or various modern substitutes, used in the Philippines.
beagle
beagle
noun
A bailiff.
A person who snoops on others; a detective.
A small kind of shark.
A small short-legged smooth-coated scenthound, often tricolored and sometimes used for hunting hares. Its friendly disposition makes it suitable as a family pet.
verb
To hunt with beagles.
To search.
bebang
bebang
verb
(transitive) To give bangs to; style in bangs.
(transitive, intransitive) To bang about.
beberg
bebung
bebung
noun
(music) A tremolo effect, such as that produced on the piano by vibratory repetition of a note with sustained use of the pedal.
beclog
beclog
verb
(transitive) To encumber with a sticky substance; clog.
bedbug
bedbug
noun
A small nocturnal insect (Cimex lectularius), of the family Cimicidae, that feeds on the blood of humans and other warm-blooded hosts.
bedrug
bedrug
verb
(transitive) To drug abundantly or excessively.
bedung
bedung
verb
(transitive) To cover with dung or manure.
(transitive, sometimes figuratively) To bedaub or defile.
beflag
beflag
verb
(transitive) To decorate with a flag or flags; to hang a flag or flags on.
befogs
befogs
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of befog
begall
begall
verb
(transitive) To gall.
begani
begari
begary
begash
begass
begats
begats
noun
(nonstandard) plural of begat
begaud
begaud
verb
(transitive, rare) To make gaudy.
begaze
begaze
verb
(transitive) To gaze at.
begeck
begeck
noun
(transitive, UK dialectal) A disappointment; trick.
verb
(transitive, UK dialectal) To deceive; disappoint; jilt.
begets
begets
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of beget
beggar
beggar
noun
(UK) A minced oath for bugger.
(colloquial, sometimes endearing) A mean or wretched person; a scoundrel.
A person suffering from extreme poverty.
A person who begs.
verb
(transitive) To make a beggar of someone; impoverish.
(transitive, figurative) To exhaust the resources of; to outdo.
begged
begged
verb
simple past tense and past participle of beg
begger
begger
noun
Obsolete form of beggar.
begift
begift
verb
(transitive) To entrust; endow.
(transitive) To give a gift or gifts to; bestow or present with gifts.
(transitive) To give as a gift.
begild
begild
verb
(transitive) To gild; to cover with gold.
begins
begins
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of begin
begird
begird
verb
(transitive, archaic) To bind with a band or girdle; to gird.
(transitive, archaic) To encircle, surround, as with a gird; enclose; encompass.
begirt
begirt
verb
simple past tense and past participle of begird
beglad
beglew
beglic
begluc
beglue
beglue
verb
(transitive, rare) To smear with glue; (by extension) to stick,
begnaw
begnaw
verb
(transitive, archaic) To gnaw; to eat away at.
begobs
begohm
begohm
noun
(dated, nonstandard) A billion ohms.
begone
begone
intj
(archaic) Expressing a desire or a command for someone or something to go away.
verb
past participle of bego
begoud
begowk
begowk
verb
(archaic, Scotland) To play a trick on, make a fool of.
begray
begrim
beguin
begulf
begums
begums
noun
plural of begum
begunk
begunk
noun
(dialectal, chiefly Scotland) An illusion; trick; cheat.
verb
(transitive, dialectal, chiefly Scotland) To befool; deceive; balk; jilt.
behang
behang
verb
(transitive) To hang round or about, as ornament or embellishment; suspend; drape.
behung
behung
adj
Draped; ornamented with something hanging.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of behang
beigel
beigel
noun
(UK) Alternative spelling of bagel
beiges
beiges
noun
plural of beige
beings
beings
noun
plural of being
beking
belage
belgae
belgae
Noun
A group of tribes living in northern Gaul, between the English Channel and the west bank of the Rhine, from at least the 3rd century BC.
belgas
belgic
belgic
Adjective
Of or pertaining to the Belgae, a German tribe who anciently possessed the country between the Rhine, the Seine, and the ocean.
Of or pertaining to the Netherlands or to Belgium.
belong
belong
prep
(Australian Aboriginal, optionally followed by to) Of, belonging to.
verb
(followed by to) To be a part of a group.
(intransitive) To have its proper place.
(intransitive, followed by to) To be part of, or the property of.
(intransitive, followed by to) To be the spouse or partner of.
(intransitive, set theory) (followed by to) To be an element of (a set). The symbol ∈ means belongs to.
(obsolete, transitive) To be deserved by.
(of a person) To be accepted in a group.
beluga
beluga
noun
A cetacean, Delphinapterus leucas, found in the Arctic Ocean.
A fish found in the Caspian Sea and the Black Sea (Huso huso), that is a source of caviar.
bengal
benign
benign
adj
(in combination) Not harmful to the environment.
(medicine) Not posing any serious threat to health; not particularly aggressive or recurrent.
(of a climate or environment) mild and favorable
Kind; gentle; mild.
bergen
bergen
noun
(UK, military) A large rucksack.
berger
berget
bergin
bergoo
bergut
bering
bering
verb
(transitive, intransitive, dated) To encircle (something) with a ring or some other circular object (such as a shackle).
beshag
besigh
besigh
verb
(transitive) To sigh over.
besing
besing
verb
(transitive) To sing of or sing about; celebrate in song or poetry; sing the praises of; praise; laud.
(transitive) To sing to.
besugo
bewhig
bewigs
bewigs
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bewig