Descended from the religious tradition of Abraham.
absinthic
absinthic
adj
(chemistry) Relating to the common wormwood or to an acid obtained from it.
aitchbone
aitchbone
noun
A cut of beef lying above the rump bone.
The rump bone itself.
anabranch
anabranch
noun
(hydrology, of a water channel) A diverging branch of a river, creek, or stream which re-enters the main stream.
archbancs
archebanc
archibald
archibold
archrebel
armbrecht
athabasca
athabasca
Proper noun
A town in Alberta, Canada.
auberbach
bacchanal
bacchanal
adj
Engaged in drunken revels; drunken and riotous or noisy.
Relating to Bacchus or his festival.
noun
(Trinidad and Tobago, informal) drama, ruckus, fiasco
(in the plural) The festival of Bacchus; the bacchanalia.
A devotee of Bacchus.
A song or a dance in honor of Bacchus.
Drunken revelry; an orgy.
Someone who indulges in drunken partying; someone noisy and riotous when intoxicated.
bacchante
bacchante
noun
a female bacchanal
a priestess of Bacchus
bacchants
bacchants
noun
plural of bacchant
baccharis
baccheion
bacchelli
bacchical
bacchical
adj
Of or relating to Bacchus; hence, jovial, or riotous, with intoxication.
bacchides
bacharach
bacharach
Noun
A kind of wine made at Bacharach on the Rhine.
bacheller
bachelors
bachelors
noun
plural of bachelor
backaches
backaches
noun
plural of backache
backchain
backchain
verb
(computing, artificial intelligence) To perform inferences, starting with a list of goals (or a hypothesis) and working backwards from the consequent to the antecedent.
backchats
backchats
noun
plural of backchat
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backchat
backcloth
backcloth
noun
The painted scenery at the back of a stage; the backdrop.
backflash
backflash
noun
Synonym of flashback (“dramatic device”)
The hazardous situation where the flame propagates backward down the hose of an oxyfuel welding and cutting system.
backhands
backhands
noun
plural of backhand
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backhand
backhatch
backhauls
backhauls
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backhaul
backhouse
backhouse
noun
(US, Canada, euphemistic) An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
(now dialect) An outbuilding behind the main building.
backshift
backshift
noun
(grammar) The changing of the tense of a verb from present to past in reported speech.
(statistics) A function on a stochastic process whose value on any random variable is the preceding random variable in the process.
verb
(grammar, transitive) To change the tense of a verb from present to past in reported speech.
backshish
backshish
noun
Alternative spelling of baksheesh
backsight
backsight
noun
(surveying) A measurement of a previously shot point, used to set the angle to zero when occupying a new position.
(surveying) A measurement or reading taken back towards a point of known elevation, used to calculate the height of the surveying instrument (theodolite, transit, total station).
The rear sight of a firearm.
verb
(surveying) To shoot a backsight.
backslash
backslash
noun
(computing, rare, proscribed) Used erroneously in reference to, or in reading out, the ordinary slash, that is, the punctuation mark /.
The punctuation mark \.
|passage= […] I was trying to find a web-site for which I had been given the following address: http://www.isop.ucla.edu/pacrim/pubs/korjournal.htm. […] I began to work backwards, removing first the last part of the address following the last backslash (/korjournal.htm).}}
verb
(computing, transitive) To escape (a metacharacter) by prepending a backslash that serves as an escape character, thereby forming an escape sequence.
balachong
balachong
noun
(cooking) A Malaysian and Singaporean form of ngapi, a Southeast Asian condiment made from fermented and compressed fish or shrimp.
baldachin
baldachin
noun
Alternative spelling of baldacchin
ballyhack
bariloche
barmcloth
barmcloth
Noun
An apron.
barocchio
barouches
barouches
noun
plural of barouche
barouchet
barouchet
noun
Alternative spelling of barouchette
bashalick
bashmuric
batchelor
batchelor
noun
(Britain) Archaic spelling of bachelor.
batchtown
batrachia
beachboys
beachboys
noun
plural of beachboy
beachcomb
beachcomb
noun
An instance of beachcombing.
verb
To go beachcombing.
beachhead
beachhead
noun
(by extension) A coastal landing place.
(by extension) An initial success that ensures the possibility of further advances in a project; a foothold.
(military) An area of hostile territory (especially on a beach) that, when captured, serves for the continuous landing (or movement into position) of further troops and material
beachiest
beachiest
adj
superlative form of beachy: most beachy
beachless
beachless
adj
Without a beach or beaches.
beachside
beachside
adj
(rare) Bordering a beach
noun
The land bordering a beach.
beachward
beachward
Adverb
Towards a beach.
beachwear
beachwear
noun
Clothing suitable for wearing on the beach, though not necessarily for swimming in.
beachwood
beauchamp
beauchamp
Proper noun
The name of several places in Northern France
of Norman origin
bechained
bechained
adj
(rare) in chains
bechalked
bechalked
adj
Chalk-covered or chalky.
Having a surface that has been written on in chalk.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bechalk
bechamels
bechamels
noun
plural of bechamel
bechanced
bechanced
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bechance
bechances
bechances
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bechance
becharmed
becharmed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of becharm
bechatter
bechuanas
beclothed
beclothed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of beclothe
beclothes
beclothes
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of beclothe
bedchairs
bedchairs
noun
plural of bedchair
beduchess
beechiest
beechiest
adj
superlative form of beechy: most beechy
beechmont
beechnuts
beechnuts
noun
plural of beechnut
beechwood
beechwood
noun
A wood largely populated with beech trees.
The wood of beech trees (Fagus spp.).
bellyache
bellyache
noun
Any pain in the belly, stomach, or abdomen.
verb
To unnecessarily complain or whine, often about simple matters.
benchland
benchland
noun
(geology) bench (thin strip of relatively flat land bounded by slopes)
benchless
benchless
adj
Without a bench or benches.
benchmark
benchmark
noun
(computing) A computer program that is executed to assess the performance of the runtime environment.
A standard by which something is evaluated or measured.
A surveyor's mark made on some stationary object and shown on a map; used as a reference point.
verb
(intransitive, followed by at) To give certain results in a benchmark test.
(transitive, intransitive, followed by against) To use something (e.g., a competitor's product) as a standard to improve one's own thing.
benchwork
benchwork
noun
the structure supporting a model railway layout
work performed at a workbench
benthamic
benthamic
Adjective
Of or pertaining to or Benthamism.
benthonic
benthonic
adj
Synonym of benthic
bepatched
bepatched
adj
Covered in patches.
berchemia
berdaches
berdaches
noun
plural of berdache
berdichev
berdichev
Proper noun
a city in the Zhitomir oblast of Ukraine
bermensch
berrichon
bescratch
bescratch
verb
(transitive) To scratch; scratch about; scratch all over.
beseeched
beseecher
beseecher
noun
A person who beseeches.
beseeches
beseeches
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of beseech
beshackle
bewitched
bewitched
adj
(Of a person) entranced, charmed, fascinated, as though subject to a magical influence.
Under a spell; subject to an act of witchcraft.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bewitch
bewitcher
bewitcher
noun
One who bewitches; an enchanter.
bewitches
bewitches
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bewitch
bianchini
bianchite
bichromic
bichromic
adj
(inorganic chemistry) Related to bichromate
bigthatch
bilharzic
biochemic
bioethics
bioethics
noun
(ethics) The branch of ethics that studies the implications of biological and biomedical advances.
biophysic
bipaschal
bipaschal
adj
Including two Passovers.
birchbark
birchbark
noun
A piece of this bark, formerly used for writing on.
The bark of the birch tree, especially the white bark of the paper birch, Betula papyrifera.
birchdale
birchleaf
birchtree
birchwood
birchwood
noun
(countable) A wood largely populated with birch trees (Betula spp.).
(uncountable) The wood from a birch tree.
birdwatch
birdwatch
noun
A session of observing and identifying birds.
verb
(intransitive) To take part in birdwatching; to observe and identify birds.
bishopric
bishopric
noun
A diocese or region of a church which a bishop governs.
The office or function of a bishop.
bismuthic
bismuthic
adj
(chemistry) Of, or containing bismuth in its higher valence.
bitchiest
bitchiest
adj
superlative form of bitchy: most bitchy
blackbush
blackfish
blackfish
noun
(Australia, New Zealand) Any of various dark-coloured fishes of Australasia, especially the luderick, Girella tricuspidata, and a freshwater fish, Gadopsis marmoratus.
(Canada, US) Either of two dark-coloured fish of the west Atlantic, the tautog of New England (Tautoga onitis) and the black sea bass (Centropristis striata).
(chiefly Scotland) The Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, especially a female after spawning.
A pilot whale, genus Globicephalus (occasionally also used for various other whales).
Any of various dark-coloured fish of the Old World, especially the rudderfish (Centrolophus niger).
verb
(Internet slang, derogatory, of a white person) To adopt signifiers of black identity (for example, by darkening the skin, or wearing traditionally black hairstyles).
(fishing) To go fishing for blackfish.
blackhawk
blackhead
blackhead
noun
(countable) A scaup: any of various ducks of the genus Aythya.
(countable, medicine) A comedo, a skin blemish, a type of acne vulgaris, where a pore becomes clogged with a dark, hard, cheesy keratin-filled substance forming a hard black "head" on the skin's surface.
(uncountable) A form of histomoniasis in poultry, characterized by cyanotic discoloration on the bird's head.
blackwash
blackwash
noun
(chiefly politics) A villainization campaign.
(medicine) A lotion made by mixing calomel and limewater.
(slang, New Zealand) A whitewash victory for any New Zealand national sporting team.
(slang, cricket) A whitewash victory for the West Indies cricket team. Started in the 1984–86 "Blackwash" series of the West Indian cricket team in England in 1984.
(slang, mining) Public campaigns and advertising funded by the coal industry to draw attention away from environmentally unsustainable practices or to justify exclusion from carbon taxes.
verb
(transitive) To blacken, to cover with a black color.
(transitive) To portray in a revisionist fashion as belonging to a black race of people.
(transitive) To villainize, to present in a damaging light.
blanchard
blanchard
Proper noun
A village in Iowa, US.
A town in Louisiana, US.
A city in Oklahoma, US.
A town in Wisconsin, US.
blanchers
blanchers
noun
plural of blancher
blanching
blanching
noun
The act by which something is blanched.
verb
present participle of blanch
blandarch
blatchang
bleachers
bleachers
noun
plural of bleacher
bleachery
bleachery
noun
A place or an establishment where bleaching is done.
bleaching
bleaching
noun
The loss or removal of part of the (semantic, grammatical, etc) content or a word or morpheme.
The process of removing stains or of whitening fabrics, especially by the use of chemical agents.
verb
present participle of bleach
bleachman
blechnoid
blenchers
blenchers
noun
plural of blencher
blenching
blenching
noun
The act of one who blenches.
verb
present participle of blench
blockhead
blockhead
noun
(colloquial) A stupid person.
A sideshow performer who hammers nails or similar items through his or her nostril into the nasal cavity; human blockhead.
verb
(rare) To behave in a stupid manner.
To perform as a human blockhead.
blockhole
blockhole
noun
(by extension) The approximate place where the toe of the bat touches the pitch when a batsman is taking guard.
(cricket) A small depression in the pitch caused by batsmen tapping their bats on the point where they have taken block.
blockship
blockship
noun
(nautical) A vessel that is deliberately sunk in order to block a waterway (to prevent it being used by an enemy)
blotchier
blotchier
adj
comparative form of blotchy: more blotchy
blotchily
blotchily
adv
In a blotchy manner.
blotching
blotching
noun
The situation of having blotches; blotchiness.
verb
present participle of blotch
blowtorch
blowtorch
noun
(US, military, slang) A jet fighter.
A tool which projects a controlled stream of a highly flammable gas over a spark in order to produce a controlled flame.
verb
To apply a blowtorch to something.
bodycheck
bodycheck
noun
Alternative spelling of body check
boeotarch
borrachio
borrichia
boschboks
boschboks
noun
plural of boschbok
boschvark
boschveld
boscovich
botchedly
botchedly
adv
In a clumsy manner.
botcherly
botcherly
adj
bungling; awkward
botchiest
botchiest
adj
superlative form of botchy: most botchy
botchwork
botchwork
noun
Inferior and shoddy work.
bothropic
bothropic
adj
(pharmacology) Of or relating to the genus Bothrops of venomous pit vipers endemic to Central and South America.